Places, institutions, and authorities
Setting archive
The systems behind the story
A 21st-century world where modern cities and intelligence work coexist with inherited titles, old institutions, and hidden magic. Read the setting foundation.
- Records
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- Institution notes
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Terms at a glance
- Magic
- The supernatural force within reality, including psyche and soul.
- Magecraft
- The trained discipline through which Magi act on conditions reality can support.
- Miracle-making
- The Church's forbidden category for acts resembling wizardry or imitating sacred deeds.
- Holumn
- A supernatural manifestation that may be a body, phenomenon, event, will, or curse.
- The Spill
- The continuing crisis in which Holumn manifestations exceed ordinary containment.
- Narvean fog
- A recurring regional hazard, intensified by certain Holumn incidents during the Spill.
- Suppression doctrine
- Church-sanctioned measures to contain public knowledge of magic.
Primary records
Established foundations
Explore the places, organizations, and phenomena recorded in the archive.
The Duchy of Narvea
The main country of the story, held together by constitutional balance, diplomatic tradition, regional identities, and competing centers of authority.
Open country profile →The Director's House
A three-floor hillside family home with a river outlook, glass garden rooms, and a discreet residential role in MSF's command life.
Open the house record →MSF
A private intelligence contractor selling services to the government while retaining control of its succession, inner workings, and concentrated force in Turon.
Open agency record →The Church
Every church head knows the Magi exist and commands special envoys whose priesthood conceals political, intelligence, combat, and covert operational training.
Open institutional record →The Magiarchy
The territorial order of the Magi, alongside their ancient pagan traditions, including the Cult of Inanna.
Open magical order →Holumns
Psychic pressure can take the form of a creature, weather, an event, a disembodied will, or a curse. Victims and witnesses describe what each manifestation does.
Open the Holumn archive →Weapons
Narvean firearms, their design families, specifications, and use by MSF, police, and military officers.
Open weapons archive →Items & Artefacts
Story-relevant objects and nonhuman holdings whose properties, custody, and history carry consequences outside the Weapons and Holumn archives.
Open items archive →Education
Magi Academy
The Academy teaches magecraft. Natalia was a professor there and Lynleit's favourite teacher. Myka studies there and turns to Natalia when she encounters dangers within the institution.