A game of crowns, heirs and long memory
Rule a dynasty on a living map. Give your orders, close the book, and come back tomorrow: a year has passed for every realm at once, and your scribe has written it down.
Free to play. A few minutes a day.
How a day goes
Nobody has to be online at the same time. The world moves once a day, for everyone together.
Claim land, raise buildings, send envoys, muster armies, name an heir. Seal them whenever suits you.
At midnight every realm's orders are carried out together. Harvests come in, children are born, armies meet.
Your scribe writes the year in the hand of the age: what you built, who you married, what you lost.
Your realm
Rulers age and die. What lasts is the house, its lands, and what the chronicle says of it.
Arrange matches between courts, raise children, name an heir. A line that dies out ends the realm.
Claim the hexes around you before a neighbour does. Close your borders round a valley and it's yours.
Trade, marriage, peace and calls to arms are carried at the turn and answered the year after. Plan ahead.
Armies march, scout, besiege and go hungry. Soldiers want paying. Victories are remembered for generations.
Design your house's coat of arms, from the field to the motto, blazoned as a herald would. Fly it on your banners.
Busy week? Your council rules in your name by standing orders you choose, and hands back the reins when you return.
The chronicle
Each realm keeps its own chronicle, and it never forgets. Meet another court and you can read theirs too, as their scribes keep it.
Fields were ploughed in the Cressing Vale, and a farmstead raised beside them. New hearths were lit across Heronmark. Its people now numbered four thousand.
Envoys rode to the court of Calder bearing gifts, and at midsummer the Princess Aldreda was given in marriage to its heir.
Before the first frost the host of Wendmoor crossed the river. Far from home, it lost three hundred men to hunger and sickness on the march.
Being built in the open
The world is in early testing. Here's what's next.
Talk with other rulers, report bugs, suggest ideas and vote on what gets built next. One account for the game and the forum.
A one-time pass for beta players: membership for the life of the game, a founder's mark no one can buy later, and more say in what's built. Looks only, never an edge in the world.
Name your realm, crown your ruler, and claim your first lands.