Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Little dries out here. Pristanov sits in temperate rainforest near the centre of the continent, on a river that runs down to a lake, and the weather that keeps the forest so heavy also keeps the roofs steep and the timber yards under cover. Three things move through the city. Fields and orchards cut from the wet forest feed it; mills, tanneries and workshops turn what the forest and the fields give into goods worth carrying; and the water takes those goods out again. It is a working city, loud early and quiet late, and prosperous in a plain and unglamorous way.
The Radiant Light is kept here, and the Pristanese who keep it are Suvanar. Their city belongs to the third wave of expansion — old enough to have outgrown its first limits several times over. Allegiance runs to Risbern, an arrangement that suits both parties well enough: Pristanov produces, and a city built around soldiers has a permanent appetite for what a productive one makes.
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…
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…
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…
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.
CityRumaselAshanar crews cut ore from saturated ground at Rumasel, a fourth-wave mining port on the south-western rainforest coast that ships everything out by sea and answers to Nurazar.
CityRupaterThe City Beneath the Mountain Bones — a fortified cistern-city where the volcanic desert meets the Greathammers, in which water is counted like scripture, safe passage is bought…
CitySannastalWhere the boreal forest gives out against the northern ocean, elven pits cut the coastal rock, and the ore loads at quays a short walk from the workings, all of it under the…
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.