A Bestiary of Caeldon

Constructs

Here stand made beings. The commonest are the constructs of Conjuration, working bodies that do what they are told for a short while and have no will of their own. Beside them stands the Guardian Host of Sanctified Magic, which its own school teaches is a construct and not a company of souls, and which almost no one who has fought beside it believes.

Some of the predecessor-frames of the Dwarven deep-holds crossed into selfhood and became the Wrought; the rest still work, and no rule says what they are owed. Under the Hushvale the Record-engine of the Sepulchre-Kin, built to remember the dead, has woken and not stopped.

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Turnkeys CreatureThe jailers of the Soul Anchor, constructs or remnant beings that reinforce the chains of the Anchored, keep their loops turning, and attack anyone who threatens the zone.
Guardians (the Ageless Spring) CreatureThe constructs and spirits that Resonants or the Lingerers have set at an Ageless Spring to keep anyone from tampering with its water or destroying it.
Humans PeopleThe young, fast people of the cradle-web's basins and headwaters, of the balanced adaptive field, who emerged c. 300,000-c. 220,000 BR; what marks them is pace, and they form regional peoples rather…
Bronze Sentries CreatureThe guards of the Time Lock: tall, featureless figures of living bronze and temporal energy that perceive time at the vault's crawl, count every sealed thing a threat to existence, and may seal in…
Curators CreatureSpectral keepers of the Memory Palace, shaped like a traveller's younger selves or idealized loved ones, which the traveller's own mind makes to keep its rooms in order and its repressed memories…
Dwarves PeopleOne of the oldest peoples of Caeldon, a dense and durable people stabilized under the Ironspine from an inheritance marked by the Iron Backbone; their branches are the Ironspine and Stonewake Dwarves.
The Apex PlaneThe Surplus Plane of perfection completed, where nothing can be better and so nothing changes; its people are the flawless Apex-Born, and visitors who stay too long are perfected into smiling…
The Clockwork CreatureAutomata of the Frozen Moment that tick in perfect unison and go on counting time where time itself has stopped.
The Frozen Moment HarmonicThe Harmonic of Aion, reinforced by Terra and Memoria: time, stasis, and permanence, the anchor that holds moments long enough for history and consequence to exist.
The Material Plane PlaneThe central Anchor, also called the Equilibrium: Caeldon's own plane, the hub of the Veil, and the only plane where free will truly works.
Conjuration School of magicThe compound school of Verba with Zephyr and Imago: the art of making presence answer.
Frost-Born CreatureThe tall, translucent-skinned people of the Frost-Bound, solitary hunters of the ice who hold that closeness costs heat.
The Gilded Cage PlaneThe Surplus Plane of absolute order, where freedom is the only crime; its people are the metal-skinned Gilded, its Enforcers reset offenders rather than kill them, and the way out is the Exit…
The Headwater Marches RegionThe foothill country between the Human farmland and the Dwarven mountains, the oldest shared country of Humans and Dwarves, living by the escorted exchange roads to the hold gates.
Ice-Shards CreatureCrystalline constructs of the Frost-Bound that lie still as ice until disturbed, then wake and attack anything that makes heat.
Knowledge of the Cosmos PrincipleHow much the world's peoples know of each tier of the cosmos, from the Primes and the Dark Entities down to the Material Plane, how that knowledge grows from era to era, and what medieval people…

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