World Guide

The reference guides to the world of the saga: its cosmology and magic, creatures, peoples, places, houses, legends, languages and calendar.

  • Cosmology: The saga’s metaphysics: the World Tree, the three layers of power (gods, Forces and spirits), the Silent Pact and its unwinding.

  • Magic rules: The mechanics of the saga’s magic: who can use it, how a working is cast, what it costs and what it can never do.

  • Power systems: The saga’s framework of power: the schools of asked power, granted and bought power, the tiers of practitioners and bound objects.

  • Master chronology: The saga’s timeline from the age of legends to 1450: the historical record beside the saga’s hidden history.

  • Bestiary: The creatures, spirits and omens of the saga’s world, with their folk sources, dangers and wards.

  • The Iron Wolves: The sworn wolf-brotherhood of the Dykra: its origins, the Wolves’ Baptism, the Pack’s Word, ranks, weapons and fate.

  • Legends & songs: Folk legends and in-world texts: each tale as the collectors recorded it, and as the saga tells it.

  • Faiths & clergy: The Baltic religion, Orthodox Christianity and Catholicism in the Grand Duchy, and the saga’s overlay of clergy and Forces.

  • Geography: The realm in 1382: terrain, climate and nature, a gazetteer of places, and travel distances.

  • Peoples & cultures: The peoples, social order and daily life of the Grand Duchy around 1382.

  • Houses & lineages: Dynasties, cadet branches, great families and the Teutonic Order as an institution, with heraldry and genealogy.

  • Powers & politics: Factions, treaties and the political board of the Grand Duchy and its neighbours, 1377-1450.

  • Languages & naming: The languages of the Grand Duchy, how Lithuanian names are built, and the saga’s invented true names and incantation grammar.

  • Pronunciation guide: How every name and term in the saga is spoken, in Lithuanian and in English narration.

  • Calendar & festivals: How the year was counted in the 1380s: the old month names, the festival wheel, the saga’s magical zeniths and the Teutonic Order’s Christian calendar.