#starfallenilluminated

[starfallensea]

Arich Shand and the Historians fought the Illuminated Empire by rescuing texts and relics from destruction on charges of heresy. Their legacy lives on via the Museum Fleet and the Archive of Pavell, but some caches were lost with their protectors, and are hidden to this day.

[starfallensea]

A great pine tree in the capital of Taregard is said to hold the last governor of the Illuminated Empire. He slew the island's god, and a splinter lodged in his thumb; overnight, he erupted into a tree whose roots grew through the Imperial garrison, becoming the island's new god.

[starfallensea]

The Fourth Age marked the return of Chaos and the fall of the Illuminated Empire. Over three hundred years, Chaos storms cut the seas off from each other, splitting them into hundreds of isolated archipelagoes. Many traditions blame the Empire's greed for the fall of the seas.

[starfallensea]

Invented by the Illuminated Empire to give their conquests an air of legitimacy, the King is the Incarnate patron of rulers, empires, and inheritance. Epics were written about his righteous command of the other Incarnates, but many tales later depicted him as a traitor and fool.

[starfallensea]

The meter, the standard unit of distance measurement across most of the Seas, was first instituted by His Illuminated Majesty Soren II and is named after the tones of a metronome. One metre is the exact distance covered by a dancer during one bar of a formal Imperial waltz.

[starfallensea]

Crafted from captive sorcerers by the Illuminated Empire to hunt their fellow rogues, a handful of Jekeli escaped during the empire's fall. The presence of magic fills them with rage and pain, and their saliva infects other sorcerers, who transform gradually with each spell cast.