Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Salt fog rolls in over the spoil heaps most mornings, and under it Sannastal cuts into the ground the boreal forest stands on. The workings run inland from a coast of broken stone and stunted spruce, and the sea does the carrying: ore comes down from the pits, crosses the sorting floors, and is loaded at quays within sight of the pit heads, which spares the city the ruinous business of moving stone overland. Everything metal here — tools, gear, fastenings — is fought for against the rust that comes with working rock this close to the water.
Sannastal was raised in the second wave of expansion, and its elves have had generations to shape the place around a single trade. The shore work exists to keep the pits supplied and the ore moving, and nobody lives far from either the workings or the water. The the Glacial Dominion holds the city's allegiance, and the ore that leaves these quays leaves on the Glacial Dominion's account.
RegionThe Glacial DominionA vast frozen realm spanning much of north and northeastern Kworgale, ruled by the immortal Frost Queen Glacya from the Iridescent Throne within the Crystalline Palace of…
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.
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.
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