(The World Codex of Flamebound: Rise of the Cursed Prince*)*
> "Fire may forget who lit it… but the world never forgets what it burned."
— from The Speaking Ash, a banned Skyborn manuscript from Ezthalum
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🗺️ I. The Three Continents of Aereth Kael
🔱 Velkarin – The Ash of Truth
The political heart of the world. Kingdoms built on cracked crowns and burned oaths. Home of Maro, and birthplace of the cursed prince, Aaron Hotveil.
Terrain: Shadowed mountains, mist-fed rivers, haunted ruins.
Symbol: 👑🔥 A broken crown with rising blue flame
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🔥 Ezthalum – The Womb of Forgotten Flame
The ancestral homeland of the Skyborn. A land of forbidden temples, blue fire altars, and memory spirits that whisper through ash and stone.
Terrain: Ash jungles, cratered valleys, fire-scarred mountains
Symbol: 👁️🔥 A closed eye surrounded by flame
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⚔️ Tharethuun – The Iron of Silence
The continent of cold steel and colder hearts. Here, truth is a heresy, and speech is regulated by blood.
Terrain: Subterranean cities, icy wastes, blackened forges
Symbol: 🗡️🌹 An iron thorn bursting from a closed mouth
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🔥 II. Fire and Memory: The Sacred Flame
In Aereth Kael, fire is not just destruction — it is memory.
Flame Type Meaning
Blue Flame Truth-bearing. Only the Flamebound can wield it. It remembers.
Red Flame Artificial, corrupted. Used by cultists to burn away thought.
Ashfire Neutral, ceremonial. Used in ancient rites to record memories.
> "Flame does not choose sides. It merely refuses to forget."
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🕰️ III. Timeline of Key Events
Sorted into BR (Before Rise) and AR (After Rise of the Cursed Prince)
🔹 Before the Rise (BR)
Year Event
0 BR Cataclysm at Synn-Kar — forbidden Skyborn fire returns
-10 BR Eldemar Council fractures, starts silencing Skyborn births
-25 BR The Pale Thorn founded in Tharethuun
-50 BR The Gray War consumes central Velkarin
-80 BR Final public Skyborn temple is burned
-200 BR First recorded Flamebound disappears mysteriously
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🔹 After the Rise (AR)
Year Event
1 AR Aaron Hotveil is born with blue flame in his blood
5 AR Aaron enters Frankfurt Pierce's mansion
8 AR First memory-burn occurs — Aaron sees a forgotten death
10 AR Aaron confronts the Eldemar Council
11 AR He finds Elira Vex's lost journal in Ezthalum
12 AR The fire no longer whispers — it declares
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👁️ IV. Heraldic Symbols of the Continents
Continent Symbol Meaning
Velkarin 👑🔥 The broken crown — truth beneath crumbling order
Ezthalum 👁️🔥 The closed eye — memory waiting to awaken
Tharethuun 🗡️🌹 The thorned mouth — silence sharpened into control
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📜 V. Final Annotation by the Shadow Archivist
> "And if these chronicles are burned, let those who find their ashes know:
Aaron Hotveil was not the curse…
He was the flame that refused to be silenced."
— From The Final Ember, a restricted text hidden in the ruins of Synn-Kar