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✷ Plumhollow
Nestled in the palm of the mountain range colloquially known as the Fingers, Plumhollow rests as a bustling metropolis for the Smallfolk. With roots as a settlement of refugees fleeing the devastation of the Tears of the Mother and the encroaching threat of the then nascent Devahni empire... -
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✷ Miraj'Dah
Miradj'Dah is a vibrant floating city, deeply rooted in a rich blend of magical technology and spiritual traditions. Its society revolves around the unique power of crystals mined from the Suldazan desert, which provide the energy to keep the city suspended in the sky and fuel its advanced... -
✷ Celestial Elements
A ring system of crystal meteors and mineral dust belts across the sky, glimmering inspiration of many a myth. There is a different name for these rings in every culture, and many believe them to be a visual representation of the Shroud. Regardless of belief, the celestial elements from the...- bees?
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✷ Magic, the Shroud & Weavers
All magical practices draw their power from the Shroud, a natural force which underpins reality. The Shroud permeates all things in the world - it helps the trees grow strong, the winds stir, the clouds to gather and the lightning strike to start a flame. Each culture has developed their own...- bees?
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✷ Hundred Houses
In Seldaesa's north lies the great gardens and plains of the Elves, home to the perfection of the Hundred Houses, known as the Harannossë, and their eternal wars of Spring and Autumn. The Elves of the Hundred Houses are xenophobic and isolationist due to their obsession with purity and... -
✷ South Ilican Free States
A diverse group of peoples and kingdoms with storied histories harking back to an age of rebellion against the Devahni empire, the South Ilican Free States boast a proud, storied history. Highly individualist, the States are a collective of disparate opinions, a people free from the rule of... -
✷ Lapvona
Lapvona is segregated into four significant areas governed by their Covenant. These Covenants maintain a monarchy within the major population hubs, choosing a King-Elect from among their adherents. Nomadic groups of exiles called Ryek can be found wandering amongst the land, usually pushed out... -
✷ Arshakan Empire
Once an immutable warmachine feared the world over, the Arshakan Empire has crumbled beneath the test of time. Established at the close of the Era of Many, the Arshakan Empire is steeped in storied history and culture. Presided over by an Imperator, dubbed the “Red Imperator,” a closed council... -
✷ Kingdom of Altalusia
“Where the stone meets the sea. There Altalusia shall be. Bright blade upon the sky, singing for all who try. To reach her. ” — Ser Valtameri, Knight Captain of the Shimmering Hold. An old and proud kingdom that holds on fiercely to its independence, Altalusia is caught betwixt the... -
✷ Cindersend
There is a place in the Kaikias Desert where sands turn to choking dust, rivers run as poison, and not even the green of scrub brush drinks the rains. It is a place where the Shroud has thinned so much, that natural life cannot sustain itself. And at the heart of this dying land, lies the knife... -
✷ Elves
An intensely magical race of ethereal beauty, the Elves generally consider themselves to be a race perfected. While there are indeed those among their kind who shun this obsession over purity and the survival of the fittest, most of their race keeps to themselves within the forests and plains of... -
✷ Dwarves
Traditionally believed to have been born from the mountain range known as the Fingers of the Father in a mythical event prior to the Age of Antiquity, Dwarves are a people summarized by the saying, “From stone to stone.” A deeply proud people of craftsfolk, artisans, and warriors, the Dwarven... -
✷ Devahni
It is said, as it is written. The Deva are of the most ancient empire. Their splendor, won by blood. A people who had spread their roots across the whole of the known world. From Ilica to Suldaza. Cities that shined. Cities that sang. Their lives as long as the Ring itself. All turned to ash... -
✷ Orkin
The orkin began as nomadic peoples, hunters, shepherds and seafarers who journeyed to every corner of the land. Their histories from this early time tell of fabled heroes and powerful sages, those who rose above the fetters of the world to reach a state of sublimity. This sense of freedom and... -
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✷ Timeline of Events
The First Age (Unknown - Estimates at 4000 years E.O.P.) “Era of Promise” Tears of the Mother, the dawn of currently available records Large scale meteor shower and destruction that changed the old world, with far reaching effects caused by the crystals’ siphoning of the Shroud devastating...- bees?
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