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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
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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
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Illiax: The Temple City of Abakax and the People Who Worship the Void
"The world calls our god a hunger. We call our god honest. The world has decided this is the offensive thing about us. We disagree." — High Priest of Abakax, sermon recorded by a captured Cordellian missionary A Kingdom That Worships What the World Fears In the southeastern reaches
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How I Built the Last Elven Empire
Welcome to the worldbuilding series for Aldermark: The Last Elven Empire. Over the next month I'm pulling back the curtain on the setting, the cultures, the characters, the institutions, and the ideas that didn't survive the cutting-room floor. This first post is the map of
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Arashima: The Storm Island Kingdom of the Dragon-Gods
"The storm does not punish. The storm corrects. We learn what it teaches, or we drown. Either way, the lesson is delivered." — An Arashidō priest of Inabuchi, opening the Festival of the First Wave A Kingdom That Made Peace With the Sea Far to the east of the
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The Stellara Progenitor and the Vow of Non-Interference
In 2072 CE, ten thousand people climbed into cryo-chambers aboard a generation ship called the Stellara Progenitor and went to sleep. They did not expect to wake up. Their children's children's children would. That was the arrangement. Forty years into the voyage, an unshielded solar
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The Witching Isles: The Tarorangan Archipelago
"Magic is fire. Carefully tended, it warms a village for a generation. Misused, it burns the village to its foundations. We are the women who tend the fire." — First Minister Glamora Glimmerspell, addressing the Sisterhood A Nation Where Witches Make the Law Off the southern coast of Mystaria,
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The Void Thread: The Magick That Costs You Yourself
"The other threads change you. The Void erases you. The choice should not be difficult. And yet, every year, someone makes it
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Illiax: The Temple City of Abakax and the People Who Worship the Void
"The world calls our god a hunger. We call our god honest. The world has decided this is the offensive thing about us. We dis
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Shizume is a 31-year-old Arashiman Shrine Warden devoted to protecting sacred sites and preserving ancient traditions. A highly di
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Valeriane Aurelmont was born into one of Argenta's lesser patrician families, a respected but declining branch of House Aurelm
The Titan Thread: The Magick of Power
"The mountain does not hurry. Neither do I." — A Runemaster of Hallgilda, inscribed on a standing stone The Foundation
The League of Beggars: The Silent Empire Under Theodassa
"Everyone in this city is for sale. The League just knows what each of you costs." — Attributed to a Watcher, name unkno
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Tilda Rúngaelvorn is a 212-year-old city elf and the chief archivist (skáld) of House Rúngaelvorn, serving as both guardian of its
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