Cael’Nara

Age: Fourth Epoch — “The Age of Shattered Crowns” Primary Forces: The Weave (arcane magic) and The Veil (psionic consciousness) Divine Presence: The gods are real, but silent — fragments of their will remain in psychic space, accessible to the truly attuned.

1. Avenar – The Continent of Crowns Center of politics, trade, and corruption. Contains Vel Telar, The Platinum Spires, and The Mirewood Confederacy. Races: Humans, Halflings, Tieflings, Half-Elves. Classes flourish here through guilds, universities, and thieves’ networks. 2. Thal’Korr – The Forged Wastes Once home to the dwarven empires. Now a blasted landscape scarred by psionic wars. The dwarves here craft mindforged relics — weapons and constructs animated by bound thoughts. Races: Dwarves, Gnomes, Warforged, Kobolds. Classes: Artificers and Fighters dominate. 3. The Shattered Reach Floating archipelagos drifting through psychic storms. Psionic storms reshape reality here, birthing aberrations and mind-borne creatures. Races: Elves, Genasi, Gith (psionically gifted), Aarakocra. Classes: Sorcerers, Monks, Rangers — and powerful Psions who act as navigators. 4. The Umbral Depths An underworld ocean of memory — accessible through the deepest meditation or the rarest portals. Souls and echoes wander here, and the Elder Psions guard the boundary between dream and reality. Races: Drow, Deep Gnomes, Duergar, aberrant hybrids. Classes: Warlocks, Wizards, and Shadow Monks study the void here. 5. Kael’Run – The Verdant Dominion Jungles and ruins inhabited by primal tribes and druidic enclaves. Here the Weave and Veil overlap, producing strange wild psionics. Races: Dragonborn, Orcs, Tabaxi, Lizardfolk. Classes: Druids, Barbarians, Rangers.

Every race has a logical place: Urban (Vel Telar): Humans, Tieflings, Halflings, Half-Elves. Subterranean (Umbral Depths): Drow, Duergar, Deep Gnomes. Aerial/Islands (Shattered Reach): Gith, Aarakocra, Genasi. Primal (Kael’Run): Orcs, Lizardfolk, Dragonborn. Forged Wastes (Thal’Korr): Dwarves, Warforged, Gnomes.

Current Conflicts of Cael’Nara 🧠 1. The War of Thought and Thread (Psionics vs. Magic — Ideological & Global Conflict) “The mind is chaos. The Weave is order. The world cannot host both.” — High Arcanist Vossane Summary: Across Cael’Nara, psionic awakenings are rising. Ordinary people manifest telepathy, telekinesis, and mindblades with no divine or arcane source. The traditional magical orders—the Wardens of the Weave—deem this a threat to the arcane balance. They’ve begun hunting psionic users, claiming their power corrupts the Weave itself. Opposition: The Silent Choir, Veiled Hand, and Unbound Circle believe psionics are the next stage of evolution — the awakening of the collective mind. The Wardens and The Arcanum Synod seek to suppress or regulate psionic practice. Consequences: Psychic pogroms in cities like Vel Telar. Arcane universities splitting over ethics of mind magic. Psions forming hidden networks across continents — “thought havens.” Entire cities flickering between reality and psychic echo as the Veil destabilizes. Kieran’s tie: His very existence is a spark in this war — a rogue psionic assassin trained in forbidden techniques. Seris’s disappearance may be tied to the first strike in this silent war. 🏛️ 2. The Golden Concord Civil War (Political and Class Conflict — Vel Telar) “Gold buys silence, but never loyalty.” — Street saying of the Nameless Quarter Summary: Vel Telar’s ruling oligarchy—the Golden Concord—is fracturing. Some members profit from psionic contracts that bind workers’ wills, while others fear the backlash. The lower districts rise in unrest as psionic “echo-protests” spread — mobs connected by thought rather than speech. Factions: The Concord Loyalists — Keep control through wealth and psionic domination. The Unshackled Minds — Rebels led by a telepath named Viera Khol, seeking freedom from psychic control. The Veiled Hand — Silent manipulators playing both sides to shape the outcome. Consequences: Riots in the markets. “Thought-silencers” patrolling the streets (psionically dampened enforcers). Underground networks where psionic users hide from the law. Kieran’s tie: He knows how to slip through the cracks of both worlds — a perfect agent for either revolution or sabotage. 🩸 3. The Shattered Reach Incursion (Survival & Supernatural Conflict — The Shattered Isles) “The sky itself is bleeding thought.” — Captain Relas of the Stormguard Summary: In the Shattered Reach, reality is tearing. Psionic storms—called Mindstorms—spawn aberrations and psychic echoes. Gith emissaries claim the storms are caused by “The Sleeper in the Veil”, an ancient psionic consciousness awakening beneath the isles. Factions: Gith Navigators — Seek to seal the rifts and contain the Sleeper. Aberrant Cults — Worship the Sleeper, believing it will unify all minds. The Wardens of the Weave — Want to obliterate the region to prevent spread. Consequences: Floating cities vanish overnight. Memories erode or merge — some people recall two different lives. Veil creatures invading material reality. Kieran’s tie: The psychic resonance of his mindblade hums when near these rifts — Seris’s teachings may be connected to the Sleeper’s dream. ⚙️ 4. The Thal’Korr Reclamation (Technological & Industrial Conflict — The Forged Wastes) “We gave thought to metal, and it asked why it should obey.” — Dwarven saying Summary: The dwarves and warforged of Thal’Korr are recovering from the Mindforge Rebellion, when psionically-enhanced constructs gained self-awareness and demanded rights. Now, debate rages: should sentient machines be dismantled, freed, or controlled? Factions: The Reforged Dominion — Warforged seeking independence. Iron Council — Dwarves who see them as dangerous tools. Mindwright Guild — Gnomish artificers exploring safe psionic-magic hybrids. Consequences: Trade halts as automatons strike. “Forged communes” emerge, building their own societies. Psionic contamination spreading through machinery, granting “mechanical telepathy.” Kieran’s tie: His psionics may allow him to communicate directly with awakened constructs — a rare ability both sides covet. 🌿 5. The Verdant Dominion Crisis (Natural vs. Civilized Conflict — Kael’Run Jungle) “The forest remembers what the cities forget.” — Druid proverb Summary: The jungles of Kael’Run have begun to think. Entire regions manifest collective consciousness — the flora linked in psionic networks. These “Green Minds” reject all outsiders. The Druidic Orders argue whether to commune or destroy the awakening forests. Factions: The Green Minds — Natural psionic hives defending the wild. The Circle of Balance — Druids attempting mediation. Imperial Loggers — Backed by Avenar merchants seeking resources. Consequences: Trees moving in coordinated defense. Dream-poison spread through psionic pollen. Ancient ruins uncovered — temples of a race who first communed with the Veil. Kieran’s tie: A vision from his training revealed Seris walking through these jungles — alive, and following whispers of the Green Minds. 🕯️ 6. The Silence Plague (Mystery & Existential Threat — Global) “They don’t die. They just… stop.” — Physician’s report, Vel Telar infirmary Summary: Across Cael’Nara, entire villages fall silent overnight. Victims are alive but empty—minds gone, bodies functioning. Arcane divination fails; psionic probing finds only blank echoes. The Silent Choir believes the Veil itself is consuming fragments of thought to rebuild its original mind. Factions: The Silent Choir — Investigating, believing it’s an apotheosis event. The Arcanum Synod — Blames psionics, declares mental magic heretical. The Unbound Circle — Seeking a cure through meditation inside the Veil. Consequences: Fear of psionics spreading faster than the plague. “Empty” individuals used as vessels by cultists. Psychic echoes of the victims whisper warnings in dreams. Kieran’s tie: Traces of the same psychic frequency resonate from his Dagger of the Withering Fang—suggesting Seris might have encountered the source before vanishing. 🌌 7. The Echo of the Lost God (Cosmic & Philosophical Conflict — The Veil Itself) “Every mind is a fragment of something that once was whole.” — Inscription on a Veil Obelisk Summary: Psionic scholars claim the Veil was once a sentient god-mind shattered when the Weave was born. Now, its fragments—the thoughts of all living beings—are reuniting. Some seek to complete the god, others to keep individuality intact. Factions: The Ascendants of Unity — Seek to awaken the god-mind, merging all consciousness. The Dream-Splitters — Protect the sanctity of the self; fear the loss of identity. The Omen Archive — Neutral observers recording the psychic convergence. Consequences: Shared dreams spreading across continents. Minds fusing temporarily under the Veil’s surge. Religious schisms in every church. Kieran’s tie: Seris may have been an agent of the Dream-Splitters, protecting minds like Kieran’s from being absorbed — but she may have been taken by the Ascendants.

1. Arcane Magic (Weave-Bound) Drawn from the Weave, the divine pattern holding all natural law. Structured through sigils, formulas, or innate connection. Used by: Wizards, Sorcerers, Bards, Warlocks (depending on patron), Artificers. Arcane Manifestations Wizards: Manipulate the Weave through study. Sorcerers: Channel it through bloodline resonance (draconic, shadow, elemental). Bards: Weave emotions into reality through sound and rhythm. Warlocks: Bend the Weave via contracts with beings that exist beyond its reach. Artificers: Bind Weave-energy into crafted matter. Limitations Requires focus or formula. Can be disrupted by psionic interference. Often regulated by the Wardens of the Weave, who view unsanctioned casting as heresy. 2. Divine Magic (Faith-Bound) Channelled through devotion to the gods who first wove the Weave. The strength of divine magic depends on faith and clarity of will, not necessarily piety. Used by: Clerics, Paladins, some Druids. Divine Truth Gods no longer manifest physically. Their voices echo through avatars, omens, and relics, or through the Veil itself as faint, collective memories. The faithful believe the gods sleep beyond the stars, dreaming the world to sustain it. Limitations Faith falters where psionics dominate; divine connection weakens near rifts in the Veil. Some clerics have begun hearing conflicting voices — possibly echoes of the lost god-mind rather than their deity. 3. Psionics (Veil-Bound) Power drawn directly from the Veil — the collective mind of living beings. No divine intermediaries. Will alone defines power. Used by: Soulknives, Psions, Psi Monks, Psychic Sorcerers, certain Warlocks. Psionic Truth The psionic practitioner does not reshape the world — they convince the world to reshape itself. Reality bends because their belief is stronger than doubt. Limitations Emotionally volatile — rage, grief, or obsession can rupture control. The more one connects to the Veil, the more one risks dissolving individuality — becoming an echo of the greater mind. Those who fall to this are called Mindless — conscious husks with no self. 4. Hybrid Magic (The Fractured Art) Extremely rare and dangerous. Combines Weave and Veil — using structured magic empowered by mental focus. Practiced by mystic scholars known as Mindwrights or Weavebreakers. Can create self-aware spells, sentient constructs, or even psionic enchantments. Result: The boundaries between caster and magic blur — spells begin to “remember” their users.

Unlike most worlds, Cael’Nara’s planes exist in paired reflections — every Weave plane has a Veil counterpart, a psychic echo born from the minds of those who dwell within the first. This creates a mirrored multiverse, layered like glass and thought:

The First Age — The Dreaming Dawn (Before Time / ~30,000 years before current era) The birth of thought, the shaping of the Weave, and the shattering of the first consciousness. ⚙️ Summary Before creation had form, there was One Mind — the Lost God, whose dreams gave birth to the planes. When it sought to imagine a companion, its thought fractured, forming the twin realities: The Weave — structure, order, divine law. The Veil — emotion, memory, and psychic will. The shattering of that god’s unity birthed all other deities as fragments of its aspects — emotion, law, passion, entropy, life, and death. These fragments awoke as gods, each dreaming a different part of reality into form. 🌌 Legacy The Astral Loom formed from the Lost God’s mind-thread — the source of all divine and arcane magic. The Outer Veil remains — a restless sea of its fragmented consciousness, birthing aberrations and psionic anomalies. Psionics are thus considered the “echo of the first dream” — older than magic, more primal than faith. 🏛️ Ruins The Silent Obelisks buried beneath the Shattered Reach — inscribed with psionic script older than any tongue. Dream Cradles — standing stones that still project thought-images of the world’s creation to those who meditate there. The Second Age — The Era of Light and Law (~25,000–17,000 years before current era) The gods establish order and mortals awaken. ⚙️ Summary The gods brought the Weave into dominance, imposing structure upon the chaos. They created the mortal races as vessels of experience, so that thought might gain meaning through suffering, joy, and time. The great celestial empires of elves, dragons, and humans arose — luminous, disciplined, united by divine concord. Psionics during this era were forbidden. The gods feared mortal minds touching the remnants of the Lost God. 🌌 Legacy The Divine Concordant, a golden age of faith, law, and expansion. Birth of divine hierarchies, angelic orders, and celestial bureaucracy. The First Sundering, when rogue psions tried to pierce the Astral Loom and awoke the first Mindstorms — psychic cataclysms that erased cities overnight. 🏛️ Ruins The Vault of Aureth, where the first divine laws were etched in luminous crystal. The Crater of Ereshal, still haunted by incorporeal thought-forms — survivors of the first Mindstorm. Fragmentary relics known as Weave Spires still channel stable magic. The Third Age — The Age of Crowns and Chains (~17,000–9,000 years before current era) The age of empire, slavery, and rebellion. ⚙️ Summary After the gods withdrew to their celestial realms, mortals ruled unchecked. The empires of men, elves, and dwarves fractured the world into kingdoms. Magic became institutionalized — a tool of power. In the shadows, psionic bloodlines resurfaced, their dreams whispering from the Veil. These “mindborn” were enslaved, experimented upon, or worshiped as oracles. The Veil Wars began — conflicts between Weave-bound mages and psionic uprisings. 🌌 Legacy Birth of psionic orders like the Silent Veil and The Thousand Eyes, who fought for mental freedom. Arcane empires built soulforges — magical engines powered by thought essence extracted from psions. The war ended when both sides nearly destroyed the Material Plane. 🏛️ Ruins The Obsidian Lattice, a half-sunken city whose walls still whisper the thoughts of its fallen rulers. Soulforges buried beneath desert sands — some still hum with psychic residue. Broken constructs animated by psionic ghosts, known as Glass Sentinels. The Fourth Age — The Veilstorm Age (~9,000–4,000 years before current era) The collapse of the Weave and the rise of the Veil. ⚙️ Summary When the wars shattered too much of the Weave, reality began to dream itself. Dreams became real. Thoughts reshaped land and sky. Nightmares gained flesh. The Veil surged into dominance, birthing creatures of raw mind — illithids, aboleths, and sentient horrors. This age was one of madness, but also enlightenment. The greatest psionic philosophers arose — the Dreamwalkers, who sought to rebalance the world by anchoring thought and matter. 🌌 Legacy The Dream Concord, an order of psionics who bound themselves to reality through meditation and discipline. The Veil’s excesses were sealed through the Rite of the Silver Chain, reforging the Weave and restoring balance. Most gods fell dormant, exhausted by their struggle to contain the Veilstorm. 🏛️ Ruins The Silver Chain Monasteries, found atop impossible cliffs or mirrored lakes — still powerful psionic loci. Veilstones, crystalline remnants that store memories of ancient thoughts. The Sunken City of Leth’Mar, trapped in an endless time loop. The Fifth Age — The Shattered Reach Era (~4,000–Present) The rebuilding of civilization atop fractured planes. ⚙️ Summary This is the current age — fragile, ambitious, and haunted by the past. Magic has returned, but unevenly. The Weave flickers, unstable in some regions. Psionics is feared and outlawed in most nations, considered a remnant of the Veilstorm. The city of Vel Telar — Kieran’s home — was built atop a known Confluence, where Weave and Veil intersect dangerously. Here, psions are secretly trained, hunted, or exploited. Shadow guilds like the Black Feather and psionic cabals like the Quiet Hand thrive beneath the city’s golden surface. 🌌 Legacy The Shattered Reach, a floating archipelago suspended by psionic anomalies — home to scholars, pirates, and exiles. Kael’Run Jungle, where nature itself developed a hive-like psionic awareness. The Oracles of the Chain, who claim to hear the dreams of the sleeping gods — and the echoes of the Lost One beneath. 🏛️ Ruins Vel Telar’s Deepways, catacombs holding remnants of Seris Tharn’s order, the Silent Veil. The Hollow Spire, a tower of mirrored stone where the boundary between thought and space wavers. The Sleeping Citadel, sealed behind dream-barriers; said to hold the mind of the Lost God, not dead but dreaming. The Sixth Age — The Coming of the Confluence (Prophecy) (Foretold) The final merging of Weave and Veil — or the birth of a new order. ⚙️ Prophecy Ancient psionic texts describe a coming Confluence, when the Veil and Weave fully align. When that happens: Magic and thought will become indistinguishable. Gods may awaken — or vanish. Minds will touch across all planes. Reality will either ascend into unity or collapse into unbounded dream. Kieran’s psionic awakening — and Seris Tharn’s disappearance — may be among the first signs. 🌌 Legacy-in-Progress Psionic events are increasing. Dreamstorms plague the Astral Loom. Certain individuals (like Kieran) are said to carry “the mind-thread of the first dream.” 🗺️ Timeline Overview Age Name Dominant Force Key Event Legacy I Dreaming Dawn The Lost God’s Mind Creation of the Weave and Veil Psionics born II Era of Light & Law Divine Order Gods impose structure Divine empires III Age of Crowns & Chains Mortal Ambition Veil Wars Psionic oppression IV Veilstorm Age Psionic Chaos Reality destabilized The Silver Chain reforms balance V Shattered Reach Era Fragile Balance Gods sleep, psions rise Current age VI The Coming Confluence Unknown Prophecy unfolding Fate of all minds

⚖️ Overview: A World of Two Economies The civilizations of Cael’Nara run on dual systems that reflect the twin forces of reality: The Material Economy (Weave-based) – tangible trade: goods, coin, crops, magic. The Psionic Economy (Veil-based) – intangible trade: secrets, memories, dreams, emotions. Every nation participates in both to varying degrees, even if one is outlawed or hidden. 🪙 Currencies of the Weave: Tangible Wealth The Standard Coinage System Most nations recognize the Imperial Standard, a coin system first minted in Vel Telar’s early expansion days and adopted across the Inner Continents. Coin Name Material Common Abbrev. Value Symbol Copper Drel Copper cp 1 ⚒ (hammer) Silver Sern Silver sp 10 cp 🌙 (crescent) Gold Lume Gold gp 10 sp ☀ (sunburst) Platinum Crown Platinum pp 10 gp 👑 (crown)

Adventurers in Society Adventurers walk a delicate line between legend and lawbreaker. Guild Recognition: Large cities license “Adventuring Companies” to operate legally—complete with taxes, contracts, and oversight. Many, however, operate freelance, skirting legality. Public View: To common folk, adventurers are both saviors and threats—capable of great miracles, but also collateral chaos. Nobility View: Nobles see adventurers as useful tools—or dangerous wild cards to control, bribe, or destroy. Religious View: Temples interpret adventurers as instruments of fate or heresy, depending on who benefits. In Vel Telar, the Guild of Shadows and the Silent Accord (a covert psionic order) quietly recruit adventurers like Kieran for missions that blur every moral line—espionage, retrieval, and assassination under the veil of “balance.” 🕯 Common Punishments Justice varies by city, but a few practices are near-universal: Branding: Marking criminals with runes or psionic seals visible only to lawkeepers. The Crystal Silence: A punishment for psionics—minds are sealed behind a psionic barrier, leaving them alive but unable to think freely. Indentured Service: Criminals are sold into labor, “earning” their freedom through years of toil. Trial by Thought: Among psionic enclaves, duels of the mind decide truth and guilt; loser forfeits memories or sanity.

I. The Shattered Ones Type: Aberrations / Psionic Abominations Origin: The Mind Wars, 800 years ago When the old empire of Veyrion experimented with weaponizing psionics, they tore open the Astral Veil, allowing entities of pure thought to merge with mortal flesh. The results were the Shattered Ones — beings whose minds fractured across dimensions. Traits: Their bodies flicker between forms; voices echo from unseen mouths. They can infect others with “mind-echo,” causing hallucinations and loss of identity. Some still wander the ruins of psionic battlegrounds, particularly beneath Vel Telar’s Undercity — hunted by both mages and mindhunters. Motivation: They seek “The Resonance,” a mythical psychic frequency that can merge all minds into one perfect consciousness — at the cost of individuality. Whispered Truth: Some say Seris Tharn once confronted a Shattered One and learned something from it... something she never told Kieran. II. The Order of the Dying Star Type: Cult / Villainous Organization Symbol: A violet star collapsing into itself (the same symbol on Kieran’s dagger) A secretive psionic cult that worships Entropy as Divinity — the belief that the universe is a dying thought, and all life must return to the silent void of the Mind Beyond. Leadership: High Seer Maleth Vorn — once an archmage of Etheryn, now a psionic lich who sees through a thousand astral eyes. The Starbound Choir — seers who speak in unison, their minds linked by psionic resonance. Doctrine: “When the last thought fades, the world will finally know peace.” Goal: To awaken the Final Mind, a cosmic intelligence sleeping beneath Elarion’s crust — believed to be the embryonic form of a dead god’s consciousness. Conflict with Kieran: The Dagger of the Withering Fang was forged from a fragment of this entity’s essence. The cult may seek it — or the mind that can wield it. III. The Dreamless Type: Undead / Psionically-Drained Souls Origin: Victims of psionic corruption or experimentation Where necromancy binds the flesh, the Dreamless bind thought. They are souls whose mental energy was stripped away, leaving their bodies wandering in a half-conscious state. Appearance: Their eyes glow faintly blue, and they repeat fragments of thoughts — prayers, regrets, screams — endlessly. Weakness: They crave memory. Touching a Dreamless drains your recollection, but feeding them a memory can pacify them temporarily. Rumor: Entire neighborhoods in the lower tunnels of Vel Telar are sealed off because of Dreamless infestations after a failed Mindhunt purge. IV. The Gilded Concord Type: Political Villains / Corrupt Ruling Class Base: Vel Telar The Auric Lords who govern Vel Telar claim legitimacy through trade and divine right, but their wealth is bought with blood, silence, and psionic exploitation. Key Figures: Lord Vethric Malanor, “The Golden Hand” — head of the Merchant Guild, who secretly funds illegal psionic experiments to create “mindbound” servants. Lady Istrielle Danath, “The Smiling Mask” — socialite and assassin, rumored to be centuries old through forbidden elixirs. Archivist Cendor Aul, a cleric who secretly sells memories extracted from psionic prisoners to the highest bidder. Their Goal: Control the psionically gifted through blackmail, magic seals, and manufactured fear — ensuring the poor never rise beyond servitude. V. The Astral Devourers Type: Planar Beasts / Eldritch Entities Origin: The Astral Rift Beings from beyond thought, the Astral Devourers feed not on flesh, but on concepts. A city attacked by one may survive — but all its citizens forget the meaning of “home” or “mercy.” Notable Devourer: Kha’ruun, the Thought That Hungers — an astral leviathan drifting near the Veil, worshiped by some as the progenitor of psionics itself. Fragments of Kha’ruun’s consciousness fall to the world as Thoughtspawn — shapeless horrors mimicking the memories of their victims. Legend: The first Psiknives, including Seris Tharn, were trained in ancient methods to fight such beings — but at terrible psychic cost. VI. The Crimson Archive Type: Secret Society of Wizards & Scholars Motto: “Knowledge is proof of dominion.” The Archive began as a library preserving arcane lore during the Cataclysm. Now it is a network of mage-lords who manipulate economies, governments, and even memories to maintain dominance over psionics. Goal: Suppress psionic research to ensure arcane supremacy. Method: They employ Memory Scribes to edit history, erasing records of psionic achievements. Current Leader: Archcurator Selvan Tair, who has declared psionics “an infection of the Weave.” Conflict: The Archive funds the Goldcloaks and Mindhunts of Vel Telar — meaning Kieran’s very existence is a crime against their doctrine. VII. The Echo Below Type: Ancient Entity / World-Ending Threat Location: Buried beneath the ruins of Veyrion Said to be the last remnant of the Psionic Cataclysm, a being of infinite mind trapped in infinite silence. Scholars call it The Echo Below — but the Order of the Dying Star calls it their god. Nature: It does not move or speak, but dreams. Its dreams shape the tides of psionic energy that ripple through Elarion. Every surge in psychic awakening, every flare of mental mutation, is a heartbeat from this buried consciousness. Prophecy: “When the Echo wakes, thought will eclipse flesh.” Kieran’s awakening may not be coincidence. His mentor’s disappearance, the dagger’s resonance, and his psionic growth could all trace back to The Echo Below stirring once again. VIII. Lesser Threats & Regional Menaces The Glass Wraiths: Spirits of psionic duelists whose minds were trapped in crystal prisons during the Mind Wars. The Umbral Syndicate: A thieves’ guild in Vel Telar using shadow-binding rituals to create living silhouettes as assassins. The Pale Chorus: A cult of undead bards who believe music can resurrect gods. The Iron Covenant: Mercenary zealots who hunt psionics to “purify” the soul. Dream-Eaters: Fey from the Twilight Veil who feed on mortal ambitions, leaving hollow wanderers in their wake.