Five kingdoms endure around the Heartlands, which still record, judge and legitimise. Counties are where people live, work, litigate, scheme, rebel and rise. The dragons' legacy is more dangerous in memory than it ever was in certainty: relics are smuggled, archives contested, bloodlines forged and lairs plundered. The realm is legally ordered, but historically unresolved.
World Chronicle
The Present Age of Oaths and Ashes
The realm is legally ordered, but historically unresolved.
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When dragon presence shaped the land, and the first oaths were sworn in dragon-shadow.
Open chronicle →A central authority formed around what is now the Heartlands, through law, archive and oath.
Open chronicle →The old high crown failed, the dragons were lost, and five crowns rose from its regions.
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