7 October 2026

The expanded Almanac

53 entries connect the physical worlds, their institutions and the lives continuing between events.

New reference chapters and places

Expanded places, institutions and lives

Asterfall: The terraces and the people on them; A street directory above the confluence; Councils, shares and daily government; Glass, seeds and specialist work; Care, learning and the exposed season; The city when the channel opens.
Caelune: The estuary belt and the Ashnar interior; Rain that brings more than water; An economy spread across the ground; Settlements, law and the travelling household; Knowledge, care and ordinary faith; What grows between the duties; Physical and orbital register.
At the Orinthian court: When there is no time to wait; Witnesses who still have to go home; The decision after the seal dries.
Damar: The inhabited basins; The living ground and its hazards; Water as an operating system of government; Movement, energy and work; Schools, illness and the district bargain; Public pleasure and contested memory; Physical and orbital register.
Edris Ro: The Good Tablecloth: The notice at the tram stop.
Edris Ro: The Wrong Song: The programme in his pocket.
A civilisation at household scale: The cost that arrives out of order; The body in the account; Rooms that people can actually use.
The Crown of Halvyr: The shelter bill after the traveller has gone; People whom a fixed address fails; Good glass, bad air; The living mountains are not scenery; Who carries the reserve; The second verse at a warm table.
House Orinth: A household maintained by other households; Property, patronage and the heir; Illness, absence and continuity.
An Orinthian chronology: The archive beneath the monument; Reading the consolidation campaigns locally; The uneven afterlife of reform.
Provinces of an uneven empire: The county and the service catchment; Pelaset and the terms of belonging; The regional supply register.
Istra Harn: Room on the Bench: The boat she would not release.
Kesra Dey: A Seam of Her Own: The extra place at supper.
Knowledge and power: What a training record can prove; Psionic practice, consent and testimony; Spellcraft and the custody of materials.
Lethra Cerin: Beyond the Garden Wall: The room above the market.
Miravel: A western-bank capital; Who owns a dry room; From Bell Road to Namar; Flood ground is already occupied by life; The sound measure and the unhelpful crest; A colour kept through the rain.
Nacre Sound: The bay before the assembly; Two offices behind a national name; The yard beyond the public path; The water above and below; Learning, medicine and the night watch; The passage someone chooses to prolong.
The Kingdom of Nereth: A lunar kingdom within maintained walls; Keld Anchorage from the civic court to the yard; Crown, Commons and the right to stop work; Air, water, food and the industrial bargain; Defence, illness and unequal exposure; Culture within the boundary; Physical and orbital register.
North Quay: city and harbour: The port built around its receipts; Power on Quay Road; Rooms by the shift bell; Industrial weather and the useful machine; A ward is more than a bed; After clearance at the Net Loft.
The things a household keeps: The bill after a funeral; Hosting across class and distance; Games, songs and public embarrassment.
The Orinthian Empire: The people behind the imperial total; Law, custody and the price of being believed; Orders that become engines, uniforms and rations; Defence, service and the people left behind; Public belief and imperial ceremony; A country made of departures.
The Kingdom of Orsala: An account older than the crop; The advance with a pleasant name; A sterile dressing begins far from the wound; Rain enters the house by several doors; Institutions between the district and the Crown; The season people try to keep.
Pelaset: Physical and orbital register.
Rauth Crossing: a valley town: Three layers of the town; Crossing House and the household ledger; The plank is not the finished product; The valley keeps what the chimney releases; A shelter has to remain reachable; Behind the long windows.
Reedbank: The bank remembers before the register; Who can speak for a landing; The cost of keeping a boat earning; Brown water, sound boards; Small means of staying alive; What residents keep for themselves.
Rimefold: A capital assembled on difficult ground; Lamp Court and the price of waiting; Rope Hall's necessary tolerances; Air below the roofs; Learning with something at stake; Meals, puppets and the household after the hearing.
The Sarthene Empire: Serrat and the unequal map of representation; Designation and the machinery of consent; Justice, examinations and the social accent; Industry and the procurement chain; Health, learning and civic religion; Arts, sport and the limits of rivalry.
The Sedge Coast charter communities: Landings, debts and the shape of belonging; A household without a deed; The catch between the water and the buyer; What lives at the wet edge; Care, teaching and protection in small places; The lamps after the argument.
The Republic of Selnic: The old share beneath the new vote; The contract that follows the crop; Clean tolerances in a dirty district; Dry places with teeth and roots; People who maintain the republic; An evening that belongs to its participants.
The Serev system: The three-system reference register; Ossar and the service approaches.
Sevren Hal: Lessons After Lunch: The rail beside the bath.
Tarsenne: planetary almanac: Physical and orbital register.
Tessovar: A city built around access to water; The name accepted at the counter; West Exchange in the morning; A clean-looking canal; Treatment, trials and time off work; The court after the sun drops.
Velisar: The capital beyond the ceremonial approach; Twelve places in the working city; Who keeps the city running; Employment, injuries and municipal care; Smoke, floodwater and older ground; The city after its shift.
The Veydan Concord: What the seven harbours inherited; Common citizenship and an inconvenient island address; Salt is a manufacturing cost; The green edge can close around a person; Care and defence across real distances; A chorus need not settle the argument.

The extended Atlas

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Illustrated places and conditions

New illustrations accompany Keld Anchorage, Serrat, Tavren Reach, corrosive rain and widow lace.

Reader prose corrections

Two remaining author-directed lines were replaced with direct accounts of court delays and customs carried between visits. The new citizen continuations preserve earlier commitments and vary their endings.

Reading copies

HTML entries and the complete Markdown edition contain matching text, tables and illustration placements. Original portraits and previously published illustrations remain in place.