Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Beneath the roots of the western boreal forest lie the seams Lanekut was raised to open. No lake reaches the place and no coastline; the trees close in on every side, and everything above ground serves what happens below. Cut timber goes to props and fuel, cleared ground to spoil heaps and sorting floors, the ways out to hauling. Winter does not stop the work. It makes the loads heavier and the frozen ground easier to cross, and the pace of the year is set by that trade rather than by any harvest.
The name in use is the second one. Kulanezkut came first, and the shorter form stands in its place now. Lanekut came out of the fifth and most recent wave of expansion, and its allegiance runs to Kabaso. Its people are Ashanar, covenant-minded and exact about terms, settled far inland from the horizons their kin more often sail toward.
CityKabasoKabaso stands where a boreal river reaches the ocean: a substantial Ashanar naval city of the west, answering to itself and keeping the lesser ports of its own shore in hand.
PeopleThe AshanarThe Ashanar are the humans of Kworgalya's storm-lashed southwestern coast — corsairs, deep-sea mariners, and pact-makers who dwell beyond the reach of any written law. Bound only…
CityLeimonaHerds and tilled fields ring Leimona, a substantial grassland city of the south-east where the Scorchmother's rites govern the farming year, rule belongs to Tirbasos and…
CityLemmaluSalt water on one side and dripping rainforest on the other, Lemmalu is a modest Ashanar harbour town living by ships and crews, its allegiance given inland to Tamazor.
CityLeskonChaparral turned to grain, vine and grazing feeds Leskon, a substantial city of millers, tanners and weavers in the east; Leskonites answer to Risbern with no seat in between and…
CityLeynadalYounger than the foundations around it, Leynadal farms the central grassland for grain, hay and beasts on the hoof, an elven town of the second expansion whose loyalty runs to…
CityLiarathSmall tundra settlement in the west whose Lohanar miners work the frozen ground for ore, ruled from Darolas, sworn to Keberun, and keeping the Ruby's fire against the winter.
CityLinniskaFresh water in a desert made Linniska: a substantial Lohanar trading city on a western lake where caravan traffic is the whole living, ruled from Saradir and sworn to the Creed.