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Ember-Spear Fire Goblin
Creature Ember-Spear Fire Goblin A small volcanic goblin who breeds in the heat and fights with an ember-tipped spear, treating the caldera's slow magma lake as a hearth to be kept.
The Underwarrens
Location The Underwarrens A warren of narrow, dark tunnels beneath the old cities, lit by the phosphorescence of the claw and the word.
The Whisker Warrens
Location The Whisker Warrens A warren of narrow, warm tunnels beneath the old cities, lit by the phosphorescence of the claw and the word.
Human
Race Human Short-lived, endlessly ambitious builders of empires, guilds, and churches — the race every other race measures itself against.
The Threshold
Location The Threshold The boundary between universes. A place where the Veil is thin enough to step through — if you know how, or if something knows how for you.
The Vigil Gate
Location The Vigil Gate A gate of pale stone, its surface a constant grey shimmer, its silence broken only by the oath and the vigil.
The Shattered Coast
Location The Shattered Coast A broken coastline in the unknown universe. Placeholder — to be described together. The first real place in the current world.
The Two Shore
Location The Two Shore A quiet settlement on the border of elf-wood and human town, where the half-elves keep their two oaths and their long, careful middle.
The Underbrow
Location The Underbrow A mountain range hollowed into a lattice of clean, singing tunnels, centered on a geode hall the size of a cathedral.
Bargain-Carry Demon
Creature Bargain-Carry Demon The heavy, low, slightly-too-broad shape of the pit, built dense and low with a deep muddy umber skin and fine pale red veins at the temples. Its bargain carries across the pit the way the fire carries across the ash, and the carrying is not a choice.
Ironstock Bastion
Location Ironstock Bastion A military iron-forged fortress on a bare ridge, its walls of riveted plate, its drill-yards wide enough to hold a line.
The Scale Pool
Location The Scale Pool A pool of black scale and warm water in the deep marsh, where the lizard-men keep their scales and their long, slow, and very patient oaths.
The Shatter Sounds
Location The Shatter Sounds A shore of black rock and kept air, where the sirens keep their voice and their very long, very quiet, and very patient oaths.
The Scriptorium
Location The Scriptorium A silent tower of paper and ink on the edge of the old world, where the erudites keep their knowledge and their long, very quiet, and very sharp oaths.
The Tinker Hollows
Location The Tinker Hollows A hollow of small, clever workshops and odd little gardens, where the gnomes tinker, scheme, and keep their very small, very sharp secrets.
The Throne of Names
Location The Throne of Names A throne of cold light and ringing silence in the highest plane, where the gods keep their power and their long, very quiet, and very patient oaths.
The Sting Crags
Location The Sting Crags A crag of bare stone, its surface scored with the marks of the claw, its air a constant hum, its silence broken only by the sting and the charge.
The Silent Spires
Location The Silent Spires A city of pale stone, its surface a constant grey shimmer, its silence broken only by the record and the witness.
The Scale Pits
Location The Scale Pits A pit of black scale and broken wing, where the drakes keep their small, sharp, and very loud quarrels.
The Sanguine Crypts
Location The Sanguine Crypts A crypt of pale stone, its chambers lit by the phosphorescence of the blood, its silence broken only by the ledger and the debt.
The Sanctum
Location The Sanctum A floating sanctum above the clouds, where the demi-gods keep their power and their distance from the mortal world.
The Nameless Tundra
Location The Nameless Tundra The frozen expanse of the old world where Uaellaen was found by Tigole. Snow, ice, and the first lesson: the world is bigger than you.
The Scream Spire
Location The Scream Spire A sheer tower of bare stone, its summit wide enough to hold a nest, its air a constant shriek, its silence broken only by the song and the raid.
The Moaning Moor
Location The Moaning Moor A moor of pale shade, its surface a constant grey shimmer, its silence broken only by the moan and the soul.

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