Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Wealth arrives here by keel. Shipping is the first business of Venesta, and the trades that gather around a working port fill most of its streets: hulls built and repaired, cargoes consigned, crews signed on and paid off, chandlers and brokers thick along the front. What sets the place apart from its neighbours lies behind the waterfront, in houses of study where navigation, letters and law are taught and argued at length by men who will never sail. Ore from workings inland gives the city a third leg to stand on, and gives its yards something to sell besides passage.
The Venestines are Lohanar, and their city stands among the original foundations of the south. Government sits at home: Venesta is ruled by its own faction, under its own agreements, and it has held that independence while binding itself outward in every direction. Its allegiance runs to Arkenta, and in the wider alignment of the southern powers it is counted with the bloc gathered at Bareshum. Two obligations, one city, and a great deal of careful drafting to keep both in force at once.
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…
CityArkentaGreat, walled and mineral-rich in the southern shrubland, Arkenta heads the allegiance that carries its name, is governed from Venesta, and stands within the bloc gathered at…
CityBareshumBareshum spreads across the open southern grassland, a major Ashanar city that lives by arms, muster and remount, and answers to no seat above its own.
CityMaterumSet among cleared fields and workshops in the southern seasonal forest, this Lohanar town turns raw country goods into finished ones and keeps men under arms for Venesta and…
CityVersunaWhere temperate rainforest comes down to tidewater, Versuna takes cargo off the river and off the sea alike, an elven trading city of the first expansion sworn to the Glacial…
CityVesikiSalt water lies over the deepest galleries at Vesiki, a late-founded dwarven mining town on the western pine coast whose pumps never stop and whose loyalty runs to Kotori.
RegionWestern KworgalyaTwenty settlements of boreal forest and tundra along the western reach, predominantly Ashanar, where mining is the first living of nearly half the towns and no single seat holds…
CityYaridekRain-fed and canopy-shadowed, Yaridek is a modest Ashanar trading town in the south-western rainforest, where goods change hands under cover and allegiance runs out to Tamazor.