The Codex

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People

The Seer

Aria

She sees the strike before it lands and the meeting before it is called. Guidance is her gift. The cost of looking is not yet a matter of public record.

supporting

Elder Thom

An elder of Thornhaven who would rather name a raving hunter's tale fever than look north and name what is actually coming.

The Warrior

Kael

Best hunter in Thornhaven. Bronze spear, restless sleep, and hands that remember a heavier weapon than any village forge has made.

supporting

Kael the Elder

Thornhaven's bronze-smith. He shares a name with the hunter and spends his mornings hammering plow blades, not swords.

The Healer

Lyssa

Village healer whose gift goes beyond herbs. Dark braid, seeing eyes, and a stubborn refusal to let anyone in her care fall.

The Mage

Mira

Keeper of forgotten fire. In this life her hands still find the old patterns, and her memory of other ages is sharper than the rest.

Places

All places

region

Northern Forest

The oaks north of Thornhaven. Hunters go in. Lately, not all of them come back, and the one who did spoke of shadows that swallow light.

site

Northern Pass

A high gap beyond the northern forest. The Five meet the corrupted beasts here, and behind the beasts something older gathers.

city

Thornhaven

A bronze-age village of smiths, hunters, and healers. Goats, grain, and the ring of a hammer at dawn. The Five wake here.

region

Thornhaven Valley

A sheltered valley between two rivers, oak on the ridges, good earth in the floor. The kind of place where nothing is supposed to happen.

site

Unnamed Clearing

A gap in the oaks the hunters do not name until they have already walked too far. Hidden on the atlas until you choose to reveal spoilers.

Glossary · 1

Terms that hover in the prose.

Annals · 1

A timeline of named events.

Library · 1

Songs, laws, and prophecies.

Relics · 1

Objects with a bearer history.

Factions

All factions

village

People of Thornhaven

The families of the valley: smiths, hunters, healers, elders. They distrust magic even when it saves them, and they want the north to stay a forest.

cult

The Darkness

The thing that comes from the north each turning. It corrupts beasts first, swallows light, and has outlived every age that thought it finished.

order

The Five

Five souls reborn each turning to face the Darkness: Warrior, Mage, Healer, Shadow, Seer. In this age they wake in Thornhaven.

Kindreds

All kindreds

kindred

Humans of the Bronze Age

Mortal people of spear, plow, and bronze. They farm the valley, fear magic, and do not yet have a word for the lives some of them are remembering.