> "The world is not ruled by kings or empires. It is ruled by those who remember what came before."
— Archivist Tennor, Last Cycle Witness
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From the ashes of fallen timelines and the ruins of forgotten legacies, seven dominant factions operate within the world of Chronoshard. Some are political. Some divine. A few aren't meant to exist at all.
These factions shape the world, monitor timeline shifts, and hunt or protect anomalies like Aiden Varos.
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1. The Sol Dominion
The Empire that Betrayed Him
Ruled by Empress Caelia Vael, the Sol Dominion spans most of the known world.
It is powered by Sunfire leyline magic, imperial worship, and temporal surveillance tech.
Its secret cabal, The Inner Eye, detects timeline fractures and anomalous system users.
Caelia executed Aiden in the original timeline — but now, she feels his return.
Motto: Order through Radiance. Power through Control.
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2. The Riftborne Synod
Scholars of Broken Futures
A secretive group that collects Fractures, Fragments, and Chronoshards.
Believes reality is a collapsing web of errors and seeks to preserve key "stable" timelines.
Consider Aiden a threat to equilibrium — or a possible asset, if they can contain him.
Notable Leader: Archsage Vol Tren, a man rumored to exist in three places at once.
Motto: To preserve one thread, we must cut a thousand.
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3. The Hollow Choir
Worshippers of the Lost Selves
Fanatics who embrace Echo collapse and self-annihilation, believing salvation lies in becoming one with all their other-selves.
Known for echo possession, memory-eating magic, and singing through fused timelines.
Some Hollow Choir members have seen Aiden the Tyrant, and want this Aiden to merge with him.
Motto: One Voice, Infinite Faces.
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4. The Forgotten Thorns
Guardians of Legacy Sites
A secret order of legacy-bound warriors and historians.
Often mistaken for a dead order — but secretly exist to protect Legacy Cores and prevent abuse.
May ally with Aiden if he proves he seeks balance, not domination.
Notable Figure (Past Life): Thorne Deyric — former protector of the Emberheart before it was sealed.
Motto: We remember what the world wants to forget.
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5. The Pale Assembly
System-Born Who Rebelled
Formed by beings born from the System itself — artificial users, stabilized echoes, and glitch entities.
Seek to destroy or rewrite the System's laws.
Claim that the System is not neutral, and that it is hiding the truth about the Threadmasters.
Motto: We were coded. We chose chaos.
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6. The Eternal Loom
Servants of the Weave
Divine agents who maintain fate structure across timelines.
Appear human, but are puppets of the Weave.
Will oppose any who reach Sync above 60% or attempt to achieve Timeline Sovereignty.
Motto: The Thread binds all. You were never meant to pull it.
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7. The Eclipsed Flame (Rumored)
Born from a broken Aiden
A splinter faction that appears in alternate echoes of the world.
Allegedly founded by a version of Aiden who burned the world and ascended the throne of time.
Seeks to collapse all versions of Aiden into one final, unified self.
Motto (found scrawled in blood): Only one Aiden will remain.
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Faction Dynamics
Some factions oppose each other directly, while others work in secret or indirectly through pawns.
Many are unaware Aiden has returned — but the moment his Sync rises, they will feel it.