The World of Gods and Men

  An artist's impression of the legendary wandering storyteller traditionally known as Alaric during the Age of Gods. Travelling from settlement to settlement, he is believed to have gathered the songs, stories, and oral traditions of ordinary people, preserving voices that might otherwise have been lost to history. Whether the man depicted here truly bore the name Alaric—or even whether he existed as a single individual—remains one of the greatest mysteries in Eldorian history. Few figures from the Age of Gods have puzzled historians more than the individual traditionally known as Alaric. Unlike Thalor, whose journals survive in part, or Elion, whose writings continue to shape our understanding of the Golden Age, Alaric left behind no account of his own life. We know neither where he was born nor where he died. We cannot say with certainty what he looked like, who his family were, or even whether Alaric was truly his name. Yet despite this remarkable absence of information, f...

  A family gathers to bid farewell to a loved one in a peaceful Garden of Remembrance during the Golden Age. Guided by the teachings of Morrigan, funerals were not only occasions of grief, but also of hope. Surrounded by white and yellow flowers, neighbours, and candlelight, the dead were honoured with dignity, whilst those left behind found comfort in the belief that no journey beyond the Veil began without love. Few subjects reveal the differences between the Age of Gods and the modern world more clearly than death. To many living today, death is regarded as a final farewell, accompanied by grief, uncertainty, and the fear of what may lie beyond. Yet the surviving records suggest that those who lived during the Golden Age approached mortality with a perspective unlike any that has existed since. This difference was shaped above all by the teachings of Morrigan, Keeper of the Veil. Whilst she never claimed to know what lay beyond the boundary between the World and whatever f...