Reflected Aescharion
“The world that refused to stay still.”
Overview
Reflected Aescharion is the inverted twin of Aescharion Prime —
a land born not from opposition, but from hesitation.
When the goddess Serendahl looked into her own divine reflection, that reflection blinked —
and in that heartbeat of delay, a second cosmos was born.
Here:
east is west,
rivers run uphill,
light glows from beneath the sea.
The same lands exist in reverse:
Canava becomes Avanac
Thorgun becomes Nughrot
Port Chimera becomes the Mirepoch Isles, floating skyward on inverted tides.
The world was once identical to Aescharion Prime — same gods, same titan, same balance.
But after the Fracture of the Coin, Serendahl’s reflection Rhadneser took root.
Change became holy.
Perfection became blasphemy.
Stillness was treated as a disease.
Theology: Rhadneser, Serendahl, and Uldrun
In Prime, Serendahl represents stillness; Uldrun, creation and rest.
In Reflected Aescharion:
Rhadneser embodies change, asymmetry, and motion.
Serendahl is feared as the voice of suffocating perfection.
Uldrun’s reflection is trapped in a state of resisting movement, thrashing beneath Nughrot in endless, shifting agony.
Rhadneser’s quiet creed:
“Perfection is a cage.”
“Symmetry is when fear wins.”
“Motion is proof that we are not finished.”
Geography
Avanac (Reflected Canava)
A continent of restless geometry: terraces that rearrange, rivers that change course, cities that “migrate” over generations.
Once ruled by Serendahl’s mirrored priesthood; now claimed by motion cults, farmers’ unions, and Silverborn dynasties.
Key region:
The Still Fields of Avanac – mirror of Canava’s Still Fields in Prime. Once forced into rigid patterns by the Sanctifiers of Stillness, now liberated and held by farmer-kings and their dragon legacy.
Nughrot (Reflected Thorgun)
Mountain ranges that pulse outward, then settle; valleys that “breathe” as if exhaling stone.
Uldrun’s reflection lies beneath, not sleeping peacefully but writhing in constraint, trying and failing to move.
Faiths here argue not whether to keep him sleeping, but whether to ease his struggle or let him finally break free.
The Mirepoch Isles (Reflected Port Chimera)
A drifting archipelago of sky-anchored hulls and shattered reefs, bobbing on inverted tides that rise upward toward the clouds.
Trade, heresy, and flight from both Avanac and Nughrot converge here in precarious, weightless neutrality.
The Fracture of the Coin
In the beginning, Serendahl ruled both worlds in perfect balance.
Her reflection was flawless — until the Fracture of the Coin, when her hesitation crystallized into Rhadneser.
In Prime, the Coin on Its Edge represents still perfection.
In Reflected Aescharion, the Coin is always in motion — flipping, spinning, never allowed to land.
The Fracture split more than a goddess. It split:
Law from mercy
Design from improvisation
Image from self
This fracture is why:
Mirrors sometimes show different expressions
Reflections step away from their originals
Doppelgangers and inverted dragons can exist at all
SHEMRAVAL – The Silver Dragon of Avanac
Shemraval is the silver reflection of Embervault’s dragon banker Cindermark —
a single, true dragon of Reflected Aescharion.
Where Cindermark hoards liquidity and economic motion, Shemraval embodies:
liberation,
momentum,
the refusal of imposed stillness.
He slumbered beneath the Still Fields of Avanac, listening to the farmers’ songs carried through the soil. When the Sanctifiers of Stillness imported Serendahl’s rigid geometry into Avanac and chained the fields into perfect rows, those songs turned into pleas.
Shemraval woke.
He shattered the Sanctifiers’ mirrored shrines.
He burned their marching orders into ash and tilled them into the dirt.
Alongside the farmers, Shemraval helped overthrow Silverwake’s reflection and hand its walls to the people who fed it.
Still Bastion and the Silverborn
Silverwake’s mirrored fortress was conquered and renamed:
Still Bastion
What had been the stronghold of sanctified pattern in Avanac became:
a fortress of reclaimed motion,
a symbol that even the most rigid geometry can be broken by enough footsteps.
From the union of Shemraval’s blood and the liberated Still Fields arose a line of rulers:
The Silverborn
Descendants carrying faint, diluted dragon blood
Their most recent king:
King Jimmy Schmebulock, last Silverborn ruler of Still Bastion
Farmer-king, dragon-touched, heir of rebellion
Veyndar, the Mirrored Crown, and the Exiled King
Veyndar, Jimmy’s younger brother, was born under the same doctrine of motion but twisted it toward ambition.
Beliefs:
The Silverborn had grown complacent.
Motion meant reshaping everything, even family.
Rhadneser favored those who forced change, not those who merely maintained it.
Veyndar made a secret pact with Serendahl herself:
In exchange for helping her reclaim a foothold in this world,
He would be granted the chance to remove his brother and claim the throne.
The tool: Serendahl’s Mirror — a relic of perfect stillness, a Prime artifact that should not have existed in Reflected Aescharion at all.
With the help of Serra, a doppelganger who could move between worlds, Veyndar:
Orchestrated the mirrored murder of Lirielle in Harlequin Vale
Used the symmetry of that act to push King Jimmy Schmebulock through the veil
Left Jimmy stranded in Aescharion Prime, waking as the new “Bearded Lady”
Seized Still Bastion as the new Mirrored Crown, wearing authority that was never meant for him
Now:
Veyndar rules Still Bastion under a banner of “necessary motion,” masking cruelty as progress.
Rumors say he still speaks with Serendahl, tightening her grip on Avanac even as he claims Rhadneser’s name.
Glass Oracles and the Shattered Path
The Glass Oracles
A cloister of seers who read the fractures in mirrored surfaces.
Serve Veyndar officially, but many are quietly loyal to Rhadneser’s ideal of self-chosen motion.
They interpret:
cracks in windows,
warped reflections in spilled oil,
and the tremor of light when a doppelganger is born.
They told Veyndar that “a king must be removed so a reflection can rule.”
He heard what he wanted.
They may have meant someone else.
The Shattered Path
A rebel movement opposing Veyndar and any resurgence of Serendahl’s stillness.
Composed of farmers, former Sanctifier conscripts, Silverborn sympathizers, and runaway doppelgangers.
Their creed: “We are not what the mirror says we are.”
They see Jimmy’s exile as:
a cosmic theft,
a sign that reflections must start breaking back.
Doppelgangers and the Mirror Veil
Doppelgangers originate wherever reflection and self-image diverge violently.
Some are born when someone rejects the role imposed on them.
Some form when the gods’ argument over a person’s fate becomes too intense for one body.
Some are deliberately made, as with Serra, who serves as Veyndar’s instrument but answers ultimately to motion itself.
What they share:
A “true shape” somewhere between original and chosen form.
A tenuous, often painful relationship with mirrors.
An instinctive awareness of Serendahl’s Mirror and similar artifacts that anchor stillness.
Every time a doppelganger crosses the veil:
A piece of identity is stolen from one world and written into the other.
The balance between Prime and Reflected shifts — usually in small ways.
Sometimes in catastrophic ones.
The State of Reflected Aescharion Now
Avanac: Still Bastion is under Veyndar’s regime; the farmers remember Shemraval and whisper of a Silverborn king lost across the veil.
Nughrot: Uldrun’s reflection convulses beneath the mountains; cults debate whether to soothe him or help him finally break apart.
Mirepoch Isles: Drifting sky-harbors where doppelgangers, deserters, and heretics barter stories of both worlds.
Across the plane: Mirrors are no longer trusted. People hang curtains, smash glass, or talk to their reflections as if to a neighbor who might soon move out.
Closing Canon
Reflected Aescharion stands as proof:
that every reflection eventually wants to think for itself —
and that stillness, once imposed on motion, becomes its own kind of death.
When mirrors flicker in Aescharion Prime, it is said the two goddesses still argue across the veil.
And sometimes, for a heartbeat,
the reflection blinks first.