Lore
Commentaries on fragments dimly remembered.
Kai Durvas
Phoibos: Builder of the First City
He did not build walls. He built rules. The world arranged itself around them.
The God Phoibos was the first builder of cities. He is the father of geometry and architecture—but what he built was never stone. It was strategy made stable. A game, sustained through time. And from that game, the first city arose.
From the players he studied, and from the game he loved, Phoibos derived the Seven Laws—four Roots and three Branches—that now govern every lasting city of the Empire. They are the secret architecture beneath all enduring cooperation.
The Triune Balance
How India Killed the Dinosaurs
A mythic retelling of Earth’s greatest reset: when the mantle god Eidos forged a shard, Poteidas set it moving, and the All-Father’s sky split under fire and stone. This is the deep time cosmology behind extinction, evolution, and the drift that remade the world.
The Lovers' Descent to the Underworld
The first recorded Katabasis in history.
In the aftermath of the Catastrophe of the Shard, Xhamai and Dumuzi—sovereigns of life—descend through the seven planetary gates of extinction. A mythic retelling that fuses deep-time geology with the oldest underworld stories of Ishtar, this is the first descent, and the first hope.
The Seven Trials of the Underworld
The Earth Goddess' answer to the Fermi Paradox
Trapped in the Underworld after the final extinction, Xhamai confronts the Elder Gods across deep-time cycles to pass Earth through the Great Filter by awakening consciousness.