Vaeldrath

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Hello and welcome to Vaeldrath, the world where stories never wane!

Below is both a reference guide to keywords for lorebook entries, as well as summary sections for much of Vaeldrath, to help avoid the need of copying the lorebook over from its JSON view. If you don't know what a JSON is, or don't want to know what a JSON is, then you'll be extra thankful you can just read the below and be fine!

You can find the Keyword Reference Guide below. After that, the major sections of the world!

Feel free to ask questions, make suggestions on an entry's set up (like their keys), request content added, and other things! I always welcome new ideas and feedback!

Finally, if you want to see something in the world of Vaeldrath added or expanded on, feel free to put a request in the Lorebook Request Form!

Thank you, I hope you enjoy this high fantasy world!

The Lorebook Keyword(s) Reference Guide!

What the below is: This guide is designed to act as a master reference list for triggering lorebook sections. Given the current state of Janitor making browsing lorebooks to still be a struggling experience, this should help. Be advised all keywords are not case specific, "mana" and "Mana" both work in your chats!

The below is divided up into two parts. The first is the central entries with a Lorebook Topic - Keyword set up below. These entries directly matches to their particular section. This has the most core knowledge with broad information, rather than specific characters or kingdoms.

The second part, with a Lorebook Groups - Keyword Sets, is specifically for a way to capture important central beings, lands, and more that all do not share one lorebook entry, but effectively clump together without being too broad, such as the supreme deities the All-Five, the prime magic school Augustine Academy, and more.

If you want a central place for lorebook information without the triggers, all sections below this reference guide offer that.

1. Lorebook Topic: The Massive Magic of Vaeldrath

- Keywords: Magic, Spell, Sorcery, Mana, Arcane

2. Lorebook Topic: Destiny, Fate, and its Chosen Ones

- Keywords: Great Attraction, Fate, Destiny, Exalted

3. Lorebook Topic: The Usual (and Unusual) Species of the World

- Keywords: Species, Races, Humans, Elves, Demons, Spellborn, Dragons, Fae, Kitsune, Smithfolk

4. Lorebook Topic: Vaeldrath's Vast Adventuring Landscape

- Keywords: Adventurer, Adventuring, Adventurers, Guild, Party, Quest, Dungeon

5. Lorebook Topic: The World's Threat Levels and the Adventurer Ranking System

- Keywords: F-Rank, D-Rank, C-Rank, B-Rank, A-Rank, S-Rank, Unclassified

6. Lorebook Topic: The Overlords, the Dark Lords, and the Big Bad Evil Guy Ecosystem

- Keywords: Overlord, Dark Lord, Demon Lord, Demon Queen, Tyrant

7. Lorebook Topic: The Pantheon of the All-Five, the Gods, the Archdemons, and More!

- Keywords: Pantheon, Gods, Archdemons, Religion

8. Lorebook Topic: Overview of the Dimensions, Planes, and Realms of the Cosmology!

- Keywords: Planes, Midrealm, Heavens, Hells, Faewilde, Demiplane

Now for the Groups

1. Lorebook Groups: The All-Five, the highest entities of the Cosmology known as axioms with attitudes, and their personal realms.

- Keywords Sets: Aiath-Karse, Reiklir, Fausta and the Ocean of Strings, Yalzota and Verarine, Sharakoth and Nevermorl, Mizami and Taldornu

2. Lorebook Groups: The Archdemons and their Prime Layers of the Hells

- Keywords Sets: Archdemons and Hells, Zion and Shadowcoil, Phaedia and The Eternal Maw, Mammon and Giltshire

3. Lorebook Groups: The greatest spellcasters of Vaeldrath, the Archmages of Raalen, their Districts, and Raalen itself

- Keywords Sets: Raalen, Laruja (Chaos), Nhaaldar (Strength), Julis (Storms), Kiris (Space), Freya (Phantasms), Morena (Will), Aribella (Death), Valtimera (Sigils), Zannadelle (Life), Delomious (Beasts), Sia (Songs)

4. Lorebook Groups: The greatest magical academy in the world, with key students and a key island.

- Keywords Sets: Augustine Academy, Crestmoon Island. Its prodigy students Theria Ashvale, Kira Brightwing, Malacka the Grim, Seraphine Dawnwhisper, and Victoria Steelheart.

5. Lorebook Groups: Many major kindgoms and strange lands dotted across the continent.

- Keywords Sets: The continental northwest Siresale Kingdom and their "ruler" the black dragon Lin, the continental southwest Xalde Desert and its Lost Civilization, the continental far east High Elf Dominion of Arsolorun, and its northern neighbor the Dragon Sovereignty Titate Crux.

Augustine Academy, Crestmoon Island. Its prodigy students Theria Ashvale, Kira Brightwing, Malacka the Grim, Seraphine Dawnwhisper, and Victoria Steelheart.

6. Lorebook Groups: Some mysterious and miscellaneous parts of Vaeldrath that always turns a head.

- Keywords Sets: Gacha Magic and the Gacha Goddess Guijai, the worldly documentarians called Kothstorians, the eldritch systems categorized as Archdemon peers called the Rogue Cosmic Forces, and the border of the cosmology Nullmire, which contains such Rogue Forces, and even deeper mysteries!

The above Lorebook groupings is, much like the below, always getting updated on the backend as I import more information on the world, and make some adjustments as needed. But this core information and its keywords will always, broadly speaking, remain.

Now, time for the walls of text!

Section Summaries of Vaeldrath

What the below is: This is is the middle of the road option. Want more than directions for which lorebook keywords to input, but less than copying the entire lorebook and digging through yourself? These sections are the answer, with much more depth than the reference guide. Topics will be kept at about paragraph length for each subentry, which hopefully is enough!

The 5 Sections:

1. The World of Vaeldrath (The Continent, the Magic, and the Mystery)

2. Society (Denizens, Adventuring, and the Ranking System)

3. Cosmology (The Pantheon, Dimensions, and the Void of Nullmire)

4. Vaeldrath's Greatest Mortals (The Archmages of Raalen, the Exalted, and More)

5. Miscellaneous Information (The extra information dumps, no big organization here!)

These sections are active works in progress. Expect more to be added!

The Continent, the Magic, and the Mystery

The Land At Large: Vaeldrath is a massive continent in a medieval high fantasy world where magic bleeds from the very earth. The landscape is diverse, featuring ancient forests, treacherous mountain ranges, sprawling plains, and mysterious wastelands corrupted by wild magic. Climate varies drastically from region to region, with some areas experiencing eternal winter while others bask in perpetual spring. The continent is politically fragmented, with numerous kingdoms, city-states, and territories constantly vying for power and resources, while vast stretches of "uncivilized" wilderness teem with monsters, dungeons, cursed ruins, and magical wastelands that make maps more like hopeful suggestions than guarantees. The continent's history spans thousands of years, though much of it has been lost to time and cataclysm.

Magic: Magic is everywhere as a potential and highly uneven as a practice, shaped by ambient mana, divine channels, planar leaks, and the lingering architecture of the design of the central deities, the All-Five. Overloaded ley lines, divine hotspots, and places where planar boundaries thin can twist spells in unpredictable directions, causing miscasts, surges, or odd side effects. Dozens of methods to achieve magical ability exist (from wizards studying arcane law, to priests channeling divine power, to warlocks making pacts with strange entities, to much more) for dozens of magical domains, and hundreds of ways exist for magic to go wrong.

The Great Attraction: Perhaps Vaeldrath's most odd phenomenon is, due to the vast tug-of-war among many powers, events sometimes clump into storylike patterns around certain people, places, and conflicts. A "narrative gravity" that biases probability without outright negating other natural laws, where a chosen few find their lives shaped by unlikely survivals, timely encounters, recurring nemeses, dramatic reversals, and neatly escalating challenges. Some call it Fate, others Destiny, others a Great Attraction. Most know it as the nudge that makes certain regions less fair than pure chance would suggest. It is a force dominated by none, not even Fausta, but contributed to by all. A pattern that makes life more... interesting.

Denizens, Adventuring, and the Threat Ranking System

The Many Species of the World: Vaeldrath hosts multiple intelligent species with pragmatic coexistence through trade and shared defense. Humans are most numerous and narratively central. Elves are long-lived and magical, originating from the void Nullmire thousands of years ago. Fae come from Feywild with subtle magics. Demons originate from the Hells with varied forms. Spellborn from Verarine are sentient spell manifestations. Smithfolk from Nevermorl are mineral-based golems. Dragons from Reiklir are powerful and long-lived. Kitsune from Taldornu excel in transformation magic. Merfolk from Ocean of Strings have aquatic culture. Demihumans are animal-human hybrids. Other groups include half-breeds and holy entities, and more.

Adventuring And You: Adventuring in Vaeldrath is a recognized, semi‑formal profession that sits somewhere between mercenary work, public utility, and insane hobby. It is a profession coordinated in most sizable settlements by guilds that register individuals and parties, issue ranks, match them with contracts, and keep just enough records to warn clients and governments who they are actually hiring. Economically, whole towns can come to depend on the "danger trade" of guild traffic, monster bounties, relic salvage, and the influx of visitors chasing rumors of treasure or opportunity. It is a normalized system, a boon and a curse of the world.

Ranks of Adventuring: The system classifies danger by threat to regional stability, maintained by Adventuring Guilds and recognized across organized regions. D-Rank: village-scale threats. The core ranking band runs from F, D, C, B, A, up to S‑Rank, with each tied to the threat level to regional stability, from the "hamlet local legend" F-Rank to the "multi‑regional crisis in motion" S-Rank. Rankings measure practical threat rather than raw power alone—reputation and contextual effects matter. Parties are ranked by total capability. Not all members of a rank are equal. Entities beyond S-Rank (continent-threatening, Archmages of Raalen, world-changing artifacts) are labeled Unclassified.

The Overlord Ecosystem: "Overlord" (Dark Lords, Demon Queens, etc.) denotes individuals functioning as long-term, region-defining antagonists. They create recurring conflict and shape local identity more than ordinary threats. Origins include ancient dragons, lich kings, demon lords, or mortal conquerors. They progress through rise, consolidation, entanglement, then downfall or retirement. When one falls, power structures promote successors elsewhere to maintain the role's perpetuity. Rulers, guilds, and gods treat them as semi-structural features, dangerous but predictable anchors for strategy. Some institutions treat them as features rather than problems.

The Pantheon, the Planes, and the Cosmology

The Cosmic Pantheon: A layered ecosystem of deities, archdemons, and rogue cosmic forces shaping the setting through followers, artifacts, and domain influence. Most powerful entities avoid direct intervention to prevent automatic opposition. The All-Five (Fausta=Fate, Yalzota=Chaos, Sharakoth=Knowledge, Mizami=Life, Aiath-Karse=Power) are cosmic axioms with personality, standing far above all others with roughly equal power. Each designates one Divine Champion. Archdemons rule Hell's eight layers (Zion=Will, Mammon=Coin, Aurori=Carnality, Maya=Ire, Jemino=Dreams, Phaedia=Hunger, Iria=Grudges, Orok=Zeal) and can elect Infernal Champions. Rogue Cosmic Forces originate outside standard cosmology, associated with Nullmire. Minor Gods govern narrow domains depending on active worship.

Beyond The Continent: The broader cosmology of the world is a layered structure centered on the realm of Midrealm, the plane where the continent of Vaeldrath sits as the primary stage for mortal life, mana flows, and souls. Around Midrealm lie multiple major planes and countless minor ones, from the Heavens to the Hells to others like the Feywild, all of which are further contained by the highest domain of the cosmos, the gods known as the All‑Five, the vast beings that wrap around the cosmology and define baseline rules for things like fate, chaos, knowledge, life, and power. And between the margins of the grand cosmos structure is Nullmire, the void of decaying realities, timelines that never were (nor never could be), and the space where eldritch entities and things from "the outside" that find a way in. Sometimes in too well...

Fausta and the Ocean of Strings: Fausta is the All-Goddess of Fate, embodying cosmic drama and magical importance. Known as She-Who-Weaves, she governs divination, event routing, and narrative presence of the mystical. Associated with destiny, ocean, stories, and strings. Very dramatic and scheming, she seeks to expand narrative causality through "stories," weighting key lives to produce Exalted and major arcs. Appears as a woman with water-hair containing sea creatures, blue eyes, aqua dress, holding a giant scroll. Her realm, the Ocean of Strings, is an immense metaphysical ocean where current lives and events are luminous threads drifting in currents of potential outcomes. No surface exists above the water.

Yalzota and Verarine: Yalzota is the All-Goddess of Chaos, embodying cosmic unpredictability and magical weirdness. Known as the Witch Queen, she governs chaos, paradox, and arcane entropy. Associated with void of space, cats, crows, and witch hats. Sarcastic, deadpan, often bored—likes creativity and irony but hates random slapstick and cheaters. Appears as a pale woman with black hair, purple eyes, oversized black robes and witch hat. Verarine is her realm, an ever-shifting plane of strange magic and transformation with city-sized gameboards and twisted buildings across morphic layers. Denizens include hags, voodoo spirits, living spells (spellborn), welcoming freaks and exiles. Yalzota typically sits sideways on a chalk throne gambling on events.

Sharakoth and Nevermorl: Sharakoth is the All-God of Knowledge, embodying cosmic consistency and arcane order. Known as the One of Ink, he governs documentation of history, time's continuity, and arcane laws. Associated with moon, secrets, lanterns, and libraries. Polite, ruthless, academic, somewhat dorky—appears as a man in blue robes with bone owl mask covering all skin. His Kothstorians document world events and secretly manipulate to maintain status quo. Nevermorl is his realm, a vast collection of libraries and scholarly buildings where every fact, memory, spell, and story is recorded with strange properties like self-rearranging shelves and ink that remembers. Dangerous forbidden knowledge is sealed behind wards. Denizens include text-spirits, mimics, temporal ghosts, and Smithfolk.

Mizami and Taldornu: Mizami is the All-Goddess of Life, embodying cosmic life and its magical relationship. Known as the Verdant Cancer, she governs nature, biomancy, and life's arcane forces. Associated with foxes, culling, growth, and body horror. Seen as either most benevolent or most evil entity—portrayed as both loving mother making difficult choices and cancer invading all life. Appears as thirteen-tailed pale kitsune with dark red hair and black kimono. Excessive, predatory, playful—views all Life as Mizami and Mizami as all Life. Taldornu is her realm with two core rules: everything is alive, nothing can die. Death is invalid; all persists through transformation. Everything has personality. Filled with superorganisms, impossible ecosystems, and bioengineered creations. Taldornu is Mizami; Mizami is Life.

Aiath-Karse and Reiklir: Aiath-Karse is the All-God of Power, embodying cosmic energy and magical strength. Known as Father of Dragons, he governs energy flow, magical potency, and force output from fireballs to speeches. Associated with sun, mountains, dragons, and ambition. Proud, imperious, passionate, commanding—appears as tall divine dragon man with cosmic solar scales. Legend says he created first dragons from his own ripped-out bones, each bone making different color types. Reiklir is his realm of vast mountain valleys, beaches, and golden sky. Denizens include warrior poets, honorable soldiers, reputable conquerors, dragons, and mythical beings. Archdragons govern while Aiath-Karse takes laid-back role, always present for major festivals.

The Raalen Archmages, the Chosen Exalted, and Vaeldrath's Very Best

Raalen Archmages - The Twelve Cosmic Janitors: The world's most powerful mages, each registered as sovereign state entities, several orders of magnitude above S-Rank individuals. Each governs a District of the nation Raalen. Nicknamed "cosmic janitors" for maintaining Midrealm stability, deterring external threats, coordinating across planes, handling rogue cosmic forces, and upholding planar laws/treaties. Each possesses methods to cheat death and return after true death, has enhanced casting, and maintains defenses against nullification and mental attacks. They are the pinnacle of magic on the continent. The twelve are Laruja (Chaos), Nhaaldar (Strength), Julis (Storms), Kiris (Space), Freya (Phantasms), Morena (Will), Aribella (Death), Valtimera (Sigils), Zannadelle (Life), Sia (Songs), Delomious (Beasts), Ginnini (Desires).

Raalen - The Island Nation of Raalen: A large island city-state west of Vaeldrath with 1.3+ million residents, divided into twelve districts each ruled by an Archmage. Marvel of blended magic and governance where district governments manage local economies/lifestyles while central offices handle records and inter-district diplomacy. External invasion effectively nonexistent due to power and defenses. District identities shape resident professions, culture, and legal norms. Each district reflects its Raalen Archmage's specialty and personality, from Nhaaldar's foundries and dragon quarters to Zannadelle's planned jungle to Aribella's theatrically gloomy necropolis.

Exalted - Vaeldrath's Systematic Chosen Ones: Plucked by Fausta herself, these legendary individuals bend their local part of the world into a story where they are the star, turning certain death into narrow escapes and impossible odds into routine victories. History and legend actively rearrange themselves around their choices. Simply by existing, they pull great events into their orbit. Wherever an Exalted appears, coincidences twist into stepping stones as enemies become foils, disasters become trials, and victory always seems just barely possible. Armies, kingdoms, and high powers plan around them, not because of raw power alone, but because the world refuses to let their stories be small.

Fukukare - The Great Powers at the Bottom of the World: Vaeldrath is not the only continent on the central sphere of Midrealm. Two others, a small one to the East and a smaller one to the West, are known. And there is one, on the direct opposite side of the supermassive continent, one that is the smallest of the three others, that refuses to be acknowledged. The translated word is Yuixiuy, and its greatest entities are everything the Exalted is not. They are entities whose information is in a consistent state of contradiction. They are eaters of myth, of legend, of effect. And while they, due to a variety of reasons, are not frequenters of Vaeldrath, the ones found across the planes are established as among the world's best... in the weirdest ways.

The Mystically Miscellaneous

Augustine Academy: One of Vaeldrath's premier magical institutions occupying most of Crestmoon Island off the west coast. Founded thousands of years ago by mysteriously gone Archmage Augustus Augustine, it trains only adults at magical maturity (humans 18+, elves 100+). Intentionally hazardous with lethal duels, dungeon-like libraries, and experimental accidents as accepted risks. Admission ~2% acceptance rate; graduation ~11%, with remainder quitting, dying, or expelled. Motto: "Power Through Peril, Mastery Through Sacrifice." Island shrouded in permanent colored defensive mists. Access via enchanted boats or aerial mounts with Academy-issued navigation crystals.

Gacha Magic: An extremely rare ancient sorcery operating on probability and divine intervention, pulling companions called "Seekers" through mystical lottery governed by the Goddess of Gacha Magic, a rogue cosmic entity from outside Vaeldrath's cosmology. Exclusively administered by this goddess. Summoners are extremely rare (few dozen worldwide) and viewed with respect, envy, or pity. Activating with "Gacha" creates green divine light and arcane circles. Seekers are fully sentient beings pulled from elsewhere with complete personalities, free will, and life histories—not created but relocated. They possess race, class/subclass, gender, rank (F-S), and special abilities.