A closer look
At the threshold
From the green hillside, the quarry looks like a wound filled with light. White dust covers the worked yard and catches in every tool mark. The newest cuts are busy with miners; the older ones disappear quietly into the hill.
Concept notes for the illustrated atlas. The setting and its details may change as the world develops.
People and discoveries
Copper and tin seams, a foreman who sells pickaxes, rats in the old cuts
Keep wandering



