The World

What is known, what is guessed, and what is best left alone.

Places

A small inland settlement that outlasts every hard year — by preparation, not luck.

Once this was Esvar — the most advanced country the continent had ever seen.

The ancestral homeland of the Velhari, and the price they paid.

The mountain range that divides the continent, east to west.

The largest settlement on Enedal — canals, harbours, and markets that smell of tar and spice.

A warm settlement of free craftspeople at the southern edge of the forest.

Scholars, engineers, lawmakers — and refugees from their own homeland.

They were here before anyone else, and they will be here after.

A people shaped by loss, defined by what they chose to carry.

Small, luminous creatures that gather in cold air before storms.