Mar de Oro

…realized they are standing around the same fire. That is the heart of Tales of Mar de Oro. It is a fantasy world with a science-fiction spine. The wonder never disappears when understanding arrives. It becomes…

…arrangements that neither government would sanction openly. The Archipelago of Mar de Oro lies at the edge of the New World, a scatter of islands roughly the scale of a large island nation, large enough to sus…

…its, anomalous devices, and remains older than the accepted histories have made Mar de Oro the focus of every serious power's attention. Diplomats, spies, surveyors, priests, privateers, investors, and scholars…

…s, and rising states contending across Aeon each shape the pressures that reach Mar de Oro. Each nation has its own dedicated dossier, visit the Nations gallery for the full lore of Valdegracia, Albionis, Stroo…

The sea does not care who claims it. Mar de Oro is a scatter of islands, but "scatter" understates the complexity. It is a web of routes, anchorages, reefs, plantation…

…the chamber is active and every careless spark becomes theology in motion. The Mar de Oro is not wealthy because it is large. It is wealthy because it sits at the crossing point of hunger, empire, wind, sea, a…

…moon rather than day by day. Ordinary weeks in Aeon are unusually calm at sea. Mar de Oro sits in a sheltered basin whose base tide is little more than the wash of the Caribbean on a quiet afternoon. Old-world…

…he imperial court culture of the interior, the rough frontier pragmatism of the Mar de Oro colonies, or the old blood-and-stone nobility of the mountain provinces that still largely govern themselves. Then the…