Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Set where forest tracks come down to open water, Menyets is a modest town that exists because a lake is faster than a road. Cargo that drags under the eastern rainforest canopy moves quickly once it is afloat, and the Menyetsi have built their living on that difference — sheds and scales along the shore, boats going out loaded and coming back loaded, goods that never sit still long enough to gather damp. The surrounding forest supplies the second trade, timber and forage brought in as the season allows. The third is learning: taught, copied and sold to whoever will pay for it.
Menyetsi are Suvanar of the most recent expansion, a lake-town people accustomed to strangers and to charging them fairly. Governance runs upward. Bannevar rules here, and Bannevar answers to Risbern, which makes this modest place a small but useful hinge in a much larger arrangement. The faith of the town is the Radiant Light, and its observances mark the trading year as reliably as the changing level of the water does.
PeopleThe SuvanarThe Ruby-hearth people of the southeastern coast — fair, sun-touched, and fiercest of all the Elekoi in their devotion to the goddess of flame. They are builders and warriors…
CityBannevarSet between seasonal forest, river and lake, Bannevar works timber and grain, drills its levies, governs the country around it in its own name, and answers to Risbern in the…
CityRisbernOne of the greatest cities in the world, seated where a river cuts the grass hills at the continent's heart, Risbern rules its own bloc through arms, the Radiant Light and arcane…
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.