Notes from Eldoria, gathered for readers. Spoiler free: everything here is known before the first chapter ends.
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The World
The twin suns and the way they keep time. The four winds. Luminara and its Academy. Essence, flux, and the seven measures of mastery.
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Characters
House Kyralin up close, and the full dramatis personae: the Academy, the Bureau, and the other houses of Luminara.
A Few Words to Know
- Essence
- The power a person carries inside them.
- Flux
- The power that runs through everything else.
- Vigorant
- One who channels essence through the body.
- Savant
- One who shapes flux with the mind.
- Sensate
- One who can feel essence and flux directly.
- Pulse
- One beat of Noctis, about an hour.
- Cycle
- A day: twenty pulses.
- Circulation
- A year: two hundred cycles.