The Living Archive · Characters
The Character Archive
Meet the rulers, warriors, wanderers and Celestial powers who shaped Aethelgard. Each biography follows one life through the events that made it part of the world's history, up to the beginning of Volume One.
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Choose one of Aethelgard's mortal peoples or Celestial species to find the characters who belong to it. A zero simply means that no named biography from that species is in the archive yet.
One life, gathered in one place
A character may live through centuries, wars and changing kingdoms. Their biography follows that whole journey in chronological order rather than splitting the same person into separate versions.
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Lives of Aethelgard
18 characters
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MagiciansArchmage Elara Starweaver
Archmage
Elara Starweaver was a respected Archmage and mentor whose cautious defence of Concordia placed her directly in the path of the conspiracy that destroyed the city from within.
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The AeternaArchon Solara
Archon · Founder of the Harmonious Vanguard
Solara is an Aeterna Archon whose experience of the First Celestial War transformed her from a champion of Order into an advocate for guidance, restraint and responsibility.
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The Genesis CouncilAstraia
The Unblinking Eye · The Watcher
Astraia is the Genesis Council’s keeper of Space, Boundaries and Judgment, charged with defining and defending the divisions that hold reality together.
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GigantsElder Borag Stone-Heart
Elder Stone-Heart
Borag Stone-Heart led the Gigants back to Goliath’s Stand after Ragnarok and spent the long recovery defending both the fortress and his people’s ancient isolation.
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SerpentkinElder Zorphed, “The Silent One”
Elder of Coiledhold · The Silent
Zorphed rose to lead Coiledhold late in the post-war age, strengthening the Serpentkin’s secrecy and turning patience, silence and concealment into instruments of survival.
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DwarvesKing Korgan Stonemantle
King of Khazad-Dur
Korgan Stonemantle became the Dwarves’ post-war king and turned the rebuilding of Khazad-Dur into a wider revival of Dwarven craft, engineering and trade.
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HumansLady Rowena Sterling
The Dock Queen · President of Havenstone’s Human Chamber of Commerce
Lady Rowena Sterling stands at the centre of Havenstone’s Human commercial life, combining shipping wealth, civic influence and a reputation for hard-headed pragmatism.
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The KhaotariLord Voltanis
Supreme Leader of the Khaotari · Commander of the Sundering Host
Voltanis was the defining Khaotari war leader of two Celestial conflicts, driven first by vengeance and later by an escalating pursuit of power that ended with his erasure from existence.
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ElvesLyanna Swiftwind
Founder and Leader of Aethelheart · Demi-god Hero of the Elves
Lyanna Swiftwind led an Elven self-exile into the Emerald Expanse, founded Aethelheart through living magic and spent centuries defending the city’s independence from the powers gathering beyond the forest.
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The Genesis CouncilNoctarion
The Final Word · The Shadow of All Things
Noctarion is the Genesis Council’s power of Death, Ending, Entropy and the Void—the force that gives every created thing the possibility of an end.
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The Genesis CouncilOrdinus
The First Mover · The Architect
Ordinus is the Genesis Council’s First Mover, the power associated with Fate, Law and the first ordering of creation.
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The Genesis CouncilSaphel
The World-Smith · The Artificer
Saphel is the Genesis Council’s World-Smith, whose divine authority encompasses creation, structure, matter and physical form.
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Shade WeaversShadow Matron Vexia
Shadow-Matriarch of the Shade Weavers
Vexia was the ruthless Shadow-Matriarch who led the Shade Weavers through ambush, war and eventual confinement within Nyxalor.
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Aerie FolkSky-Marshal Zephyr
Sky-Marshal · Leader of Skyreach
Zephyr was the Aerie Folk leader whose refusal to embrace Chaos carried him from the defence of Skyreach into exile, surrender, liberation and a final life devoted to rebuilding his divided people.
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DragonkinVelorax Skyscorcher
Dragonkin Lord
Velorax Skyscorcher was a militant Dragonkin lord whose fury at Skyreach helped turn a local killing into an aerial war that ended with his own death.
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The Genesis CouncilViridar
The Primal Soul · The Lifeweaver
Viridar is the Genesis Council’s power of life and growth, a creator whose vision of renewal eventually placed her in conflict with the order she helped establish.
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The AbrogatorsVorlag
Leader of the Pure Enforcers
Vorlag was a fanatically loyal Abrogator commander whose violation of an arrest order became one of the sparks that set the First Celestial War in motion.
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OrcsWarlord Tharuk Iron-Spine
Warlord of Grolmar
Tharuk Iron-Spine became Grolmar’s post-war Warlord, turning defeat into a programme of rebuilding, industrial strength and fiercely guarded Orcish independence.
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