Chronological order · The Great Age
The world is four worlds separated by immense time.
Glacial scarcity becomes institutional law, then synthetic coordination, then a materially abundant society shaped by measurement and comparative human value. The substrate changes; recurring questions of authority and personhood remain.
The ages
c. 25,000 BCE → c. 1 CE → 2150 CE → c. 28,000 CE
Age of Embers, The Fatherless, Neurion, and The Age of Forms occupy those four points respectively. The full public world overview now lives inside the main narrative rather than being repeated on a separate catalogue page. There, each age is paired with its pressure, form of authority, and evolutionary gain.
Why keep this URL?
A stable doorway, not a second version of the site.
Existing links to the world overview remain valid, while the main page carries the cohesive experience. Individual novel pages remain the deeper public-safe entries into each setting.