Hemanus was a fabled city said to have existed during the age of the Godmen, perhaps in the 12th millennium BME. It was part of the Realm of the Godmen, though on a large island far west of Anrasard, contiguous with modern small island of Manok.
Godmen
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Old Aralsic is a language which emerged in Anrasard during the Jade Epoch. It is the ancestor of all the modern Aralsic languages spoken in the Natorn Archipelago.
Language
language
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Old Aralsic is said to have descended from the languages of the Godmen, particularly Atantic or Ahngrit. So little is known about these ancient tongues that it is impossible to be certain.
Oracles are sources of secret knowledge from the ancient world, believed to be the echoes of the Godmen of the first days.
There are a several examples of authentic surviving oracles:
* Welvér on Besoa * The Temple of the God-Mountain on Mount Karmoqué, Antyok * The Library of Orodien * Oracle of Rieve, on the isle of
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The Oracle of Rieve, also called the Chresimoy Oracle, is a mystic religious and archeological site on a hill about the town of Rieve, capital and principle port of the island of Manok.
The site of the shrine is a semi-circle of ancient grey stones, half buried in the hillside and half open to the sky. Like other oracles there is a central well, covered in a carved pergola of precious greenwood believed to be from
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Natorn Archipelago
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