The Sundering

…trument rather than mere superstition. It is the year 7202 by the reckoning of the Sundering. That date matters. It reminds the attentive reader that the world still counts from a break so old entire civilization…

…d civilization's first common language, until interpretation became schism, and the Sundering reset the calendar itself. Before history there is scripture, and before scripture there is memory trying to survive i…

…dgment because the culture has been built in that grammar for centuries. Since the Sundering, the faith speaks through three primary denominations. The Solarian Church is hierarchical, ceremonial, traditional, a…

…surrounding humanity's understanding and use of the Fortera helped precipitate the Sundering, and they approach it through frameworks that look, from outside, like an extremely rigorous natural philosophy with un…

…a presence, whether those patterns have any relationship to regions reshaped by the Sundering, and what they imply about the nature of the world. Knowledge as a reason to adventure is sometimes mistaken for curios…