Foundations
The Powers
The ten impersonal Primes whose currents run through everything, the Stewards and Resonants that people know as gods, and what waits beyond the Boundary.
Overviews
- The Primes 10The ten foundational forces of the cosmos, which differentiated one after another from a single Original Potential; they are forces, not persons, and their currents run through everything.
- The Stewards 19Stewards are the great servitors of the Divine Hierarchy.
- The Resonants 34Resonants are the gods of the mortal world.
- The Dark Entities 31The Dark Entities are not a monolithic army.
Most Named in This Part
- The Primes PrimeThe ten foundational forces of the cosmos, which differentiated one after another from a single Original Potential; they are forces, not persons, and their currents run through everything.
- Terra Prime PrimeThe Prime of earth, structure, and permanence, the framework on which every other force builds and the first of the ten to wake; its Harmonic is the Iron Backbone.
- Ignis Prime PrimeThe Prime of fire, energy, and transformation, the spark that turns ore to steel and potential into reality; its Harmonic is the Crucible.
- Aion Prime PrimeThe Prime of time, not as a clock counts it but as the river of becoming; its Harmonic is the Frozen Moment.
- Umbra Prime PrimeThe Prime of shadow and the trace, the principle of what remains; its Harmonic is the Whispering Trace.
- Imago Prime PrimeThe Prime of identity and potential, the pull of every self towards the self it could become; its Harmonic is the Dreaming Veil.
- Memoria Prime PrimeThe Prime of memory, history, and narrative, the principle that the past does not vanish; its Harmonic is the Eternal Record.
- Aqua Prime PrimeThe Prime of water, flow, adaptation, and life, the force that takes the shape of any vessel it is poured into; its Harmonic is the Surging Deep.
- Lux Prime PrimeThe Prime of light and possibility, the principle of revelation that makes the hidden visible; its Harmonic is the Shifting Path.
- Verba Prime PrimeThe Prime of language, order, and meaning, the force that turns noise into speech and sensation into a world of named things; its Harmonic is the Binding Song.
- The Unformed Dark EntityThe one undivided potential from before the Primes, still lying beneath all they defined and pressing towards the undoing of form; it feels no malice, its threat is a gradual loss of meaning, names…
- Zephyr Prime PrimeThe Prime of air and motion, the last of the ten to wake; its Harmonic is the Unbound Gale.
- 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…
- The Cast-Outs Dark EntityFallen Stewards whose offices have curdled into obsessions; their threat is slow and nearly invisible, an offer made at the worst moment of someone's life.
- 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.
- The Bone Singer Dark EntityThe Cast-Out of Terra that was the Archivist of Bones, until it came to think memory too fragile to leave to the living.
Terms
Alignment custom · The Dark Entities · Durrask · The Resonants · The Seed · The Steward of Foundations · Steward traditions · The Stewards · The Telling · The Uneven Settling · The Wardens of the Boundary · Ziv