The Shattered Realm
Once a single continent bound by the five threads of magic, the Shattered Realm now drifts as fractured islands of obsidian and crystal above the endless Void. In the aftermath of the Great Fracturing, five arcane traditions — each born from a shattered Thread — compete for the fragments of absolute power.
Timelines
The Age of Wholeness
Before the Fracturing, when the five Threads bound the world in harmony.
The first Archons — Vaelith among them — wove the five Threads of magic into the world bedrock, u...
The five Archons established the Archonate, a council to govern the Threads and prevent any singl...
The Age of Synthesis
An era of unprecedented magical advancement. Cross-thread disciplines emerge: Pyroclast-Crystal f...
The Fracturing
The catastrophic unmaking of the world and its immediate aftermath.
In a single hour, the five Threads snap simultaneously. The world does not explode — it unravels....
The Void — previously a philosophical abstraction — becomes a tangible force. It begins consuming...
During the Fracturing, the Archon of the Lunar Thread — Vaelith — attempts to reinforce the bindi...
The Age of Fragments
The current era, as factions compete to control the Shards and the Void.
A roving Obsidian Covenant expedition finds the Fracture Compass in a sealed vault beneath a dest...
Korrath — now ancient and known as Korrath the Unburned — extracts the Void Blade from a Shard in...
Sorin Waystone of the Crystalline Assembly performs the first successful Shard-Binding on himself...
Person
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Lith is a death knight from a parallel world.
Sorin Waystone
Master Artificer of the Crystalline Assembly and the only living scholar to have successfully bound a Void Shard to m...
Korrath the Unburned
Champion of the Ember Compact and self-declared Warden of the Pyroclast Frontier. He bears the Scar of Keth-Mara — a ...
Faction
The Obsidian Covenant
An ancient order of void-mages who claim descent from the first to touch the Void. They believe the Fracturing was no...
The Crystalline Assembly
Scholars and artificers who study the residual magic embedded in the Shards. They maintain the great library of Keth-...
The Ember Compact
Survivors of the Pyroclast people whose islands burn with perpetual flame. They trade in forged void-metal and fierce...
Location
The Chasm of Echoes
A rift in the Void between two Shard-islands where the voices of those who died during the Fracturing still reverbera...
Keth-Solas, the Unbroken Archive
The last great structure intact after the Fracturing — a tower of white stone threaded through with veins of inert cr...
The Ember Islands
A cluster of volcanic Shards locked in a slow orbital decay around each other. The Ember Compact forges draw power fr...