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 CaelumAn Epic of Secrets and Silence
The Hierophant worldbuilding hub
This site is the working compendium for The Hierophant. I am building the world so I can write the novel: its histories, languages, calendars, and the orders shaped by secrecy. Here I collect the lore, test ideas, and share notes on how it all comes together. The blog tracks progress, process, and the tools I am using to make this story real.
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.
Worldbuilding Spotlight
Discover the pillars that hold the narrative together.
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 frameworkTemporal 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 mechanicsExplore 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.
Constellation Graph
Follow the living wiki of locations, characters, calendars, and artifacts, auto-linked and mapped into a 3D web of lore.
Calendar Systems Explorer
Interpret temporal artifacts from multiple cultures. Convert dates, witness celestial alignments, and track key events across intersecting chronologies.
Story Generator
Generate archetype-driven prompts inspired by Storymatic, with optional tone, mode, and twist toggles to spark new drafts.
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