An Epic of Secrets and Silence

Unlock the lore behind The Hierophant.

This is your entry into a world shaped by secrecy, where every nation, language, and legend carries the weight of something left unsaid. Within these pages you’ll find the maps, histories, and hidden orders that form the foundation of the story. Wander through the archives, trace the constellations, and uncover the patterns that bind this world together.

Line-art depiction of the Thalen constellation known as the Ioma.
The Ioma, the Thalen constellation traced as ancient starwork.

Current Focus

Label every nation and city with its in-world language.

I am cataloguing the full civic lexicon so maps, chronicles, and dispatches all speak with the right local voice. Every entry gets its endonym, exonym, and the language it belongs to.

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Progress 32%
32 percent complete

Documented 74 of 230 locales with canonical languages.

About the Book

Every secret changes the shape of the world.

The Hierophant is a story about the power of secrecy: the force that shapes nations, divides companions, and corrodes the heart. In a world where knowledge is guarded like a weapon, silence becomes both armor and art. Every hidden truth distorts the light, bending love into control, trust into possession, and faith into manipulation.

Dreams offer escape, but even they are policed. To survive is to conceal, to learn the language of omission, to trade confession for safety. The deeper the secrets run, the more the world bends around them, until truth itself becomes an act of violence.

The Hierophant is not a story of redemption, but of transformation and consequence for a world that mistakes secrecy for order, and silence for grace.

Lore Reference

Visit the Worldbuilding Compendium.

Dive into Mortum Caelum, the orders, and the systems that hold the setting together. Search by topic, filter by tag, and stay oriented while the story unfolds.

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Worldbuilding Spotlight

Discover the pillars that hold the narrative together.

Mortum Caelum

A world drawn from the night sky, where constellations shape nations and the first heaven called Mortum Caelum maps the order of the dead across the living world.

Learn about Mortum Caelum

Orders & Hierarchies

In a world built on secrecy, power gathers in living hierarchies that protect truth through silence, where every order guards what it fears most and every revelation comes at a cost.

Explore the Orders framework

Temporal Mechanics

Every culture keeps its own rhythm of time, and the collisions between their calendars shape history itself, turning moments of alignment and drift into the pulse that drives the world.

Decode temporal mechanics

Explore the Network

Experience the world through companion tools.

Interactive Map Atlas

Traverse cities, constellations, and leyline corridors that frame the narrative. Dynamic layers reveal character journeys and the history etched into each node.

Enter the Atlas

Calendar Systems Explorer

Interpret temporal artifacts from multiple cultures. Convert dates, witness celestial alignments, and track key events across intersecting chronologies.

Open the Calendar

Developer's Chronicle

Follow the ongoing creation of the Hierophant universe. Dive into design notes, research musings, and roadmap updates from the development team.

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