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11 Rinea is the continent on which Embers of the Uncrowned takes place. It is the home of the Kingdom of Aldrein and, in the present of the game, the battleground of the elven invasion. The continent's geography, its dense aether, and its position across the sea from the elves' ruined homeland are the three forces that converged to bring the war to humanity's door.
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33 Geography and Aether
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66 Rinea is described as a land teeming with aether, a magical lifeforce that the elves require to maintain their bodies. To the humans who already settled it, aether enables bloodline magic and other arcane arts; to the invaders, it is the substance that lured them across the sea to attack.
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88 Confirmed regions on the continent include the Valdorion Peninsula (home of Goldenhaven and the seat of House Harborwell), the Amber Coast (former domain of House Ambertail), and Towerstead (the coastal town where Bella made landfall at Red Anchor Harbor before marching on Goldenhaven).
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1010 The Elven Crossing
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1212 The elves originally ruled their own continent until a catastrophic magical war of their own making corrupted their soil with the abyss. Their land grew hostile, no longer able to cradle them, and the elves regarded Rinea as the new, untainted home they had long desired.
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1414 They crossed the sea to claim Rinea, indifferent to the fact that the Kingdom of Aldrein already governed the continent. When the elves first encountered organized resistance from the kingdom's bloodline mages and grand lords, they were forced to revise their assumption that the humans were defenseless and turned to deception, feigning peace for three years before the Velseize faction broke ranks and struck.
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1616 The Valdorion Peninsula
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1818 The Valdorion Peninsula is the region at the heart of the demo and the seat of House Harborwell. Its western end holds Amber Coast, the abandoned frontier once ruled by House Ambertail, now overrun by beasts, Bari, and merfolk. Its eastern end holds Towerstead, the magical city centered on the Tower of Enlightenment and once home to Veritas Academy, where the elf Bella first landed at Red Anchor Harbor three years ago. The port city of Goldenhaven sits within the same peninsula.
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2020 Elven Stakes Across Rinea
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2222 Having left their own continent, ruined by a long civil war, the elves saw Rinea as a new land to conquer. To weaken humankind and absorb the continent's energy, they drove two kinds of Elven Stakes into the ground: violet Stakes of Dominion that brand the earth across hunting grounds, and crimson Stakes of Oppression planted in Domain Boss lairs. Ordinary humans cannot see them and slowly lose their land, their crops, and themselves; only those with a special power can find and destroy them.
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2424 Strategic Position
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2626 The continent's coasts are the entry points for elven landings. Red Anchor Harbor in Towerstead is the confirmed first landfall of Bella's force, and the wealthy port of Goldenhaven was a second beach for the invasion once the harbors of the inner coast had fallen.
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2828 Long-term, the player's campaign to rebuild House Harborwell's settlement and liberate domains is the human counter-pressure on the continent. Reclaiming the Valdorion Peninsula is the first foothold; the developers have hinted at broader continental liberation as the campaign's long-term goal.
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3232 Kingdom of Aldrein - the human realm on RineaThe Elven Invasion - the war for RineaGoldenhaven - the fallen port city of the Valdorion PeninsulaMagic System - aether and the magic system of the worldVeritas Academy - the society of mages in Towerstead