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Mortum Caelum
How the atlas translates constellation geometry into geographic, cultural, and metaphysical borders
Worldbuilding
Explore the foundations of The Hierophant.
This compendium gathers the structural lore that shapes the narrative: cosmology, ritual mechanics, linguistic frameworks, and the systems derived from the star lattice. Each entry is sourced from the design notes behind the fiction to help orient readers, collaborators, and future me.
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Orders and Hierarchies
Design logic for the clandestine orders and how their layered hierarchies control knowledge.
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Temporal Mechanics
Multiple calendars govern ritual obligations and celestial influence. Understanding their overlap is vital to decoding the narrative's turning points.
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The Ioma Rift
Why the Ioma isn’t a river at all, but a continental fracture that sets every other system in Thalen into motion.
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Mist-Engine Weather
How the Ioma’s heat column rewrites local climate, spins endless fog, and makes its own weather map inside a fracture.
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Thermal Gardens of the Ioma
Layered soils, extremophile mats, and medicinal plants that only make sense when heat and ice share the same ground.
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Life in the Steam
From thermal leeches to mist ravens, the Ioma builds an ecosystem that feeds on heat as much as sunlight.
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Seasons Along the Rift
The Ioma compresses a year into pulses of mist, bloom, migration, and lean endurance that never follow a simple calendar.
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Bodies Tempered by Mist
How generations beside the Ioma shaped Thaleni physiology without turning us into something other than human.
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Crafting Survival in the Mist
Clothing, architecture, preservation, and travel tricks that let us treat the Ioma’s volatility as an ally instead of an enemy.
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Culture Woven from Mist
Timekeeping, navigation, ritual, and art shaped by a landscape that hides and reveals itself with every breath.
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Stewardship of the Rift
Food webs, hazards, and the covenant of care that keeps the Ioma from collapsing under its own intensity.
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Living Pantheons
How the divine council keeps reinventing itself and why I still treat every god as a political actor, not a static myth.
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Ages of Faith
Walking through 4,000 years of devotion feels like moving through strata, each layer argues with the next, yet none fully disappears.
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The Fractured Covenant
Why trust in divine reliability shattered, and how every tradition still grapples with the possibility that the gods broke faith first.
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Secrets and Mysteries
How control of sacred knowledge became the most contested currency in Mortum Caelum.
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Altars of the World
The rituals, festivals, and sacred landscapes that keep belief tangible from desert capitals to mist-laden cracks.
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Hands of Authority
Priests, prophets, scholars, and healers fight for voice, each convinced the gods favor their method of mediation.
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Religions in Motion
Belief travels with caravans, migrations, and marriages, colliding until new traditions bloom and purists dig trenches.
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Faith Under Pressure
Tolerance, persecution, and the political math that decides which altars survive each regime change.
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Faith and Story
Why I pour religion into every plotline and let belief become the lever that moves characters, cultures, and conflict.
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Will Against the World
Why I treat will as the breath of creation itself and refuse to pretend it has a clean opposite.
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Strata Keeps Score
How observation hardens reality and why crowded beliefs make wild magic slip out of reach.
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The Desert Manual
The last surviving handbook of the Expression reads like law code, memoir, and spellbook stitched together.
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Expression Societies
Modern circles treat the Expression like occult fashion, half salon, half power grab, with just enough results to keep rumors alive.
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