faction

The Aldriktch Trade Alliance is an agreement between Erasnus, Watar, Myorna, Camaran, Bestacia, and Ubrik that dictates open trade routes between the countries.

The elder nature-race that arrived with Gaea and crafted the elves; a dwindling handful, each of whom pays for creation in their own waning life.

An Amverela elf cult that worships the sleeping titan Hykravones and hunts his resting place to wake him and reset a world they hold corrupt.

The ancient pan-dwarf coalition, now a dues-collecting union three city-states monopolize, whose two patron gods are fed by the diaspora it shuts out.

Traveling priests.

Time-attuned mercenaries who read a battle's outcome at stretched speed before it is fought, and pledge their unhurried blades to no crown.

The order of high priests that governs Avalon by interpreting the immortal Ecclesiarch's slow pronouncements into policy, and guards every approach to his throne.

The scholar-order of Mu that reconciles the Shailin prophecy-journals, whose inner circle has deduced their oracle-god is a finite fraud and chosen silence.

A heretical sect that holds Bryn's ceaseless motion to be a suffering mortals have no right to impose; works quietly to let the sun rest.

The Tarkhon Empire's elite order of fire-shapers, bound to the Yolus fire-seam beneath Tarkhetan, an edge it cannot carry to any other city.

Mercenary companies of Keshwindi's Nameless Ones, who hire out the one inheritance exile left them: the blade.

Gorath's war-faith, which took the dwarves' forge-daemon Krondeum as its patron of conquest and now blesses the legions that enslave his people.

A hidden cabal that keeps the slave-sacrifice trade moving worldwide, because a life taken in blood yields Deoric power that years of prayer cannot match.

The annual gathering of every Rakiten tribe at Kro Shiik—the one pan-Rakiten institution, deciding by visible consensus, and paralyzed over Roule.

The covert network that smuggles enslaved Drasnians out of Gorath through the Moon Wilds, the one border the empire will not cross.

The orthodox solar church that maintains the singing rota holding Bryn's warmth-band, collects the sun-tax, and enforces the law of light against unsanctioned prayer-coalitions.

The Tarkhon institution that grades Enymu's harvest and fixes the empire's bread price each year — a monopsony in all but the word.

The theocratic order that governs Deo Esari, harvests the titan bones, and has spent two centuries sealing the cause of the southern disaster.

A hidden Avalon network that intercepts null-Declared children and moves them out of their districts before their families grieve and let them go.

A group of archers committed entirely to bettering their abilities in archery through 'hunt' and 'sport'.

The specialist Golden-Age orders that performed the anchor-vessel rite for every other cult; the keystone class whose collapse doomed the pantheon.

Guardians of the chamber of echos—portal to the past.

A coalition of eight major daemons: Bylzar, Varn, Sainu, Íritiv, Solas, Uun, Qoponatai, and Azak.