— The Premise
A fragile armistice. Five nations. One story.
Althas holds five nations and one fragile armistice. When the gods left the world to fight elsewhere, the crowns, cities, and schools of magic that remained learned to rule without them — and to eye each other across the borders they had drawn.
This chronicle is written by the party who walked into that uneasy quiet: what they find, what they break, and the debts that follow them. (Premise copy is a stand-in until Vellum's chronicle entries exist — replace when 04 Chronicle is written.)