The Haerthersfǫr or "Days of Winterlight Angels" is an ancient Nordic tradition still practiced to this day. As the defeat during the Reshaping of the World had relegated the tribes of the Nordmen to the hostile regions below the Snowzone, winters would hit many Kaltani, Gallian, and Skôtish tribes especially harshly. The Angel Saxons, children of the Albenmannen, were of course rather well off in their lofty halls of stone, warmed by forge fires and magic. But such is not the way of the Angel Saxons to tower high above their kinsmen and ignore their plight, and with their magic and the Kaltani druids, they formed a special procession in those early winters, one that would recur every year without fail for thousands of years: the Hearthersfǫr, the Journey of the Hearth, or - as it would later become known - the "Days of Winterlight Angels". While the larger towns, castles, and of course the lands of High Saxia were stocked up and protected well enough to withstand the extreme cold and encroaching glaciers that began their deadly march in the late months of the year, smaller villages and settlements were not as well equipped to survive the onslaught of deep winter. Most of those relied on aging local druids to thwart approaching glaciers and swell waning fires with their ancient magic, but such druids did not live forever, and when one died, a settlement did not always have a suitable replacement. Each winter could have been their last in those early days. The Hearthersfǫr procession would see skilled druids, led by Angel Saxon mages, journey across the North and see that Nordmen settlements had the magic they needed to survive the deadly season.- Fact taken from Old Tim's One Hundred Facts about Aqualon, Volume 2
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Magic (law)
The magic of Aqualon comes in several forms, but all of them share the same nature. ~ 1450
The Encyclopedia Aqualonia (article)
Welcome to the world of Aqualon. Whatever you wish to know about this incredible world you may find among the pages of the countless articles of this great encyclopedia. Learn all about Aqualon's lands, technology, magic, history, cultures, and people.
Spell Ink (item)
Spell ink is a restricted substance produced in the Middle Lands. It is used in all five of the great cities of that land where they create magic engines with it. ~ 4133 Words
Plâton Rai’enjoh (person)
Aqualon's greatest hero, Plâton was not born a Keeper but an ordinary boy who wound up at the doorstep of the Old Gods. (14921 Words)
Schools of Elemental Magic (article)
Of the various types of magic on Aqualon, elemental magic is the easiest to attain and the most prolific kind across the globe. There are five sub-types of elemental magic: Water, Fire, Lightning, Earth, and Wind, each with its own schools. ~ 721 Words
The Den of Momiji (article)
A fox family that has become enshrined, literally and metaphorically, in the local culture of the Western Yamato Valley.
Maps of Aqualon: The Northwestern Yamato Valley (article)
The Northwestern Yamato Valley is a fertile region fraught with Ur-soulism elemental shrines and beautiful forests.
Red Fox Publishing (organization)
Red Fox Publishing is one of the most influential publishing houses of the Yamato Kingdom and beyond. (1329 Words)
The Fox Wedding (ritual)
None would dare to hold a white wedding on Aqualon, none but the white themselves. (1043 Words)
De Vries Cluster Field Theory (technology)
An abridged explanation of De Vries Cluster Field Theory, its discovery, and its applications for anti-magic technology and advanced non-biological computers. (2900 Words)
Faith (article)
Clockwork theologists have a few things to say about faith. With relentless empirical study, they have uncovered the impressive power behind genuine faith and how it can bend and empower souls. (1126 Words)
Aqualon Short Stories (article)
Find all of Aqualon's wondrous tales in one easy-to-navigate place and buckle up for epic stories of all ilks!
Special Thanks (article)
I would like to express my gratitude to these people and give credit to those that have provided excellent resources for world building and design.
Maps of Aqualon: The Planet (article)
This titanic 10000 x 6045 pixel world map shows the basic layout of Aqualon and many of its lands and locations. Though still incomplete, you can find many, many pins on this map telling you much about the lands of Aqualon.
Hestia (person)
Some people change the world for the better; but sometimes the way they do it is unsavory to say the least. (5556 Words)
The Black Priest of Rastrowel (prose)
A short story about the little girl Lyn, who lives with her uncle, an HJT ferry (a magus that protects ships), his apprentice Makani, and the mysterious Lady Wisp in a lighthouse hut on the island of Rastrowel. The first HJT Ferry Tale. ~ 5325 Words
The Maoloaiya (ethnicity)
The Maoloaiya inhabit the Trans-Glaciatic Sea, cut off from the rest of the world by the mighty Gastropnir Glacier, which separates them from the Great Land and the Corsic Ocean. They are skilled navigators and nomadic island dwellers. ~ 4702
Tale #2: The Mighty Brammenwoods (prose)
From ~One Hundred Fantastic Facts Come to Life~. ~ 920 Words
Maps of Aqualon: The City of Fulgrath (article)
The full map of Fulgrath with markers.
Aqualon, Rise of the Broken (prose)
Read the first half of the Aqualon novel ~Rise of the Broken~ for free!
The Borealian Lunar Outpost (settlement)
Few people on Aqualon are aware that the Old Gods actually live on Aqualon's moon, even fewer know that Borealians have flown up there and built facilities using no magic whatsoever.
Higashi Taifûmon 東大風門 (landmark)
Still active and working after over two millenia, ships that sail westward through this gate are accelerated by a powerful channel of wind that carries them all the way from the Lower Yamato Islands to Hammerhead. ~ 627 Words
The Lands of Inferno (location)
Between the Walls of Weltenend lie the Lands of Inferno, a pressure cooker of volcanic and tectonic activity, filled with searing heat, lava streams, noxious gases, and smoke. ~ 394 Words
Vaenndrasil (landmark)
The largest tree on Aqualon is the Vaenndrasil of Druith, located in the Glade of Druith. ~ 565 Words
Shishisô (species)
This amazing, cattail-like plant growsn all over Yamato, though it is rarer in the fertile Yamato Valley, instead preferring higher altitudes along the vast mountain range. ~ 400 Words
The Canyon of Khepri (location)
At the southern border of the Red Sands lies the Canyon of Khepri, a vast gorge that runs along the Rusty Shore towards the east. ~ 677 Words
The Shipyards of Jotuneyja (settlement)
A remote shipyard of the Borealian Technocracy, which churns out its ironclads for trade and supply lines.
Efalla, Lady of Water (person)
Chief of chiefs, first leader of the Vanierkindern in the New World. Efalla led her peers to the great Lake Glazglubin and the Corsic Ocean where they would later become known as the Efalli and eventually the Maoloaiya.
The Aqualon Builders Guild and Challenges YOU can Participate in! (article)
Become part of the Aqualon Builders Guild! Support this world, participate in Writing challenges, and earn awesome rewards!
Whetu Mohio (technology)
The Maoloaiya art of navigation, sometimes called pathfinding, with the help of which they used to travel hundreds of thousands of kilometers across the Corsic Ocean and Trans-Glaciatic Sea.
Soul Theory (technology)
Soul theory is the empirical study of the human soul. (860 Words)
Darmstadt Processors (article)
The key piece of technology that allowed Borealis to leave magic behind and usher in a new bio-computer age for their technocratic super-society. ~ 2227 Words
万善屋敷 Banzen Yashiki (landmark)
An eerie, dilapidated mansion on the western Yamato Maountain Range, located in the vicinity of Xiau'toku Mura. (496 Words)
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Aqualon, Rise of the Broken - Chapter 14, Fallout
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Aqualon, Rise of the Broken - Chapter 15, Into the Unknown
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Creativity (article)
Explanation, Stunts, and Special Applications for the Creativity Skill. /AqualonFateCore
Chapter 14, Fallout (Aqualon, Rise of the Broken) (prose)
Chapter 14 of Aqualon, Rise of the Broken
Chapter 15, Into the Unknown (Aqualon, Rise of the Broken) (prose)
Chapter 15 of Aqualon, Rise of the Broken
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Chapter 13 of Aqualon, Rise of the Broken
Atlas [ Chapter 15 ] (prose)
Aqualon, Rise of the Broken - Chapter 15, Into the Unknown
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Atlas [ Chapter 13d ] (prose)
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Atlas [ Chapter 14 ] (prose)
Aqualon, Rise of the Broken - Chapter 14, Fallout
Atlas [ Chapter 13b ] (prose)
Aqualon, Rise of the Broken - Chapter 13, Burnout
Atlas [ Chapter 13a ] (prose)
Aqualon, Rise of the Broken - Chapter 13, Burnout
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Aqualon, Rise of the Broken - Chapter 17, Revalation
Ayveron [ Chapter 14 ] (prose)
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Before the Aftermath (prose)
Aqualon, Rise of the Broken - Chapter 13, Burnout
Aqualonian Maps (technology)
A primer on mapmaking and the history of the southward orientation. (351 Words)
Amber Sun Productions (organization)
Amber Sun Productions is the most influential publisher of the city of Miyako Fluxum, publishing novels and magazines alike. ~ 668 Words
Albeney Castle (landmark)
The largest stone castle owned by the Nordmen to this day. It was built by Angel Saxon builders and Kaltani, Skôtish, and Gallian laborers in the early decades of the Great War. (1110 Words)
Old Tim's One Hundred Facts about Aqualon, Volume 2 (article)
In 1663 GE, as a little hobby on the side, Timmothy Jargon, renowned technocrat of Miyako Fluxum, began collecting facts and stories about the world of Aqualon. In 1673 GE, he released this, his second booklet listing 100 of these facts. ~ 13449 Words
Maps of Aqualon: The City of Aquaris (article)
Aquaris, the City of Water, is located in the north of the Middle Lands.
Maps of Aqualon: The Middle Lands (article)
The Middle Lands Magocracy is one of the most powerful nations on Aqualon.
Maps of Aqualon: The Pirate Coves of Porasta (article)
The most notorious pirate harbor on the Corsic Ocean.
Maps of Aqualon: The Bonfire Shrine (article)
The enshrined Eternal Flame of Lumina Aka and the shrine villages surrounding it, north of the Charwoods.
Maps of Aqualon: Jamphel Yeshe (article)
Yamato folk first survey Jamphel Yeshe, calling it "Kujira-tô" or Whale Island, owing to its shape that resembles a whale's head.
Maps of Aqualon: Central Aerialis (article)
Aerialis, the City of Air, is one of the five capitals of the Middle Lands.
Maps of Aqualon: The Black Sanctum of the East (article)
One of the two homes of the Brotherhood of the Null, located at the Eastern Walls of Weltenend and carved from obsidian.
Maps of Aqualon: 山雨得 Xiau'toku in the Northwestern Yamato Valley (article)
A village located in the western Yamato Valley.
Timber (article)
Timber is an islet of the Spark Isles, which are on the south-western side of the Anvil Island. It has a thick jungle on it and harbors a camp of illegal arms-dealers, the Gulch. ~ 341 Words
Vinclav, the Master of Keys (person)
Now games and wagers are the life / Of sailors, pirates, fisher′s wives; / But do beware the yellow eyes, / Don′t bet to serve, your soul, your life / Always beware the yellow eyes. (2701 Words)
The Jô'oo Clan (organization)
The Jô'oo Clan is one of the Clans of Yamato. It exists since its founding in the Age of Awakening by the notorious Hestia Bygate, destroyer of Estverde. And both feared and respected, the clan has carved out an impresive name all of its own. ~ 3018 Word
The Tower of Five (landmark)
The Tower is the ruling house of the five Keepers, who are in charge of the Middle Lands. ~ 461 Words
The Publishing Houses of Aqualon (article)
Across the planet, there are many great publishing companies, each specializing in their own genres and tropes, depending on the zeitgeist of the societies they are situated in.
Writing Competition: The Publishing Houses of Aqualon (article)
Participate in the epic short story writing competition until the end of February 2019 and win, among other things, high tier World Anvil memberships!
Spiral Cloud Publishing (organization)
Spiral Cloud Publishing is a collector and distributor of content from the Borealis Creative Cloud, allocating fantastic short stories and novels from the CC in a weekly digest for Borealis citizens. ~ 961 Words
Arclight Press (organization)
Arclight Press is one of the most influential publishing houses of Fulgrath. ~ 739 Words
Command Tower Entertainment (organization)
Command Tower Entertainment is one of the most influential publishing houses of the Great Land. ~ 523 Words
The HJT Gazette (organization)
The HJT Gazette is one of the most influential publishing houses of the Corsic Ocean, printing the same-named news paper and a popular magazine. ~ 393 Words
Tale #5: Keepers, Blades, and Elements (prose)
From ~One Hundred Fantastic Facts Come to Life~. ~ 1276 Words
Gatakoage 蛾凧揚げ (“Moth Kite Flying”) (ritual)
On the 18th Day of the Ninth Month, the Yamato folk fly moth-shaped kites above their cities. (Words 1105)
Kunibert (Unit of Measurement) (article)
The Kunibert is the unit of measurement for De Vries Field Strength. (382 Words)
The ABG Midas Creek Branch Office (landmark)
A medium-sized branch office of the Aqualon Builders Guild located in the large desert town of Midas Creek in the Golden Sands of Aqualon. (659 Words)
The History of Aqualon: After the Reshaping (article)
A timeline of Aqualon's major history after the planet had been forged out of the Nine Realms by the Faceless World-Shaper.
Patrons of Aqualon, January 2019 (prose)
This multi-story serial follows the adventures of the various patron tiers of Aqualon and the people that are part of them. ~ 2773 Words
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World Creation Roadmap (article)
A History of the Brammir
The Brammenwoods are located between Altonar and the Western Walls of Weltenend. They are the largest forest on Aqualon, larger even than the great Odenwald Forest. There are long vines that wind across the forest floor all the way from the Iron Belt; they are called dragontails and have tough iron scales with material sequestered from the Rusty Shore with powerful acidic roots. Strange, iron-based crystals 'ripen' underneath these scales and are collected by male gem-tailed squirrels, which store them in tree holes and adorn their tails with to attract the female's attention. Once in the tree holes, they amplify the soul power of the tree in a to date unexplored manner, making the trees grow faster and stronger, leading to the largest trees on Aqualon being located in the Brammenwoods. Sometimes they will grow their tree holes shut in sudden growth spurts and many trees there have shiny gemstones encrusted in their bark. A "Bramma" is a semi-finished slab of steel, and the Brammenwoods get their name from the scales of the dragontails. The Brammir, keepers of the Brammenforts and rulers of Vechnaya Bramma, harvested the Bramma of the dragontails with great effort and secret magics during the First Age and the Age of the Iron Divide, covering the walls of their forts in them and smithing them into weapons. But their secrets of Bramma harvesting were lost with the waning of the Age of the Iron Divide, and to none is the name “Age of Awakening” more bitterly ironic than to the Brammir.- Fact taken from Old Tim's One Hundred Facts about Aqualon, Volume 2
World Creation Roadmap (article)
Doubts about the Great Clockwork arise in Jamphel Yeshe
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The Eternal Flame of Lumina Aka is Lit
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Trade for Magics
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The Monastery of the Grand Sages is Built on Jamphel Yeshe
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The Founding of Jamphel Yeshe
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The Yamato Surveys: Jamphel Yeshe
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Fulgrath, the City of Lightning (Article + Map)
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Leap in DVF Suppression Technology
After completing his prototype, Dr. Inv. Vincent Kunibert Greenhorn tried to make his invention battle-ready in vain, and in the end missed the end of the war by 5 years. However, with the creation of his Mark 1 DVF Suppressor, he set the technocrats of Borealis (location) on their path to autonomy from the Great Clockwork.
De Vries Cluster Field Theory technology Timeline (article)
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The Hall of Lake Rahn
The water mages erected a fortified hall in the middle of Lake Rahn (location).
Aqualon Timeline (article)
Hestia Becomes a Tutor to the Hildebrandt Household
Traveling to Lake Rahn (location) following her banishment, Hestia joins the household of Lord Hildebrandt, master of the Lake Rahn domain. Here she spends most of her time tutoring the children of the household, sometimes counseling the Lord on decisions.
Hestia person Timeline (article)
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The Null Concord
Near the end of the Age of Awakening, just after announcing themselves to the world, the Brotherhood of the Null forced the nations of the Great Land (location) to the negotiation table, hammering out that any wars involving large scale magic must be waged on the Untamed Meadows (location) on the ruins of Estverde (location), creating a 'balance of repercussions' that woud force all other signing nations to act immediately against offenders who broke the concord. The Null Concord additionally severely limits or forbids the development and deployment of high tier desctructive magic and technologocal weapons of mass destruction, counteracting a potential arms race between mages and technocrats to break out and a second Estverde to occur.
Brynwain Fever Timeline (article)
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The Death of the Mad Magus Hestia
Hestia Bygate is executed by the Lord of Fire Horvath Innsrai (person) in the ruins of Estverde, but the aftermath of her most infamous deed will have consequences reaching far beyond her death.
Hestia person Timeline (article)
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Hestia Escapes
After her Spellblight-stricken body is carried back to the Yamato Kingdom, Hestia Bygate is accused of defying imperial orders by destroying Estverde instead of annexing it, and in light of the massive loss of life, she is sentenced to death despite her extensive contributions to the kingdom. However, when she is supposed to be carried back to Estverde to be executed there, she burns the tower she has been imprisoned in down and flees.
Hestia person Timeline (article)
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Estverde is Burned to Ashes
On the second day of the six month 108 AA, Hestia Bygate, the Ryûga Order, and several army divisions of the Yamato Kingdom arrive at the walls of Estverde, trying to annex the great city. The first and second infantry divisions are mowed down by archers and tar pits dug around the city. After the siege has been set up on the third day of the six month, a representative of the city arrives in the encampment to find out the terms of the Yamato Kindom on the fourth day of the six month. He mocks Hestia to the peril of his people, and the general, still shaken by the loss of two divisions and enraged by the representatives, uses all the magical power she can bring to bear to engulf the city in a great pillar of flame, carbonizing every man, woman, child, stick, and stone. This day will forever change the world's stance on war magic and may have, ironically, prevented the end of civilization during the Age of Heroes.
Hestia person Timeline (article)
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Tensions Between the Yamato Kingdom and Estverde Rise
Estverde is growing uncomfortable with Yamamoto expansion policies and tries to fortify its borders, claiming that the Yamato Kingdom is encroaching on their territory. The negotiations and threats are met especially harshly by Hestia Bygate, Daikan of the Easternmost Provinces.
Hestia person Timeline (article)
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Hestia is Appointed Daikan of the Easternmost Provinces of the Yamato Kingdom
In recognition of her years of service and contributions to the state, Hestia Bygate is appointed Daikan (governor) of the Easternmost Provinces of the Yamato Kingdom. These border on the lands of Estverde.
Hestia person Timeline (article)
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Hestia's Influence Grows
Though already a special general, Hestia was initially still kept out of war councils. After several successful campaigns with her new Ryûga Order, the Emperor grants her the new title Special Advisor to the Imperial Military Council, allowing her to join all military council meetings and participate as a full member.
Hestia person Timeline (article)
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The Ryûga Order is Founded
In the Yamato Kingdom, the art of war magic is being perfected largely thanks to Hestia Bygate, who has been employed by the Emperor as a special advisor for military magical education. On her behest a special platoon of mage warriors is founded by imperial decree, and she is declared general of this new force trained by her.
Hestia person Timeline (article)
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Hestia Joins the Yamato Court
After delivering her famous map of the Middle Lands to the Emperor of the Yamato Kingdom, Hestia is afforded citizenship in the Yamato Kingdom and appointed Consultant of the Imperial Cartographer. Later that year she also receives the newly created title Special Advisor on the Art of Magic and begins teaching the fire magic she has learned at the Bonfire Shrine to Yamato mages.
Hestia person Timeline (article)
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Hestia is Banished from the Bonfire Shrine
After causing a major fire in the Charwoods (locatoin) that gets out of control, the elders of the Mages of the Bonfire Shrine can no longer ignore her destructive tendencies that go against doctrine. She has her title revoked and is forbidden from ever coming near the Bonfire Shrine again.
Hestia person Timeline (article)
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Expedition to Mt. Tarkaal
Together with Frederick Byren (person), two surveyors, and a historian, Hestia mounts an expedition to climb Mount Tarkaal (location) and survey the Middle Lands in order to create the most accurate map of the land of that time.
Hestia person Timeline (article)
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Hestia Joins the Mages of the Bonfire Shrine
At the age of 10, Hestia Bygate is anointed a shrine maiden of the Bonfire Shrine, expected to follow in the footsteps of her parents. This marks the beginning of her magic education.
Hestia person Timeline (article)
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Hestia Becomes the Youngest Member of the Fire Watchers
At the age of 15, Hestia Bygate is the youngest person to ever be titled a Magus of the Fire Watchers, a sub-order of the Mages of the Bonfire Shrine. As such, she begins to travel the Middle Lands, working to handle fires before they can cause serious damage.
Hestia person Timeline (article)
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Hestia Bygate is Born
Though her birth is uneventful, high expectations are already placed on Hestia when she comes into the world since her parents are both high-ranking members of the Mages of the Bonfire Shrine (organization).
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The Null return
Brothers of the Null leave the Black Sanctum (landmark) for the first time in seventeen hundred years on official business. Venturing to the Middle Lands, they seek to investigate and destroy the phenomenon that will be referred to as the Yellow Glimmer (law).
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The Spirit Wars
About the violent uprising of separatist Yasha in the Yamato Kingdom.
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Iemoto
The system of family-based schools of certain skills (tea ceremony, ikebana, martial arts, philosophical study, weaving, etc.) practiced in the Yamato Kingdom.
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Yasha
An article about victims of Spellblight in the Yamato Kingdom, how they are viewed and treated, and how the Yamato understanding of magic has stigmatized them.
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The Birth of Balsibart
The event known as "The Birth of Balsibart" occurs, and every living person on Jamphel Yeshe vanishes from the face of Aqualon forever; no one knows where. Because of the appearance of Balsibart the Bard soon thereafter, it is believed that he made his first move on Jamphel Yeshe, then going on to absorb other nations in whatever still unexplained manner he did that.
Jamphel Yeshe location Timeline (article)
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Jamphel Yeshe's Depravity Survives its own Extinction
In less than six decades, the island of Jamphel Yeshe is back to its usual in-human business. The wealth and drug farms lying around for the taking led to a bloody race and war to lay claim on the fallow bounty. In 1456 GE, the population has roughly reached its pre-Balsibart density with lowlifes flowing in or being sold or tossed at Jamphel Yeshe's shores constantly.
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Grand Druid Brynwain Dies
Brynwain Jarlsdytr is killed during the Odenwald Battle fighting against the Keeper of Earth Delfina Akçay. With food supplies in the Great Land stabilizing due to the end of Brynwain Fever, the Great War turns once more in favor of the Allied Forces.
Brynwain Fever Timeline (article)
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Grand Druid Brynwain Creates a Terrible Disease
Using dangerous animancy, the magic that deals with manipulating and twisting souls directly, sometimes called "necromancy", Brynwain, grand druid of the Kaltani, develops a potent plant disease called Brynwain Fever. She has to use a special ritual to spread it and uses this to decimate enemy crops, damaging the food supplies of the.
Brynwain Fever Timeline (article)
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The first Invasion
When the hordes of the Nordmen (organization), the Angel Saxons (organization), and the Old Gods (organization) marched into the Middle Lands, the Great War began and with it what would later be called the Age of Heroes.
Brynwain Fever Timeline (article)
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The Original Baba Yagas
One of the three sisters that together became the first Baba Yaga of all pirates, Mastreyja the Sea Witch (person), is chased by the Keeper of Water Rubina Dunhaine (person) to the shores of Jamphel Yeshe. To the surprise of both, not only the magic of Mastreyja fails her but all water also ceases to heed Rubina's command. Dumbstruck, Rubina freezes, not comprehending the situation, but Mastreyja, a ruthless master of pirates and lowlifes, seizes the opportunity to stab Rubina, killing the Keeper of Water. It is said, though only Mastreyja's account speaks of this, that in that moment the sky tore open and great gears and revolving pillars revealed themselves to the witch, and the great hand of the Clockwork itself reached out to Jamphel Yeshe to drag the soul of Rubina back into the light, for none could be reborn that died on Jamphel Yeshe, but the cycle of Keepers (organization) must never be broken.
Jamphel Yeshe location Timeline (article)
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The Great Pirate Houses have Faded, but the Depravity of Jamphel Yeshe Continues
The Baba Yagas have long perished and their title has become one that is passed along every two years to the winner of the biennial great pirate race of the Corsic Ocean. But the pirate houses are scattered and weakened due to the ruthless campaigns of the Maritime Stratocracy of Guantil-ya, and the title means little at this time. Still, the drug trade flourishes and new drug lords have arisen on Jamphel Yeshe, the island growing ever more prosperous, though the wealth remains in few, precious hands while most of the people living there are addict scum and drug-slaves. This continues undisturbed for many, many centuries, and even occasional attacks by powerful sovereign nations fail as the island has been heavily fortified and is completely immune to magic.
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The Baba Yagas are on the Rise
Mastreyja has decided that no place in the world could be safer for her than Jamphel Yeshe, for even the Clockwork never interfered here save for that one grand spectacle she had supposedly witnessed. Using the resources of her sisters Vanahel and Ludravia as well as her extensive contacts and skills in alchemy and herb lore, she built from scratch a mighty drug empire, planting vast fields of poppy and coca, bringing an era of wealth to the great pirate houses of the Corsic Ocean that made it possible to, at least for a time, withstand the growing military pressure of the islands that banded together to form the Maritime Stratocracy of Guantil Ya (organization).
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The Sect of the Grand Sages Ends
The last living acolyte of the Five Sages takes his life, plunging to his death at the cliffs to the west of the island. As the Clockwork had left their lives, a strange melancholy had infected them, bringing with it a sense of missing purpose, as if the universe was endless and free of meaning to them. Unable to unite this new reality, they found themselves trapped with the teachings they had aspired to; they killed themselves one by one, until finally none were left.
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The Monastery of the Five Paths is Founded
The Monastery of Five Paths if founded in the halls of the former temple of Yilik in an attempt to spread wisdom and enlightenment through magic. As the mages of the Middle Lands are still disorganized at this point in time, this quickly establishes the Monastery as the old center of the magical new world, the magical old word of course being centered around the Angel Saxons.
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Gatakoage 蛾凧揚げ ("Moth Kite Flying")
During the ninth month of the year when autumn approaches, the strong winds around the Yamato Mountain Range begin to pick up. Starting some time in the 4th century GE, the children's past time of kite flying began to pick up popularity among adults, and a couple of neighbors in Yamaseki began to craft elaborate kites styled after murasaki, yarenma, and sensô moths. The fad began to spread like a wildfire and in time became a tradition. Today the Gatakoage is a national celebration that is held on the eighteenth day of the ninth month, during which people eat gayaki (item), a sort of moth-shaped pastry, that is filled with sweet red bean paste, and fly colorful, moth-shaped kites.
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Yamahanabi 山花火 ("Mountain Fireworks")
The Yamahanabi is a much anticipated festival in the Yamato Kingdom. Every year in the sixth month in summer, elaborate fireworks are set off using intricate shells launched from mortar-like bamboo tubes. The fireworks are so impressive that people from all over Aqualon regularly travel to the Yamato Kingdom to witness the Yamahanabi. The fireworks themselves, however, are only part of the show. During the day, before it is dark enough for proper fireworks displays, food and game stands are set up everywhere and people dance and form long lines, dressing themselves up in large yarenma moth costumes. This, in conjunction with the fireworks, is meant to scare off all the bad spirits that were too bitter to let go during the Reitô Matsuri during the third month.
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Murasaki Hanami 紫花見 ("Purple Petal Viewing")
At the end of the third month, the benibasumomo 紅葉李 ("cherry plums") begin to bloom, dying the cities of Yamato in beautiful pink colors. The first day of the blooming is celebrated by droves of people putting up blankets in parks, bringing out their murasaki moths to fly about (as they eat the flowers in spring) and spread their fragrant moth dust around. There the people usually picnic and drink. While the bloom lasts for around two months, it is the approximate first day that is considered a national feast day, and many song, dance and archery performances are usually attached to it.
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Reitô Matsuri 霊灯祭 ("Spirit Lantern Festival")
On the first day of spring (the 20th of the third month), the people of Yamato gather at night and tie lit paper lanterns to the mooring claws of wild moths that have been caught over the course of the month. Each light that is being carried off into the night represents the well wishes to souls that have departed this world during the previous year.
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Rurimon Kumotsu Festival 瑠璃門供物 ("Offerings to Lapislazuli")
Kamigami 神々 ("Various Gods") is a sect of the ur-soulism religion that is practiced widely in the Yamato Kingdom. The general belief that people and sometimes even animals that die with intense negative emotions or great enlightenment may have their soul become stuck between this world and the Daihô is held very deeply in Yamato culture. This is also why they are considered to be very superstitious since it is natural to them to believe in the existence of incorporeal spirits that sometimes influence their lives and, in rare cases, great amalgamations of contented souls that form powerful entities that can be benedictive or vindictive, depending on their narrative. They are often attached to pieces of lands and are called "kami". Often the Yamato people will construct shrines to honor them and bring them offerings, a custom attached to the ideas of ur-soulsim, which also enshrines the five ur-souls of the elements.
The offering is made to him to appease him and ask for his blessing of the land since murasaki moths hibernate in winter and require a small storage of shishisô when they wake in spring. This offering of shishisô to Kumotsu is meant to keep him well-fed during winter, so he does not awaken hungry and perhaps angry from his sleep.
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The Darmstadt Processor MK1 is Constructed
In this historic year, Prof. Dr. Inv. Mark Darmstadt builds his very first Darmstadt Processor; the first complex computation machine, which uses biological components to function. With the advent of the first computer, the development of the technocrats seems to leave the curve behind them permanently.
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Prof. Dr. Tyra Lore Publishes an Influential Paper
in 95 AH, Prof. Dr. Lore publishes her paper "The Grand Ether and Magic Unification Hypothesis", which first brings to light the idea that the heretofore hypothesized ether might infact be a by-product of the Great Clockwork, paving the way for De Vries Cluster Field Theory.
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The Maritime Stratocracy of Guantil-ya is Founded
A total of five of the Seventeen Yonder Islands with strong naval traditions and fleets form a united government, lead by the powerful admiralcy of Guantil-ya. The unification is a reaction to ever more rampant piracy around the Ocean Belt, and a bloody war against the pirate houses of the Corsic Ocean ensue.
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Rise of the White Lancers
The former Guardians of Adelbert Trast, Clarie Vinstek (person) and Karl Trast (person), and their retinue achieve a significant victory over an Angel Saxon force, and the margrave of the east rewards them with titles and lands, making them his bannerman. Their symbol becomes the three winds, lain on a cloak of white, surrounded by wings.
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The Death of Adelbert Trast
The Lord of Wind Adelbert Trast is slain in battle by a Valkyrie of Freyja, but his Guardians survive and find shelter with the Margrave of the East.
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Gesshin went to worship Kannon in Asakusa
For this, Gesshion most likely visited the Sensô-ji temple, which was both a famous Kannon temple in Asakusa and popular for its new years rituals and performances.
The De Vries Cluster Field Theory is first Published
Dr. Helen De Vries publishes her famous paper "The Defining Quality of Life", starting an age of DVF research when science finally triumphs over magic.
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Miyako Fluxum declares independence from Borealis
After over 100 years of intense lobbying, during which the former technamagix faculty could not successfully negotiate for the lifting of the technamagix research ban, the DVF suppressors of Borealis are sabotaged, and the old Jump Drive at its heart booted up. With the historic 'flip of a switch', the central area of the great city is torn away and rematerializes far away in the north.
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The first DVF Suppressor
Dr. Inv. Vincent Kunibert Greenhorn constructs the first DVF Suppressor prototype in his laboritory.
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Jump Drive project completed, Borealis moves to the South Pole
After two centuries of technamagic research, the high technocrats of Borealis (location), the northernmost city of their faction, completes its research into large-scale clockwork travel. A jump drive is installed in the city's heart, and Borealis moves to the South Pole (location), where it absorbs the small outpost Australis (location).
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Rickard Leeuw Publishes the Codex Riccardium
The Codex Riccardium: Magna Magia (category), a renowned work on the history of magic, its uses, and its inner workings was published in Aerialis (location) and quickly spread throught the Middle Lands and beyond.
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The Declaration of Existential Independence
On this historic day, the Council of Faculties (organization) of Borealis (location), decided to use the newly available DVF Suppression technology to permanently turn the city into a clockwork exclusion zone.
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Research Expedition to Jamphel Yeshe
The assistent researcher Kanna Amakagawa goes on a funded research expedition to the dangerous island of Jamphel Yeshe, which is a known clockwork exclusion zone to research that very phenomenon in hope of writing her dissertation about the subject.
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The Founding of the Five Cities
The five Keepers (organization) declared the founding of the five cities.
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The first University
The Van Maxwell School of Logic and Sciences (landmark) gained renown among the Seventeen Yonder Islands (location) and purchased a number of additional buildings to use as housing, lecture halls, and a library.
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