Approximately seven years after the Charter of Ariyáhnà, prior to the Consolidation
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
Ninth Cycle of Paradise — Height of the Thirst of Historia, prior to the Flood
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/CP9-03
The Dawn Empire Under Imperator Dämmerung
Ninth Cycle of Paradise — After the Deluge of Historia
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
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