"Velscia is a league of two nations - the splendorous, civilized Velsci and their erstwhile hill-dwelling allies, the Akri. Both were driven from their home country by Ermor long ago, and resettled at the foot of a great volcano known as Mons Soracte. The ...

"Very few travelers have written of Trante, obscured as it is by a pall of supernatural fog, and ringed by lighthouses which lead visiting ships away towards open seas. Within these defenses, the Kingdom of Doubt is, peculiarly, a league of cities scattere...

"Before the fall of Trante to the Dreaming, the Court Between sent an expedition to conquer the ash-clad foothills of old Soracte. They made war on the Manes, first by steel and then by water, washing away the crust of ash and magma to reveal a fertile cou...