This is my biggest, broadest, most-revised, ever-present-in-mind fictional world about a dwarf who experiences the passage of one age into the next, on his island continent. This island is surrounded by impassable storms on seas out in every direction, and its suns do not set. There is a formerly-oppressed mage class gradually gaining its public trust, into which inseparable brother-sister duo Lotte and Vanguard Oakenfold are born. Their adopted parents, Sarvin and Katna, dwarves of natural combination, are keeping a secret from everyone about the pair, and keeping another secret, still, from the pair. A mage linguist gradually deciphers the secret bout the pair from old texts found in Sarvin's vast collection of bound works, but need not reveal it to the duo because the identity of the bridgebuilder is revealed unexpectedly, to be a different person than believed.