Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Maravin digs. Everything else the city does follows from that — the ore roads worn into the forest floor, the smell of turned earth and cut stone, the constant low noise of hauling that only stops when a shift changes. It sits in the boreal forest of the north with the ocean close enough that the haul from pit to quay is measured in a morning, which is the whole reason the site is worth working. Spruce comes down for props and fuel faster than it grows back, so the cleared belt around the workings widens a little each year.
Founded in the third wave of expansion, Maravin belongs to the Glacial Dominion, and pits, quays and the road between them all fall under it. Its elves are unceremonious, more attached to a productive seam than to any particular street, and a household will shift across the town to be nearer a new working without much fuss about leaving the old one. What comes up is sorted, carted and shipped out, and very little of it stays.
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…
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.
CityMenyetsBoats do the work of roads at Menyets, a modest Suvanar town on an eastern rainforest lake that trades in goods, forest harvest and learning under Bannevar and, above it, Risbern.
CityMerynonAn impossible ivory city in the temperate desert — administrative capital of the Infernate, seat of the Grand Hierophant, renamed for the Dark Queen and run on registers, roads…