Characters and histories from past Ages
Born in the silver hush of dawnlight beside the River Acheron, Leuce was the fairest daughter of Okeanos, the ancient Titan of freshwater streams, sacred wells, and the endless rains and his wife, Tethys, goddess of the nourishing flow. Though her father was as old as the world’s first waves, Read more
Guinevere was born into a noble family of Britain, a Celtic land before England as we know it existed, fighting the Anglo-Saxons. Her family loved her in their own duty-bound way. As a young girl, she was schooled to keep her eyes steady, speak gently, and never show how overwhelmed Read more
—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 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
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
Before the gods shaped mortal hearts, a great war raged not among deities, but within them. Emotion, raw and boundless, coursed through the early gods like wildfire. Their grief set oceans to boiling, their fury split mountains, their joy birthed storms of stars. In their untempered passions, they nearly unmade Read more
Dalenar Maren was the bastard son of Lord Tareth Maren, a nobleman of Mayene, and a common-born merchant woman named Lyssa. Though Lord Maren never acknowledged the boy as his own, he ensured Dalenar received education and income enough to live comfortably as a quiet debt to the woman who Read more
The Mirror Spindle appears as a delicate tool of silver and glass — a thin rod of cold metal wound with fine veins of crystal, its tip glinting with a shard that seems to hold a heartbeat of light. When spun with the One Power, the air around it shivers Read more
The Greeks referred to Eros as a primordial being because love and desire have existed since the moment of creation. Even desire, passion, love and romance were depicted as winged children of Eros. The singular Eros, however, remained distinct in myth. It was he who lit the flame of love Read more
