Short for the Hexactic Alm, the coinage of the Anrel Isles.
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Ania Bay is a gulf in the west coast of the Anrel Isles. It is bounded by the coasts of Trésard to the northwest and Narette to the east. It has numerous small rocky islands which pose a hazard to shipping.
The Ania Plateau [AH-nee-uh, 'ɑːniə] is an upland plateau in the southwest of Narette, in the Anrel Isles. The land is fertile and well-drained, home to the majority of Narette's population and agriculture.
The easiest route up to the Plateau is via Binid in the south, where the escarpment is much lower, and a succession of low slopes make vehicle traffic much easier to traverse.
Anrasard was a landmass contiguous with the modern Anrel Isles. In earlier epochs the sea level was much lower, so the isles formed single large island.
Anrasard was at its greatest extent during the Emerald Epoch some 14,000 years ago, in the mythic age of the Godmen. In subsequent
Anrel [ANN-rel], or the Anrel Isles, is the most northerly island group in the Natorn Archipelago. It consists of three major islands and numerous smaller ones. The largest, colloquially if infrequently called Mainland, is divided between the kingdoms of Trésard and Narette. The island
The Anrel Isles are governed by a class collectively called the Grafen or Graves, individually given the courtesy title Graf. Leaders of towns, cities, and even nations are drawn from this class. Traditionally, leaders are selected by will of the populace, based on their personal qualities and family merits, according to the traditional honour system of Anrel
The Anrel Isles has a rich polytheistic philosophy that sees the world as inhabited by many gods and willful spirits. They view all world religions as valid, but believe gods are tied to certain lands and places. Deities can therefore have separate or even conflicting mythologies, but these are accepted because they are the story of that particular deity. Gods, being non-human, can be capricious and irrational, and their followers adopt a pragmatic attitude to worship. Prayer …
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The Aralse or Aralsic people are the majority ethnic group in the Natorn Archipelago.
Aralsic people are the overwhelming majority in the Anrel Isles and Besoa, but there are many minority peoples including the Asokway and other Iskean ethnicities.
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The Aralsic language family is one of the major world language groups. They are all descended from dialects of Old Aralsic, spoken in the Second Epoch in the region now encompassed by the Natorn Archipelago.
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Begeen [beg-EEN] is a city in the southeast of Trésard, close to the border with Narette. It was sacked and occupied in 219 ME in the first year of the Long War, and was the subject of five battles during which both sides took and retook the city, leaving it a ruined shell.
Belikast's Folly, also called Belikast's Tower or, more commonly, the Old Lighthouse, is the ruins of a tower on the northwest coast of the island of Sensatard in the Anrel Isles.
The city of Belisan [beh-li-SAN], known internationally as Belisan Freeport, is a port city surrounding Belisan Bay, at the mouth of the River Minnd in southeast Anret.
Belisan is actually two cities divided by the river. Belisan City lies on the west of the river, with its Royal Docks subject to normal customs tariffs. East of the river is the
Besech, or Besechai, is god of “fire, the hearth and the dry places” in the Anrelian Pantheon, the god of home and also of death. He is the chief state god of Narette.
Historically he was the patron deity of the great city of Oracil, and subsequently was revered throughout Anrel
The Beyal Hills [BAY-ul] are uplands in Trésard in the Anrel Isles. They form a barrier between the rich agricultural lowlands of Trenya, and the drier upland plains surrounding Beyan.
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The Boreal Sea is the relatively shallow portion area of the Polassirn Ocean north and east of the Anrel Isles. The Boreal Sea is particularly rich in greenfish and whales.
Cornelen [cor-NEL-len] is a major deity in the Anrelian Pantheon, goddess of the harvest, the green lands and “all the good fruits of nature”. She represents the cycle of birth, life and death, so she is also the reaper of a good death at the end of life.
She is worshipped in rural seasonal festivals, and invoked in village communities for blessings, marriages, and fertility rites. Cornelen is an ancient natural
A deital [DAY-it-ul], also called a deivat or god-spirit or god, is an elemental which has achieved a great power and a degree of consciousness from being the focus of human worship.
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The Dragon War (682-678 BME) was the first major conflict to engulf the entire Anrel Isles, in which a league of northern cities united against the city-state of Oracil in the southeast. By the end of the war Oracil had been utterly destroyed, laying a foundation of bitterness that has soured north-south relations ever since, and ultimately led to the magicAnrelgreenHM
Eminde is a small city in the nation of Narette. It lies on the River Minnd, just below the cataracts and waterfalls which rise up to the Ania Plateau. Consequently, it is the furthest point on the river which can be reach by boat.
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Erann was a nation in the southern Anrel Isles in the second millennium BME. Its capital was the city of Rand, and at its height it controlled most of the central plains and hills of what is now Narette, including the cities of Eminde, Binid and Obanam.
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The concepts of race and ethnicity in the Civilised World are complex, related to issues of history, geography and culture. Some theories of the origins of humanity claim that all humans are descended from a single group of original ancestors, while others believe mankind is made up of distinct races with separate origins. EloyounHartheraAnrelOrorrOrorrEloyounGodmenEloyounOrorrMunatanEloyounAnásthiasGodmen
The Giftdark is an archeological civilisation in what is now the Anrel Isles, which flourished during the Celadon Epoch, approximately 3000-4000 BME. The civilisation is named for its elaborate underground temples with tactile features, suggesting they were used in darkness. It is unclear whether the Giftdark culture was a widespread belief or part of elite spiritual practice. Little is known other than the remains of its distinctive temple architecture, which uses alternating spaces o…
The Gikrik, also called the Frogmen, are mythical race of man, described in the folklore throughout the civilised world.
According to the tales of Anrel Isles recounted in the Tirennion and elsewhere, the ancestors of the Gikrik rebelled against the strictures that confined humankind to the Realm of the Godmen during the mythic
Golobath [GOL-oh-bath] is a ruined city on the River Kethel in the Anrel Isles. During the Little Ice Age it was an independent market city that flourished on trade. During the Long War its position on the marches between north and south meant it was regularly occupied by hostile forces, and the site of many conflicts and skirmishes.ME
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The Green Man is the personification of the vital force of all green life, including humans and all domestic crops, plants and animals. He is particularly a part of the Anrelian pantheon, where he is represented as a green-skinned man, garlanded with flowers, with antler-like branches growing out of his head. GreengreenGreenGreen
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Green tea is a hot infusion made from tea leaves from a wide range of plants of the Green Kingdom. Chaterna leaves are often the base, but various other herbs and flavourings are added. Different blends are drunk around the world, with green tea being particularly popular in the
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Gres Rock is a rocky island in the Natorn Sea, in a strategic location southwest of Anrel, near the coast of Trésard and Narette. It is 4.5 km on its longest axis, consisting of precipitous rocks and cliffs with no natural harbour and little soil or vegetation.
Henner Goult was a 6th century ME author, historian and poet, still renowned in the Anrel Isles. She is most known for compiling the Helevosien, the controversial mytho-history of Anrel.
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Hevúl [heh-VOOL] is a religious site in Sensatard in the Anrel Isles. It is a meeting site for the Hevúl festival which happens in the autumn every three years, celebrating all of the gods.
Gessia Himray was a 7th century poet in the Anrel Isles. Her most famous work is the poem cycle, “The Virid and the Green”, a meditation on the ruin and destruction in the aftermath of the Orphans War, where abandoned towns and villages were engulfed by virid forest.
Hornum is a town on the north coast of Sensatard. Though small, it is the largest settlement in the north of the country. Historically it was the city of Harnam, which became an affluent city-state known for its industry and culture. In the period of civil war following the end of the
The Hornum Calendar (HC), sometimes called the Hexact Calendar, is a calendar used mainly in the Anrel Isles, named after the city of Hornum where it was devised. It is used officially by all the nations of Anrel, but it is gradually being superseded by the Modern Epoch, used in much of the rest of the world. AnrelMEAnrelAnrel
The indigenous native inhabitants of Helevos, collectively called jinnies, are lemur-like virid creatures indigenous to virid forests and jungles throughout the world. Many are considered intelligent, though they are widely thought of as animals and vermin, and have largely been eradicated from areas of human habitation.viridvirid
Kas-fruit is the red or yellow fruit of the kasflower, a perennial flowering plant or bush believed to be native to Anrel.
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It is found growing throughout the Mainland, particularly in the wilder regions of viridmagic
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King Mikoth (1056 ME - present) is the current ruler of the Kingdom of Sensatard in the Anrel Isles, commonly called Northland.
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He was elected ruler at the age of 52, in 1108 ME. He is considered to be a fair minded, if dour and irascible king.
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The Hexactic Kingdom of Trésard [tray-SSARD] is a nation in the Anrel Isles, occupying the northern half of the Mainland and the island of Mûul. The kingdom was forged in 238 ME as an alliance of city-states during the Long War, a unification of the states of the former
The Laharkin Mountains, also called the Laharkin Range, extend along the eastern coast of Mainland, in the Anrel Isles.
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Lake Otaran [oh-TA-ran], known locally as The Otaran (arch. Otarah), is a brackish lake or inland sea in the island of Sensatard in the Anrel Isles. It is connected to the sea by the Otaran Sound, a flooded former river valley.
The lake is economically important as a rich source of
Laqhas or Larqhas [LAR-kas] is a small city in Narette in the Anrel Isles. It is in the north of the Ania Plateau, set in a picturesque steep-sided valley surrounded by hills of green forest. The city is most known for its royal palace, a secluded hunting lodge set in the hills, which has long been a quiet retreat for the kings of Narette.
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The Little Ice Age is a historical epoch within Helevos's climate cycle, a roughly 700-year period of global cooling from 50 BME to 650 ME. A series of cooler summers caused a net fall in global temperatures, with a consequent lowering of sea level of up to three metres. This not only had a big impact on low-lying coastal areas but caused climate change sufficient to upset the balance of power of global economies, contributing to the fall of the
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The Long War (219-263 ME) was the bloodiest conflict in the history of the Anrel Isles, between the allied city-states of the Northern League (now the kingdoms of Trésard and Sensatard), and the Kingdom of Narette. It is often bitterly called the Orphans' War, since it went on so long it was fought by two generations of people whose own parents had been killed in the war.viridAnrelmagicAnrelAnrel
Magister is a term in the Anrel Isles for a thaumaturges, or full practitioners of magic. More specifically, magisters are thaumaturges of the Rasian Academy with the ability to summon, bind and instruct elementals on their own, with no assistance from others. Sorcerors are practitioners with the skill and knowledge to instruct elementals, but without the ability to summon and bind them.magic
The Mathé Marshes [MATH-ay] are an area of tidal mud flats, salt marshes and wetlands in the estuary of the River Kethel in the Anrel Isles. The marshes form a natural boundary between the Kingdom of Trésard and the Kingdom of Narette. The Muthené Marsh in Trésard is an extension of the Mathé Marshes.
Merelq is a city in the Trenya region of southwestern Trésard, in the Anrel Isles. It is an important market hub for the abundant agriculture of Trenya, and is also its political capital, being home to the Margrave of Trenya.
Meuth [may-OOTH] is a city in the agricultural belt of Trésard, in the Anrel Isles.
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Mount Oracil is a volcanic mountain in the southern reach of the Laharkin Range, in eastern Narette in the Anrel Isles.
It is considerably smaller than the neighbouring Mount Arent, but more active, with occasional smoke from its peak and earth tremors. A minor eruption and earthquake in 678
Muthené Marsh is a freshwater wetland in the Kingdom of Trésard in the Anrel Isles. It covers an area of roughly 1500 sq km, criss-crossed with rivers that flow from the Beyal Hills, with hundreds of islands of various sizes. The Muthené Marsh connects with the tidal Mathé Marshes to the south.
Mûul [MOO-ul] is an island in the Kingdom of Trésard, about 40km west of the Mainland of the Anrel Isles. It is separated from the Mainland by the Res Channel.
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Mûul is 150 km north-south, the southern and western half being hilly and windswept, sheltering the lower-lying east coast, which supports livestock and subsistence farming. The island is entirely GodmenGodmengreenGodmen
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The Kingdom of Narette, or Naret [na-RET, na rɛt] (arch. Anret or Anrette), is a modern nation occupying the southern half of the largest island in the Anrel Isles. Before the Orphans War it was called the Kingdom of Anrette.
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The Natorn Archipelago, or the Natorn Isles [nah-TORN], is a chain of islands in the Natorn Sea. The islands are oceanic ridge running from the northeastern tip of Anásthias to the Anrel Isles. The ridge is an active geological fault, many of the islands being volcanic.Anásthias
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The Northern League was a confederation of regions and city states in Anrasard (the landmass contiguous with the modern Anrel Isles, which united against the southern forces of Anret during the Long War.
Obanam is a city in the Kingdom of Narette in the Anrel Isles. Though small, it has long been strategically and economically important for its position in a sloping valley which allows easy passage from the plains of central Narette, to the highlands of the Ania Plateau.
Oracil was a historic city-state in the east of modern Narette in the Anrel Isles, in the foothills of the Laharkin Mountains. Oracil is thought to have been founded by an Iskean-ethnic tribe around 1100 BME. The city grew rich on the fertile soils surrounding Mount Oracil, as well as mines burrowed deep into the mountains of the
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The Order of Ketrorl is a military-religious organisation in Trésard in the Anrel Isles, sworn to defending the nation and promoting the noble virtues of the god Ketrorl. The order was founded in 240 ME, as a fraternal order to defend the newly founded kingdom.
Oughtism is a moral and philosophical system, claiming an ancient inheritance from the moral codes of the Godmen. It continues to be influential throughout the Anrel Isles, and it's guiding principles have been the foundation of legal and religious codes throughout the
A leader selected by primenture, a system of social hierarchy in the Anrel Isles.
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Ralam Kenor Berill (1075- ME) is the first king of the newly forged United Kingdom of Besoa, declared in 1115 ME after a combined patriot exile force reclaimd the island from Hartheran occupation. For most of his life he was Crown Prince of the Sann'ali court-in-exile.
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Rasia [RAH-zee-uh]], sometimes called Rasia City to distinguish it from the eponymous Grand Academy of Rasia, is a city on the south coast of Lake Ondrere in the Anrel Isles. Once a vibrant metropolis and a centre of culture, in 236 ME it was burned to the ground by Anretian forces during the MEmagicmagic
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The Rasian Academy is the common name for the Grand Academy of Rasia, the greatest institution of magic and learning in the Anrel Isles.
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The Rasian Collegium was originally a political body combining leaders from the Rasian Academy and Rasia City. The term became synonymous with Rasia as a city-state, leader of a confederation of allied cities and territories during the Little Ice Age period in the Anrel Isles. The Collegium grew from a loose alliance of neutral cities and duchies in the fifth century
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The Realm of the Godmen was semi-mythic ancient civilisation, said to have existed in the Emerald Epoch from roughly 15,000-12,000 BME. It was the home of the mythical Godmen, the said to have been the first human civilisation from which all mankind descends. Godmen
Reidan is an Aralsic language spoken in the Anrel Isles, particularly throughout Trésard and Sensatard.
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The Lar Vale dialect of northern Trésard is considered Standard Reidan, and is generally intelligible throughout Anrel. The Northland dialects of Sensatard are distinct, with the Eastern dialect being close to standard Reidan, and the Western being more obscure. The north coast language
The Rés Channel is a body of water in the Polassirn Ocean, separating the island of Mûul from the Mainland of the Anrel Isles. It is a busy shipping route serving the port of Por Muel, the royal capital of Trésard.
The northern end of the channel is hazardous, with rocky islands to the west, and shallow shelving coast to the east, leaving a narrow navigable corridor 20 km wide.
Rettien is an Aralsic language spoken in Narette in the Anrel Isles. Although it shares much common vocabulary with Reidan, Rettien is heavily influenced by Old Oracilem, the Iskean language of the former city-state of Oracil.
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Rettien has two distinct dialects. High Rettien is the languagelanguagelanguagelanguage
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The Kethel is a river in the Anrel Isles. It flows from the central plains, through the Mathé Marshes to the sea.
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In previous epochs the Kathel Valley was some of the richest farmland in the isles, home to many towns and cities. In the
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The River Minnd [MINN-d] (also Minde [MIN-duh]) is the principle river of Narette in the Anrel Isles. Due to the unique geography of the Ania Plateau, it flows from its source northwards over the Minnd Falls to the plains, where it curves southeastward to the sea at
Saréta [sa-RAY-tuh] is a small city in the central uplands of Sensatard in the Anrel Isles.
[Sarekéa region of central Sensatard in the Anrel Isles]
The city is surrounded by mountains, and is the cultural and religious capital of the ethnic Sarekéa people who inhabit the mountain region. The Kings of Sensatard have long given the city and the region a great deal of autonomy, although the city abides by Northland laws and pays taxes to the
Saria [SAH-ree-uh] (historically Esaria, or Aria) is a prosperous port and market city on the west coast of Sensatard in the Anrel Isles. It is the second city of the kingdom, the hub for trade, industry and agricultural produce in the western provinces. Historically it was a powerful city state, which became part of the unified Kingdom of Sensatard following the
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The Sea of Winds is a roughly triangular area of water off the western coast of Anrel, between the islands of Sensatard, Mûul and Mainland.
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The area is notorious for prevailing winds from the
The Senasi are an organisation dedicated to health and healing in the Anrel Isles. They are one of the Hexact Orders, advocating for health in national politics. Senasi order members are healers and physicians, tending to the sick and providing health advice throughout the islands. They wear white, and their healing houses are found in all major towns and cities.
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The Hexactic Kingdom of Sensatard is an island nation, the northernmost of the Anrel Isles and the northern tip of the Natorn Archipelago. Consequently it is colloquially called Northland, particularly by its inhabitants.
Signtism is an ancient philosophy and subculture in the Anrel Isles, one of the many Schools of Thought who found a home in the Rasian Academy. The Grand Master Belikast was born into the Signtist community of Larford, and his association with the culture and the city led to its utter destruction during the
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Stone, also called Litho, is a form of percussive popular dance music originating in the city of Beyan in the Anrel Isles.
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It originally involved banging implements or instruments against the stone walls and pillars of dancehall caves in the Underton district in the depths of the city, with the acoustic echoes creating complex layered rhythms. Litho is particularly associated with youth culture, and…
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The Strait of Armets or Armess, is a sea channel in the Anrel Isles, between the northerly island of Sensatard and the coast of Trésard. It is an economically important shipping link between the two capital cities of Traste and Por Muel. The strait is approximately 80 km in length and 5 km across at its narrowest point, though this narrows dramatically during
Thalse is a land mentioned in several mythological accounts, said to have existed in northeastern Anásthias during the Emerald and Jade Epochs. Thalse was the original homeland of the Thalsic peoples, the ancestors of most of the population of modern Anásthias.
Thalse is mentioned in the Helevosien, the mythic history of the world written in the Anásthias
In the Rasian Academy style of magic, a thaumaturge (proto-Ahngrit “miracle worker”) is a practicioner of thaumaturgy, vulgarly called as magic. There are many names for magical practitioners, largely dependent on the culture of both the practitioner and the attitude of the speaker.
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The Spines is an island chain in the Natorn Archipelago, linking the Anrel Isles in the north with Besoa in the south. The islands are the “backbone” of the archipelago. With their geology of grey and white basalt rock, many of the islands are said to resemble gnarled bones, rising out of the sea. Local AnrelAnrelHartheran
Tire-Ohn is a mythic warrior hero, known to many ancient Thalsic cultures. He was the first offspring of the Godmen to be born on the soil of Helevos. His saga is recorded in the Tirennion, the greatest and most respected work of mythic literature in the Anrel Isles.
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Traste is the capital city of the Kingdom of Sensatard, also called Northland, being the most northerly of the Anrel Isles.
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The Treaty of Begeen was an armistice which officially ended the Orphans' War in the Anrel Isles. By this point in the conflict both sides were so decimated and fought to exhaustion that no actual fighting had occurred for six months. The meeting was arranged in the ruins of the border city of
Trenya is a peninsula in southwestern Trésard, often synonymous with the adminstrative distict of Trenyard. tresard
Trenya has a mild climate and fertile loamy soils making it one of the most productive and wealthy regions of the Anrel Isles. The Margrave of Trenya is traditionally one of the most powerful in the kingdom.
Veilspor is a type of virid decompositional mould which covers dead and dying organisms in a cobweb-like veil. It is often seen in virid forests surrounding fallen trees, dead branches and sickly vegetation. It is sometimes found in poorly maintained human dwellings, particularly in basements and dark abandoned rooms. If left untreated it slowly engulfs whole buildings.virid
Waysmeet is a small village in the north of the Kingdom of Trésard in the Anrel Isles. Historically it was an important town, the nexus of five roads travelling south to Rasia and beyond, west to Teranen, northwest to Saria, east to Rana and north to Traste.
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Helevos has eight thousand years of recorded history, with archeology, artefacts and myth stretching back much further. There are two dominant views of human history: the theological view that the whole world and humanity were created some thousands of years ago in one instant of creation; the second, that all humanity descends from a race of fallen demigods called the viridEmerald EpochBMEgreenBMEAnásthiasAnásthiasBMEAnásthiasfolkloreMiyarrisGodmenBMEMEOrorrHartheraMEviridAnásthi…
The Kingdom of Narette, or Naret [na-RET, na rɛt] (arch. Anret or Anrette), is a modern nation occupying the southern half of the largest island in the AnrelAnrelAnrelAnrelAnrelAnrel
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The Natorn Archipelago, or the Natorn Isles [nah-TORN], is a chain of islands in the Natorn Sea. The islands are oceanic ridge running from the northeastern tip of Anásthias to the Anrel Isles. The ridge is an active geological fault, many of the islands being volcanic.Anásthias
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Kingdom of Sensatard
The Hexactic Kingdom of Sensatard is an island nation, the northernmost of the Anrel Isles and the northern tip of the Natorn Archipelago. Consequently it is colloquially called
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The Spines is an island chain in the Natorn Archipelago, linking the Anrel Isles in the north with Besoa in the south. The islands are the “backbone” of the archipelago. With their geology of grey and white basalt rock, many of the islands are said to resemble gnarled bones, rising out of the sea. Local AnrelAnrelHartheran
The Hexactic Kingdom of Trésard [tray-SSARD] is a nation in the Anrel Isles, occupying the northern half of the Mainland and the island of Mûul. The kingdom was forged in 238
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Helevos is a fantasy world of magic and science, divided by two incompatible biologies: the Green Kingdom of humans, trees, grasses, crops and red-blooded animals, and the Virid Kingdom of toxic jungles, poisonous plants, terrifying creatures and airborne infections.
Over thousands of years humans have forged the hundred OrorrviridviridviridOrorrAnásthiasAnásthias
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The Aralsic language family is one of the major world language groups. They are all descended from dialects of Old Aralsic, spoken in Natorn Archipelago and outlying islands.
The main modern languages in the group are Reidan and Rettien, spoken in the