Mentack
Lore Archive

The Ancient discipline is not an element at all — it is humanity's first seal knowledge, the foundation every card tradition is built on.

Magma is the element of buried heat — born in Kharuun after the Ember Rift tore the earth open in 318 KM.

Sound is the element of frequency and resonance — born in Elyndra after the Crystal Scream of 327 KM.

Cyber is the element of pattern and analysis — born in Virex after the Parallel Shard fell in 341 KM.

Storm is the element of motion and open sky — born in Auralis after the Sky Rift of 356 KM.

Aurel Voss (b. ~-83 KM) was among the first Card Masters and one of the minds who systematized the Ancient seal order.

Maelis Vorr (b. ~-41 KM) discovered that Syleth fibers could carry seal power — the discovery that made the first true card possible.

Kharven Drax (b. 294 KM) survived the Ember Rift and became one of the first masters to seal Magma power into a card.

Seryn Vael (b. 313 KM) survived the Crystal Scream and learned to control frequencies consciously — a founder of Sound mastery.

Orix Venn (b. 319 KM) survived the Parallel Shard event and laid the foundations of Cyber seal analysis.

A low-moving Void creature with limbs that refuse to be counted. Sound dies as it approaches.

A long-bodied, inhuman Void hunter that breaks its prey's sense of direction.

A creature that is mostly mouth and missing the rest — its presence drains endurance and will.

The dangerous remnant of creatures that returned from the Void. It cannot stay long in the real world — it does not need long.

The great power of the Void. When an Orvath is gravely wounded, a gate opens briefly — and one person may pass back into the world.

Dates are written in KM — the Card Era — counted from the year the first true card was made.

Everyone in this world is human. Lineages shape culture and affinity — they do not create separate species.

Raw magic was unstable and lethal; seals were invented to guide it, and cards made seal knowledge portable.

Cards are seal knowledge made portable — from the elementless Ancient Cards to the element cards born of catastrophe.

Owning a card is not the same as being able to use one — untrained use is weak, wasted, or dangerous.

For three hundred years, every card was the same kind of card. Then the world broke seven times — and the survivors began sealing what the breaking had left inside them.

Before the Void took his name, Kaelen Vyr was a laughing child. This is the story of the Ache, the fire, the lynch mob — and the first child ever cast through the gate.

Blinded by the Crystal Scream, Mireth Sol stayed with the crystals for eighty years — until the night looters came, and the crystals wept for her.

Draven Oris was seventeen when the Ember Rift split the world open. He walked out of the fire unburned, holding a cold stone — and a sentence that would price everything.

The age when humanity tried to wield raw magic directly — and paid for every attempt (-1200 to -710 KM).

Around -710 KM, humanity learned to guide raw magic through symbols instead of wrestling it barehanded.

In 0 KM the first true card was made from Syleth paper — the year the calendar itself begins.

The age when card production matured and the elementless Ancient Cards spread through the world (0–214 KM).

The century of seven great disasters that gave birth to the elements (318–421 KM).

Deals damage to a target. Deals bonus damage if the target is burning.

Grants a shield to yourself or an ally.

Deals damage to all enemies and applies burning.

Deals damage and weakens the target. If the target is already burning, the weakness effect hits deeper.

Grants the bearer a shield. While the shield holds, burning damage is absorbed by it instead.

The known world is a single great continent ringed by wide seas, island chains, and dangerous trade routes.

Velora is a mixed crossroad settlement where different lineages live side by side under a strict in-city card ban.

Kharuun is the scarred homeland of the Magma Lineage, where the Ember Rift of 318 KM split the earth open.

Elyndra is the crystal-grown region of the Echo-Bound, where the Crystal Scream of 327 KM turned song into catastrophe.

Virex is the glitch-scarred region where the Parallel Shard fell in 341 KM, birthplace of the Cybers.

The Magma Lineage of Kharuun carries the buried heat of the Ember Rift — patient, enduring, and bound by the spoken word.

The Echo-Bound of Elyndra treat the word as sacred and hear the world more sharply than they see it.

The Cybers of Virex read the world as a system — marked forever by the Parallel Shard's brief touch of another reality.

The Stormblood of Auralis live for motion — travel, speed, and the reading of winds are their inheritance.

The Soulbound of Veran keep the names of the dead alive — memory is their element as much as Soul is.

The Void Hunters track what leaks out of the Void and close what lets it leak.

The Card Masters Council is the old authority over card production, master training, seal standards, and forbidden cards.

The Crossroad Guardians keep order in mixed settlements — enforcing card bans, policing markets, and standing between lineages.

The Void Cult is a dangerous movement that worships the Void and preys on the outcasts society creates.

The Shard Researchers are the scientific and mystic order devoted to solving the Parallel Shard.

KM — the Card Era. Year 0 is the year the first true card was made; negative dates come before it.

People with no natural elemental affinity — the majority of society.

A certified master of card craft — production, activation, and seal knowledge.

A specialist who tracks Void creatures and seals Void leaks.

The historical period since the first true card was made in 0 KM.

Premium fleece blanket bearing the Eclipse Court sigil of the Void Hunter Veyros Cal.

Premium fleece blanket honoring Vaera Nox and the remembered dead of the Soul Valley.

Premium fleece blanket printed with Orix Venn's parallel-shard research notation.

Premium fleece blanket wrapped in the veil-work of the Void Cult recruiter Seran Null.

Premium fleece blanket charting all seven catastrophe-born elements in a single seal circle.