Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Rain is the constant here. The temperate forest at the centre of the continent stands dripping for most of the year, moss to the crowns, and Versuna sits at the point where a river out of that forest reaches salt water. Both are working roads. Timber, hides, worked goods and whatever the interior wants moved come downstream to the wharves; hulls come in on the tide, take the cargo away and leave other cargo in its place. Warehouses stand high off wet ground on stone footings, steeply roofed, kept dry with a diligence that would look obsessive under any drier sky.
Versuna went up in the first wave of expansion after the original foundations, where the river road and the sea road meet. Its elves trade the way long-lived people trade: slowly, and with a perfect recollection of every previous dealing, which makes a reputation here difficult to build and impossible to repair. Weight, tally and the wording of old agreements settle most quarrels without help. The city answers to the Glacial Dominion, and a great deal of that bloc's cargo passes over these wharves.
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…
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.
CityZaharaGrass hides the shafts of Zahara, a modest Ashanar mining town on a south-western lake, whose ore goes out over the water and whose obedience runs to Mazarka.
CityZilakoThin frozen ground under the western evergreens gives Zilako its living: a modest Ashanar mining town of the taiga, sending out rock and answering to the power seated at Torolok.
CityAndronisThe Walls that Walk — a disciplined bridge-fortress that sells war by the wall, fielding mobile fortress units that raise a textbook fort wherever they halt, ruled by the…
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…
