Kept by the Scribe
The Worldbuilder's Codex
Myths, peoples and the arts of an early world, written down before they are forgotten.
— the Scribe
Written beneath
I wrote the river that remembers,
and hung the Orb where the stars could not see it.
Once, I let the night go dark, to see who would reach for whom.
I made her last: the one who writes it all down.
She thinks she keeps my world. She keeps me.
The WorldBuilderShe is standing in front of something. Drag her, scroll, or
Where the work is done
On the Scribe's desk
Move things around if you like. I will tidy up later.
Mythologies
The stories told about the gods, the sky and the things that should not exist.
Civilisations
Five early peoples: mountain, forest, coast, dune and archive.
Arts
Colours, sacred motifs and the symbols they carved into stone.
Contact
Write to the Scribe. She answers, eventually.
Each sheet opens a section of the Codex.
From the Codex
Featured myths
- I The Silencer of the Dragon Hills Celestial entity The celestial entity who tamed the banished dragons.
- II The Orb of Astra Cosmic relic A relic that bends starlight backwards to show the future.
- III The Umbra Sword Cosmic entity The fallen son of Saint Umber, and the thousand-year war.
- IV The Legendary Table of Unity Legendary artefact Made by the god of chaos, for a goddess who may not exist.
Early civilisations
The peoples of the early world
Five peoples, five ways of being wrong about the gods.
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Dragon Hills Dominion
Mountain people who read storms in the ridgelines.
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Verodona Realm
Forest people; every tree holds an ancestor's echo.
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Lumasea Coast
Tide-navigators who tell stories in wave-code.
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Veilman Dunes
Nomads whose language is shaped by the wind.
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Arbiters of Elucid Archives
Scholars who guard forbidden texts.