The Archive
Everything east of the Heartlands was built by someone, worked by someone, and abandoned on purpose.
The Iron Accord held the elemental territories for a century and pulled energy out of them at industrial scale. Then it voted to stop paying for the machinery that kept them in check, and dissolved before the consequences arrived.
The sites did not shut down. Nobody turned them off. What walks them now is what a hundred unattended years made of the people who worked there.
Start here
- The Iron AccordWhat it was, what it took, and the vote that ended it.
- The HeartlandsThe charter town, the people who keep it, and where the word Echo came from.
The ten territories
In the order you will walk them, which is the order the Accord built them in reverse. The first site is the alliance at its most confident and most administrative. The tenth is where it started.
Duskfall RuinsThe records are very complete.
The Ashen WastesThe forges are still running.
The Frozen ExpanseThings that were meant to last, lasting.
The Sunken DepthsTheir function is extraction. They extract.
The VeilNothing here was given a condition for stopping.
The Storm PeaksBuilt to prevent exactly this.
The Blighted ReachesNeither of them ever cleaned it up.
The Shattered PlaneThe ground still moves.
The Abyssal CourtNo longer entirely in the same place as the rest.
The Eternal RuinWhere all of it started, and where all of it has been returning.