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The Shieldwardens
The Shieldwardens are a multinational frontier military and civil-defense organization stationed along the shieldline. Their ranks include soldiers, scouts, medics, engineers, magical specialists, observers, Feeder hunters, evacuation officers, and researchers. Shieldwarden identity often becomes st
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.
The Shieldline
The shield has no single border wall. Its edge cuts across mountains, ruins, fields, coastlines, tunnels, rivers, and open sea. In some places it is visible as a distortion of light or magic. In others, people know where it stands because the world on one side is inhabited and the world on the other
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
Overview
This page is for fast table reference. The groups below are influential, not universal; ancestry does not determine personality, politics, or faction membership.
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.
Timeline of An'kor
This timeline is a working historical spine for An'kor. The oldest periods are approximate because records were lost, rewritten, destroyed in war, or consumed with the Aquarian archives. The closer history approaches the present, the more reliable it becomes.
Dictionary
290 linked terms with hover definitions throughout the worldbook.