Continents of Thalureth ¶
Known in ancient record as The Abora Magnas
“In that age, the lands were not seen as scattered territories, but as three great foundations upon which all life, knowledge, and power were shaped. These were the continents of the Second Age. They were one body, grown outward… Valtheri the shaping, Kaelaris the reaching, Duraneth the holding. Not divided, but expressed… as branch, as breath, as bone.”
— Galt Thordruggen II, Acolyte of the Khadrim Spires
Summary ¶
What once stood as three great continental foundations has been broken into fragments—reformed coastlines, severed regions, and maps that no longer agree with one another. Memory itself has become unreliable. Some lands remember differently. Others do not remember at all.
Yet across stone inscriptions, ancient traditions, and the oldest surviving texts, three names endure:
Valtheri. Duraneth. Caelaris.
Valtheri — The Shaping ¶
Valtheri was the heartland of the Second Age.
A continent of fertile valleys, winding rivers, and rising cities, it was here that governance first took form. Trade routes stitched distant lands together, and the idea of a unified world found its strongest expression.
Its lands were cultivated. Its borders defined. Its influence far-reaching.
If Thalureth had a centre, it was found in Valtheri.
Duraneth — The Holding ¶
Duraneth formed the deep foundation of the world.
A continent of stone and endurance, its mountains were vast and ancient, its caverns threaded with unseen forces. Leylines converged quietly beneath its surface, binding the land together in ways not fully understood.
Strength was not measured in conquest, but in permanence.
Civilisations did not rise upon Duraneth—they were carved into it.
Caelaris — The Reaching ¶
Caelaris was a continent of distance and extremes.
Towering coastal cliffs rose above the echoes of the Velarium Blue ocean, while vast desert plains stretched inland beneath an unrelenting sky. It was a land where knowledge was kept rather than shared, and where great structures stood isolated against the horizon.
In the present age, Caelaris is often regarded as a forgotten kingdom—its legacy scattered, its truths buried beneath sand and time.
Present Understanding ¶
The continents as they once existed are no longer whole.
What remains are fragments—regions shaped by the Sundering, coastlines that no longer align with ancient records, and lands that carry only echoes of their former identity.
Scholars debate whether these continents can still be said to exist at all… or whether they survive only as memory, imposed upon a world that has already moved on.