Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Salt water on every approach, black boreal forest behind the workings: Rudavet is a small settlement, raised offshore in the east during the fifth and most recent wave of expansion, and it is not a comfortable place. Ore is the reason it exists — cut from island rock, moved by boat, valuable enough to justify feeding people where almost nothing grows. Everything else follows from position. The settlement watches a stretch of open sea, holds it, and keeps the rites that give the holding its meaning.
Rudavites are Suvanar, few, and long used to being few. Their allegiance is to Berevik, for whom the island counts for more as a fixed point on the water than as a source of revenue: a garrison, a working and a sanctuary are the whole of the place. The Ruby is their goddess in her aspect of the Beaconmistress, and on an island where fog can sit for days, a patron of discovery and of finding is no abstraction. Her priestesses are the settlement's other authority, and the only one that outranks the weather.
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…
CityBerevikWhere an eastern river meets the ocean, Berevik builds and crews ships, works iron and canvas behind its yards, and keeps the Ruby's Beaconmistress; it is the seat of the bloc…
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…
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.
CitySarakalLake water is what makes Sarakal possible: a modest and ancient Ashanar farming town on the dry south-western steppe, bound by allegiance to Tiramun and through it to Kerevoz.