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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The Genesis Council characters
5 characters
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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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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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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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