Firstly, what is Harthorn's Reverie/Aggregate?
>The Aggregate is an interconnected archive of speculative worlds, fractured histories, industrial civilizations, and cosmic mythologies spanning multiple timelines and realities. Science-Fantasy novels to Slice-of-Life Short Fictions.
How to Explore?
> In the Meta, the Reverie is currently broken between four major timelines. Mythical, Pre-Godfall, Post-Godfall, and Interstellar, though in-lore there are many calendars, myths, and explanations, for the core site here, we will use this meta timeline.
> If you wish to explore the in-lore pieces, follow the links to the companion wiki and blog. Though be warned, the wiki holds a great deal of spoilers, but is the rawest way to explore the setting.
Where to Read?
> Chapters and Short Stories are currently found on the companion blog, where new pieces are uploaded every Friday.
What is Godfall?
Godfall is a meta-term used to describe the vast sequence of catastrophes that reshaped the setting and nearly annihilated life upon Ceryniotsklesu (Earth). Beginning with the emergence of Eaftousia, technologically induced spiritual mutations, the era rapidly descended into global warfare, societal collapse, ecological devastation, and the near-extinction of humanity itself.
Yet the destruction of the material world was only one aspect of the catastrophe. Across the conflict, multiple interdimensional entities responsible for maintaining the stability of both physical reality and adjacent planes of existence were destroyed or displaced, resulting in widespread metaphysical instability, distortions of reality, and the collapse of countless supernatural boundaries.
In the aftermath of Godfall, the surviving Anthrals (Humans) inherited a fractured world of ruins, mutations, lost histories, and unstable spiritual phenomena. The death of these higher-dimensional powers also exposed humanity to the wider galactic stage, leading to Anthral civilization becoming known to the interstellar powers beyond Cerniotsklesu, leading to not only their judgment by but eventual introduction to the greater collective.
Pre-Godfall
Pre-Godfall refers to the era preceding the collapse of civilization, characterized by rapid technological advancement, industrial expansion, megacities, corporate dominance, and the emergence of early spiritual experimentation. Though outwardly prosperous, the period was marked by escalating geopolitical tensions, unethical human experimentation, ecological decline, and the foundations of the Eaftousian catastrophes that would eventually consume the world.
Post-Godfall
Post-Godfall refers to the fractured age that emerged after the collapse of the old world. Following the Eaftousian Wars and the widespread destruction of civilization, surviving Anthral societies were forced to rebuild amidst mutated ecosystems, unstable spiritual phenomena, ruined megastructures, and the remnants of forgotten technologies. Across this era, bunker cities, isolated kingdoms, industrial frontier settlements, and interstellar observers struggle to survive within a world fundamentally altered by metaphysical catastrophe.
Mythical
Though not nearly as explored, when the term 'Mythical' is used for this setting, it almost always refers to the time period before the industrial revolution, when magics were widely used and adventure was promoted.
Interstellar
Interstellar refers to the era following Anthral civilization’s introduction to the wider galactic collective after the events of Godfall. Marked by the discovery of ancient interstellar powers, Stellar Highway networks, alien civilizations, and vast metaphysical infrastructures, this period chronicles humanity’s expansion beyond Cerniotsklesu and its struggle to survive within a cosmos far older, larger, and more hostile than previously imagined. Across this era, the remnants of Earth must contend not only with the political powers of the galaxy, but with extradimensional entities, interstellar warfare, and the lingering consequences of messing with powers beyond themselves.
Works to Explore!
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- Krelmic Skein
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- A Camping Trip within the Last-Light
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- When Zack Cleo agrees to join his sister and her friends on a camping trip to celebrate their goodbye, they discover that there is more to the mountains than deer and bears when strange happening appear and one of them go missing.
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- Black Trails
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- Orensakino
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- Stellar Ambitions
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- Interstellar
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NEW TO THE REVERIE?
Recommended starting points are found below:
An Autumn Ride, Payment of the Pied Piper, Dino-Walk, ...