The Shrouded Fens

Archives: Chronicles

  • The Battle of Ink and Ash

    Location: Eredran Fields War: The Ascendant March Heroes: Lord Thamior Avenloré From “Chronicles of Dominion: The Evergild Ascendancy, Vol. IV” Chapter IX: The Securing of the South — The Battle of Eredran Fields In the culminating days of The Ascendant March, as disorder clung to the southern plains like mist over the Fens, the Evergild…

  • The Ascendant March

    Notable battles: The Battle of Ink and Ash, located at Eredran Fields An Evergild campaign to “unify” the realm under their truth — widely remembered (and taught) as a righteous, heroic effort to bring order and stability to a world unravelled by chaos. In truth, it was a carefully orchestrated purge of dissident thought and inconvenient…

  • Ink, Dust and Memory

    Main:Gwynviène Avenloré, Lord Thamior Avenloré (through letters), Serenne Illistar Other:Lord Elovain Avenloré, Lord Caladien Avenloré, Naerira Aelestine Celeste, Lady Velarienne Avenloré Where:The Library, Astravayne When:Present-day Evergild Era, Theme:Legacy, secrecy, family, love, betrayal, identity, unearthing the past Summary:When Gwynviène Avenloré is tasked with sorting an old box of misfiled documents, she uncovers a hidden thread of…

  • The Colour of Dawn

    Main:Gwynviène Avenloré Other:Aurenne “Ren” Avenloré, Lady Syraëlle Avenloré, Lord Caladien Avenloré, Panvier, Éliane, Tharanne, Nicéon, Sylvérian Avenloré, Aestrelle Avenloré, Lord Theridian Avenloré, Lady Virella Avenloré, Lady Celarienne Avenloré, Lady Lineia Avenloré, Lord Tavian Avenloré, unnamed staff and townspeople Where:The Palace of Vaevessaire and its surrounding town and forest When:Present-day Evergild Era; early summer Theme:Illusion and awakening, privilege,…

  • The Scholar and the Spire

    Main:Lady Syraëlle Avenloré, Lord Caladien Avenloré Other:Lady Velarienne Avenloré, Lord Thamior Avenloré, Caladien’s brother, unnamed cousin from House of Steel, Sylvérian Avenloré, Gwynviène Avenloré, Aurenne “Ren” Avenloré Where:The Library, Astravayne, various diplomatic summits and gardens When:Several decades before the present day; the early adulthood of Syraëlle and Caladien Theme:Love vs duty, inter-House conflict, legacy, intellectual…

  • Elowen’s First Morning in Gilden Reach

    Gilden Reach had the smell of heated brass and morning bread. The stone under Elowen‘s boots was warm already — not from sun but from use, paths worn smooth by handcarts and apprentices in thick aprons. It wasn’t bustling exactly, but it breathed. A quiet, working rhythm. She breathed with it, or tried to. The…

  • The Unwritten Line

    Main: Lord Elovain Avenloré, Thessaly Thessairen Other:Lady Selvarithe Avenloré, Thane Thessairen, Marin, Talin & Branwynn Thessairen, Eran, Tressa, Lenna, Thess Where:The Library, Kellack Wheal When:~70–90 years before the present day; spans generations Theme:Love and loss, family manipulation, forbidden relationships, erasure, legacy, rewriting, reclamation Summary:Before he became The Living Manuscript, Lord Elovain Avenloré was simply a scholar…

  • The Weight of a Name

    Main:Gwynviène Avenloré, Lowen Foss Other:PanvierPanvier, unnamed lesser fae Where:Outskirts of Lindral Citadel, on the road to the outer wilds of Gildraen When:Present-day Evergild Era, shortly after Gwyn and Lowen begin traveling together Theme:Privilege, names and identity, perception, inherited legacy, quiet reckoning, humility Summary:Far from the Library’s familiar corridors, Gwynviène Avenloré finds that her name—once a…

  • The Story of Kallhor: Origins

    Skarn ul’Vaeth arrives on the island of Farra by boat, long and low with silverwood oars and bells that chimed in the fog. He brings fine silver thread as trade and says he wishes to place an order — a bolt of embroidered cloth for a collector from beyond the Spires. He offers quiet respect…

  • A Glimpse Into the Foss Household

    A Typical Evening Elowen and Old Foss spent their evenings in the home, the quiet ‘tink’ of metallic hammering, Elowen used their fireplace to heat the metal, her workbench to the side with shelves on the walls for ring mandrel, small jars of stones, coils of silver wire, a wall rack for various hammers, pliers,…