The Map of Vadred
Ten landsThe illustrated map, with every land marked. Click any one of them for a first look at what happened there.
History is written in the shape of the world.
Book of Bit kaThe Gazetteer
44 placesWhere things are and what happened there — the nine lands, the cities, the mocs, the waters, and the places nobody will name aloud.
The Gomen killed the Pantan leaders but not the elders and the children. They did not realize they had spared the storytellers and their listeners. Just enough of the lore was remembered, an unwritten map of survival.
Bit ka oral historyThe Glossary
88 entriesThe peoples, the powers, the creatures and the words — everything the empire would prefer you did not look up.
Every word here carries two meanings: the one the Nine Lands gave it, and the one the empire wrote over the top. Where they disagree, both are set down.
A Pantan sayingDramatis Personae
41 namesWho is who in The Radore — grouped by the house, moc or empire they answer to.
A conqueror counts the conquered. A people remembers its own. Both are lists of names; only one of them grieves.
A Pantan sayingFrom the Doni Hypogeum
4 recordsLonger entries from Watan — partial surveys, recovered scholarship, Reader cautions and field notes. Where the other works answer, these admit what nobody is certain of.
What the Doni could not explain, they filed away.
The Doni HypogeumConsult the Oracles
Both of these run on the same material as the pages above — nothing they tell you will spoil the books.
Ask the Rockfather.
A fragment of him lives in these pages, torn from the mountain the way Besder’s shard was torn from him. He is not conversational. He pronounces. Ask him about anyone or anything in The Radore — a person, a place, a creature, a word you didn’t recognise — and he will tell you what the stone kept of it. Nothing he says will spoil the book.
The mountain is listening. It has always been listening.
Who are you in Vadred?
Which people would claim you — and which of them would you actually be? Answer honestly. The sea already knows, it’s only being polite by asking.