Belierin

Notable Locations

Rubicon

Last guardinal outpost, a lighthouse-fort and waystation for rescue fleets and oath courts.  

Cairn-Keys

Low stone mounds that chime in mist, part waymarker, part early warning for ward ruptures.  

Fallow Groves

Rotating orchard districts where disputes are settled by song alone.  

Sealed Fens

Nameless reaches where the fog thickens, sound carries oddly, and even predators keep to the banks.  

Travel and Access

Okaynus High Road

Calm braids act as planar lanes; pilot-poled ferries run to Eroniaand Amoria.  

Overthreads

Quiet caverns and willow arches slip travelers to sister districts in Eronia or Amoria; return by a different seam.

Prison Weave

Unmarked exits are sealed; only Oceanus and sanctioned gates pass the ward-rings.  

Inhabitants

Guardinals and Allies

Leonals, avorals, and ursinals patrol channels; lillends keep song-law; agathions ferry the lost.  

Petitioners of the Reed

River folk, healers, wardens, and orchard-keepers reborn with steady breath and low-light eyes; they mend trails, keep guest-right, and tend migration and watering-rights.  

Good-hearted Fey

Naiads, brume-dryads, and moon sprites guide without gouging and prize consent and clean departures.  

Rumored Prisoners

Beyond the legendary First Hydra, tales whisper of other bound threat, an Archdevil, a Demon Lord, a black wyrm of renown, an archomental, even a wounded god, kept inert by the Weave and Okyanus' blessing.

Luminous Mist

Fog glows softly; every flame or lantern wears a halo that carries farther than sight.  

Witness Mist

In brume or spray, kindly truth carries; spiteful falsehood clots on the tongue and will not travel.  

Peace of Elysium

Open violence dulls as blades feel heavy, voices soften; those who choose parley find doors (and hearts) opening.  

Kindling Bloom

Fires born of malice unfurl into drifting flower-ash at the border; hearths and cleansing burns keep their spark.  

Wildway Drift

Paths slide to shield nests, dens, nurseries; cruel pursuits take long reasonable detours until the lesson lands.  

Hydra Wake

A distant surge, the reeds bowing all one way; moments later, all channels fall eerily still.  

Divination Muffle

Beyond the ridge-lights, scrying and far-seeing blur unless tied to mercy, rescue, or ward-work.  

River’s Favor

Water walk, control water, find the path, and purpose-keyed teleports/way-walks navigate braids with uncanny precision.  

Mercy’s Preference

Healing, restoration, remove disease/curse, atonement, communal protections last a little longer or reach a little farther; Evil spells/magic, fear, domination, enslavement, and soul-harm magics strain or quietly fail.  

Performative Casting

Singing, annotating, mapping, planting, or telling a truthful tale while working magic steadies the mind; benign effects read as part of the rite.  

Oathcraft

Sending, tongues, protections, courage-chants tied to a sworn work linger and carry farther near their living mark.  

Undeath Refused

Necromancy that harms life falters; rites that lay the dead to rest take gentle hold.  

Wardbound Travel

Teleportation that would cross the Prison Weave misfires unless keyed to sanctioned rescue or sworn ward duty.

In ancient times, the guardinals encountered a legendary hydra in one of their quests, thought to be the mythical unique individual that spawned all other hydras. Unable to defeat it, the guardinals used a teleport spell to move the hydra to Belierin, after which they closed all portals that led out of the layer and sealed it off from divination magic. This effectively turned the layer into an infinite cage, from which the only exit was the Oceanus itself, whose blessed waters the hydra could not touch.