Drieratil

📍 Basic Info

• Type: Subterranean Mining Confederacy

• Region: Northeastern Eladris, sharing deep-shard borders with Kingdom of Quintoria, Merenvegy, and the fractured rimlands of Begoestia

• Notable Settlements: Ulnmark, Delthold, Gravenreach

🏞️ Description

Drieratil is a realm of tunnels, pulse-forges, and living stone archives — a civilization carved into the Veil-scarred underlands of Eladris. Its people do not fear Echoes — they extract them. Among the lowest peaks and deepest seams, the forgers of Drieratil refine unstable resonance into echo-metals, memory-stone, and vision-glass. Their society thrives beneath the surface, where time hums differently and thought leaves trails.

Each mine-shrine is part forge, part listening chamber. Echoes are not banished — they are read, recorded, and cut into forms of useful recursion. Drieratili architecture mimics geologic strata: angular, ritualistically reinforced, and inscribed with shifting runes that adapt as their resonance shifts. Citizens are trained from youth to identify unstable feedback, harmonic decay, and “dream-pit” anomalies.

🕰️ History

• Mythic Roots: Formed by deep-dwellers who, during the Sundering, followed a tremor into the hollow places and found the world still singing.

• Historical Highlights:

  • Developed the Chrono-Gaunt Codex, a system of layered resonance-toolcasting used throughout the underlands

  • Fought multiple trade wars with Kingdom of Quintoria over echo-pulse harvesting rights

  • Continues to refuse surface rule, even under Begoestian expansion treaties

🌟 Key Locations

• Ulnmark: The forge-capital. Built around a Resonance Root — a core fragment of pre-Sundering memory.

• Delthold: Trade-focused chamber city lit by glowstone rivers and chorus-crystals.

• Gravenreach: A sealed hollow used for Echo refinement and high-risk recursion experiments. Home to the Stone Singers.

• The Hollow Frame: A collapsed mining district rumored to house Echo spirits that imitate the living.

🔗 Related Nations

• Kingdom of Quintoria (historic rivalry and disputed shared tunnels)

• Merenvegy (limited trade; occasional tunnel interference)

• Republic of Begoestia (tense, bureaucratically heavy mining agreements; suspicion of containment sabotage)