Marble Archive
An archive of the world of Teneris: its exiled gods, its empire of marble and iron, and the lands the Desolation left behind.
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Every article here is drawn from the five Lands of Exile books and from the designers' actual-play and talk videos, and shows where each fact comes from: a page in a book, or a moment in a video. Footnotes say whether a fact was printed, said by the designers or happened at a table.
Good places to start: Teneris · The Empire · The Desolation · Alarath · Marble City · Clora Fastis
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The EmpireThe human realm at the heart of the Lands of Exile, an absolute monarchy heavily shaped by faith, ruled from Marble City by the unbroken line of the Red Eagle and divided into five provinces under their Sovereigns.- CaligranThe eastern of the two great continents of Teneris, mostly desert since the Desolation, whose habitable north holds the Lands of Exile, the refuge of the surviving races.
- CanarqueThe western of the two great continents of Teneris, a collection of fragmented lands discovered by an imperial expedition that returned in 289 AVD, and known to most imperial subjects as the New World.
- Da’fat FederationThe elven federation south of the Calinor-dal, founded in the Second Age by elven tribes who fled north after the Desolation; every surviving elven people lives there, and Lady Nemarin is its spiritual leader.
- FrazaThe harsh northern realm beyond the Empire's mountain passes, a land of monsters and relentless winter whose clans live free, honour strength and deed above blood, and esteem their seers and witches.
- Free PortsThe self-governing city-states of the free folk on the western coast, with Pupa, Pruva and Neptune the largest of them, where there is no king, little law, and powerful gangs thrive.
- TenerisThe ancient world in which the Lands of Exile lie, with two great continents, Caligran in the east and Canarque in the west, divided by the Great Western Sea and the vortex called the Eye of Aquaron.
BluelandsA large, densely populated imperial province of blue-leaved forests and fertile farmland along the Calinor-dal River, ruled by House Boldric and famous for its agriculture, timber and wine.
MortenoxThe great crater in which the city of Vansreik stands, and the name of the ancient city whose ruins and necropolis lie beneath it, reached through the Deep Pit and the tunnels of the Undercity.
Article of the day
AlarathThe god of war and justice, patriarch of the Exiled Pantheon and protector of the Empire, who prizes courage above mercy and whose paladins are said to serve him even beyond death.
In the archive
AlarathDeity
AmarathDeity
ApatheDeity
AquaronDeity
Archon AcademyOrganisation
Book of DeadSource
Clora FastisConcept
Desolation of TimeSource
Grand HourglassArtifact
Hellfire cannonArtifact
Today in Teneris
18 Nova (Winterwake)
No event or holiday in the archive falls in Nova yet.
Today's date on the Empire's calendar, by the site's own reckoning; see Clora Fastis
From the chronicle
- 1768 BVD War of the Immortal Mages
- 1203 BVD The Sanction
- 24 AVD Rise and Fall of the Usurper
- 151 AVD The Underdark Campaign
- 158 AVD The Necromancer's Gambit
- 212 AVD The Skolpa Scourge
- 261 AVD Hourglass Conspiracy
- 285 AVD Discovery of the New World