Vernua Dominion →
Vernua, Vesuna's name worn down; Dominion, the Empire's word, kept by the Dark-Era houses
The open middle of the domain and the country across the water from Nahaskel: a bowl whose weather never repeats, so nothing grows the same twice and everything that grows is made into something (the anois, the dish of what came; potin, the spirit of whatever the year gave). Governed by the Maors, the hereditary houses of the chain, over a countryside of comhar fellowships, bound by the Share; the capital Dunloch faces the god's city across the lake, and the city casts on the Maors' charter every few years and the coin comes up against them every time. The Conrasu home.
The WeatherThe SharePromoted
Kaosadaemi Principality →
Basque kaosa (chaos) + Icelandic dæmi (district): "the chaos district"; Principality the Thousand's word
The east of the domain, canopy to coast: a principality granted under Renauld's unified Thousand, orphaned by the Dark Era, and held by House Thornhollow, which went Gnome by staying. Chaos tuned to order: under the ring at Ringhold, the Tuning takes a Nahaskel spark and gives it a form that can be made twice, entered in the Prince's Second Book; at Greenmouth the Roadwards take travelers into the Basogur on a schedule no one else can keep. Houses wear the hair-colours of their tenants and the palace is the one grey building. The Gnome home.
The TuningThe RoadwardsPromoted
Basogur Jungle →
Basque baso (forest/wood) → drifted to Basogur
The canopy across the continent's waist, shared with Ehizahar: a place that makes stories, told about in fear and awe for longer than the Empire, where the tribes pray to Basajun, seen at the edge of a path and never on it. Nobody governs it. The long road crosses it once, Greenmouth to the Red Tusks' gate in eleven days, passed from Anadi web-hold villages to Vanara guide-clans; the Stitchery, the Flesh-Sculptor's dungeon, lies web-sealed under the Nashavel side. The continent's rail-blocker. The Anadi and Vanara home.
SharedThe RoadPromoted