Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Unlike the desert towns that share its part of the continent, Tenedos sits on tundra — hard, treeless country where the soil stays frozen below a thin summer skin and farming is not a serious proposition. Mining is. The town was raised in the fourth wave of expansion and lives on what its shafts bring up, which means it also lives on what is carried in: fuel, grain, timber and cloth, all of it hauled across open ground. Winter narrows the town to its workings and its hearths, and the summer months are spent stockpiling against it.
The Tenedene are Lohanar, a people of accord and written arrangement, which is much of how a modest town survives on ground this unforgiving — shares in a shaft, terms for hauling, agreed rations. Their obligations run to Brunthar, but the hand that governs Tenedos is Darolas's, and it is within the Darolas bloc that the town is counted. Faith here is the Religion of the Ruby, whose all-female priesthood keeps a fire burning through the long cold — the one warmth in Tenedos that answers to nobody's quota.
PeopleThe LohanarThe Lohanar are the humans of Kworgalya's southern coast — a cosmopolitan civilization of jurists, merchant-princes, and guilds who trust the charter and the court where their…
CityBruntharThe brown city of four roads — gold shafts, tin-cut cisterns and the great sheep exchange of the north, where hostile blocs trade with the Infernate through a polite fiction…
CityDarolasThe Steadfast Grey City — a severe gneiss fortress on the shore of a frozen inland lake, holding the only bridges and crossings of the northern frontier with massed slingers,…
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…
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…
RegionThirvandorA landmass far east of Kworgalya across open ocean, drawn on the map beside the Sunspire Forest, with one charted city upon it.
CityTiramunOne of the oldest Ashanar foundations, Tiramun is a substantial shipbuilding and naval city where south-western forest meets the ocean, a seat in its own right beneath the wider…
CityTiratanTimber off the forest and traffic off the lake both stop at Tiratan to be worked into something worth more, a fifth-expansion Ashanar city of the west under the allegiance of…