Crown

Lucidia Kingdom

A continental monarchy seeking unity, taxes, and enough legitimacy to keep calling itself necessary.

Arcane Rule

Obsidian Throne

An autocracy that believes magic must be catalogued and controlled before it kills everyone again.

Maritime Law

Saltspire Compact

Port authority, harbour passage, salvage transit, bonded pilots, and fees with sharp teeth.

Threat

Iron Pact

Supremacists who blame dragonkin and the war's legacy for the continent's suffering.

Sanctuary

Concord of Ash and Scale

A network defending dragonkin and preserving artefact sites from exploitation or destruction.

Contracts

Brass Veil

A trade cabal that makes impossible deals possible, and collects in ways critics advise reading twice.

Resistance

Chainbreakers

Freedom fighters who dismantle coercive power through safehouses, sabotage, and chalk signs.

Bureaucracy

Concord Archive

An arcane institution that licenses, audits, and neutralises dangerous magic for the public good.

Quarantine

Shardcallers

Isolationists who seal artefact sites and hoard ley crystals to prevent a larger catastrophe.