The Birth of the Solstice Watch

War kissed this broken chain of islands, scattered between Selenia and the lost continent of Morindus. The scar of battle still runs deep — jagged hulls jut from the shore like old sentinels, and there are places where shell and bone mix so thickly that you might see a skull and a conch lying in the same span of sand.   These islands once held strategic power, a narrow corridor between Selenia and Morindus, back when the Lady of the Green Coil ruled Morindus. Cloaked in serpents and sorcery, the Vythari and the Dae surrounded her — her chosen kin and creatures of her making.   She sought to conquer the mainland, to remake Selenia in her green-laced image. Under her rule, Morindus was bled dry. Its once-vibrant forests turned to dust, its rivers to silence.   But Selenia did not fall. Its people, fractured and feuding for generations, united in a final stand — a collective fury to push back the Lady and her monstrous court. The war was long. The seas ran black. But in time, they quelled her, silenced her serpents, and left Morindus in ruin. In the wake of war, the islands lay unclaimed — silent and scorched — until it was decided they must not remain so. Selenia, along with seafarers from the distant Isles of the Veil, formed a unified force they called the Solstice Watch.   They came with purpose, not conquest — carefully raising watchtowers, building a great lighthouse at the chain’s edge known as Veridan Point. From isle to isle, they lit signal fires, each a sentinel flame in the dark. The entire chain became a vigilant eye, always turned toward the hushed shores of Morindus.

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