Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Rain rules Rumasel. The temperate rainforest of the far south-west drinks almost year-round, and the whole working day is arranged around water nobody asked for: moss on every timber, air that will not dry, a cut in the earth that fills as fast as it is opened. Mining is the trade regardless. The ore-bearing ground lies beneath that green ceiling, and the crews spend as much labour on drainage and shoring as on the seams themselves, sinking sumps, cutting channels, re-timbering galleries after every heavy season.
The sea is what makes the effort pay. Nothing torn out of that rock would ever cross the rainforest by track, so it goes onto hulls instead, and the water carries what the country will not. Rumasel belongs to the fourth wave of expansion, and its Ashanar keep the sea-going habits of the south-west: long voyages, and agreements built to hold across them. Allegiance runs to Nurazar, and the ore leaves accordingly.
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…
CityNurazarRain-soaked and rich in ore, Nurazar is a substantial Ashanar mining city set between temperate rainforest and a lake in the south-west, an allegiance in its own name yet held…
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.
CitySerezemRain rules Serezem, a modest Suvanar mining town where the eastern rainforest meets the ocean and cut ore, worked goods and forest harvest all leave by the same wet wharves.
CitySilanurShafts driven beneath the northern boreal forest feed this second-wave elven mining city, whose ore leaves by barge across the lake it stands on and whose allegiance is to the…