Burdineyja
Basque burdin (iron/metal) + Icelandic eyja (islands), "Iron Islands"
Two clusters of islands physically separated but politically united under one name: one cluster sits in Hafra off the domain's western and southern coast, the other in Midarra to the east. Both clusters share the volcanic, metal-working character of the domain. Their unification is older than any of the surrounding kingdoms; the Burdineyja have never been governed separately within living memory.
Two clustersHafra & Midarra
Order of Steam →
Modern English (kingdom-guild hybrid)
Industrial kingdom-guild hybrid controlling the volcanic belt's manufacturing. No noble bloodlines, no divine patron, run by elected councils of master craftspeople and engineers. Volcanic-powered manufactories produce Arcanotech at a scale no other region matches: Magitrains, airship engines, regulated heavy machinery. The Order grew up around an Elden-tech excavation uncovered at the end of the Dark Era. It did not invent Arcanotech (the Lost-Era kingdoms had been reverse-engineering Elden ruins for centuries, and the Golden Empire was very good at it), but the Order brought industrial scale and the continental rail network: the Order invented the Magitrain and remains its main producer. House Eisenhart is the highest-prestige dwarven engineering lineage within the Order.
KingdomIndustrialMagitech heart
Tahu Tangata
Indigenous culture name, meaning partially lost
The indigenous culture of the volcanic coast.
Culture
Dragon's Reach →
The site where the mothership reached Talan
Capital of Dragon civilisation on Talan, the city built from the largest surviving piece of an intergalactic mothership that broke apart in atmosphere ~4000-4500 years ago. Civic life runs on the purist–pragmatist debate over what the Gods'-Era gods stripped from them (immortality) and whether it can be recovered. Age-weighted vote tilts purist. Cordial-formal / complicated-practical relations with the Order of Steam.
Dragon CapitalShip-BuiltPurity-Seekers