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Aragon
Work in progress. This is a living set of documents — Matthew writes them in his own time, around the games, and a lot of it is still being built. The book doesn't have a title yet, and nothing here is final.
ReadAragon is the world of the fantasy saga Matthew is planning: a land unified by the hero Ragna after he sealed away the titans, and torn ever since between three kingdoms — the dragons of Aethelgard, the demons of Malakor and the humans of Solara — each fighting for the Iron Crown, while a faction in the shadows pulls the strings.
The writing
Five parts
He plans the story in five documents: his general notes, and four story bibles — Past, Present, Future and Alternative.
General notes
The working notes everything else is built from: the arc-by-arc plan, the history of Aragon from the titans onward, why each faction wants the crown, how four stories close into one loop, and scenes drafted along the way.
SpoilersRead Bible 1Past
The complete story bible: Ragna and his sons, the ryu system, the seven titans and the Fates, the three kingdoms in depth, the guilds, the mage clans and the Severus, the full cast, the prophecy, and the shape of the plot.
SpoilersRead Bible 2Present
The next generation: twenty years on, Glitch does something cosmically impossible and chooses two wielders — twins, Umbra and Orion — while something older than the titans begins to wake.
SpoilersRead Bible 3Future
The far future: driven from Earth to Mars, humanity builds the Araxys — engineered soldiers armed with ARMS — and sends them back to a planet ruled by dragons, demons and titans to recover Mythos, the first conscious AI.
SpoilersRead Bible 4Alternative
Another reality, where Ragna never became the hero: the seven titans rule Aragon — now Vornath — as seven great families, one for each deadly sin, and the heir to the proudest of them falls from its mountain.
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