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World
Cross the regions, cities, peoples, and places that make Aethelgard one connected world rather than a collection of separate stories.
The Official Living Archive
The Shattering of Aethelgard
One connected fantasy world, experienced through novels, games, history, and the records left behind by ages of creation, war, survival, and rebuilding.
Enter the Living Archive
One world. Shattered across ages.
Aethelgard is a world shaped by the Genesis Council, scarred by Celestial Wars, and rebuilt by peoples who inherited powers older than their cities.
From the Sunken Coast and Whispering Peaks to the Emerald Expanse, Great Salt Flats, Ashfall Wastes, and the southern seas, every story belongs to the same living history.
Ways Into Aethelgard
Choose where the archive opens first.
World, games, books, history, and characters offer different paths into the same world, each revealing another part of Aethelgard's living history.
Live Within It
Games
Enter Aethelgard through different forms of play, each grounded in the same history, geography, and canon.
Read the Saga
Books
Explore three completed, previously published Aethelgard books and the next forthcoming volume, with spoiler-safe introductions and clear availability.
Trace What Came Before
Timeline & Lore
Follow the Edicts, wars, magic, and records that connect the world's distant ages.
Meet Those Who Shaped It
Characters
Follow the lives of rulers, warriors, wanderers, and Celestial powers whose choices shaped Aethelgard across the ages.
A Living World
Every horizon changes with the year.
Move between Aethelgard's great regions, then drag through the seasons to see how the same land changes while its geography endures.
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RegionSunken Coast
SeasonSpring
The storm-ravaged western coastal region, visibly fractured into cliffs, islands, and broken shoreline.
The Five Tiers of Magic
Power in Aethelgard has laws.
Magic rises from mortal craft to primordial command, the Elder Weave, world-shaping authority, and finally the Divine Edict of Creation.
Tier INature’s Craft
Tier IIPrimordial Magic
Tier IIIArcane & Conduit Magic
Tier IVDemigod & World-Shaping Magic
Tier VThe Divine Edict of Creation
The Archive Remembers
History is not background. It is the structure beneath every story.
Trace the Edicts without losing your place in the present, or move into the lore archive to study the systems, peoples, powers, and records behind the world.
The Fiction
Books of Aethelgard
Three completed books were previously published and are temporarily unavailable while the games are in development. They are planned to return to Amazon around the wider Aethelgard game-release period.
Companion History / Prequel
The History of Aethelgard
The forbidden records behind the Genesis Council, the Five Tiers of Magic, and the wars that broke the world.
View book Book OneEchoes of the Wasteland
The present-era saga opens in Cycle II, Edict 3601, within the divided city of Aetheria.
View book Book TwoThe Shadow Covenant
The saga widens beyond Aetheria as buried histories, rival powers, and uneasy alliances begin to converge.
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Latest news
Recent game development, book and Living Archive updates from across The Shattering of Aethelgard.
The published Aethelgard books are planned to return to Amazon
The History of Aethelgard, Echoes of the Wasteland and The Shadow Covenant were previously published and are temporarily unavailable while the wider Aethelgard release plans continue.
Release planning for Aethelgard's games
Both Silent Years and Farfound are being developed toward 2027, with a preferred shared Q2 target and a staggered alternative if either game needs more time.
Farfound is the primary focus of Aethelgard game development
Farfound remains at an earlier stage than Silent Years, but it is currently receiving the greater share of active development attention.