Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
The country around Soryntha looks like ordinary grazing land, and what leaves it says otherwise. Beneath the sod there is stone worth cutting and metal worth raising, and the city — substantial, raised in the first wave of expansion after the original foundations — was built to work it. Mining pays for everything else, and everything else is unusual for a mining town: a position on the south-eastern grassland that has to be held, a scholarly habit reaching well past the practicalities of ore, and a public culture the Sorythans treat as a serious matter rather than a diversion.
Sorythan allegiance runs to Soryntha itself, while rule sits with Karnosta, and Karnosta belongs to the wider bloc of Tirbasos — an arrangement that gives the city both a near master and a much broader horizon. Its people are Suvanar, and their goddess is the Ruby as the Scorchmother, aspect of growth. In a city that spends its days breaking rock, a faith of increase supplies the balance, and her priestesses, wholly female as every Ruby priesthood is, keep the seasonal rites.
CityKarnostaThe Harbor of Freedom — a chaotic two-tiered free-haven port carved into limestone cliffs where forest meets sea, ruled by a Captains' Council, famed for its naval stores, its…
CityTirbasosThe Scorchmother's Anvil — a frontier fortress turned industrial powerhouse on the coastal grasslands, where the best-drilled legions on the southern coast still drill beneath a…
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…
CityDaskilonThe armoured heart of the south-east — an original Suvanar foundation on the edge of the Ashen Plains whose merit-chosen Strategoi teach war as a craft, whose forges alone can…
CityLeimonaHerds and tilled fields ring Leimona, a substantial grassland city of the south-east where the Scorchmother's rites govern the farming year, rule belongs to Tirbasos and…
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.