Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Sokasi has neither coast nor river, so everything it lifts out of the ground leaves overland — on sledges while the snow holds, on carts once the thaw ruins the sledging. The town lies deep in the north-western boreal forest, ringed close by spruce, and reveals itself from a distance only as smoke and steam: mine-heads, spoil heaps gone green with moss, wind chimneys venting warm air into cold. Timber is felled here for props, scaffolding and charcoal rather than for sale. The ore is plain working ore, and the digging of it is unhurried.
What Sokasi is known for is not what it digs but what it makes for others who dig: tackle, lamps, fittings, cutting tools, all worked to another hold's measure and sent on without the haggling a trader would expect. That is friend-craft rather than trade. Sokasi belongs to the second wave of expansion and works the same rock as the older holds around it, but the gear in their hands is its doing. Every dwarf in the town is a son, crafted by an older hand, and ore and toolwork alike go where Kotori directs.
CityKotoriA dwarven garrison cut into the mountain its people count as home, standing over a river in the western taiga, and the seat from which the surrounding mining holds take their…
RegionNorth-Western KworgalyaTwo dwarven mining towns in the north-western boreal forest, Lokivi and Sokasi, both sworn to Kotori and both living off what they cut from the rock.
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.
RegionSouthern KworgalyaFifteen predominantly Lohanar settlements on the ashen plains and tropic forests of the south, divided evenly between the Ruby and the Infernal Creed, with the Greathammers and…
CityTalaganTalagan works ore from beneath open grassland at the continent's centre and ploughs the sod above it, sworn to Eisvelde within Risbern, keeping the Radiant Light and a standing…