The Edict Dispute
Stakes Whichever interpretation prevails may reshape laws, alliances, and the duties that keep reality stable.
World Atlas·Sphere·Every kingdom lives by an Edict, and the sky is beginning to disagree.
Political and commercial heartland · River plains and old forest
Hook
Craft guilds feud over a royal clock that predicts disasters one day too late.
Avarra is a vast spherical world where kingdoms are built around philosophies as much as borders. Five Primordial Mantles govern Life, Death, Time, Fate, and Balance, while ancient Edicts give communities ways to live beneath their influence. Magic is common, trade is sophisticated, and every culture is known for what it makes. Now the constellations shift, old ruins stir, and rulers must decide whether the Mantles are failing or preparing a new order.
Themes
Form · Sphere
Avarra is an ordinary-looking spherical planet with broad oceans, varied continents, polar ice, and a deep mantle threaded by ancient magical structures.
Traversal
Travel follows roads, rivers, sea lanes, mountain passes, and teleportation circles, while old ruins and celestial disturbances create dangerous shortcuts.

Sphere

Magic
Common

Technology
Renaissance

Death & Souls
First Age
The Making
Second Age
The Crowned Roads
Third Age
The Quiet Mantles
Fourth Age
The Unsteady Sky
The Edict Dispute
Whichever interpretation prevails may reshape laws, alliances, and the duties that keep reality stable.
The Mantle Hunt
Several powers seek living Mantle-bearers, hoping to protect the world, control it, or end the Primordials' influence.
Preserve the five Mantles and prevent any kingdom from turning them into political weapons.
Prove that the ancient Edicts were misunderstood and establish seven new principles for a changing world.
Recover Primordial relics before rival powers can use them, regardless of the damage caused by the search.
Break the world's dependence on the Primordials and return all supernatural authority to mortal hands.
Stakes Whichever interpretation prevails may reshape laws, alliances, and the duties that keep reality stable.
Stakes Several powers seek living Mantle-bearers, hoping to protect the world, control it, or end the Primordials' influence.
The Primordials set five Mantles into the world and bound reality with Edicts that shaped life, death, time, fate, and balance.
Early peoples built kingdoms around competing interpretations of the Edicts, creating trade roads, great crafts, and the first cities.
The chosen bearers withdrew from public life, leaving temples, relics, and old royal houses to preserve their duties through imperfect traditions.
Constellations began shifting, ancient ruins awakened, and rival kingdoms now argue over whether the Mantles are failing or changing.
A constellation vanishes above several kingdoms, and people born beneath it begin remembering the same unknown city.
A dead Mantle-bearer leaves behind a living shadow that offers each faction a different version of the truth.
A royal workshop produces a device that can pause one moment across an entire city, but someone must decide who remains outside its effect.
Old roads begin leading to places that vanished thousands of years ago, bringing back travelers who insist no time has passed.
The planet is an instrument designed to hold the Mantles in place.
Discovery · The oldest ruins share measurements that do not fit Avarra's curvature.
Impact · Avarra may have been built inside a larger structure, making the Primordials custodians rather than creators.
The known Edicts are fragments of a longer set deliberately broken apart.
Discovery · Different cultures' Edicts align when translated through dead languages found in sealed observatories.
Impact · The argument over five or seven Edicts may conceal a third, missing system that changes how reality is maintained.
The shifting constellations are not an omen but a slow opening.
Discovery · People near celestial wounds hear familiar voices speaking from empty stars.
Impact · Something beyond the Primordials is trying to enter through the world's changing sky.