Category: Dorset
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National Map of Dorset
The island nation of Dorset appears elongated, with a dense green interior cut by several major rivers that flow outward toward the coast. The central hub of the nation is its capital megacity, from which a network of major roads radiates toward the coastline. These roads also serve as the defining boundaries between three major…
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Tri Echo Covenant
The faith most woven into Dorset’s public life is called the Tri-Echo Covenant. Islanders describe it as “the long conversation between land, sea, and sky,” voiced through a single divine presence known as Sevrin of the Three Answers. Sevrin’s earliest mention lies on chalk plates dated to the First Harboring, where wave-pocked glyphs record a…
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Tide Hollow Kin
Species – Tide-Hollow KinSmall coastal folk whose ancestry intertwines with Dorset’s chalk headlands and tidal caverns. They are recognized by law and lineage charter as native avatars of the island nation and provide the hereditary monarchs of Dorset. Physical Form and Sensory TraitsTide-Hollow Kin stand on broad, sturdy feet shaped for clifftop paths. Skulls are…
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Doréan
Core NatureDoréan is the principal vernacular and state language of the Island Country of Dorset. It descends from the speech of the first seafaring stone-circle builders who landed on the chalk headlands thousands of years ago and whose clan banners later lent the archipelago its name. Every settlement, from the misty cliff villages of the…
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Culture of Dorset
LoreDorset’s recorded history begins with wave-borne settlers who carved dwelling hollows into white chalk headlands and traced three interlocking spirals on every hearthstone. They believed cliffs remembered each word shouted seaward, and that the half-heard replies returning from sea mist were the guidance of an unseen listener. Over centuries those settlers coaxed wind-powered quarry lifts,…