The Thanatorian Codex

Primal Sword & Sorcery

Before We Begin…

A Message From Vaultus

“The Thanatorian Codex is the deepest, oldest, and most ambitious body of work in the Codex archives. Where The Vandyrian Codex is structured around a single cataclysm and its aftermath, Thanator spans epochs—vast stretches of rise, decay, extinction, and reinvention that dwarf later eras in scale and consequence. This is not a refinement of earlier work but its foundation: a setting with more layers, longer memory, and heavier ruins, written to support generations of stories rather than a single campaign arc.

Like all Codex material, Thanator is not a product to be consumed but a world to be taken apart. It exists to give creators unrestricted ground—free of paywalls, licenses, or copyright traps—on which to build, contradict, or obliterate what is written here. Nothing is precious. Nothing is locked. This is a civilizational engine, not a canon prison, offered in full so that your work may outgrow ours.”

In Production

BOOK I: PRIMER
High Thanator – The Age of Dreams

[5750 PC – 4700 PC]

BOOK II: The Age of Dread
Post-Cataclysmic Thanator

[0 AC – 1990 AC]

BOOK III: The Age of Terror
Horrors of the Feral Jungle Moon

[2000 AC – 7210 AC]

HIGH THANATOR

BOOK I: The Age of Dreams

[5750 PC – 4700 PC]

In Production

[New Entries Added]

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The Vandyrian Civilization

Vol 1: Post-Cosmological Primer:

COMING SOON:

  • A Part of The Greater Empire
  • The Great Civilization
  • The Guiding Hand of Empire
  • The Children of Empire
  • "Peace" In This Time
  • The Grand Systema & Its Many Variants
  • Stratagem

Vol 2: Greater Imperial Histories & Ancient Wars:

  • Known Foundations
  • A Great & Terrible Race
  • Those Outside The System
  • Those Outside The Law
  • Those Outside Thanator
  • Sibling Rivalries

Vol 3: The World of Thanator & Its Peoples:

  • The Imperial Gauntlet & Its Players
  • Green Skies & Cool Water
  • Systema in Paradise
  • The Decadent Nature
  • Discipline & Debauchery
  • Accumulation & Debt

Vol 4: The Realms of the Empire:

  • War
  • Espionage
  • Industry
  • Science
  • Technology
  • The New Mercantilism

Vol 5: The Body Politic of Thanator:

  • Old Blood
  • New Lines
  • Old Problems
  • New Coalitions
  • Old Debts
  • New Legers
  • Death by Slow Civilization
  • One Last Thing Before Moving On

High Thanator is Just The Beginning.

From here we enter The Age of Dread, followed by the present day, known to those trapped within as The Age of Terror.

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