Empire of the Key
Placeholder page for later development.
Why This Mention Matters
- This faction is important because it should represent one of the great high-magic powers of pre-Regnum Maelia during the Age of Empires.
- It matters because its ideology, divine patronage, or magical statecraft may help explain later southern institutions that survive only as fragments in Ardentis.
- The empire also helps define the scale of that era: not petty kingdoms, but civilizations capable of celestial and elemental warfare.
Development Direction
- Clarify whether the Key here is an early form of the later Keymaster tradition or a separate imperial-symbolic order that only partially survives in memory.
- Define what made the empire formidable: angelic alliances, civic sorcery, meteor-calling rites, or disciplined magical bureaucracy.
- Identify what ruins, temples, or doctrinal fragments from this empire still surface in the lands now occupied by frog peoples.