Book 6
Shores of Eternity
Returning People
36Thalena Xenith is a mage whose life spans millennia and the former archon of Space and Time in Chronasis, Thalassai. Born Helena Hyperion, the daughter of Ozaith and Aurelia, she also bec...
Eira Caedris is a scholar and mage from Irrathis, the daughter of Deylin and Ilyra and the partner of Kaelion. She formerly wielded the Spiral Shard and Hrzai's shard. As Aruviel, she wor...
Xarion Morvayne, also known as Thalion Zenith and Xarion Starforger, is the founder of the Order of Thalion Zenith and the leader of the Valrindor Council. He formerly served as high arbi...
Cassian Ironvale is the archon of Chronasis in Thalassai and the son of Hrzai and Orin. He is a divine and resonance mage whose balance magic can unmake essence and sever a god's connecti...
Kaelion Saeryth is a sun and temporal mage from Soltheris, a member of the Council and Eira's partner. He formerly advised Aurion and wielded Xoh’Tenol's sun shard. His parents are Isrynn...
Maric was a member of Teryndal's Assembly and an advisor to Xarion. A water mage, he became the wielder of his best friend Renneth's lava shard. He died when Myrelia's essence bomb detona...
Eliona is a temporal mage and former guardian of Shaoying in the Malverand Empire. She restored Raphael and Azarion from their Malverand hearts and served Raphael in Rahmavir. After surre...
Raphael was one of the Guardians of Malverand, an ice and divine mage who served Barachiel and later sought to restore the empire under his own rule. After his first death and restoration...
Azarion is an air and divine mage, a former commander of the Malverand Empire and the son of Eremion. He later fought for Raphael and became Gabriel's wielder. After turning against Gabri...
Renneth Pryar is the Xalmyrran Council mage representing Teryndal and the fire and earth god formerly known as Kharvos and Pyragos. He grew up among the Adventurers' Guild without memorie...
Isandro is the emperor of the Malverand Intergalactic Empire, ruling from Maraveth. Born on Earth as Isaac, he became Helena Hyperion's pupil and lover before accompanying her to Valrindo...
Gabriel was a god of snow and ice allied with Raphael and the effort to rebuild the Malverand Empire. He empowered Raphael through an ice shard, strengthened other mages through crystals...
Hyperion, formerly known as Ozaith, is the god of Thalassai and the father of Thalena. He came from another Valrindor and ruled Ulzathir after crossing into this world. He became Xarion's...
Zain was a son of Ozaith and ruler of Ulzathir, governing from Ishtanûr. After commanding Ulzathir's forces in the invasion of Thalassai, he seized his father's throne and became the wiel...
Jin Leiyun is an elementalist from Thundermarch and a member of the Order of Thalion Zenith. He was the wielder of Tianlei and traveled under the names Draven Skyforge and John the Elemen...
Garrik is the leader of the Kaldaryn Protectorate, a divine and earth mage, and a member of the Order of Thalion Zenith. Born to Lucilla and Nero, he was adopted as King George's heir in...
Virel Tessaro is the wielder of Nahm and a mage of Haverloch. Trained by Isaac and chosen through the Symmetry Trials, he represents his country abroad, plans military operations and stud...
Amos is an atraxi scientist from Atraxis Prime Alpha. He helped build the gates and essence machinery used by Jorhan's survivors in Valrindor and later became a brain scientist in the Mal...
Aldar Rehn was an ice mage from Aemrith and the former head of the Xalmyrran Council. Known as the Bastion of the Frostlands and Guardian of Xalmyrra, he was already a level eight mage be...
Xoh’Tenol is the former Sun God of Thalcoris and Kaelion’s former divine patron. She now lives in Chronasis as a human woman and retains her sun magic.
Rafe is the overseer of Maraveth and an advisor to Emperor Isandro in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire. He is immortal, with a body remade through the empire's technology.
Zayren is a Tenari mage from Thalcoris and a member of the Order of Thalion Zenith. Also known as Zero, he served Thalion in the ancient past before returning to Valrindor.
Aelius is an imperator of the Thalassai Legions and Thalassai's representative on the Valrindor Council. He is Thalena's adopted son and Zephyra's brother. Under the name Ignatius, he ser...
Nahm is the patron god of Haverloch, whose worship centers on symmetry and perfection. Virel carries his shard and represents him in the Axial Concord.
Brynor, formerly known as Belanor, is an earth mage of Xalmyrra and Aldar's successor as head of the Xalmyrran Council. Eira revived him from an atraxi body with Barachiel's Malverand hea...
Eamon is a researcher and one of Isandro's closest advisors in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire. He helped develop the Maraveth Core and studies the connection between the two Valrindor...
Jareth is an atraxi scientist who leads the Nexus Research Center with Cyrena. He worked with Amos under Jorhan before joining Thalena in Chronasis. He developed gate activators, designed...
Abraxas was the Keeper of Prophecies of the Oracles of Eternity and guardian of the source beneath Zarephon. Known as the Dark Lord and King of Eternity, he was a construct built in the M...
Khauren is an ancient god created in Malverand, formerly wielded by Eremion. After Eremion's death, he made a pact with Zain, who presented him to Ulzathir as a new Ozaith. Khauren sought...
Isandriel, also known as Isaac and the Unmaker, was a guardian of the Malverand Empire and later the leader of the Order of Thalion Zenith. Barachiel created him to end the guardians if t...
Splin is Kaelion's companion, a female giant cuddly frog from Erenmyr who can take an astragon form. She carries travelers, protects allies and remains closely bonded to Kaelion.
Tianlei is the former storm god of Thundermarch, now living as a human after losing his connection to the God Realm. He was the god bound to Jin Leiyun and, during the guardian wars, to T...
Vianna Kairo is a diarch of Morozkaya, ruling from Kyranthos alongside Radomir. Born in Brighthaven, she became Pyrathalor's wielder after her brother betrayed her and found a home among...
Oktlix, also called the Data Scar, is an entity confined within The Void. It seeks a physical existence beyond the void.
Hrzai was the first divine mage and a god created by Arcanis. She guarded Xalmyrra, lived among its people as Xelthys, and worked with Thalena to end Jorhan's cycles. She was Cassian's mo...
Aurion, titled Herald of the Stars, was the king of Soltheris and a level nine cosmic mage. He commissioned Thalvian to build the orreries, defended Soltheris against the Land of Darkness...
New People
41Alistair is a temporal and cosmic mage who founded Alistair's Network in Brighthaven. He worked with Oktlix, Raphael, and Gabriel while seeking power against the gods. After stripping sev...
Nero is a water and earth mage from Pelagia in Theryssa. He is Garrik's father and the former wielder of Nerissa's wave shard. After fighting in the invasion of Xalmyrra, he recovered the...
Nerissa was the goddess of Theryssa and Thiravos, with power over water and earth. She was among the first gods created in Malverand, the mother of Lucilla, and the grandmother of Garrik....
Lucilla is the head consul of Theryssa, based in Pelagia. A daughter of Nerissa and Isaac, she is about six centuries old and the mother of Garrik. She opposed Nerissa's alliance with Gab...
Mike is a medic and researcher in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire, known as Medic Mike of Maraveth. He helped Isandro and Helena Hyperion develop the early Maraveth core and specialize...
Ravira is one of Rahmavir's chosen leaders, based in Halvarim, and among the nation's strongest origin mages.
Zorath was one of Halvarim's leading chosen and a commander of Rahmavir's coalition against the Order of Thalion Zenith. He grew up under Raphael's care and remained loyal to him.
Severin is a mage from Avalon in Lumeria who advises Regent Bernard. He formerly served among Rahmavir's chosen leaders and worked closely with Alistair, known there as Alice.
Lothar is an ancient mage known as the first elementalist and Emperor Lothar the First of Lumeria. He taught elemental magic to early humanity and founded nations and councils in both Val...
Myrelia was a princess of Myrravel and the sister of Myrdon. She fought alongside Raphael's allies and received a crystal from Gabriel. She died when the crystal's power turned her into a...
Doss is a temporal mage among the chosen of Rahmavir and an agent of Alistair. The name is inherited within his network.
Brontes is the head consul of Thiravos and a lightning mage. Before his election, he operated the gate at Pelagos.
Soria was an origin mage among Rahmavir's chosen. She scouted for Raphael and opposed the Order of Thalion Zenith. She disappeared after fighting Xarion in the Plains of Eternity.
Emilia is a researcher in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire and Rafe's wife. She helped develop the Maraveth Core and retained her original brain when her body was remade.
Kalyx was the head consul of Thiravos, based at the Pelagos Consulate. He was a lightning mage and one of Nero's surviving old friends.
Torukhan is the khagan of Serekhai. He allied his nation with Rahmavir and Raphael against the returned Order of Thalion Zenith, but questioned the growing cost of their war.
Damarra is Brontes's advisor in Thiravos.
Kjeldan was one of Rahmavir's chosen and a commander in Raphael's coalition. He led the defense of Omberion against Garrik's army and later fought the Order outside Cyndarel.
Leonora is the young daughter of Thalena and Xarion. She lives in Chronasis, where Thalena and Cassian care for her.
Arashiiwa is the clan leader of Hanamizu in Shanari. He is an older man with a white beard and wears white robes.
Boss was an origin mage working for Alistair. His magic erupted unpredictably and violently.
Bernard is the regent of Lumeria.
In Thalena's Shores of Eternity , Harald was the king of Ithyreon. He was tall, with thick unkempt hair, a beard and broad shoulders, and wore a heavy coat.
Leif is the king of Skarnheim and the son of Sigurd. He uses Temporal Magic to shield his forces.
Vincent is the regent of Jazarel. He wears deep purple robes with golden embroidery, like the city's other officials.
Tamara is a researcher and imperial official in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire. She joined Helena and Isandro's team in developing the Maraveth Core.
Myrdon was a prince of Myrravel and Myrelia's brother. He joined Azarion's expedition against the Order of Thalion Zenith with some of Myrravel's strongest mages. Kaelion killed him durin...
Loria is the first elementalist, a woman with brown hair of medium length. Jin Leiyun, Thalia and Tianlei brought her to Chronasis, where Jin introduced her to Thalena. Thalena recognized...
Thalion was the son of Helena Hyperion and Xarion. Helena raised and taught him in a small village in the Valrindor of the Malverand Intergalactic Empire. He died as a young man after she...
Aaron is a researcher of suns in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire. He and Terry helped Eamon examine the sun core that Thalena brought to the empire.
Aldric is a young man who came to the Valrindor Council with Mirael and wished to become the guardian of Xalmyrra. He has a broad build, white hair and a matching beard, and wears a frost...
Barry is an overseer in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire. Rafe contacted Barry when Isandro ordered Alecton and Draxil to keep their shields at maximum during Kaelion's attack on the Sp...
Calvin is an overseer of a city on Meridian in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire.
Irina is a city overseer on Meridian in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire.
Jeremy is the head of Alecton's planetary authority in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire. He has brown hair and silver gray eyes. He greeted Eira, Kaelion and Xarion during their parade...
Kate is an advisor who leads the Meridian planetary authority in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire. Isandro conducted business with her. Rafe later visited the Hyperion system to speak w...
Myrella is the queen of Myrravel. She attended the Valrindor Council in Melandor, where she sat beside Bernard of Lumeria.
Naomi is the overseer of Novaris on Meridian, in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire.
Reginald represents Calthorpe at the Valrindor Council in Melandor. His nation is interested in the council's projects, particularly improvements to its ocean trade routes.
Terry is a sun researcher in Maraveth, in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire. Isandro authorized him and Aaron to enter the core chamber while Eamon studied the solar core Thalena had bro...
Zara is a city overseer on Meridian, the main planet of the Hyperion System in the Hyperion Spiral, within the Malverand Intergalactic Empire.
New Nations & Realms
16Ithyreon is a neutral mountain nation in Valrindor, north of Tharendur and west of Vashunai. Harald rules as king. Its mountainous terrain and the nearby Plains of Eternity hinder travel...
Shanari is an island nation north of Thundermarch, near Thiravos and Theryssa. Its capital is Hanamizu. The ocean separating Shanari from mainland Valrindor makes journeys between them di...
Alecton is the main planet of the Proxion system, within the Hyperion Spiral, and belongs to the Malverand Intergalactic Empire. It has deep blue oceans and thin, winding green continents...
Serekhai is a nation of steppelands in northern Valrindor, far north of Rahmavir. Its capital, Orukhad, stands on massive wheels. The city moves across the steppes when local resources ar...
Vespera is a planet in the Hyperion system, in the Hyperion Spiral. A green haze covers its surface, reflecting the light of the orange and red sun Hyperion as yellow and green. Its atmos...
Draxil is a foggy cyan blue mining planet in Proxion system, controlled by the Malverand Intergalactic Empire. It holds the empire's richest Kytherite deposits, with several large station...
Mandora is the main world of the Argylon system and the capital world of the Spiral Mandate in the Hyperion Spiral. It has a gray and silver sheen from space, with orbital stations surrou...
Argylon is the home star system of the Spiral Mandate, within the Hyperion Spiral. Mandora is its main world and the Mandate's capital. The system lies mostly north of Valrindor, slightly...
Velisara is a nation on Valrindor.
Delmora is a nation on Valrindor, along the route a Thalassai windweaver followed through Velisara to Lumeria while carrying an invitation to the Valrindor Council.
Vashunai is a nation in northeastern Valrindor, east of Ithyreon.
The Amalthea system is one of the star systems controlled by the Malverand Intergalactic Empire in the Hyperion Spiral. It shares its name with Amalthea, one of Ozaith's children.
The Valdrenor Empire was a prosperous nation in central Valrindor, in the territory now held by Kaldaryn. It existed sometime between years 3500 and 4000.
Callisto is a star system in the Hyperion Spiral. It is one of the seven major systems fully controlled by the Malverand Intergalactic Empire.
Carvano is a distant nation on Valrindor. It was invited to the first Valrindor Council meeting.
The Oberon system is a star system in the Hyperion Spiral, fully controlled by the Malverand Intergalactic Empire.
New Places
16Cyndarel is a city in central Valrindor, near Morindel, beside Cyndarel Lake. It was damaged during the Battle for Cyndarel.
Melandor is a city state in central Valrindor, near Kaldaryn and Morindel. It serves as the neutral meeting place of the Valrindor Council. Its streets have rosewood trees, open gardens a...
Pelagia is the coastal capital of Theryssa on Valrindor.
Pelagos is the coastal capital of Thiravos on Valrindor.
Novaris is a city on Meridian and the Malverand Intergalactic Empire’s capital for the Hyperion system and surrounding territory. Dusty yellow soil surrounds the city, whose cyan gray bui...
Hanamizu is the coastal capital of Shanari, an island north of Thundermarch. Its painted timber buildings stand a few stories tall beneath red and black roofs. Essence lanterns light the...
Therendros is a destroyed city state on Valrindor, near the Calthorpe Ocean. It was a sprawling city of commerce centered on fishing and maritime development, with carved wooden buildings...
Caldora is a city on Alecton, in the Proxion system of the Hyperion Spiral. It belongs to the Malverand Intergalactic Empire.
Tharran is the capital of Tharendur, on Valrindor. A river descends from mountains far to the north and flows beside the city, with a waterfall farther upstream.
Calaris is a harbor city in northern Calthorpe, on Valrindor. Its cobbled streets pass between buildings built mostly of white bricks. Sturdy wooden bridges connect parts of the harbor, w...
Kharad is the capital and largest city of Ithyreon in Valrindor. Harald rules from the city, which lies within a mountain amid snowy peaks. Rivers cascade through the surrounding valley t...
Avalon is the capital of Lumeria, near the Lumerian Bay. Regent Bernard and his advisors govern from the regents' palace, whose rounded blue domes have silver spires. The city's main prom...
Chimalya is a place on Valrindor. The route Thalena planned for Jin's expedition ran west of Chimalya after Thiravos, before continuing into the unknown lands.
Corandel is a city state on Valrindor. Jin passed above it while traveling toward Kyranthos.
Orukhad is the mobile capital of Serekhai, in the steppes far north of Rahmavir. Mounted on massive wheels, the city moves when local resources are exhausted and returns after the land ha...
Valendros is a city in Valrindor. Alistair visited it while searching history books for surviving accounts of the fallen Malverand Empire.
New Organizations
4The Valrindor Council is an international body founded by Xarion to bring Valrindor's nations together for diplomacy and joint responses to threats. It meets in the neutral city state of...
The Spiral Mandate is a human interstellar power in the Hyperion Spiral. Its capital is Mandora in the Argylon system, and it controls several worlds. Its fleets use stealth technology th...
Alistair's Network is the intelligence and infiltration organization founded by Alistair in Brighthaven. It trained mages to spy on foreign powers and investigate the gods, while conceali...
The Sepulcher Crown is a faction with little human resemblance. Its black pyramids and illuminated buildings resembling ship facilities give its architecture an alien, almost religious ap...
New Lore
16Origin magic is a form of magic distinct from the ordinary schools of essence. It includes unusual senses, inherited abilities and spells that use particles with different properties from...
The Maraveth Core is the central control system of the Malverand Intergalactic Empire, housed beneath Isandro's Palace in Maraveth. Its large, undulating red sphere sits within several la...
Nerissa's Invasion of Xalmyrra was an attack on Erenmyr by forces from Theryssa, Thiravos and their neighboring island nations, led by Nerissa with Gabriel's support. The invasion failed...
The battle west of Tharendur was an attack on Eira, Kaelion, Xarion, Marcellus, and Kazehiro as they traveled toward the source. Azarion and the mages sent to intercept them were defeated...
The Solvarria and Pyrenis Campaign was a conflict between Thalassai and Ulzathir. Thalassai first occupied Solvarria by surprise. Zain retaliated against Pyrenis to draw Thalassai’s stron...
The Battle for Cyndarel was the siege and fighting around Cyndarel between Garrik's allied army and Raphael's faction. Raphael was defeated, but both sides suffered heavy losses, and Azar...
The Siege of Rimvold was Ulzathir’s occupation of Skarnheim’s capital and the allied campaign to recover it. Zain, Gabriel and Ishqari held the city against Virel’s forces. The allies wit...
The Siege of Omberion was Garrik’s assault on Blackcrag’s capital during his advance from Maraveth. Blackcrag’s defenders and Rahmavir’s chosen repelled the attack by detonating skyships...
The Attack on Ishtanur was an allied assault led by Simon and Aelius against Zain's capital in Ulzathir. The attackers failed to seize Ishtanur and withdrew after astragons warned them of...
The Attack on Kaldaryn was an attempt by Azarion and Eliona to kill Kaelion after the ancient Order of Thalion Zenith returned to Valrindor. Their strike devastated part of Kaldaryn City...
A sun core, also called a solar core, is a dense orb of sunlight found inside Kaelion’s body. Thalena removed his core for study, while an identical orb remains where Xoh’Tenol’s heart wo...
The Three Obelisks are ancient sets of three towering pillars arranged around a marked platform. Sets exist on several worlds, including one beneath Novaris on Meridian and another beneat...
Kytherite, also called Kytheron 4A7, is an energy material used as fuel in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire's warp drive technology. Meridian in the Hyperion system supplies it, while D...
Quasicrystals are crystal structures with ordered patterns that do not repeat. They are found in Thalena's star shard and Nahm's geometric shard, which Virel wields.
The Reflective Nanite Defense System is a defense technology of the Malverand Intergalactic Empire, explored as a possible counter to the Spiral Mandate. Its devices can be assigned to de...
Shores of Eternity is the sixth and largest volume of the books Thalena writes with Jin. Originally titled Beneath the Veil , it records their journeys and lives, drawing on accounts from...