INTRODUCTION
Long ago, in the miasmic jungles of the north, there arose the iaret, lifted up by the Father of Serpents. With the aid of the oceanic apkallu of the Mor Dyfn to the east, they raised a great civilization. They explored from horizon to horizon, as Geb intended. In their great history, they saw fire burn the homelands of the humans in the west to ash and desert. They saw a star fall into the Mor Dyfn and shatter the earth there into islands. They subjugated the wild beastkin and saw the ozrut and ptak emerge from their mountain hideaways and the muruch from their ocean grottos to trade their treasures and secrets. They excavated the bones of the City of Cities, and for a time held sway over the known earth.

But the Lord of Cycles rules even the chosen of Geb, and their time has passed. They have retreated to their jungle cities in decadent torpor and other races now discover what it means to have dominion over the lands. Throughout the west and south, humans squabble over political philosophy. The islands are a cauldron of races and magic, wracked by storms and piracy. And at the heart of it all, the City of Cities still stands on the bones of its earlier incarnations.

The years have seen many wars since the iaret retreated as nations and races fight for land and treasure. An uneasy peace held sway when, fifteen years ago, the soldati came. Invaders from another plane, they brought the known earth almost to its knees in the Gate War before they were cut off from their homeworld and defeated by the nations of this world working in concert. It is said that other strange visitors, the tylwyth, were at the heart of this counterattack, their motives inscrutable. They too are now trapped on this plane.

But this victory was not to last. In a mad conflict known as the Spasm, the nations fell upon each other after the defeat of the soldati, using new weapons, technologies and magics from the Gate War to wrack the land and its people. It has been five years since the Spasm. The wounds of that war cut deep into Geb and those who dwell upon it are slowly knitting. The nations once again turn their eyes from their own hurts and look to their neighbors for trade, alliance, and advantage. Still at the center of it all is ancient Keltokel, the City of Cities. Now free of rule besides its own, it is a place for all to gather, to trade and intrigue, and surely it has a role to play in writing the fate of the known earth.
ABOUT
Primer Document - Want to start reading around the site, but feel confused and want more context? See this simplified, plain-text document outlining the basics of the world of Geb.
Kasumi Storytime! The History of Geb - If you would prefer to learn the (abbreviated) history of this world in the format of an extremely stupid storybook, this is for you.
NOTES & CHANGELOG
27/11/2024: Added 2 new art pieces to gallery and 1 new recap to recap documents. Site should also now have the custom domain keltokel.city.
26/10/2024: Added On the Arsenal and Panoply of Geb to miscellaneous and 5 new art pieces to gallery.
09/08/2024: Added 2 new recaps to recap documents and 1 new short story.
04/08/2024: Added 5 new art pieces to gallery.
30/06/2024: Additions to miscellaneous concepts, mostly information about numerous fantasy metals.
23/06/2024: Added 1 new recap to recap documents and 1 new short story.
10/06/2024: New 100% original Kasumi composition audio added to Kasumi's Music (filed under 'Lyrics' because it's not instrumental-only) and Kasumiloid is complete, if still sounding a little unnatural. Jade local map added to Jewel Cities document. Added 2 new art pieces to gallery.
09/06/2024: Completed (long sitting half-finished) appearance restructure. The earlier iterations of this site were inspired by old-school, early 2000s game fanpages with extensive menus where the visitor is able to immediately see all sections that exist (i.e. no nested menus). You can see these old versions here. This became unteneble with how many pages the Keltokel site has now. The old site structure was also not the most readable for large slabs of text. It has been reworked for a content-first presentation that prioritizes readability. It still is not nor will ever be mobile-friendly.
08/02/2024: Added 1 new art piece to gallery.
01/02/2024: Added 1 new art piece to gallery and 2 new recaps (one in misc section) to recap documents.
27/01/2024: Added 2 new art pieces to gallery and 1 new recap to recap documents.
25/01/2024: Primer document complete and world timeline overhauled.
18/01/2024: Added 2 new art pieces to gallery, 1 new recap to recap documents and 2 new entries on Balt in cities and locations.
06/01/2024: First draft of primer document, a page intended to familiarize complete newcomers with the world and its basic features.
28/12/2023: AI art assets on pantheon digest page have been replaced with hand-drawn assets. (I'm an artist, not a graphic designer, and I have no ability to work with Illustrator to make professional-looking logo/vector art - it's ugly, but it's all I can do.)
25/12/2023: Re-skinned website and added old site theme to site archive page.
16/12/2023: Added 3 new art pieces to gallery and uploaded Govannon's profile page (may be amended in future).
18/11/2023: Added 2 new recaps to recap documents and 1 new miscellaneous article on kobolds. Affiliates page reworked to be cleaner and include an adoptables section. 
15/09/2023: Added 1 new art piece to gallery and 1 new short story.
20/07/2023: Added 1 new recap to recap documents, Tatlankel regional map to The Jungle Cities of Akhet and 1 new song to Kasumi's Music.
13/07/2023: Major rework to pantheon page - now includes a simple digest with images as well as articles with more in-depth information. 
23/05/2023: New speech audio for Countess-4 and Hozysh on voice page. Added 1 new art piece to gallery. Updates to NPC index. New section added to recaps for extra in-game archival of things such as custom magic object collections.
25/04/2023: Voice page live. Added 2 new recaps to recap documents.
16/04/2023: Affiliates page added, site archive page added, layout tweaks and a theme change. Countess-4's page complete but apparently I forgot to note that update last time. Playlists page finally updated after long overdue update.
21/03/2023: Interactive world map live! Pan around, hover over locations for more information and uncover bits of hidden text. More location images to come later. Bespoke JavaScript written by my friend Fimbul.
11/03/2023: Kasumi's music page link added to sidebar, 1 recap added to recap documents and 1 new art piece to gallery. Numerous minor additions/fixes throughout site. Voice page under construction, pantheon page will receive major rework.
25/01/2023: Added 2 new short stories to short stories and 1 recap to recap documents. Kasumi's music page live but currently unlinked to main page, undecided where I'll place the link to it. Site easter eggs updated.
20/01/2023: Added 1 new art piece to gallery. Also made this thing for some reason, if you want to make Lamina poop.
04/01/2023: Short stories page now live, containing shortform stories relating to the setting of Geb (both player-created and GM-created). Added 2 new art pieces to gallery, stylized site scrollbars and added some site easter eggs for my own amusement.
07/12/2022: Added 3 new art pieces to gallery.
12/11/2022: Added completed world map, Eiiwen's profile page, and information about the jungle cities.
02/11/2022: Added 2 new art pieces to gallery and 2 recap documents.
12/09/2022: Added 2 new art pieces to gallery and 3 recap documents.
27/08/2022: Web counter added (# hits based on Neocities views), Lamina's profile page complete and added 1 new art piece to gallery.
15/08/2022: New site layout applied. Numerous new images in gallery.
15/07/2022: Human page added, completing all racial pages. Added 3 new art pieces to gallery and 1 recap document.
05/07/2022: Added 3 new art pieces to gallery and 2 recap documents.
16/06/2022: Added new links/affiliates, 1 new art piece to gallery and 2 recap documents.
11/06/2022: Added 3 new art pieces to gallery page.
07/06/2022: Yanta page added. (Probably) placeholder banner added to index, some layout tweaks.
18/05/2022: Soldati page added.
29/04/2022: NPC index uploaded (this is mostly a player resource) and Kasimir's profile uploaded.
27/04/2022: Muruch addenda has been filled in and temporary/incomplete character profiles have been uploaded, WIP tag will only be removed when complete. Fun new 404 page added, if that's something you want to know.
26/04/2022: Ptak page added.
22/04/2022: Playlists page complete, will continue to update as campaign progresses.
21/04/2022: Gallery page complete.
21/04/2022: All recaps uploaded.
20/04/2022: Beastkin page added. Kasumi's profile uploaded. Swapped the "default" page style from snow to parchment - decided the parchment theme is more readable for a text-heavy site. May re-add theme toggle later.
18/04/2022: Illustrations added to apkallu and muruch pages.
15/04/2022: Illustrations added to iaret, ozrut and tylwyth pages. More illustrations still to come, drawing as I go along.
11/04/2022: All existing documents uploaded except for recaps, intend to upload in the next few days. Sections of the site still upcoming marked with [WIP] tag. Need more illustration/graphics.
09/04/2022: Testing potential color palettes.
08/04/2022: Launched with basic intended layout and some test pages (apkallu). Sitemap complete, everything else still to do.
GUESTBOOK