Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Timber comes off the shore in rafts and goes straight into Lundever's yards, which is the shape of the city's whole working life: raw material in, finished goods out. It stands on a lake in the boreal forest of the north, and the water serves as both road and workyard — barges through the open months, sledges hauled over the ice when the lake hardens. Around the yards cluster the trades a production city gathers to itself: joiners and coopers, tanners, ropewalks, charcoal burners working the forest edge. On still mornings the smoke lies flat over the water, and the whole place smells of resin, hide and hot iron.
Raised in the first wave of expansion after the original foundations, Lundever is old, and quietly aware of it. Its people keep apprenticeships that would swallow a human lifetime whole, and hold to methods refined across more generations than anyone bothers to count. The the Glacial Dominion governs here and disposes of what the yards produce.
RegionThe Glacial DominionA vast frozen realm spanning much of north and northeastern Kworgale, ruled by the immortal Frost Queen Glacya from the Iridescent Throne within the Crystalline Palace of…
RegionNorthern KworgalyaThe far north of the continent, ten settlements of boreal forest, taiga and standing ice, elven almost to a soul and sworn without exception to the Glacial Dominion.
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.
CityMendizurOn a cold western coast where boreal forest runs down to the surf, Mendizur digs ore within sight of the water, ships it out by hull, and answers to Kabaso.