Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Beneath the open grass of the western plains, Nimanza found the thing it lives on. The city stands on a lake shore in country that looks like pasture and pays like a mine, level and wind-combed and treeless enough that its winding gear and spoil heaps show from a long way off. Water settles what the landscape otherwise withholds: the lake feeds the washing and separating that ore demands, and gives the city a hard edge to build against. Nimanza is substantial now, one of the larger places on its stretch of the plains, and it grew that way because the seams held. The shafts are the reason anyone stays.
Obligation here runs in a chain rather than to a single seat. Allegiance is owed to Saradir; governance sits with Basaran; and the city is counted within the wider bloc that answers at Torolok. Second-wave Ashanar raised the place, and the trader's habit of stating terms plainly and keeping to them suits an arrangement with three names in it. Nobody local finds the division strange.
CitySaradirRiver-cut boreal forest surrounds Saradir, a major Ashanar military city of the west that owes allegiance to no other seat and draws it instead from cities out on the grassland.
CityBasaranShipbuilding and lake water carry Basaran, a substantial Ashanar city in the boreal forest of the west, raised in the fifth expansion and seat of the allegiance that bears its…
CityTorolokA substantial Ashanar military city of the west, Torolok stands on the lake edge of the boreal forest, answers to no other seat, holds the loyalty of taiga mining towns, and…
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…
RegionWestern KworgalyaTwenty settlements of boreal forest and tundra along the western reach, predominantly Ashanar, where mining is the first living of nearly half the towns and no single seat holds…
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.
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.
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.