Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Herds set the pace here. Pratana stands in the tall-grass savanna of the south, country that greens hard in the wet season and browns off in the dry, and the city's year is divided by that rhythm: planting and harvest close in, cattle driven out and brought back across the open ground beyond. Grain, hides, milk, horn and meat pass through its markets in quantity, and the surrounding country feeds far more mouths than the city holds. Substantial as southern cities go, Pratana counts its strength in beasts and in stored grain.
Grazing rights, shares of a harvest, the terms of a herding season: the Pratani settle each of them in the Lohanar way, written and witnessed. Their allegiance runs to Vallaris, and through Vallaris into the wider bloc that answers to Mareva. Religion is no small side-trade here but a real part of the city's living. The Religion of the Ruby holds the calendar, its all-female priesthood serving one goddess in six aspects, and the Pratani favour the Joyqueen among them, so the great days of the year go to feasting, music and pleasure taken openly by a city with food enough to spare for it.
PeopleThe LohanarThe Lohanar are the humans of Kworgalya's southern coast — a cosmopolitan civilization of jurists, merchant-princes, and guilds who trust the charter and the court where their…
CityVallarisWhere the Ashen Plains give out at the sea, a substantial military city of Lohanar and Suvanar keeps its walls and drill yards, seat of its own allegiance within the Mareva bloc…
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.
LoreThe Religion of the RubyThe Ruby is the most beloved and most feared of the gods of the human south — and of all the divine powers of Kworgale, she alone is worshipped not as a distant maker but as a…
CityPristanovRain falls most of the year on Pristanov, where mills, wharves and cleared orchards make a substantial Suvanar city of the temperate rainforest at the continent's centre. It…
CityRinderseeA mining town on a rainforest lake at the continent's centre, floating its ore out by boat; Rinderseers answer to Bannevar, through it to Eisvelde, and beyond that to the Risbern…
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…
CityRudavetSmall, cold and offshore, Rudavet cuts ore from a boreal island in the eastern sea while its garrison and its Beaconmistress rites hold that stretch of water for Berevik.