Few gods that roam the extant of the present are audacious enough to claim they remember much of their existence before arriving in the Agnyett—but those that do are fond of hinting that, in terms of the wider cosmos, cataclysms are not as uncommon as a living soul might think. Other extants, far too distant to imagine, have experienced pivotal moments in their history, where the foundations of their reality is threatened; divine forces will turn upon one another, without regard for the souls of their faithful; material realms will sometimes assault the heavens, only to be cast down; and sometimes, entire civilizations die and take their reality with it.

For the civilization of state & sovereign, that crosses the wider extant from one extreme to the other, their cataclysm was the Unfettered Durance and its Wars. The conflict with the gentry devastated the extant-materiea, and in the aftermath, the principles that serve as the foundation to modern state & sovereign life came into being with the Ratification of the Vismott Accords.

There are corners of the extant, found deep within their respective statelands, were the Accords might as well be folklore or a myth—for all the practical influence t . Souls so far removed from the stage of sovereign machinations from the center of sovereign power, it would be difficult for a single one to name a benefit they have seen result from the . But for any citizen of the 31 sovereignties, the Accords dictate a way of life that has maintained a tenuous peace across the extant for the whole of modernist history. This might be a qualified perspective, but can be pointed out as technically true.

The extant materiea is home to 31 sovereignties, and 24 statelands. the sovereignties them