July 18, 2026
Kworgale keeps a grim calendar. It counts its years from the day its gods died — everything before that instant is reckoned in the long shadow of the divine, and everything after is the struggle of their orphaned children.
To understand the six daughters, you first have to know that they arrive very late in this story. Whole ages rise and fall before any of them draws breath. Here is the short version — the shape of a world, in five movements.
Kworgale's history opens not with a war but with an act of creation, surrender, and forgetting: the Great Renewal, from which the mortal world itself was born. This is the beginning of everything — long before any fire, and far longer still before any daughter existed. Read it in The Great Renewal, or watch the film of the same name in the Saga.
For fifteen centuries the world belonged to its gods. The star-born Elder gods walked among their children and guided them; their peoples crossed the seas in the Fivefold Fleets to inherit the continent, and fought to wrest it from its monstrous first masters in the Crusades Against the Beasts. It was the nearest thing to a golden age Kworgale would ever know.
Then the gods destroyed each other. The war that ended the divine age is remembered with dread as the Conflagration — a burning so total that kingdoms which had stood for a thousand years became cinders. You can watch its opening movement in The Conflagration — Part I, and read it in the archive.
The Conflagration ended in a single instant the whole world now counts its years from: the Deity's Sacrifice. It is Year Zero — the hinge between the age of gods and the age of mortals. What followed were the Years of Ash: two centuries of grey, godless collapse in which more of Kworgale's children died than in all the wars before.
A world that has buried its gods does not stop praying. From the silence rose new faiths that would shape the next thousand years — and it is deep in these centuries, a full millennium after the gods burned, that the daughters at last enter history. Merynia is born in the year 1000.
Which brings us to now — the year 1337. The age of the Elders is thirteen centuries gone, the age of mortals is at its proud and dangerous height, and the six daughters stand at the center of everything. The old world's wound has never closed; every faction is a lit fuse.
It is a dangerous time to be alive in Kworgale — which is exactly why it is such a good time to arrive.
The full chronicle waits in the Lore archives. Or, if you'd rather keep a copy, the whole world fits in the free Traveler's Guide.