Lilith

—Lilith, private journal fragment Lilith was the first Ishsha, a product of the High Ones’ most ambitious undertaking: the Genesis Ideal’s Eden Project. She was meticulously bred over generations to be “Eden’s Heart,” a woman of perfect intellect, empathy, and, above all, pliability. Yet fate had introduced a catastrophic and Read more

The Eden Project

The ruling High Ones of the late 4th Age were the first to enact the Genesis Ideal – an initiative intended to restore balance to the world by cultivating a new lineage of humans bred for empathy, intellect, and restraint. In particular this was intended to control the birth of Read more

Mary Shelley

Born during a storm in London, Mary entered the world as if summoned by thunder. Her parents—Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin—were devoted to reason, but even they observed the strange attentiveness of their daughter, who often seemed to watch the world with uncommon intensity, as though perceiving hidden patterns in Read more

The Flame (Vidient)

The Vidient are the descendants not of Pandora herself, but of the shards of her Mirror, which shattered when she looked upon its forbidden reflection. Each shard carried with it a single, pure emotion untouched by mortal complexity. No Vidient perceives the entirety of human emotion; each carries only a fragment, as incomplete Read more

The Prism (Vidient)

The Vidient are the descendants not of Pandora herself, but of the shards of her Mirror, which shattered when she looked upon its forbidden reflection. Each shard carried with it a single, pure emotion untouched by mortal complexity. No Vidient perceives the entirety of human emotion; each carries only a fragment, as incomplete Read more

The Silver Drift (Vidient)

The Vidient are the descendants not of Pandora herself, but of the shards of her Mirror, which shattered when she looked upon its forbidden reflection. Each shard carried with it a single, pure emotion untouched by mortal complexity. No Vidient perceives the entirety of human emotion; each carries only a fragment, as incomplete Read more

The Golden Glimmer (Vidient)

The Vidient are the descendants not of Pandora herself, but of the shards of her Mirror, which shattered when she looked upon its forbidden reflection. Each shard carried with it a single, pure emotion untouched by mortal complexity. No Vidient perceives the entirety of human emotion; each carries only a fragment, as incomplete Read more

The Scorching Halo (Vidient)

The Vidient are the descendants not of Pandora herself, but of the shards of her Mirror, which shattered when she looked upon its forbidden reflection. Each shard carried with it a single, pure emotion untouched by mortal complexity. No Vidient perceives the entirety of human emotion; each carries only a fragment, as incomplete Read more

The Black Mask (Vidient)

The Vidient are the descendants not of Pandora herself, but of the shards of her Mirror, which shattered when she looked upon its forbidden reflection. Each shard carried with it a single, pure emotion untouched by mortal complexity. No Vidient perceives the entirety of human emotion; each carries only a fragment, as incomplete Read more

The Crimson Falls (Vidient)

The Vidient are the descendants not of Pandora herself, but of the shards of her Mirror, which shattered when she looked upon its forbidden reflection. Each shard carried with it a single, pure emotion untouched by mortal complexity. No Vidient perceives the entirety of human emotion; each carries only a Read more