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Lore of The Black Season of Vorgath

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The Broken Seasons of VorgathThe old solar calendar collapsed when the sun died. Four broken seasons now partition the year — each an epoch of suffering measured not in months but in how many of your kin are still breathing when it ends.

Currency1

Coinage of the Black SeasonGold Suns (pre-Dimming gold, increasingly rare), Silver Shards (the everyday trading coin), and Copper Slag (crude discs minted by the Union). The Compact backs its coinage with hearth-coal, making warmth itself the gold standard.

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The Whisper Beneath the IceA presence — not dead, not alive — embedded in the deep ice of the Frostreach Tundra. It predates the kingdom, and it has been stirring since the sun died. Those who hear it say it whispers in their own voice.

Deity1

The SuncrestsThe old gods of Vorgath — solar deities whose worship centered on light, warmth, and the turning of honest seasons. Their temples stand cold and empty; their names are spoken now only in curses and forgotten prayers.

Historical events3

The First Black DawnThe morning the sun died — remembered in song and scar across Vorgath. Those who witnessed it speak of a sound like the sky cracking, though no two witnesses agree on what it sounded like.The Great DimmingThirty-one years ago, the sun rose dim and orange, set, and never returned — plunging Vorgath into eternal night. No one knows why; the sky is now a lid of grey cloud through which no star or moon shows.The Sun-King's MarchThe last king of Vorgath marched a thousand soldiers into the Frostreach Tundra to find the cause of the Dimming. None returned. The lords who defied his final order formed the Hearthward Compact and seized the empty throne.

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The Grey Thaw WallowsA section of the Ashen Mire where the seasonal thaw exposes battlefields, sunken villages, and mass graves — releasing drowned soldiers, old relics, and the angry dead of the Battle of Greyfork into the thaw-mud.

Legal system1

The Hearth TitheThe Compact's system of feudal extortion: every village pays quarterly tithes of food, labor, and material in exchange for hearth-fires that keep the dead away. Fall behind on payment, and the fires are allowed to dim.