Jonathan J Holmes · The Holmes Universe
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Research Notes
This page is for the readers who like to know how a world was built.
Why three moons and not one. Why an eight-day week. Why the empire has five Solarchies instead of three or seven. Why one loaf of bread costs ten Bits. Why the sky of Aevrya gives light without a sun.
The answers belong to the people who built this world. Those notes are still being written. They will appear on this page in time.
While the notes take shape, The Hollow Rite is on its way.
The rest of the codex
The Map of Aevrya
The country, its cities, its ruined edges. Orvallis at its centre.
The Laws of Magic
The two laws that govern every working in Aevrya.
The Dragon Tongue
An old language carried in fragments. A reader's primer.
The Cosmological Index
The moons, the falling stars, the long calendar of Aevrya.
The Financial Codex
How the levy, the coin and the Crown's ledger move across the empire.
Military Structure
The Spears of Light. The empire's army. And the older guardians it does not name.
Artifacts
Crests, seals, scripts. The objects the books name.