After the Primordial Age, Neravayne’s oceanic world stabilized. Currents became predictable, reefs and vents became strategic points, and the first coral cities began to expand beyond their scattered beginnings. From this new order emerged three dominant kingdoms, each claiming mastery over the currents and asserting influence across the seas:
Thalassara – The Tidebound Kingdom
Capital: Wavecrest Citadel, a living city of hardened coral and fortified currents.
Culture: Militaristic and disciplined, valuing strength, coordination, and control of the tides. Warriors trained from youth to fight in formation with tridents and reef shields, developing feats of precision and endurance unmatched in the known seas.
Notable: Mastery of Leviathan riding and hunting, establishing traditions where a single warrior could challenge titans of the deep.
Kytheris – The Kingdom of Shimmering Reefs
Capital: Coralgrove, an intricate symbiosis of coral growths and living cities.
Culture: Innovation-driven, blending biological magic and environmental manipulation. Kytheris scholars discovered how to shape reefs into living fortresses and to use bioluminescence for signaling, defense, and inspiration.
Notable: Their warriors were renowned not only for skill but for strategy, able to outmaneuver stronger foes using clever manipulation of the sea itself.
Abyssanthal – The Shadow Trenches
Capital: Dreadhold, a fortress hidden deep within the ocean’s crushing depths.
Culture: Secretive and enigmatic, Abyssanthal cultivated spies, elite hunters, and oracles who could read the currents and predict the movements of enemies and Leviathans alike.
Notable: Masters of deep-water combat and ambush, shaping an aura of fear and mystique across Neravayne.
In this age, individuals became legends through combat against the ocean’s greatest predators: the Leviathans. These battles were not rare; they were societal events that defined leadership, bravery, and skill.
Warriors trained their entire lives for confrontation with Leviathans, learning to anticipate their movements, read currents, and harness Limitless abilities to strike precisely.
Taming a Leviathan was a feat of unparalleled prestige; killing one in single combat was immortalized in songs, carvings, and reef murals.
Entire fleets sometimes coordinated assaults against rogue Leviathans, using currents, coral formations, and bioluminescent signaling as tools in a living battlefield.
A Nerai of Thalassara, born to a minor reef lord, who united scattered city-states under one banner through charisma, strategy, and unmatched skill in Leviathan combat.
Famous Deeds:
Rode the Leviathan Tempestmaw into battle, routing rival fleets in a single tide-shifting engagement.
Extended Thalassara’s influence across multiple ocean basins, establishing dominance over strategic currents.
Legacy: Sculpted in coral and sung in the currents; seen as the first to merge martial skill and natural manipulation into a coherent art of war.
Master of formations, reef manipulation, and bioluminescent signaling. Her strategies allowed smaller forces to rout vastly larger ones.
Famous Deeds:
Led 500 warriors to defeat thousands of marauding Selachi in the Battle of Crimson Currents, shaping modern doctrines of Neravayne naval warfare.
Legacy: Revered as a tactical genius; her methods continue to inform training in Kytheris and beyond.
An Abyssal historian who observed nearly every major battle of the age. His obsession with recording history led him to swim into the thick of combat repeatedly.
Famous Deeds:
Witnessed the Leviathan confrontations of Virelius and Lysara firsthand, cataloging strategies, Limitless manifestations, and individual feats.
Death: Killed during the Leviathan Rebellion of Dreadhold Trench by a stray Leviathan strike, his meticulously recorded observations lost to the abyss.
Legacy: Surviving fragments of his work remain foundational texts for historians, blending precise detail with personal, haunting insight.
Warriors were trained from birth in reef, current, and Leviathan coordination, blending individual skill with collective tactics.
Bioluminescent signaling became a standard method of battlefield communication and city governance.
Coral cities grew into monumental living structures, combining defensive fortifications with natural reefs.
Limitless mutations began manifesting more frequently in warriors who survived prolonged exposure to storms, Leviathans, and combat currents.
The final decades saw coordinated campaigns against rogue Leviathans threatening trade and political stability. Entire oceanic corridors became battlefields.
Heroes were forged and immortalized through feats such as taming multiple Leviathans simultaneously, defeating massive predators alone, or executing perfect coordinated strikes across cities separated by leagues of open water.
By the end of the Age, the kingdoms had solidified political boundaries, military traditions, and societal structures that would endure for millennia.