The Age of Recovery

For nearly three millennia, the world slowly healed. Civilisations rose from the ashes with a profound wariness of magic. Two powers grew to dominate the known world: Kalismor, built on the ruins of ancient Tulimsur, and Kodaisdain, founded by survivors and refugees of fallen kingdoms.

Kalismor and Kodaisdain formed the Golden Accord, a treaty of mutual defence and shared responsibility for the Mana Stones that became the cornerstone of civilisation. Its core pillars were mutual defence against external threats, regulated use of Mana Stones so no single power could weaponise them, protection of smaller kingdoms from conquest, and shared trade routes with cultural exchange.

Despite holding the Mana Stones, magic itself remained largely forbidden. Only royal houses and appointed guardians could access them. The memory of the First Great War, carried in songs, cautionary tales, and buried ruins, kept the fear of magic alive across every generation. It was a fragile peace. Like all fragile things, it would not last forever.