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The Cursed Blue Rose
Uncover the history, legends, and chronicles that shape the world of Kworgale.
Religion
The dwarves are usually counted among the peoples with no religion. They keep one. It is not built the way the southern…
The Glacial Dominion is entered on most surveys as a realm without a faith. It is one of the most devout countries in…
The World
Kworgalya has no empire. It has cities, and it has the arrangements cities make when they are too near to ignore and…
Daily Life
Every people of Kworgalya counts its days the same way, which is a stranger fact than it first appears. Faiths that…
To understand any market on Kworgalya, start with what the ground refused to give. This world has no copper — none,…
History
Ask in the taverns of the ash-plains what broke the land into the shapes it holds now — why the earth stands in cooled…
North past the Blood Gate lies Azcaloth, the burning land — a country of split stone and standing ash where the world's…
South of the burning land of Azcaloth, where the world's fire runs too near the surface and the deep resonance called…
There is one rule of building in Kworgalya and it is not use the best stone. It is use the nearest stone. Carting rock…
Two facts govern what everyone in Kworgalya eats, and neither of them is about cooking. The first is that bulk food…
Ask where a stranger is from and they may lie. Look at what they are wearing and they cannot. In Kworgalya cloth is not…
It is not eldritch. It is not from outside. Nothing summoned it and nothing cursed the world with it. The Abyssal Bloom…
On the far landmass of Thirvandor, past an ocean that most captains will not cross, stands a forest that decides for…
The world you can touch is one of five layers, and it is the shallowest. Beyond it lies the Veil — a psychic plane that…
The Gods
The world does not know how close it came, or who paid for it. There is no feast day for this, no order sworn to…
The Verdancy is the rarest faith in the Atlas. One charted settlement keeps it — Hylessa, in the eastern rainforest —…
The Infernal Creed is a faith, and it should not be confused with the state that grew out of it. The Creed is the…
Phosaria is the faith of the dead goddess who saved the world, and it is the second-largest religion the Atlas records…
Kworgale is a world that remembers its gods too well. They were not distant makers glimpsed only in scripture — they…
Before they were gods, they were exiles. The powers the world calls the Elder Elehath — the Elders — were once members…
Older than the gods — older, perhaps, than the world's own memory of itself — are the Great Spirits of Fire and Ice.…
Sorcery
The peoples of Kworgale do not call their magic magic. They call it thaumaturgy, and they treat it less as a wild gift…
Every history of Kworgale begins at the same place: the Great Renewal, the act of creation, surrender, and forgetting…
Five and a half centuries after the founding of Vadesh, the children of the Ur-City set out to inherit the world. The…
The peoples of the Fivefold Fleets did not arrive to an empty land. Kworgalya already had masters — older, stranger,…
For fifteen centuries the Elder gods guided their children. Then they destroyed each other, and the world with them.…
The world counts its years from a single instant. Everything before it is reckoned in the long shadow of the gods;…
The cataclysm did not end the dying — it began it. The first two centuries after the Deity's Sacrifice are remembered…
A world that has buried its gods does not stop praying. In the long recovery after the Years of Ash, the survivors…
It is the year 1337 DS, and the world the broken gods left behind has grown into something they might not recognize.…
The Ruby is the most beloved and most feared of the gods of the human south — and of all the divine powers of Kworgale,…
