Small tides become deadly currents.

Small tides become deadly currents.

Still considered a fledgling operation by most established syndicates, the Undertow survives through desperation, adaptability, and willingness to take...

She'll steal your coins, your heart, and your breath  -  all is fair game.

She'll steal your coins, your heart, and your breath - all is fair game.

Her reputation is built from daring, sarcasm, and a talent for making trouble look intentional. She moves like a shadow with an attitude problem, slipping...

Every debt in Ashmoor gets chalked on this wall, sooner or later.

Every debt in Ashmoor gets chalked on this wall, sooner or later.

Behind the bar hangs the board: a slab of black slate covered in chalk, every name in town and every mark they owe. Pay up and your line is wiped clean....

77 Chronicles
28 Kindreds
14 Factions
71 Realms
76 Souls
Terms of Thawing
  • An Early Winter
  • An Offer From the Cold
  • Nobody Came Back From the Thaw

Terms of Thawing

Teen 13+
The player reaches the village as the first snows bury the road. The cold-priests are polite, patient and very persuasive; their rune-lit spheres keep a room warm without fire, and they speak of the frozen faithful as if visiting old friends. The warden's men want the priests driven out. The hungry families want to listen. One elder has already packed. Both sides ask the player to carry messages, keep watch and find out what really waits in the caverns, and the cult would very much like the player to come and see for themselves.

Frostborne

Teen 13+

Deep beneath the ice, in caverns lit by runes and rumor, the Frostborne gather. They are the Frostborne Cultists, and they have one offer: freeze the living now, and the living will wake to forever. There is no proof, of course. There is only a great many cold, confident faces and a long list of people who have already accepted.

They are neither loud nor cruel on the surface. They are tidy, patient and endlessly well informed about what the powerful are hiding from you. The Army of Light burns the villages, the nobles bleed the Unblooded, and the Frostborne alone, they say, are telling the truth. It is an excellent pitch, and it has emptied more than one hamlet near Timony Keep.

Those who have crossed their path know the rest: the preserved sit in rows, eyes open, and nobody has yet reported back from the other side of the thaw. Neutral and evil in equal measure, the Frostborne are not hunting your coin. They are hunting your yes.


Frostborne
  • Frozen Certainty
  • Warm Smiles, Cold Hands
  • Eternal Life Guaranteed
Shiverclaw Mountains
  • Frost Bitten Peaks
  • Rime Cat Country
  • Home of Brukna

A land locked in ice and silence, the Shiverclaw Mountains rise like frozen sentinels against the northern sky. Their peaks, shrouded in eternal snow, carve through the clouds, untouched by warmth. Glaciers stretch between jagged cliffs, their frozen rivers moving slow as time itself. Villages are not built but carved-hollowed from the ice, shaped by those who have long made this frozen expanse their home. The air is sharp, the winds merciless, and the cold seeps into bone and stone alike. Life here is not for the weak, but for those who endure, those who have found strength in the frost and silence.


Eternal life, frozen fresh. They will explain the thawing later.