## Welcome to Arthae: The Awakening of a New Cosmology

Dear reader,

There are worlds that are not born overnight, but rather take shape in silence, sculpted layer by layer in the deepest corners of the imagination. The universe you are about to enter began as a humble spark in my mind approximately twelve years ago. Since then, it has been a process of constant evolution - a living canvas that has mutated, grown, and matured over the course of more than a decade to finally pour itself into the written words you now hold before you.

Welcome to **Arthae**.

This is not just another story; it is the birth of an entire cosmology - a tapestry of ancient myths, uncharted lands, forgotten gods, and primordial forces stirring back to life. Our journey begins at the very origin of everything: **the last children, the Children of Stone**. They are the foundation upon which this world was built - beings forged with the hardness of mineral and the ferocity of rock, yet endowed with a profound and quiet nobility that will guide the first steps of this chronicle.

From them, the horizon of Arthae expands without limit. Throughout these pages, the story will grow and branch into the lives of different peoples, races, and singular creatures that walk this ancient soil - each carrying their own culture, their own wounds, and that mysterious energetic thread that binds their fate to the fate of the world itself.

Bringing this universe to life has been a journey I could not have walked alone. To every reader who believed in this project and crossed the threshold into the unknown - thank you. Your presence on the other side of the page is what transforms these words into something alive.

May you lose yourselves in Arthae. May you feel the weight of its mountains and the silence between its stars.

The stone has begun to speak.

With gratitude,
**Your Author**