Atlas entry
What the charts and ledgers of Kworgalya record of this place. Its own story has not yet been told.
Standing water and constant drip define Yaridek. Temperate rainforest closes over the town on every side, huge dark trunks and moss to the shoulder and mist that does not lift until the morning is well on, and every road out must be cut back again and again or lost to the green. Trade is what the place lives on. Goods moving between the forest country and the open land pass through Yaridek's hands, and everything about the town is built for that work: storehouses raised clear of the wet ground, wide covered floors where bales can be opened without soaking, drying sheds kept going through the rainy months.
Its people are Ashanar, third-wave settlers who took ground the earlier waves had passed over, and they keep the far-trader's habits: slow to commit, thorough about terms, unwilling to be hurried by weather or by buyers. Yaridek answers to Tamazor, the great grain city out in the open country, is governed by the faction seated at Lemmalu, and belongs with both of them to the wider bloc of Saradir.
PeopleThe AshanarThe Ashanar are the humans of Kworgalya's storm-lashed southwestern coast — corsairs, deep-sea mariners, and pact-makers who dwell beyond the reach of any written law. Bound only…
CityTamazorDeep grassland soil and a lake that holds water through the dry months feed Tamazor, a great Ashanar farming city whose harvest supplies neighbours that grow nothing themselves.
CityLemmaluSalt water on one side and dripping rainforest on the other, Lemmalu is a modest Ashanar harbour town living by ships and crews, its allegiance given inland to Tamazor.
CitySaradirRiver-cut boreal forest surrounds Saradir, a major Ashanar military city of the west that owes allegiance to no other seat and draws it instead from cities out on the grassland.
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…