At the very center of the Sorcerer Kings’ continent, the Jaadoghar Kajhaana, lies the Trophaeum Pinnacle, once a modest island in an archipelago, but now a testament to the raw elemental power the Sorcerer Kings unleashed when they raised the entire continental shelf to provide themselves with a kingdom. Within this volcano lie the four thrones of the Sorcerer Kings themselves: Erme, Who moves the Oceans, Dyelin, Pyre of Gods and Men, Hormus, Who Lays Mountains Low and Alessa, Weaver of Winds and Fates. Despite its awesome size and mind-boggling effort that went into making this mountain a monument worthy of their saviors, the Trophaeum Pinnacle lies mostly empty, its role remaining a more monumental and ceremonial focus to the Sorcerer Kings and their ambitions: to plumb the depths of sorcerous knowledge and climb the heights of power.
The four Elemental Courts are geographically and politically scattered across the realms of the Sorcerer Kings. Erme, Who moves Oceans, holds court from the beautiful garden palace in Jeel Sangar, in the northern Archipelago. Her lands are small and mountainous but what surface there is, is covered in a riotous burst of life and vegetation. Dyelin, Pyre of Gods and Men, resides in the forbidding fortress of Jalaag. The desolate lands he oversees teem with minerals and hide valleys so fertile they can feed his Enclaves with production to spare. Hormus, Who lays mountains Low, rules his burgeoning kingdom from the imposing stepped palace of Adharnev. His lands are the most expansive, his fields the most fertile and his Enclaves the most populous. Alessa, Weaver of Winds and Fates, tore one of Hazlia’s palaces from the sky itself and holds court within the floating fastness of Hava Mahal. She does not supervise any Enclaves directly, but rather wanders the whole of Jadoghar Kajhaana, aiding where she is welcome, meddling where she is not, but seeking to promote the fortunes of the Sorcerer Kings overall.
From the teeming activity and sheer number of resources that flow into and from each of these Elemental Courts, one could perhaps expect them to be teeming with powerful Sorcerers and mighty Maharajahs pursuing campaigns of learning and conquest that would beggar minor kingdoms. This is not the case; not because the Sorcerers are not busy with exactly the kind of mighty Sorcerous pursuit one would imagine these puissant casters to be engaged with, but simply because they are not there.
The greatest secret and power of the Sorcerer Kings is the discovery that while the domain of Balance is the physical world we all inhabit, the slumbering primordial is so powerful that each of its four constituent souls have Domains of their own which underpin our existence. Mortals could not hope to access or even see these outlandish realms if it were not for the intercession of the Sorcerer Kings themselves who bind their most powerful apprentices to the denizens of these Elemental Domains, allowing mortals to set foot within these primordial realms.
The power, knowledge and prestige of any Sorcerer is determined by how deeply they have delved into the Elemental Domains, what secrets they have thus uncovered, what denizens they have bound and what resources they have exploited. So, Sorcerers must devote the vast majority of their time to exploration and exploitation of this uncharted frontier, becoming more powerful in the process.
It is the secret, most ambitious, dream of the Sorcerer Kings to finally plumb the true depths of the Elemental Domains and master their powers, in order to one day bring down the barriers separating the Prime Domain and its Elemental mirrors. This would allow the Sorcerer Kings to awaken balance and rule all of existence, wielding their unmatched elemental powers as the Primordial’s stewards and protectors.