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About the Saga

Before the birth of our Empire, those bound by conviction built their Realm and called their brothers and sisters into fellowship.

The leylines they found, and followed, to their spring of living light.

Each heart was heard, and here the covenant of dominion was struck with the Dawn.

But the Fount was not finished.

— Archival Committee of the Citadel Repository of Letters, CP 351

About the Author

Discovered tucked among recovered source documents. Believed to be the Chronicler's hand, though it bears no date. Whether he was aware it had been misplaced is not known.

— Archival Committee of the Citadel Repository of Letters
Third Day of the Tower, CP 791

They've asked me to write it down. The whole of it. The story of the High Council, the Realm, the children. And they want it unfiltered.

I thought of you immediately. You always said the day would come. Just like you always said to take good care of her.

I did my best, you know. For all the time we were given together.

Would you believe the snow has returned? Real snow, like in the stories.

I think it's time to begin.

I'll write something worth remembering. For you.

P.S. I should find somewhere safe to keep this. It would be just like me to lose it in the manuscript.

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A Note to the Visitor
Our Council is not a simple circle! While reading The Covenant of The Flowers, you may ask, 'To whom is the author referring here?' This chart of our real-world connections is thereby provided.
There are many other names and appearances in The Covenant of The Flowers. You must discover them yourself.

A Historical Atlas of the Known World

From the Charter of Ariyáhnà to our Current Age

The High Council Directorate & Allied Territories

Approximately seven years after the Charter of Ariyáhnà, prior to the Consolidation
NORTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA AFRICA EUROPE ASIA AUSTRALIA New Zealand Iceland Finland Australia Singapore Monaco Bahrain Ecuador Puerto Rico Taiwan Vietnam India Greece South Africa Kenya Thailand Spain United Kingdom Switzerland S. Korea Ariyáhnà Kifune Celeste (orbital) Sungarde Port Meridian N THE REALM High Council Directorate Est. 2008 AD — Dissolved 2016 AD
Allied power
Kifune protectorate
Key trading partner
Science partner
Subordinate city-state
Leylines
◎ Capital
“What began as scaffolds and firelight became cities and treaties, trade and innovation, peace imposed not by domination, but by charter.”
Plate I · Cartulary Section · Ref. HC/GEO-07

The Dawn Empire Under Imperator Dämmerung

Sixth Cycle of Paradise — Height of the Thirst of Historia, prior to the Flood
Citadel Testament (orbital) Sungarde Historia Port Meridian N THE DAWN EMPIRE Under Imperator Dämmerung Sixth Cycle of Paradise
Imperial territory
Drought zone
◎ Capital
“Scholars sympathetic to the usurping of the High Council Directorate often pair this infamous water shortage (the Writ of the Land) with the great plagues (the Writ of the Body) as a twin indictment of Dämmerung’s reign.”
Plate II · Imperial Cartographic Office · Ref. ICO/CP6-03

The Dawn Empire Under Imperator Dämmerung

Ninth Cycle of Paradise — After the Deluge of Historia
Citadel Testament (orbital) Sungarde Historia Port Meridian N THE DAWN EMPIRE Under Imperator Dämmerung Post-Flood — Ninth Cycle
Imperial territory
Drought zone
◎ Capital
“The drought ended not by seasonal reprieve, but in a single apocalyptic flood, of which Historia was the epicenter. While the catalyst for this deluge remains unknown, unsealed imperial correspondence asserts the likely presence of a True Scale in Historia on the day the flood began.”
Plate III · Imperial Cartographic Office · Ref. ICO/CP9-POST-01

The Dawn Empire, Second Reformation Era

Cycle of Paradise 890 — Second Reformation Era
ASHOKAN Free Confederacy NUSANTARA Republic MERIDIA Southern Alliance AOTERRA Pacific Commonwealth Citadel Testament (orbital) Sungarde Historia Port Meridian N THE DAWN EMPIRE Second Reformation Era Cycle of Paradise 890
Imperial territory
Sovereign state
◎ Capital
“Why did the Fount permit the rise of Dämmerung, only to undercut his empire with the children of his enemies? It is, I think, because the Fount does not deal in symmetry, but in equilibrium.”
Plate IV · Imperial Cartographic Office · Ref. ICO/CP890-R12
A Note to the Visitor
Our Council is not a simple circle! While reading The Covenant of The Flowers, you may ask, 'To whom is the author referring here?' This chart of our real-world connections is thereby provided.
There are many other names and appearances in The Covenant of The Flowers. You must discover them yourself.