Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Lokivi sits where the north-western boreal forest finally runs out of ground: spruce and pine on the landward side, a river cutting through the middle of it, salt water waiting at the river's end. Most of the hold is below. Shafts drop through the root-mat into cold rock, and the galleries follow seams of gemstone rather than common ore, which makes the work slower, the yield smaller and a good week worth a great deal. What comes up is picked over on long washing tables at the water's edge, graded under lamps, then cut and polished in workshops kept warm through winters that take most of the year. The forest supplies props, charcoal and fuel; the river supplies the road out.
This is one of the original dwarven foundations, and the age of it shows in the stonework under the pines. Its people are dwarves and so are all sons, crafted rather than born, and a son takes his first place at a cutting bench beside the hand that made him. Gemstone is the whole of the living here, and almost none of it stays. Lokivi answers to Kotori, and its stone travels that road.
CityKotoriA dwarven garrison cut into the mountain its people count as home, standing over a river in the western taiga, and the seat from which the surrounding mining holds take their…
RegionNorth-Western KworgalyaTwo dwarven mining towns in the north-western boreal forest, Lokivi and Sokasi, both sworn to Kotori and both living off what they cut from the rock.
CityLundeverLakeside yards and workshops in the northern boreal forest, from the first wave of elven expansion after the original foundations, turning the timber around them into finished…
CityMaravinElves work the pits at Maravin, a third-wave mining town of the northern boreal forest set close enough to the ocean that ore goes from pit head to quay in a morning; it holds to…
CityMarevaWhere the southern tropical forest meets the ocean, Mareva builds and loads the ships that move a whole bloc's harvest and trade, and gives that bloc both its seat and its name.
CityMaterumSet among cleared fields and workshops in the southern seasonal forest, this Lohanar town turns raw country goods into finished ones and keeps men under arms for Venesta and…
CityMazarkaWhere dry chaparral meets a wide lake in the south-west stands Mazarka, a great Ashanar trading city that gathers the ore and the levies of the towns around it.
CityMelekesOut in open grassland beside a lake sits Melekes, a modest Ashanar mining town that imports everything but ore and answers, with its neighbours, to Mazarka.