28 terms, tracked across 4 categories.

Cosmology

Dream Plane & Nightmare Plane
The oldest struggle in creation, replayed nightly in sleep — the Dream Plane gathers hope and unborn possibility, the Nightmare Plane feeds on doubt and ruin. Every sleeping soul walks this battlefield without knowing it. Read more →
Harmony & Entropy
The two great currents beneath all things, born of that first struggle — not gods to pray to, but the pull toward order and the pull toward ruin. Every age is a measure of which holds the upper hand. Read more →
Lycofos
The twilight frontier where the Plane of Light meets the Plane of Shadow. Celestial hosts and shadow-born creatures have fought there since the dawn of memory, and neither side has ever claimed it whole. Read more →
Matter & Oblivion
The two essences that dwelled within the Pool before creation, locked in eternal struggle — Matter the shaping force, Oblivion the unmaking one. Their friction struck the first sparks of reality. Read more →
The Eternals
Not distant gods watching from above, but Harmony's primal thoughts and archetypes made flesh — Death, War, Love, Time, and their kin. Born as ordinary children, they walk the roads, bleed into bloodlines, and struggle against their own natures. Read more →
The Haze
The Mother Thera's breath, threaded through every plane and pooling thickest near the material world. Not a place but a presence — the source every spell, vision, and working of magic ultimately draws from. Read more →
The Plane of Light
A vast luminous ocean spread from Zoodotis's radiance, home to Light Archons, Sun Devas, and the surviving Fey. Its endless peace is a comfort — and, given too long, a slow erosion of ambition and desire. Read more →
The Plane of Shadow
The dark reflection of the living world, born when Theril's shadow fell eternally upon his mother Thera. Teems with the restless dead and the Fallen, and is ruled from its depths by Thanatos, Lord of the Fallen. Read more →
The Pool
The still, infinite source before time, before the Eternals, before the worlds — the water from which all existence was drawn, and the place every soul eventually returns to. Not oblivion. Homecoming. Read more →
The Void
The endless absence that waits beyond every plane. It carries no purpose and no malice — only a silent hunger to return all things to stillness. Read more →

Time & the Spire

Chronomancers
The rare few able to perceive and name the true boundaries of a Spire — where one age ends and another begins. The ages are not marked by seasons or crowns, but by their reckoning. Read more →
Darkfall
Not weather — the recurring age of night in which the devouring moon Theril's hunger is loosed upon the living lands, an invasion the sky itself delivers. The histories measure their ages by the Darkfalls survived. Read more →
The Exodus
The legendary march of the Heroes of the Seed, who led the mortal races up out of the Thergen depths and back into the light — ending with the planting of the Seed of Life. Read more →
The Feyan Crusade
The Fey empire's war of eradication against the demonkind of Othmog, waged at the height of Fey glory — later revealed to have been secretly kindled by a disguised devil to bleed both sides white. Read more →
The Seed of Life
Planted by the Heroes of the Seed at the close of the Exodus, restoring Zoodotis's light to the world. The current era is dated in years "since the Seed." Read more →
The Spire
Existence does not run in a straight line — it turns, in repeating cycles called Spires, each age raised upon the ruin of the last. History in Ancestral is measured in Spires, not centuries. Read more →
The Thirteenth Spire
The current age, begun when the searing light of the Lunar Pyramid finally dimmed after two and a half years of scouring Othmog's armies. A fragile peace, not a victory — exhausted kingdoms are still rebuilding. Read more →
The War of Dreams
Morgenydon's bid to conquer the Plane of Dreams and command every sleeping mind at once — an empire of consciousness rather than territory. Thwarted, but the scars on the dreaming world remain. Read more →
The Years of Darkness
The greatest catastrophe of the current Spire, when the world was cast wholly into Theril's shadow and the mortal races fled underground into the Thergen depths for centuries. Read more →

Death & the Dead

Gate-ledger
The tally kept at every settlement gate in the Marches, recording who passed in and who passed out — kept not against bandits, but against the restless dead who forget they have died.
Honored Dead
A death properly counted and mourned. In the Marches, an honored name is felt at the threshold of a settlement, but never feared. Read more →
Karma
The unseen weight of a soul's choices, carried across the passage between lives. Nothing is forgotten — every kindness and cruelty is folded into what the soul becomes next. Read more →
Silver Cords
The luminous currents of the Plane of Light that become the cords binding every mortal soul back to the Pool — the hidden thread connecting the living to the great cycle of death and rebirth. Read more →
The Fallen
Soul-husks cut loose from the cycle of rebirth, belonging to neither life nor death. Some are claimed by darkness, some bound by demons — all are condemned to wander without peace. Read more →
The Restless
A soul that has not settled into its rest — the one thing the gate-ledgers and the Barrow-Reeves exist to prevent. A name that returns having never truly left is restless, not honored. Read more →

Society & Institutions

Grimoires
Keepers of the traditions of Evocation and Conjuration, whose arts were nearly erased from history when the dragon Tharzul turned upon them — proof that even magic itself can perish. Read more →
The Alliance
The loose coalition of the free living nations, holding the heartlands of Therasya while bleeding at every border against demons, devils, and the undead empires beyond. Read more →
The Great Library
Therasya's collected memory, kept beneath the mountains of Kinetika as a spiral of scripts descending ever deeper. Not a single book, but the Pool of Knowledge as the living keep it — a bulwark against the dark's return. Read more →
Eolon — Haze Users