FACTION OVERVIEW: THE GILDED GAZE
The Gilded Gaze are illusionists and diviners, the velvet glue of Wuh-Zhei’s ruling class.
The Gilded Gaze are illusionists and diviners, the velvet glue of Wuh-Zhei’s ruling class.
The Optimists are conjurers and necromancers, idealists and realists, bureaucrats and believers. They don’t want to stop the Unraveling. They want to outlive it.
The Paragons are the largest and most visible faction in Wuh-Zhei. Born from the union of Abjuration and Evocation, they believe the Unraveling is not a mystery to endure but a threat to be defeated. They are soldiers, engineers, civic enforcers, and everyday patriots. Their ethos? Stand firm. Shield the weak. Fireball the rest.
Every Plate in Wuh-Zhei is divided the same way: eight Districts, one layout, standardized across the city. But sameness is a lie. These borders don’t shape the city, people do.
Wuh-Zhei isn’t a city of towers—, t’s a city of floors. Suspended fates, stacked lives, and falling dreams. From the sun-touched estates of Plate One to the scarred ruins of Plate Zero, every layer tells a story of power, purpose, or abandonment. This is how the city breathes.
Sin of the Tetra Coil, known simply as Sintetra, is Wuh-Zhei’s most feared and respected mind. Senator, sovereign of the lower plates, and architect of magical self-evolution.
First Oracle Nero: Diviner, illusionist, Senator and the glam-laced firbolg prophet of Wuh-Zhei’s unraveling.
Sutherland Dash: he’s the golden boy of the Paragons, the face of Evocation Evolved, the newest Senator and, when the end comes, he’ll be the first to fire.
Senator Matilda R. Brightside Grand Magus of the OptimistsThe Baker of the Bloc. The Smiling Queen of the Dying City. In Wuh-Zhei, there is no throne. But if there were, Matilda R. Brightside would sit… Character Profile: Matilda
This is the story of the First Three, the god they created to complete themselves, the betrayal that made them divine, and the Fourth whose name was erased from memory… but not from the world.