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This wiki was built from three long design conversations between Ekrem (the game master) and an AI assistant, covering the world of Aenarch and the campaigns Aenarch: Last Winter and Heralds of the Cycle. Those transcripts are the only sources. Nothing on this wiki was invented by the person or the tooling that assembled it.
That creates one problem worth naming plainly: not everything in the transcripts is true of the world. Much of it is the assistant proposing options — undead taxonomies, ritual variants, faction names — that were never taken up. So every statement here carries a tier and a source.
The four tiers
| Tier | Shown as | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Game master | GM canon | Ekrem stated it, decided it, or corrected the assistant. Highest authority. If two statements conflict, this one wins. |
| Canon summary | canon summary | Taken from a canon summary Ekrem pasted into the conversation to re-anchor the world. Treated as settled unless a later game-master statement overrides it. |
| Happened in play | happened in play | It occurred at the table, or a later message treats it as having occurred. Real, but the wording may be the assistant's. |
| Unconfirmed idea | unconfirmed idea | The assistant proposed it and nothing shows it was accepted. Not canon. It lives in the Idea namespace, never in a canon statement. |
Who decides
The campaign owner, Berkay Seyhan, decides canon. Anyone invited may write pages; he rules on what is true. His rulings are recorded on Help:Owner rulings with the date, and they outrank anything the transcripts say — including the citations on this wiki. When you see a page contradicting a ruling, the page is wrong.
Access follows the same shape: anyone with the link may read this wiki, editing is invite-only, and the GM: namespace is for material players must not see.
Citations
Every claim ends with a marker like [heralds-a#3]. It names the transcript and the message number inside it:
- heralds-a — Heralds of the Cycle, the Turkish-language canon-summary session (156 messages).
- heralds-b — Heralds of the Cycle, the English continuation (454 messages).
- last-winter — the original Aenarch: Last Winter session, where the empire, the regencies and the houses were built (879 messages).
Hover a marker to see its source. If a sentence has no marker, it is either a heading, a summary of the cited sentences around it, or a mistake — treat the last case as a bug and fix it.
What to do when something is wrong
The transcripts contain contradictions, because the world changed while it was being written. Where two sources disagree and no game-master statement settles it, the page carries a
Needs a decision: example question
box and the page is listed in Category:Needs a decision.
If you are the campaign owner and you know the answer: edit the page, state it plainly, and mark it GM canon. Your edit outranks anything the transcripts say. If you are a player, use the talk page instead — and see the spoiler rule below.
Spoilers
Some of what the sources contain is meant to be hidden from players: the true nature of certain rulers, the identity behind an organization, the solution to a sealed dungeon. That material lives in the GM: namespace and is linked from canon pages with a
Players, stop here. What is hidden behind this point is game-master material.
notice rather than written into them.
The GM namespace is excluded from default search and from search-engine indexing. It is not protected by permissions yet — that waits on the campaign owner's decision about who gets an account. Until then, treat "GM:" as a promise between people, not a lock.
Naming
Page titles use the spelling the sources use, in English, singular, without a leading article: Iceverf, Black Ice, House Frostweave, Winter Elves. Where the transcripts used two spellings of the same thing, one is the page and the other is a redirect; the page says which and why. Where a thing was renamed inside the story — a city that took a new name after a catastrophe — the page carries the current name and the old one redirects to it.