The Web of War

A map of who stands where. Nothing here is stable. The throne of the Graveborn shifts, the Arcanists betray, the Warclans are corrupted, and the Voidwrought move to their own unknowable ends.

The great hatreds

• Exemplaris and the Warclans: the defining holy war of the age. Order's empire against the world's red faith.
• Exemplaris and the Graveborn: the Dominion's founding purpose, the wall against the dead.
• Grovewardens and the Ironoath: the wardens' bitterest, most personal war. The one enemy who does not fear the phantom of the woods, and who takes elven forest and holds it.
• The Green and the Delvers: Grovewardens and Warclans both against the Ironoath, and against every axe and plow. Nature's two faiths against the world-as-material.

The uneasy peaces

• Grovewardens and the Warclans: two green souls, one gentle, one bloody, who do not quite make war.
• The mountain pact: Arcanists, Ironoath, and Nightspun, bound by cold passes and mutual use more than any love.

The quiet corruptions

• Voidwrought and the Nightspun: maker and made.
• Voidwrought and the Ironoath: the door and the diggers.
• Voidwrought and the Warclans: the whisper the orcs never hear in time.
• Graveborn and the Nightspun: the one realm that lets the sundered live.

The wild card

• The Arcanists: embedded in everyone, loyal to no one, gone before the reckoning. Present in every war and trusted in none.