The World · The Ages

The Five Ages

The world was largest and brightest in the first age, and has grown smaller and dimmer with every turning since. This is its whole history — and the shape of its slow undoing.

The First Age

Concord

The world at its widest. The five perceived all things evenly, and the four balanced peoples were born. The edges were sharp as a blade, and the fading sea lay far, far away.

The Second Age

Pride

Each god poured its sense into one place, and the five singular peoples were born. Frontiers swelled to extremes — mountains, canyons, floodplains — and the old even edges began, for the first time, to dim.

The Third Age

Alliance

The gods paired, and the two twofold peoples were born; spires rose and marshes sank. And here and there the world showed its first thin places, where reality had already begun to wear through.

The Fourth Age

The Senseless War

A war so terrible the heart of the world was unmade, and a grey wound opened at its centre. At its end the five gods withdrew their gaze — and the edges of the world began to fall away.

The Fifth Age

The Silence

Now. The gods barely perceive, and magic wanes. The wound at the centre spreads outward as the edges crumble inward. The world is smaller, and dimmer, than it has ever been.

We live in the Silence now. The story begins here.

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