The First Binding
Long ago, six blood anchors were joined into a prison for something that could not be destroyed. The prison failed.
Before there were kingdoms, someone faced a power that could not be destroyed. They chose to contain it.
The method was the First Binding: six blood anchors, joined across the land into a single structure of containment. Locations, ritual sacrifice, blood and supernatural force were bound together into a prison.
For a time it held. Then it fractured.
The geometry of the Binding remains in the world, set in stone and earth. Its purpose does not. Where it once held, it now leaks.
Six anchors laid on the floor in blood. Open your eyes.
What is not said
What the Binding held is not told in public, and not recorded here. Every faction has a theory. Most are wrong. The game will not give a name where the world does not have one.
The Binding is the reason the realm is as it is: the Veil weakened, ancient places that still hold power, rituals whose meaning has been lost, and a long line of people each believing they know what the pieces are for.