Lore
The Veil
The boundary between ordinary existence and the supernatural. It is damaged, and things pass through.
The Veil is what keeps the world the way it looks. When the First Binding fractured, the Veil weakened with it.
What follows is not a single catastrophe. It is a slow leak:
- Magic seeps through ancient structures and ritual sites.
- People, animals and places take supernatural damage.
- Dangerous creatures appear in the wilderness.
- Old sites keep power their keepers no longer understand.
- Rituals outlive the reasons they were begun.
The world is a mask.
The villages, roads and kingdoms of Eclipsed Realms are real, and so are the ordinary people in them. But they sit on something older and not at rest.