The World Guide
Discover how people live, travel, remember and exercise power in The Spiral Accord.
The Spiral Accord follows human lives across time, space and parallel worlds. Here, a lost memory can become a source of power, an archive can decide whose account is heard, and a rescue can leave questions that outlast the danger.
Start with the Accord itself, explore Asterune and the working life aboard Tempest, then follow the practical questions that make a crossing possible. The guides introduce the setting without revealing book endings. The field story offers a smaller encounter with its consequences.
The Spiral Accord: Treaty & Organisation
The agreement that protects time and space, the organisation that upholds it, and Corran’s place in its work.
Read the guide →FOUNDATIONSThe Spiral of Time
Time, space, parallel realities and the living histories the Accord exists to protect.
Read the guide →THE ACCORDThe Accord: language, power and refusal
How a treaty between language and reality becomes a question about who gets to shape another person’s life.
Read the guide →WORLDSAsterune: Earth, elsewhere
A parallel Earth, its human institutions, and the dangerous promise of one authorised history.
Read the guide →FIELD GUIDECrossings, breaches and the evidence of arrival
A practical introduction to travel across eras and realities, and the questions a destination cannot answer for itself.
Read the guide →ABOARD THE SHIPLife aboard Tempest
Work, privacy, argument and ordinary comfort inside an intelligent travelling home.
Read the guide →MEMORY & SOCIETYWho owns a remembered event?
Deposits, testimony and the practical power of the institutions that keep experience.
Read the guide →STANDALONE FIELD STORYThe Correction Window
A clerk, a broken clock and a woman whose home has disappeared from the morning register.
Read the story →Everyday life: the Worldbook
Go deeper into household witness books, the practical life of a travelling home, and the terms that make refusal possible.
Read three companion field guides →
People to travel with
Corran · Raven · MINO · Tempest · Lord Vael Serath
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