A great flying city built by the people of Belyos and brought down by the Triumvirate during the Everlasting War.

The present age of exploration, begun when Veloma returned from the Malediction bearing a Legacy.

A name for the current era in which Seekers and Legacies drive the great powers.

The age immediately after the Fall, when survivors rebuilt civilization amid disasters and unstable magic.

The age after the Great Wounding when the Everlasting shaped their own nations and peoples and led them to prosperity.

The world itself, formed from the body of Ymiris. The First Children named it with their word for “flesh.”

An ancient erisyr mage gifted at combining different magical traditions.

An artifact created from Ptan-Ravalum's sacrificed soul that empowers Belyos and its Monarch of the Dead.

A landmark that can be reached with relative stability inside the Malediction despite its distortions of time and space.

The Shield of the Everlasting, a Legacy bonded to Sigrith that conveys prophecies and commands.

An ancient entity with many bodies that links followers through spores and claims to serve Ymiris.

Belyos's necromantic tradition for working with living Soulbreath and spirits from many afterlives.

A tentative citizen of the Conclave who studies Liastrum magic under a Master and prepares to face Molech's Gaze.

The supreme military leader who commands the Rite of Honor in practice on behalf of its Septa.

A Legacy bonded to Londriel, carrying the soul and foresight of the Saint in Amber.

An uninitiated student who works for Conclave Masters in hopes of earning an apprenticeship and learning the basics of Liastrum magic.

Sphere Virtahn strategists who seek to control a battle through plans and tactics before fighting begins.

The vast empire founded by the Triumvirate around Olem and Osterath, whose legacy is claimed by the Order of the Shattered Throne.

The capital of the Order of the Shattered Throne, located in Dynas.

An Order Seeker who inherited the vulkir Legacy Will of the Forge and seeks vengeance against the Primal Blood.

A legendary artisan beloved by Galdrun like a son and the first king of the vulkir.

The Dreaming Warrior who hid the Thirteen's plan from Ymiris in dreams and became guardian of the oerikan and Primal Blood.

The Primal Blood's sacred site, where the Heart of Avakra took root in a giant's chest.

A balance of power maintained through rivalry and Council seats so no Sphere can dominate the Conclave.

A Sphere Virtahn apprentice troubled by Seratrin's stubbornness and violence.

The southern nation once led by Ptan-Ravalum and homeland of the Legion of the Fallen.

A Primal Blood warrior who follows the Takra of Stone and turns pain and fury into martial strength.

The first Soulwhisperer, who established communion with spirits in place of domination.

A metal arm that a bearer must take in place of their own flesh to awaken the Will of the Forge's full power.

The Order's fortress-city, home to the Rite of Honor and the Arch-Marshal.

A beast born when a shaman fills an effigy of flesh, bone, and wood with the power of Ymiris.

The Order's religious institution that administers Valcaris's teachings and the faith of the Oathbound Light.

The current inverted stronghold of the Rite of the Forge, built around a Tower of Transposition.

A magical academy and commercial alliance of Spheres that studies, monopolizes, and sells Liastrum magic.

The ruling council where the five most influential Spheres decide disputes, judgments, and trade law.

A Soulwhisperer Seeker who prefers the company of the dead and refused the Legion's throne.

The ruling council where the Monarch of the Dead and Belyos's great Houses contest power and the direction of necromancy.

The mortality imposed on the First Children and their descendants after the Great Wounding robbed them of immortality.

A Legion necromancer specializing in curses, sorcery, and domination of the mind.

The Primal Blood's largest Host, devoted to Thundersteps as the returned Warrior-Prophet and following in his wake.

Sphere Virtahn warriors and battlemages who directly wield Liastrum weapons and offensive spells.

The northern fortress-region of the Astarian Paradux that survived the Fall and became the Order's heartland.

The primal power that flows from Ymiris's soul and animates the world, life, and many magical traditions.

A ritual form made from flesh, bone, wood, blood, and other materials to gestate a Chimera.

A Primal Blood Legacy bonded to In'Gor that continually reshapes his body.

A powerful revenant bound by oath to rise again and fight for the Order.

A facility that preserves the mental records of ancient corpses so testimony from the past can be extracted.

A people created during the Age of the Everlasting; those fashioned by Molech were especially resistant to Liastrum corruption.

The long-powerful Arch-Marshal of the Rite of Honor.

Immortal giants created jointly by the Thirteen Everlasting to raise the Thorn of Olem.

The remaining soul and power of a dead or sacrificed Everlasting, bound to an object or place.

A long war of shifting alliances and betrayals between the Everlasting and their kingdoms after Avakra's death.

The Cleansing Flame of the Triumvirate, an Everlasting associated with purification and punishment.

The restored dead, body and soul, who live again within Belyos society.

A Primal Blood kith led by Ira'nyr.

A long-lived people first shaped by Ymiris from the depths of her soul. The Thirteen Everlasting arose from among them.

Independent cities of Selejia against which Primal Blood Hosts have marched in the past.

The Shaper of Mountains who built the Thorn and the great Wall and created the vulkir.

A funerary sanctuary where vulkir elders become stone statues at life's end and join their ancestors.

A coastal city where candidates gather in hopes of becoming Conclave apprentices and receiving Liastrum.

A Master's final trial: controlling a torrent of Liastrum before the Oracle.

The first Nexi of Sphere Virtahn, who discovered how to apply martial movement directly to spellcasting.

A fungal mark left by Antarax's envoys that connects those they treat to the entity's collective consciousness.

A major route connecting Selejia's cities and spheres of influence.

The Primal Blood's hostile name for the Everlasting who betrayed Ymiris.

The Order's great military and religious campaign to reclaim Osterath and the lands of its old empire.

The center of the injury left in Ymiris by the Great Wounding, from which the Echo that created the Malediction erupted.

Ranks awarded to Spheres according to discoveries, wealth, and political influence, and subject to constant change.

An unprecedented Tragedy Seeker whose single body displays traits from several different afterlives.

Powerful beings closer to divinity than mortality, created when an Ophanim consumes and remakes a devout believer.

Senior members of a Rite authorized to speak for a Septa and carry out their commands.

A leader who represents a noble House at the Court of Whispers and directs its research and politics.

The first Everlasting Vestige, binding the murdered Avakra's soul and serving as the Primal Blood's oracle.

A powerful Legacy that sustains Vorendal's existence and unnatural longevity.

A Legacy containing Ihreniv's soul and oaths.

A Hallowed herald created to guard the Order's borders and new settlements.

A type of Hallowed herald assigned a specific mission in service to the Order.

The Djurii's seasonal gathering and omen of death, where feasting surrounds challengers who fight Thundersteps.

A flesh-based undead made by House Vermant from multiple corpses and living tissues.

An allied network or army formed when several Primal Blood kiths unite behind a common purpose.

An ancient Ynnashir House that preserves the methods of Branchia Ynnashir, the first Soulwhisperer.

A noble House that researches perfect bodies for the dead beneath the Necropolis.

A noble House of the Court of Whispers skilled in mind control, diplomacy, and espionage.

An Order knightly House that guarded the Spear of Cadisar for generations.

A flesh-shaping necromantic House elevated to the Court of Whispers through its art of creating Horrors.

Failed beings born from believers judged unworthy by an Ophanim.

An ancient hero also called the Golden Visage, whose soul resides within the Helm of Oaths.

A Primal Blood Seeker bonded to the Effigy of Chaos who wields powers of mutation and destruction.

An oerikan dynasty that once raised a mighty host in Primal Blood history.

A berserker leader whose death at Thundersteps's hands began the collapse of the In'Grok Dynasty.

One of the most influential Spheres with a seat on the Council of Nexi.

The Ur-Takra shaman who leads the Feversong Kith.

An independent settlement founded by vulkir who did not trust the Triumvirate.

Islands east of Selejia that hold the Molech Oracle and the heart of the Conclave of the Spheres.

A Sovereign City-State of Selejia linked to Ironkeep and Waypoint by the Golden Road.

Lady Welstead's son and the knight who bore the corrupted Spear of Cadisar.

An Order believer once close to Sigrith before becoming a Herald of Salvation.

An island whose vanished population was recovered by Sphere Akhenza, earning it Greater Sphere status.

A colossal golem and living Legacy shaped from Liena's flesh, primordial clay, pain, and dreams.

A key Conclave office responsible for the Oracle's condition and control of access to it.

Ptan-Ravalum's mortal consort and partner in necromantic research.

A Primal Blood tribal community united more by shared ways of life and belief than by blood.

The knightly order that preserved the Order's foundations by holding Dynas's imperial fortresses after the Fall.

The berserker leader who represents the Takra of Stone within a kith.

A Voice of Thunder who proclaimed the return of the Warrior-Prophet and called the Djurii Host together.

Sigrith's former guardian and leader of House Welstead, which kept the Spear of Cadisar.

A Septa who wields influence over Order politics and the competing interests of the Rites.

A powerful ancient artifact containing a dead hero's soul and wisdom, capable of bonding with a worthy bearer.

The necromantic nation of Belyos, devoted to overcoming death and exploring the soul's many afterlives.

The Conclave's blue magical substance, which destabilizes reality and makes spellcraft possible.

A former Conclave Seeker whose body became an endless source of Liastrum and now lies hidden within Kar-Mamok.

A former Sphere Akhenza Spellwarden and Seeker exiled after exposing corruption within the Conclave.

The title of a patriarch or matriarch who leads a knightly House within the Rite of Honor.

The Order's seven rulers, elevated beyond mortality by bonding with Shards of the Throne of Oster.

A major crusade of faith waged by the Order in the past.

The mountain range where Galdrun taught the vulkir masonry and helped them establish Midrasil.

A vast wound-zone born when Ymiris's corrupted Echo flooded the world during the Fall, destabilizing even time and space.

A Court of Whispers faction devoted to art, craft, and individual self-realization.

A full Conclave mage who has passed Molech's Gaze and earned the right to receive Liastrum.

The name outsiders use for old Midrasil after plague brought the kingdom down.

The ancient vulkir kingdom and spiritual homeland founded in the Magdas Mountains.

The Architect of Secrets and Serpent of Logic who designed the Thorn of Olem and the Molech Oracle.

An Everlasting Vestige that produces endless Liastrum and secretly houses Molech's soul.

The title of Belyos's ruler, selected by the Amatrix.

The Everlasting who discovered that Ymiris could judge her creations and began the rebellion of Olem's council and the Thirteen.

A title protected by the Council of the Nexi and granted to people considered strategically important to the Conclave as a whole.

A Legion mage who studies and commands Soulbreath, the dead, and powers from many afterlives.

Belyos's subterranean city of tombs, home to House Eldriss's research into bodies for the dead.

A frontier settlement founded by the Order to revive the ideals of its lost capital.

The highest-ranking mage who leads a Sphere.

The Head of House Lethari, ruling through mind magic with only his preserved head remaining.

A reservoir of soul-fragments pledged through the faithful's oaths and used by the Order for miracles of healing and protection.

The Warrior-Prophet who received visions from the Heart of Avakra and led the oerikan rebellion.

The ancient northern homeland founded by Avakra for the oerikan.

A people who followed Avakra to northern Oeri and worship Ymiris as the true Mother.

The ancient city where the Thorn of Olem was raised and the Great Wounding occurred. It was later renamed Osterath.

The last vulkir king of Midrasil, slain while attempting to destroy Thundersteps.

City-destroying ultimate weapons made by the Triumvirate from the flesh of Everlasting.

A theocratic nation that claims succession to the Astarian Paradux and seeks to restore the Triumvirate's empire.

A Court of Whispers faction that prizes military strength and territorial expansion.

The Everlasting who ruled the Astarian Paradux and led the Triumvirate with Valcaris and Expiatra.

A cavalry force of the Astarian Paradux that defended Osterath and the Wall of Galdrun.

The renamed city of Olem and heart of the Astarian Paradux, lost within the Malediction during the Fall.

A harsh wilderness stretching north of Selejia.

The Order's common people who belong neither to the clergy nor directly to a Rite.

A vast forest where Primal Blood kiths live and Ymiris's Echo flows strongly.

A fallen former Nexi and Conclave Seeker who records discoveries in the Malediction while plotting a return to power.

The Conclave's alchemical name for Liastrum as the basis of all magical transformation.

An alliance of kiths devoted to Avakra and Ymiris and opposed to civilization and Everlasting rule.

A title granted to a preferred agent whom the Council entrusts with a particular service or multi-Sphere effort.

Living material formed from Avakra's blood and the soil of Paxos.

The Order's knightly nobility, recognized as worthy of the privilege and burden of bearing a Legacy.

A maxim that distills the Conclave's drive to turn knowledge and danger into profit.

The present Queen of the Dead, chosen by the Amatrix and the artifacts of succession.

The Everlasting who renounced godhood to lead Belyos and founded the Legion of the Fallen.

An ancient object containing Ymiris's pure Echo. Unlike a Legacy, it holds no guiding soul.

A facility that both protects dangerous or corrupted Relics and Legacies and keeps them contained.

A fortified monastery where the Rite of the Intemerate protects and contains corrupted Relics and Legacies.

A being restored after death because an oath or duty still binds them.

A Sphere's exclusive right to claim magical knowledge in its field when that knowledge is found in the Malediction.

The Order's military branch, responsible for expeditions, conquest, and its knightly forces.

The Rite responsible for the Order's law, judgment, records, and allocation of resources.

The Rite whose artisans, engineers, and siege experts build and maintain the Order's infrastructure and fortresses.

The Rite that hunts Striga and guards Relic Vaults against heretical magic and corrupted artifacts.

The Rite that creates Hallowed through the Ophanim and studies perfect vessels for the Triumvirate's return.

The Rite that serves Expiatra and interrogates and purifies sin through pain and flame.

The Rite that preserves the Word of Valcaris and oversees education, missionary work, diplomacy, and soul-binding rites.

Polinore's Legacy, capable of finely controlling Liastrum and suppressing its corruption.

An Order sanctuary where a Herald of Salvation revealed Kaleana's fate to Sigrith.

A Primal Blood kith and Host that studies nature's order to master the maddening wrath flowing from Ymiris.

A succession artifact that helps the Amatrix choose Belyos's next Monarch of the Dead.

One of the rare and powerful explorers bonded to a Legacy who leads expeditions into the Malediction.

Agnar's central continent, home to the Malediction and the four great nations.

A lifelong leader who governs a Rite's daily affairs in place of its rarely seen Lucidi.

A Sphere Virtahn Seeker skilled with Liastrum weapons and close combat.

A Primal Blood spellcaster who works with the Takra of Spirit and Ymiris's Echo.

Fragments of Oster's throne containing his Vestige, sustaining the Lucidi and the power of the Oathbound Light.

A being whose body has been magically transformed into a bestial form.

A knightly Seeker who follows the voice of the sacred shield Andravon and leads the Order's Great Reclamation.

A knight of the Rite of Honor who investigated the events at the Welstead estate alongside Sigrith.

Sphere Virtahn combat magic that applies trained movement and bodily experience directly to spellcasting.

Morrida's Legacy, used to stitch spirits and bodies together and draw out their power.

The soul-force that animates living beings and leaves the body with the final breath.

A necromantic specialist who communes with, calms, and guides spirits rather than dominating them by force.

Selejian city-states that retain independent rule and interests outside the full control of the four great nations.

A corrupted Legacy that brought ruin to Jothan and House Welstead.

A shape-changing living servant fashioned by Sphere Chimer from flesh and Liastrum.

A signature Spellbound created by Sphere Chimer, combining obedience with transformative ability.

A Sphere Akhenza office responsible for supervising dangerous magical experiments and containing accidents.

A Conclave academy and enterprise that gains profit and influence by studying and monopolizing a field of magic.

A Sphere specializing in defensive spells and wards, as well as laboratory inspection and enforcement of Council law.

The Sphere that monopolizes teleportation and transposition and safely operates Myrkos's towers.

A former Sphere dismantled by Polinore during a political struggle.

A biomantic Sphere that combines living tissue with Liastrum to create Spellbound servants.

A Sphere of divination that glimpses possible futures and studies fate and probability.

A mercenary Sphere that monopolizes war magic, somatic techniques, and Liastrum weapons.

A gateway where the Legion of the Fallen maintains a garrison on the Malediction front.

An artifact containing Kerak's soul that joins the Amatrix in choosing the next Monarch of the Dead.

Undead creations made by Morrida by stitching souls and bodies together with Liastrum and the Anush-Vah.

The Jewel of Rage, a Legacy that magnifies Thundersteps's anger and power.

Users of magic condemned as heretical by the Order.

The shaman's path of communing with dreams, spirits, and Ymiris's Echo.

The berserker's path of proving Ymiris's will through strength, battle, and bodily trials.

A massive beast born from the Echo of Paxos, hunted or driven into battle by the Primal Blood.

The Order's holy city, where the Lucidi gather and the Rite of Valcaris is based.

A combat Aspirant who tests Sphere Virtahn's prototype magical weapons and artifacts in pursuit of an apprenticeship.

The catastrophe at the end of the Siege of Osterath, when corrupted Echo erupted from Ymiris and shattered the old world and the laws of magic.

The world-changing event in which the Thirteen pierced Ymiris with the Thorn of Olem and forced her into a deep sleep.

The title of an Everlasting who awakened ancient giants and used them in war. Their true name remains unrevealed.

The Order's seven religious, administrative, and military branches, each led by a Lucidi.

Thirteen First Children who bound Ymiris, absorbed the overflowing Echo, and gained immortality and godlike power.

Sacred writings that preserve Valcaris's teachings and ground the Order's faith and law.

A weapon designed by Molech and built by Galdrun and the giants to pierce and bind Ymiris's spiritual heart.

A unique colossal beast-Seeker born amid the chaos, blood, and rage of the Malediction.

A teleportation structure left across the continent by Myrkos and now operated exclusively by Sphere Amblis.

An entity formed when many dead souls are fused by a shared tragedy and emotion.

A trial in which one proves worthiness to follow the Takra of Stone by defeating a powerful foe.

The threefold alliance of Everlasting formed by Oster, Valcaris, and Expiatra.

The complementary paths of the Takra of Stone and Takra of Spirit followed by the Primal Blood.

The official lore term for the colossal one-eyed being represented by Thundersteps.

Auric's father, a vulkir trader killed defending his family with the Will of the Forge during a Primal Blood raid.

A desolate southern frontier of Belyos haunted by the spirits of the dead.

The Conclave's designation for those uninitiated in Liastrum magic and denied citizenship in Quinvala.

The shamanic leader who represents the Takra of Spirit within a kith.

An Everlasting of the Triumvirate who embodies faith and persuasion.

The elite personal guard that protected the Triumvirate and Osterath.

A name used in official lore for both the first Seeker who began the Age of Legacy and an independent city-state.

A shamanic leader who interprets Thundersteps's strange speech and issues orders to the Djurii Host in his name.

A veteran Fallen Seeker who has lived since the Age of Strife and serves the Legion.

A people of masons and artisans created by Galdrun to build the Wall, devoted to creation, beauty, and ancestral memory.

A sacred plant growing at Avakra's Dusk that bears the Fruit of Endless Dreams.

One of Selejia's Sovereign City-States that formed the Golden Road.

An international accord governing territorial claims and rights of battle between expeditions outside the Malediction.

A Legacy formed by a hammer and Caldera's Fist, containing the soul of Aurus, first king of the vulkir.

A city-region where Sphere Virtahn held protection contracts and served as mercenaries during the Age of Strife.

The world-spirit who is Agnar itself and the All-Mother, creator of the First Children and all life.

A Court of Whispers faction that values necromantic knowledge and advancement above all.