Flamebound: Rise of the Cursed Prince

(The World Codex of Flamebound: Rise of the Cursed Prince*)*

> "Fire may forget who lit it… but the world never forgets what it burned."

— from The Speaking Ash, a banned Skyborn manuscript from Ezthalum

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🗺️ I. The Three Continents of Aereth Kael

🔱 Velkarin – The Ash of Truth

The political heart of the world. Kingdoms built on cracked crowns and burned oaths. Home of Maro, and birthplace of the cursed prince, Aaron Hotveil.

Terrain: Shadowed mountains, mist-fed rivers, haunted ruins.

Symbol: 👑🔥 A broken crown with rising blue flame

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🔥 Ezthalum – The Womb of Forgotten Flame

The ancestral homeland of the Skyborn. A land of forbidden temples, blue fire altars, and memory spirits that whisper through ash and stone.

Terrain: Ash jungles, cratered valleys, fire-scarred mountains

Symbol: 👁️🔥 A closed eye surrounded by flame

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⚔️ Tharethuun – The Iron of Silence

The continent of cold steel and colder hearts. Here, truth is a heresy, and speech is regulated by blood.

Terrain: Subterranean cities, icy wastes, blackened forges

Symbol: 🗡️🌹 An iron thorn bursting from a closed mouth

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🔥 II. Fire and Memory: The Sacred Flame

In Aereth Kael, fire is not just destruction — it is memory.

Flame Type Meaning

Blue Flame Truth-bearing. Only the Flamebound can wield it. It remembers.

Red Flame Artificial, corrupted. Used by cultists to burn away thought.

Ashfire Neutral, ceremonial. Used in ancient rites to record memories.

> "Flame does not choose sides. It merely refuses to forget."

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🕰️ III. Timeline of Key Events

Sorted into BR (Before Rise) and AR (After Rise of the Cursed Prince)

🔹 Before the Rise (BR)

Year Event

0 BR Cataclysm at Synn-Kar — forbidden Skyborn fire returns

-10 BR Eldemar Council fractures, starts silencing Skyborn births

-25 BR The Pale Thorn founded in Tharethuun

-50 BR The Gray War consumes central Velkarin

-80 BR Final public Skyborn temple is burned

-200 BR First recorded Flamebound disappears mysteriously

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🔹 After the Rise (AR)

Year Event

1 AR Aaron Hotveil is born with blue flame in his blood

5 AR Aaron enters Frankfurt Pierce's mansion

8 AR First memory-burn occurs — Aaron sees a forgotten death

10 AR Aaron confronts the Eldemar Council

11 AR He finds Elira Vex's lost journal in Ezthalum

12 AR The fire no longer whispers — it declares

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👁️ IV. Heraldic Symbols of the Continents

Continent Symbol Meaning

Velkarin 👑🔥 The broken crown — truth beneath crumbling order

Ezthalum 👁️🔥 The closed eye — memory waiting to awaken

Tharethuun 🗡️🌹 The thorned mouth — silence sharpened into control

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📜 V. Final Annotation by the Shadow Archivist

> "And if these chronicles are burned, let those who find their ashes know:

Aaron Hotveil was not the curse…

He was the flame that refused to be silenced."

— From The Final Ember, a restricted text hidden in the ruins of Synn-Kar