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Every world has a briefing.
These aren't tagline cards. Each world below has a real briefing - factions you can read about before you play, NPCs with names you'll remember, history the engine keeps in a database long after the conversation ends. Pick one and read what you're walking into.
Fantasy
The Gilded Coast
The first folk (humans) are gone, and now animal-folk have spread across the world. Play as a strong wolf-folk or bear-folk, the wise raven-folk or the mystical stag-folk. Or p...
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The Summoned
Torn from an ordinary life on Earth into a world of magic, monsters, and a System that grades you in status screens. The kingdom that summoned you calls you their Champion, but you...
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Skies of Brass
A shattered world where humanity lives aloft and the airship is the only freedom that matters. A chart to a lost aether-vault has every fleet racing for the sky. Every port remembe...
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The Hollow Court
An immortal otherworld of thorn-and-gold courts, beautiful lethal fae, and bargains that are nooses. You are a mortal one dangerous immortal has noticed, and the eternal cold war t...
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Arcanum Academy
Four Houses of magic, a ward failing beneath the school, and teachers quietly at war over what is buried there. You arrive at Aldermere a first-year with an untested wand. The frie...
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Tower of the Hundred Floors
One hundred floors, each its own world, and a System grading you in cold blue text. Climb too slow and the predators take you; too fast and the Trials do. Your Levels, your Skills,...
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The Wren Monastery Scriptorium
You arrive at a small mountain monastery as their newest scribe. Brother Cael is gentle and curious. The village below sends children up for letters and old men for stories. Mornin...
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The Salthaven Herbarium
Your great-aunt Linnea, the village herbalist of a sleepy fishing town, left you the keys, the seed-jars, and a ledger of regulars who came for tinctures and gentle remedies. Morni...
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Drevnar - The Composition Approaches
Once the greatest civilization on the continent, Drevnar now fractures under two centuries of slow decline. Its five powers bicker over what remains of a golden age. Three years ag...
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Shirogane Highlands
A samurai world a thousand turns deep. Two clans are locked in open war, an heirloom blade has changed hands by theft, and a rival still remembers the day he was shown mercy. Step ...
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The Beastbound Marches
On a wild frontier ruled by spirit-beast bonds, the royal courts have begun chaining the last titans into weapons. Then an impossible creature chooses you. Master the bond, defend ...
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Bloodmaw Rampagers
A relegated orc club in a leaking war-hold, debts to every moneylender in the marches, and a dressing room that wanted your assistant to get the job. The chieftain wants the wonder...
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Grimhollow
Grimhollow is a blighted march where every village has a graveyard bigger than itself, and the things in the dark are not superstition: drowned dead in the fens, wraiths in the pla...
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The Salt Road
The Salt Road runs three thousand miles across the Girdle: caravan routes threading deserts, steppe, and walled trade-cities, carrying salt, silk, spice, and silver between empires...
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The Broken Crown
The kingdom of Valdmark shattered a generation ago, and now a dozen warring holds carve it up: robber-barons, sellsword companies, petty lords, and a grasping church. You are a dis...
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Children of Olympus
An Age of Heroes where the gods of Olympus still walk among mortals, monsters out of nightmare haunt the wine-dark sea, and an old prophecy has begun to speak your name. Win the go...
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Nine Heavens Ascension
A land of ten thousand sects where you refine qi across lifetimes to climb toward immortality. A broken immortal sword has surfaced and every sect is racing for it. Every grudge, e...
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The Last Lantern
A spreading darkness is swallowing the realm, the ancient beacons that held it back are going dark, and the knowledge to relight them is dying with one old man. You begin a nobody ...
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The Thorn Throne
A king is dead, the throne sits empty, and five great houses are circling it with poison, marriage, and steel. You are small enough to move unseen and well-placed enough to matter....
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The Black Spire
A tower of black stone with no known top, swallowing delvers for a thousand years, and something rising from its depths. You descend floor by floor for treasure that could clear yo...
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The Ashfall Era
A shattered empire bleeds. From a penniless farmer to a samurai warlord or shadow-bound shinobi, forge your destiny in a limitless open world where rival clans and terrifying yōkai...
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Loire Valley, 1917
WW1 Diesel punk setting. Allied start.
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Center City Green Zone
The Division. Takes place in Philadelphia during the events of the first game. First world, so if anyone has any tips on how to make it better, please let me know!
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Pro Voltuna
Voltuna is a walled Tuscan town that once watched its club spend four seasons in the top flight, and has buried that club twice since. Refounded, indebted, fourth tier: now a facel...
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Defensores de Villa Espinal
A member-owned club in a working barrio of greater Buenos Aires: two months of unpaid wages, a tax embargo on the gate, and a teenage potrero genius whose sale could save the books...
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Maragibe Esporte Clube
Maragibe Esporte Clube: fourth tier, northeast coast of Brazil, a club raised by a fish market and the favela on the hill above it. The wages are two months late. The academy has p...
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Ashfield Rovers
A relegated club in a worn-out northern mill town, six-figure debts, and a dressing room that wanted your assistant to get your job. The chairman wants the wonderkid sold in twenty...
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Hollow City
Eleven years after the event that gave a few people powers, your own just woke up. Heroes want to recruit you, the Bureau wants to tag you, the underworld wants to buy you. What yo...
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The Long Road
Forty years after the Burn, water is currency and a working engine is worth killing for. A warlord owns the fuel, raiders own the road, and a rumor of intact pre-Burn waterworks co...
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Kaido
Street Racer Game Buy cars, do em up and then race for money. Works good, good fun! Try it out!
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South Central, 2049
Los Angeles in the 1990s was a decade of intense contrasts defined by natural disasters, civil unrest, and deep economic struggles, which ultimately birthed a booming era of creati...
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Halvorsen Station
A modern Antarctic research base, sealed in for the polar winter. The last plane left weeks ago. The next one is months away. Fourteen people, one power plant, four months of darkn...
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Port Blossom
Cosy seaside town, with plenty of opportunity for a little business startup, Florist, Baker and whatever you can think of!
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The Shattered Moon of Veyra
Veyra is a moon broken into a thousand inhabited fragments, linked by gravity sails and living bridges. Now the empire that shattered it has returned to harvest its exposed core. B...
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Concordia
A sealed paradise-city that scores your every breath, ruled by an all-seeing intelligence and the lie that keeps it docile. One leaked truth could shatter it, and the Lattice is hu...
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Steel Bastion
Humanity's last fortress-city, a self-replicating alien swarm at the walls, and forty-foot neural-linked war-frames the only thing holding the line. The enemy is learning, and the ...
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Behemoth Bay
The last sealed city on a drowned coast, behind a seawall, with skyscraper-sized Titans circling closer each season. The largest one yet is now coming, and the wall will not hold. ...
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Station Echo-9
You wake from cryo into a derelict ARGUS has watched for two hundred years: a station where the crew became the Changed and the AI sealed the doors to study them. A failing reactor...
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Bradbury Settlement
The first permanent human colony on Mars. Three hundred people in a crater on the floor of Valles Marineris, eleven years in, nine months until the next supply window. Hard science...
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Coldwater
The dead came to Coldwater on an ordinary week, and a town of forty thousand is coming apart house by house. The highways are jammed, the phones are down, and you start with nothin...
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Ravenscar Hall
A crumbling clifftop manor where the family died out and something patient has been waiting behind the locked doors - for someone exactly like you. The three-hundred-year binding i...
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The Drowning Town
A New England fishing town where the nets are full again, the locals are changing, and something ancient is waking under the sea. You came to dig into one small mystery. Every reco...
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Moonbound
A mountain town where werewolf packs hide in plain sight, and one of them has imprinted on you. To love a wolf is to choose a side in a war the humans do not know they are losing. ...
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Crimson Court
Four vampire Houses rule Saint-Cyr by night, and one of them has just noticed you. Love offered by something that will outlive you is the most dangerous trap of all. Every confessi...
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The Quarantine Zone
Nineteen days since the city was sealed. The Wall won't open, the water is failing, and the dead are learning to climb. Four enclaves fight over the last fuel, the last medicine, t...
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Koivisto - The Lake Unfrozen
A Finnish village of thirty-eight souls on the shore of Lake Vakka, in Karelia, in February 1912. The lake has not frozen this winter. It should have frozen in November. It is now ...
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The Debt of Ash
Ten years ago you were somebody in Ardenza, a wealthy canal-republic of banking houses and masked intrigue: a rising trader with a partner you trusted, a patron who favored you, a ...
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The Longport Racket
Longport is a gray port city where the legitimate economy died twenty years ago and the racket replaced it: protection, stolen freight off the docks, loan-sharking, pills, and cash...
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The Berlin Cipher
Berlin, 1961, weeks after the Wall. Four spy services, a traitor inside your own, and a mission designed to burn you. Trust is the only currency and it is always counterfeit. Every...
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The Vault Job
The most secure vault in the country sits beneath a kingpin who kills threats on sight, and you intend to crack it. You have a target and no crew yet. Every specialist you recruit,...
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House of Knives
Four crime families, a dying truce, and someone lethal you were never supposed to want. In Cordova, to love the wrong person is to start a war. Every alliance you make, every secre...
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The Ashford Manor Murders
A lord dead at the foot of the library stairs, a house full of guests who all had a motive, and a killer who has not finished. You are the detective the family did not want. Every ...
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Chicago, 1925
The fifth year of Prohibition, in the city that turned a dry law into the most profitable business in America. Speakeasies behind grocery curtains, bootleg routes from the Canadian...
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Porto Calvera - The Exchange
A Mediterranean port city that no state currently claims. Eighteen years ago the Calvertan Republic collapsed and never returned. Three criminal families run Porto Calvera now - th...
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Cyberpunk
Neon & Rain
It has rained on the Meridian Sprawl for eleven years, and the case on your desk should have been routine. A private eye, a corrupt megacity, and a truth that powerful people paid ...
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Neon Garden: A Florist in Kowloon-3
Floor 47 of Kowloon-3 holds your shop. You sell flowers - real flowers, grown under stolen UV in a back room, root-stock smuggled from the agro-arcologies of Chiang Mai. Below floo...
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The Bronze Oath
The warrior city of Lakedra has lost the army that made it feared. Enemy ships close on the coast, subject villages prepare to rise, and one final levy must decide what its famous ...
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Leningrad, 1942
Leningrad, late January 1942. The city is surrounded, bread is weighed to the gram, and the cold kills as surely as the shells. Enter as a soldier on the frozen rim, a medic in an ...
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Merancourt, 1916
October 1916. A flooded trench sector in Picardy the maps call Merancourt and the men call the Two Hundred Yards. You are with the Alderwick Pals, a battalion raised from one mill ...
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Phù Sa, 1968
A village of nine hundred on the Thu Bồn river, Quảng Nam province, 1968. American patrols come through by day. The Front comes at night. The rice is three weeks from harvest and b...
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Ragnarok's Eve
A frozen north where the clans raid and feud beneath a sky darkening toward Ragnarok. The endless winter has come, the gods have gone silent, and the dead are walking. Carve a saga...
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The Crimson Sands
In the marble-and-blood capital of a rotting empire, a slave can become a god the whole arena chants for, or a corpse dragged out by hooks. The Grand Games are coming, and every po...
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You find yourself in the Levant
Made a purely historical, zero-magic sandbox set in the Levant. The empire controls the main hubs like Antakya, but the mountains are full of old Crusader remnants and hidden sanct...
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