Lore
Everything else that explains the world, its mysteries, threats, and daily life.
13 published entriesDieselbeard
Dieselbeard was the dwarven scientist whose discovery transformed the mountain people of the Thundering Heights into the civilization now known as the Diesel Dwarves.
Feeder Field Classification
The term Feeder is a field classification, not a proven biological category. It refers to mobile organisms repeatedly observed acting in ways that support Xanaras: scouting, hunting, harvesting, reshaping territory, testing defenses, or moving material through occupied regions.
Life in An'kor
An'kor is not a world in which everyone spends every waking hour staring at the shield and waiting to die. Xanaras has been part of life for fifteen years. People have learned to live around the danger because ordinary life does not stop simply because extinction remains possible.
Living Lore, Myths & Wonders
This document collects the smaller beliefs, inventions, spells, stories, customs, rumors, and habits that make An'kor feel inhabited. Not everything here is objective truth. Some entries are established practices, some are common beliefs, and some are stories that people repeat because the story is
Mara
Mara was the woman Sevrin Veyr tried to possess through immortality. She became one of the first vampires, died because of the life he forced upon her, and rose eleven weeks later as one of the first Zompires.
Overview
This page is for fast table reference. The groups below are influential, not universal; ancestry does not determine personality, politics, or faction membership.
Politics of the Surviving World
The arrival of Xanaras ended the Long War without erasing the nations that fought it. Modern An'kor is therefore neither a single unified state nor a collection of fully independent countries. It is a network of old governments forced into permanent cooperation by a shared defense system none of the
Professor Alvas
Professor Alvas was a Genevolver researcher whose work accidentally created the first Technobeasts. He is remembered as one of the most important scientists in An'kor's history and one of its clearest warnings about the difference between creating intelligence and recognizing personhood.
Sevrin Veyr
Sevrin Veyr was the first vampire and, after his first death, the first Zompire. Every Zompire curse can ultimately be traced back to his refusal to accept that another person did not belong to him.
The Shield and the Inward Gradient
The Core's shield did not merely save part of An'kor. Its contraction reshaped where people live, what land is worth, how cities grow, where industry goes, how ecosystems survive, and what poverty looks like.
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For thousands of years, the nations of An'kor were at war. Most of them forgot the reasons why they were fighting and just fought for money, honor and pride or just for fun.
Xanaras, the Infinite World Feeder
Xanaras is not a king, god, demon, army, or monster in any ordinary sense.
Zompire Personality (Legacy - Superseded)
Zompires are selfish and don't care about worldly matters.