Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
There is metal in the hills behind Skalodar, and the whole town is arranged to move it to the water. Rainforest covers this stretch of the eastern coast, heavy and wet and green right down to the tideline, so the workings are cut into slopes that are half stone and half root, and the hauling paths are laid with split timber against the mud. What comes out is smelted and worked before it ships; a modest town raised in the newest wave of expansion cannot afford to sell raw ore when it can sell finished goods. Alongside the mining year runs a harvest year, forest food and timber taken as the seasons allow.
Skalodran life answers to Berevik, whose reach along this coast is measured in cargo rather than proclamations. The people are Suvanar, and the goddess they keep is the Ruby in her aspect of the Beaconmistress, patron of discovery — a fitting devotion in a town whose prosperity depends on somebody finding the next seam. Her priesthood, like every Ruby priesthood, is wholly female, and its rites are timed to the sailing weather.
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…
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…
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…
CitySokasiRaised in the second wave of dwarven expansion, Sokasi digs ore beneath the north-western pinewoods and makes the gear the neighbouring holds mine with, under the authority of…
CitySorvasuSorvasu builds and berths warships where the boreal forest of the central continent meets the ocean, an elven naval town of the first expansion holding to the Glacial Dominion.
CitySorynthaMining, scholarship and ceremony share one substantial grassland city at Soryntha, ruled from Karnosta within the wider Tirbasos bloc and devoted to the Ruby in her aspect of the…
RegionSouth-Eastern KworgalyaTwelve settlements of savanna, grassland and rocky mountain in the continent's south-east, overwhelmingly Suvanar and overwhelmingly of the Ruby — the closest thing the Atlas…
RegionSouth-Western KworgalyaSixteen settlements of grassland, lake and thorn scrub in the continent's south-west — entirely Ashanar, and the only region of the Atlas whose towns are all of one people.