Expansive

The Down to the Core book series has several complex layers, deeper meanings, and hidden truths - designed perfectly for full immersion.

The timing of the setting is purposely vague, allowing readers to explore both possibilities of a future civilization, or ancient.

Drawing from a combination of modern language and ancient understandings, there is no real placement of the story in relation to our real-world historical understanding today.

Whether you envision the year 25,000 AD or a mere 4,000 years ago, it’s yours to behold.

Lumasyl

Echohall

Vireen

Velmorr

Caelira

Naelia

Terrahaven

Lumasyl Echohall Vireen Velmorr Caelira Naelia Terrahaven

A fantasy map showing a landscape divided by a winding river with various regions labeled, including Naelia, Velmorr, Caelira, Vireen, Lumasyl, Echohall, and Terrahaven, with mountains, forests, and islands.

The 7 Regions of the Land

Our land, surrounded by water on all sides, is comprised of 7 sovereign elemental regions.

The land, representing our body, is purposely supported by 7 elemental regions that align with the understandings of the Chakra energy centers.

It's a complex, ancient energy system that originated in India and is mentioned in the Vedas. These centers are believed to be crucial for physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. 

A surreal scene with a burning fire on rocks, a lush green plant, and swirling water and fire elements in a dark background.

The book series explores elemental history and ancestral connection.

Over time, more history is unearthed, connections to nature and self unfold, providing a rich reading experience that’s both escape-worthy and relatable.

  • Element: Land
    Chakra: Root (Stability, Security, Belonging)
    Ancestral Region: Terrahaven
    Nickname: The Living Wall
    Training Grounds: Crystal caves, ley-wells, sacred groves, underground strongholds

    Role:
    The Landbinders are the keepers, defenders, and anchors of the Legione. They use geomantic magic to raise stone barriers, reinforce structures, and sense seismic shifts in the Land. In war, they are immovable forces. In peace, they are protectors of sacred grounds and ley energy sources.

    Culture:
    Terrahaven is built upon ancient ley-lines and home to the oldest settlements. Its people revere cycles, soil, and structure. Landbinders are trained to move slowly, but with certainty. They embody endurance over impulse, and their oaths are said to last generations.

    Archetypal Traits:

    • Steady, dependable, grounded

    • They are rarely the first to act, but always the last to fall

    • Intimidating in stature and reputation

    Spiritual Symbolism:
    The Root chakra is the foundation—survival, safety, lineage. Landbinders are the literal and metaphorical roots of the Legione. They teach that strength does not mean rigidity—it means alignment. Through grounding, they channel energy more purely than any other branch.

  • Element: Fire
    Chakra: Solar Plexus (Power, Will, Identity)
    Ancestral Region: Velmorr
    Nickname: The Iron Flame
    Training Grounds: Volcanic forges, obsidian cliffs, lightning-scarred fields

    Role:
    The Emberguard are the enforcers of will and change. They are trained to act swiftly and decisively, embracing confrontation as a path to refinement. They serve as frontline disruptors—specializing in high-pressure combat, demolition, and incineration magic that burns through corruption, both physical and spiritual.

    Culture:
    Velmorr is a land of fire-born blacksmiths, warriors, and sun-callers. Emotion is not denied here, but rather harnessed—rage becomes fuel, fear becomes heat, and pride becomes steel. The Emberguard honor tradition but value evolution, encouraging internal competition and personal transformation through trials by flame.

    Archetypal Traits:

    • Assertive, passionate, volatile

    • Strong individualists with collective loyalty

    • Their energy can be overwhelming—destruction and rebirth embodied

    Spiritual Symbolism:
    They work from the Solar Plexus—power over self, the right to act. Fire here does not just burn—it tempers. Recruits must learn to balance ego with duty, or risk being consumed by their own inner flame.

  • Element: Water
    Chakra: Sacral (Emotion, Fluidity, Intimacy)
    Ancestral Region: Naelia
    Nickname: The Silent Surge
    Training Grounds: Coral-lined trenches, moonlit tidepools, underground river temples

    Role:
    Masters of stealth and flow, the Tideborn are amphibious operatives and sea mages. They specialize in emotional intelligence, infiltration, and aquatic warfare. Their tactics rely on patience, unpredictability, and overwhelming force delivered at precisely the right moment—like a wave crashing without warning.

    Culture:
    Naelia is known for its serene coastlines, sunken cities, and spiritual rites tied to lunar tides. The Region teaches that emotion is not weakness—it is information. Tideborn are trained to feel fully but react wisely. They are peacekeepers and assassins alike, often feared for their unshakable calm in chaos.

    Archetypal Traits:

    • Mysterious, empathetic, seductive

    • They mirror others to understand them

    • Their danger lies in depth—what cannot be seen can drown you

    Spiritual Symbolism:
    The Sacral center represents sensuality, feeling, and adaptability. The Tideborn are not taught to suppress feelings—but to let them move, like water. They are emotional alchemists, converting grief into clarity, desire into devotion.

  • Element: Air
    Chakra: Throat (Expression, Truth, Communication)
    Ancestral Region: Echohall
    Nickname: The Whispering Wing
    Training Grounds: Floating sky temples, storm crags, resonance chambers

    Role:
    These are the spies, scouts, and messengers of the Legione—trained in agility, encryption, and long-distance communication. Their magic manipulates sound, breath, and current. They often serve as tacticians, and their silent speed and strategic minds are considered vital during both war and diplomacy.

    Culture:
    Echohall is a place of open skies, whispering valleys, and sound sanctuaries. It is a Region that values both speech and silence, where truths are carried on wind and names are protected with care. Children are trained from early on to control their voice—not just in speaking, but in intent.

    Archetypal Traits:

    • Witty, quick, observant

    • Loyal but independent

    • They often hide in plain sight, hearing more than they say

    Spiritual Symbolism:
    Throat chakra governs authenticity and resonance. Gale Sentinels walk a fine line—speak too much, and you give away power; say too little, and you lose connection. Their journey is about learning when to speak—and what truths are worth saying aloud.

Historical Retelling of The War of the Wild

Three hundred years ago, the Land was not as it is now—balanced, if trembling at the edges—but fractured, unpredictable, and blanketed in what came to be known as the War of the Wild. To understand the fragile peace of today, one must look back to the disastrous era when the Dissonant Veil held sway over sky, soil, and soul.

300 Years Ago

A time of great misalignment. The seasons no longer honored their cycle. Crops rotted under sudden frost. Tides swallowed coastal cities under moonless skies. And people—once in harmony with the Land—turned on one another, driven by a madness that defied even seers’ predictions.

It was not mere weather or war, but the rising influence of an ancient force—the Dissonant Veil. An energy born not of nature, but of fractured thought, fear, and unchecked control. Their influence whispered through the minds of leaders and the hearts of the grieving, severing humans from the elemental currents that once guided them effortlessly.

Once, every child in the Land was born with a gentle tether to the elements. Fire coursed through laughter, water wept with sorrow, air carried one’s truth, and earth held every story ever told. But during this war, those sacred connections were shattered.

The Dissonant Veil offered structure, certainty, and power—but at the cost of sovereignty. Elemental warriors—our ancestors—rose up in revolt not merely to win, but to remember. Their battles raged across Regions and skies, mountains split open, and once-sacred groves were blackened by war.

In the end, the elemental warriors succeeded in driving back the Veil’s hold, restoring the Land’s independence. But it was not without consequence.

The Diminishing

Victory did not mean restoration. Thousands perished, and with their deaths, ancestral knowledge was lost. Elemental connection, once as natural as breath, began to fade from generation to generation.

In the wake of war, many children were born silent to the elements. Sacred rites no longer bore fruit. Breathwork no longer called the rains. The Land, though alive, grew quieter in the hearts of its people.

The Legion Rises (200 years ago)

To prevent further collapse and to protect what elemental knowledge remained, the Legione was established by the newly formed Regional Council—a circle of seven, one voice from each Region, chosen not by title or bloodline, but by the will of the people. These Representatives carry the burden of balance between their homelands and the greater Land itself.

The Legione was tasked with more than protection. It was to be a living bridge—between people and the elements, between memory and presence. Soldiers became initiates, trained not only in combat, but in elemental theory, ley-line preservation, and ancestral rites. Over time, they evolved into four distinct branches, each aligned with a primary element and Region.

The Dissonant Veil

Though driven back, the Dissonant Veil was never fully destroyed. They are not a race, but a force—a cognitive dissonance born from fear, made manifest through ancient rites as old as the first languages. Their purpose has always been the same: to control what cannot be controlled.
To suppress chaos, to bind uncertainty, to rule through logic, law, and leverage.

Some say they once came from a forgotten eighth Region—a land where emotion and instinct were once sacrificed for order. Others say the Veil was born from humanity itself, a shadow that grows when we deny who we truly are.

What is known is this: their return is not prophecy—it is inevitability.

Fragile Peace

The Land is quiet, but not healed. The elements speak still—but only to the few who remember how to listen. The Legione trains a new generation, but their abilities pale in comparison to those of their ancestors.

The war of today is not fought with blades alone, but in dreams, in breath, and in memory. The Land waits—for a reckoning, or a rebirth.