A scholar writing by candlelight at a desk strewn with handwritten pages and sketches

The Compendium

A scholar's record of the known world

Pages from the journal of Auctorius, an Archivist of Quira, on the creatures, peoples and places of the world. A glimpse of the setting, not the whole of it.

Nations of the World

12 recorded of 12

Engraving of a forum of columned temples, with statues raised on tall pillars
Quira

Quira

Overview

Its people count themselves citizens before all else, bound by written law and by service in disciplined legions. Paved roads, arched aqueducts and walled cities mark every land they hold. Quira honours one power above all, the Unconquered Sun, and holds that the gods of old are no gods at all, proven by the Chronikin that are said to hail from them. For if one can bind a god, then what is godliness next to man. The Unconquered Sun, however, continues to dictate its rule without contest.

Geography

A long peninsula of sunlit coasts and terraced hills, with a spine of mountains running its length, forms the heart of Quira.

Auctorius