Bluebellbarrow
A southern orchard town built around the burial mound of the republic’s first victims.
The barrow lies between the orchards and the shore above Cove of Otha. Bluebells flower on it before surrounding fields thaw, a consequence of buried heat conduits rather than a miracle. The republic's founders nevertheless chose it as the burial place for the hunger strikers.
Lysa Tern teaches school in the old granary and asks pupils to count the names on the memorial. There are more names than coffins. An exiled landlord's daughter appears among the honored dead even though the family insists she escaped. Her missing testimony could explain who first opened the grain stores.
Southern farmers who won a republic and inherited a failing source of warmth.
Victims of the strike were buried above the warm conduits, including one person whose identity remains disputed.
A wooded western port of Alceria whose shrines remember the displaced.
A western shore settlement painting warnings that captains can read through snow.
Shipwright terraces built from warmwood that must never be allowed to root.
A kiln town on the eastern coast that makes vessels for carrying dangerous warmth.