THE LORE
The Vallen Imperium
The dead bronze empire the Vale was only the far eastern edge of — a continent-spanning theocracy sworn to the god Vallen, ruled from the Bronze Seat at Correth, that went hollow the hour its god broke. No word has crossed the Rampart from the capital in four hundred years.
Everyone in the Vale lives in the Imperium's ruins and almost no one grasps how small the Vale was to it. The Imperium of Vallen spread west of the Rampart and on past the inland sea — provinces and bronze roads and tithe-cities the Vale never saw — and the Vale was its last frontier march, garrisoned and taxed for one reason: the god Vallen was said to walk here. When Vallen broke at Caer Vallen the march was cut off, the roads went quiet, and the order to stand down never came because the throne that would send it had its own catastrophe to answer. So the seals keep getting stamped (the Hollow Writ) and the silver keeps getting counted in a dead emperor's name. Whether Correth still stands, fell with its god, or simply stopped writing back, no one living knows — and that not-knowing is the size of the world pressing on the Vale's edge.
KIND
history
DOMAIN
the dead empire offstage
EXTENT
continental — west of the Rampart, across the inland sea; the Vale was its easternmost frontier march
CAPITAL
Correth, the Bronze Seat
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (10)
made_for
- ←Humankind — Humankind was fashioned by Vallen for the Imperium's great works. The species arrived with the Imperium because the Imperium was Vallen's project and humans were his tools.
located_in
- →Correth, the Bronze Seat — The Imperium was ruled from the Bronze Seat at Correth, far west of the Vale.
- ←Caer Vallen — Caer Vallen was the Imperium's eastern seat — the frontier throne of the god's march.
worships
- →The Sworn Gods — The Imperium was the oath to the Sworn Gods made into an empire; it swore by Vallen above all.
- →Vallen, the Wright — The Imperium was Vallen's oath made an empire — a continent sworn by his name, which went hollow the hour the name broke.
foreshadows
- ←The Elder Age — The Elder Age is the stratum the Imperium was built on top of — its makings outlast the empire that wrote over it.
leads
- ←Corren the Last — Corren was the last Imperator of Vallen, the empire's authority in the east.
member_of
- ←The Hollow Writ — The Writ enforces the Imperium's law and answers to its throne — a throne that has not written back in four centuries.
descendant_of
- ←The Asheni — The Asheni are kin to the fallen Imperium, the old blood that buried its god.
references
- ←The Lean Years — Part of the dread of the Lean Years is that no aid is coming: the capital has sent no word across the Rampart in four hundred years, and the frontier faces the tide alone.
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