Ebon Veil Covenant
“Truth is the lie the gods fear most.”
The Evon Veil Covenant is a secretive, ancient society devoted to uncovering and preserving magical truths long buried by time, erased by empires, or forbidden by the gods. To the world, they are whispers in candlelit corners and footnotes in forbidden texts. To those who seek power beyond comprehension, they are a flickering hope in the dark.
The Covenant holds one core belief above all others:
Magic is not a gift. It is a memory.
A memory of what mortals once were—creatures of limitless potential, connected to raw forces far older than gods, older than the stars. Long ago, they say, a Veil was drawn between this world and the deeper truths of existence. The gods, newly risen and hungry for worship, severed that connection to keep mortals powerless and obedient. The Covenant calls that era “The Severing,” and they have spent countless generations trying to undo it.
They do not seek to control the world—only to reveal it. Even if it shatters in the process.
Leadership: Amara Faithkeeper
At the head of the Evon Veil Covenant is Amara Faithkeeper, a name spoken with both reverence and dread. Once a prominent priestess of one of the Imperial Gods, Amara was cast out for heresy when she began preaching of powers greater than the pantheon. She claimed to have seen visions in dreams—fractured memories of a world before the gods, where magic was not channeled through divine symbols or rigid arcane formulas, but wielded like instinct.
After her exile from the The University of Scholara, Amara vanished from public record. When she resurfaced decades later, she had become the High Veilbearer, leader of the Covenant. Charismatic, prophetic, and terrifyingly brilliant, she is known to walk freely among her agents, bearing a staff of darkened crystal and eyes that seem to shimmer with otherworldly reflection. Her followers say she has pierced the Veil and returned changed.
To the Cilese Empire, she is a heretic and a terrorist—blamed for inciting magical uprisings and sabotaging arcane research.
To the The University of Scholara, she is a myth wrapped in scholarly nightmares.
To those who have nothing left to lose, she is the only one telling the truth.
Origins and Evolution
The origins of the Evon Veil Covenant are obscured by time, though fragments suggest it formed in the aftermath of the Fall of the Calverin Dynasty—an era marked by arcane catastrophe. Survivors of the fall whispered of ancient rites and seals that had been broken, and of old magic surfacing in ruin. Some believe the Covenant began as a response to that collapse, seeing it not as a warning but as a clue to what was lost.
The earliest members were mystics, exiled mages, outcast historians, and fallen clerics. They pieced together ancient symbols and half-burned scrolls, tracking the scattered remnants of pre-divine civilizations and the deep wells of magic they once controlled. Over centuries, the Covenant grew into a vast web of cells and secret chapters, each guarding a fragment of forbidden knowledge. Their symbols began appearing in ancient ruins, in coded language on the margins of imperial maps, and in the dreams of warlocks who never asked for their patrons.
They are said to operate out of hidden sanctums buried beneath ruins, frozen mountaintops, or places where reality itself feels thin. No two meetings of the Covenant are ever held in the same location twice. Their knowledge passes through glyphbound scrolls, dream-scribed visions, and whispered riddles etched in invisible ink.
Beliefs and Goals
- The Veil is artificial. The gods created it to limit mortals.
- Deep Magic is memory, not invention. It is what we once knew and must remember again.
- The divine pantheons are not absolute. There are older truths that predate even the stars.
They do not view themselves as villains. To them, they are guardians of the oldest truth in the world—truth that once cost humanity its freedom. They believe that by preserving what remains of deep magic and preventing the Veil from being shattered by reckless forces, they can protect mortals from falling once again under the dominion of false gods and chaotic power. Their mission is not to break the world, but to shield it from those who would.
Symbols & Iconography
The symbol of the Evon Veil Covenant is a cracked eye within a spiral, surrounded by runes from no known language. It is usually carved into stone, hidden in architecture, or tattooed on the inside of the wrist of a true believer.
Members wear simple robes of muted gray or deep blue, often stitched with thread that shimmers faintly in moonlight. Higher-ranking members carry Veil Shards, slivers of crystal said to hold glimpses into the memory of magic.
