A dark age between collapse and connection
After the fall of Kharos, the system entered a long and uncertain age. With no shared calendar or central authority, records fractured, alliances faded, and knowledge of the Ember Age was scattered: lost in vaults, buried in ruins, or deliberately erased. Worlds turned inward. Arcane relics were feared, fought over, or forgotten. Trade resumed slowly, but trust remained fragile. Even the skies, once active with spelljammers, fell quiet.
On Talereth, this isolation ran deepest. Though it would become the system’s most populous world, it spent generations disconnected. Spelljammers became stories. The wider system, a myth.
From this age of drift, a coalition of stargazers, scholars, and mediators began quietly reconnecting the system. Based on the ocean world of Yenai, they became the Veilwatch Concord, a stabilizing force devoted to knowledge, diplomacy, and shared purpose.