Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Ore goes almost straight from the face onto the water at Mendizur. Boreal forest meets a cold ocean here, and the workings stand near enough to the shore that a good day's output reaches the landing before dark; there is no long haul, and no need of one. The forest gives props, planking and fuel. The sea gives the only road that matters, and everything the mine produces goes out by hull. Weather governs the rest: hard wind and harder water close the coast for a stretch of every year, and the shut months go to cutting, sorting and stockpiling against the day the ships come back.
What is dug has to be owed to somebody. Mendizur's allegiance runs to Kabaso, the harbour along the same shore, which takes what the mine sends down and sets the terms on which the ships arrive. The people here belong to the fourth wave of expansion, Ashanar and plain about obligation, holding to what was agreed even when the season makes delivery hard.
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…
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…
CityMorboraThe Shadowed City of Sunken Roots — a forest kill-zone of hunters, monster-takers, and the dynasty-trained assassins of House Borlov, a city that does not defend its walls so…
CityNavalisThe Alpine Flame — an idyllic walled sanctuary hidden in the western Greathammers, beating heart of the Emberguard, where red-haired Lohanar herders and famed slingers shelter…
CityNimanzaGrassland above, ore below: a substantial Ashanar mining city on a western lake, sworn to Saradir, governed out of Basaran, and counted within the wider bloc of Torolok.
RegionNorth-Eastern KworgalyaThe continent's far north-eastern corner, charted at a single lakeside garrison in the taiga — Ausavat, easternmost holding of the Glacial Dominion.