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Aldermark

King Alberich & the Realm of Merit

Every empire has a founder myth. Aldermark's is a story about a man who looked at a thousand years of bloodline politics and decided to throw it out. This post is about Alberich, the elf who founded the empire in 1473, and the single design decision that made

Blue Revere

The Forge: What Mars Does to the People Who Stay

Martians have a word for what their planet does to people. They call it the Forge. It is not a metaphor. It is a civic philosophy, a child-rearing principle, and the closest thing to a secular prayer the red planet has produced. The idea is simple: hardship is not

Encyclopedia

Freelance Courier Tao-Yi

Human · Ionian · Freelance Courier · Space Captain · Blue Revere Universe Name Tao-Yi Age Late 30s Date of Birth Circa 2537, Io Race Human (Ionian, Venusian colonial stock) Occupation Captain of the Space Freighter New Concord and Freelance Courier Location Aboard New Concord, no fixed port of call Universe Blue Revere

Blue Revere

Luna: The Divided Moon That Runs the Galaxy's Books

Nine hundred million people live on a rock with no atmosphere, no magnetic field, and one-sixth the gravity of the planet they can see from every window. They have turned this rock into the financial and diplomatic nerve center of the solar system, and they have done it while

Blue Revere

The Two Venuses: Skylands, Lowlands, and the Lie Between Them

The first thing a visitor notices on Venus is the light. In the Skylands, it is permanent afternoon: a gentle, engineered glow that bathes floating cities in warmth without shadows. The sun is always at the right angle. The temperature never falters. Flocks of Cytherean silkmoths drift between the gardens

Fantastiska

Tianlu: The Highland Kingdom the World Forgot to Conquer

"We were not lost. We chose to be elsewhere" — Inscription above the Pass of Zhinlian A Plateau Above the World Five hundred years ago, when the Citadel at Taiyuan was completed and the Kingdom of Tianlu formally took shape, the lowland kingdoms of Mystaria barely noticed. Tianlu had