Li'en, The Vanished Nation of Or'sìth

"Li'en didn't fall. It chose."

Li'en was not built — it descended. The Or'sìth nation began as Ethryndor, a floating sanctuary-city sustained by collective will and spiritual harmony in the Ethereal Plane. When the Echoborn — Or'sìth born into the Material Plane from mortal dreams — needed stability, the Or'sìth enacted the Shai'thuhl, the Ritual of Manifestation, weaving Ethryndor downward into physical reality. That anchored foundation became Li'en: a radiant island nation on the eastern edge of Solehaquin where mortals and Or'sìth lived side by side, sustained by the Dream Loom and the power of Qan'eyra, the Ohros of the Ethereal.

For a time, it worked. Then the Sundering War came, and it didn't.

Rather than let Li'en be destroyed — and the Dream Loom with it — the Or'sìth enacted a second ritual. Li'en was unmade from the Material Plane and drawn back into the Ethereal Veil, sealed away to protect what couldn't be defended by force. Or'sìth caught outside the island when it vanished became the Remnants: exiles cut off from the Loom, sustained only by the ancient rite of Tal'ko'mah, tethering their essence across both planes.

For six hundred years, Li'en existed as legend and grief in equal measure.

Then it came back.

Li'en's reappearance in the present era is not heralded — it is felt. A disturbance in the dreamfields. A resonance in the Loom. The Or'sìth who survived as Remnants are converging on it. So are the Enochian Clerics, the Horizon Collective, and forces that would prefer it hadn't returned at all. The island that stepped out of reality to survive is back, and it has not come back unchanged.