Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Ocean opens on one flank of Lemmalu and temperate rainforest presses in on the other, leaving a narrow wet strip of usable ground that the town has filled end to end. Its living comes off the water and out of the yards: slips and moorings along the shore, timber brought down from the forest behind, rope walks and sail lofts, crews wintering between voyages. The forest gives it hulls and the sea gives it work, and the two together are why a modest settlement raised in the fourth wave of expansion has never needed to grow larger than it is.
Its people are Ashanar of the seafaring kind, at ease with a far horizon and exacting about the covenant behind a voyage. Lemmalu's allegiance runs inland to Tamazor, the great farming city out in the grass, though the faction governing Tamazor and the towns beneath it carries Lemmalu's own name, so that a small harbour lends its word to the rule of places many times its size.
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…
CityTamazorDeep grassland soil and a lake that holds water through the dry months feed Tamazor, a great Ashanar farming city whose harvest supplies neighbours that grow nothing themselves.
CityAsmaruWorkshops are the whole of Asmaru's living: a modest Ashanar town on dry south-western grass, founded under the older name Tasmaru, working the produce of nearby farms and…
CityYaridekRain-fed and canopy-shadowed, Yaridek is a modest Ashanar trading town in the south-western rainforest, where goods change hands under cover and allegiance runs out 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.