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Persistent strategy · Ten cultures · Live world

Build a culture. Hold a kingdom. Race the world to its ending.

A persistent strategy world for ten cultures, four epochs, and five ways to win. Lead a desert sultanate, an island league, a mountain forge, a savannah covenant, or a hydraulic kingdom — on a map that punishes anyone who treats terrain as scenery.

10

Cultures

Each one fights, builds, and worships differently.

60

Patron gods

Six per culture, each with rivals, divine units, and Tier-V legendary heroes.

5

Victory races

Faith, trade, Wonder, conquest, peace — all public, all contestable.

4

Epochs

Settlement → city-state → kingdom → empire scale.

Ten cultures, ten oaths

  • Cairnveil Tuatha

    By oath, stone, and song, the land remembers.

  • Sun Dune Sultanates

    Gold moves armies before steel arrives.

  • Azure Isles League

    Own the sea, command every horizon.

  • Fjordborn Clans

    Storms harden us. Coasts fall before us.

  • Thunder Lodge Confederacy

    The fire remembers. The people rise together.

  • River Crown Kingdoms

    Feed the realm. Outlast every rival.

  • Jade Lotus Empire

    Order, learning, patience, then rightful supremacy.

  • Condor Crown Confederacy

    Rise by the road. Rule by sun and root.

  • Red Earth Covenant

    Remember the ancestors. Circle the enemy. Endure the sun.

  • Ironpeak Holds

    Stone endures. Steel answers every siege.

Choose your realm

Pick the fantasy. The realm decides everything else.

Each culture pushes a different command emotion. Browse three of them here, then read the full dossier — gods, heroes, capstones, and the prose that pulls visitors in.

Five ways to win

The clock is public. The lead is contestable.

Every victory has a visible threshold and a real-time hold timer. When someone gets close, everyone sees it — and everyone gets a chance to stop them.

Religious / Cultural

65% Divine Influence + 15-point lead

12 real hours

Economic / Trade

60% World Economy Score

16 real hours

Alliance World Wonder

Wonder completed and defended

20 real hours

Military / Domination

80% World Domination Score

20 real hours

Peace / Concordance

Valid Concordance + 60% player coverage

24 real hours

What you are playing

A world, not a feature list

A map that fights back

Roads, rivers, weather, fatigue, supply, and patrol coverage all decide where armies actually move and where trade survives. Terrain is not scenery — it is the contest.

Faith, politics, and unrest

Legitimacy, laws, sacred sites, fanatic states, succession, and divine favor press on your realm as hard as any army. Belief tiers run Honored → Revered → Exalted → Mythbound → Consecrated.

Alliance command, in-game

Chat, polls, raid planning, diplomacy, treasury, contracts, and a news feed all sit inside the alliance hub. No spreadsheets, no second app.

People and equipment with weight

Five social classes, housing pressure, veterancy, training tiers, equipment recipes, and culture-specific templates shape what your forces actually become.

Public victory races

Wins are visible. Once a power crosses a threshold, every player gets warning time and a 12–24 hour public hold timer before the world can actually end.

One world, one shell

World map, city panels, army orders, diplomacy, political dashboards, battle reports, and victory tracking all share a single interface.

Ten realms on one map

Pick a banner. Inherit a world.

Alliance hub

Run your alliance from inside the game

Coordinate raids, vote on decisions, post news, run a shared treasury, and write contracts — all in the alliance hub. No spreadsheets, no second app.

Coordinate

Chat, news, polls, raid planning, diplomacy, contracts, treasury, members, and settings.

Specialize

Role-locked channels, direct messages, an internal marketplace, and shared war-room planning.

Early game

Secure your homeland

Get food, materials, and roads working. Scout your neighborhood. Make sure your first city is hard to bully.

Mid game

Shape the region

Open trade, set treaties, raid rivals, and lock down the routes that feed your realm. Your borders start mattering to other players.

Late game

Race for a victory

Push a public win condition while opponents try to break it. Sacred sites, markets, Wonders, and capitals all become flashpoints.

End-game hold

Survive the public timer

Once a power crosses the threshold, the world watches a 12–24 hour public hold. The match ends only if no one breaks the lead.

Waitlist

Be there when the first world opens

Drop your email and we'll send your invitation when worlds go live. Pick your culture, claim a coast or a mountain pass, and start writing the next age.

We'll only use your email to invite you when worlds open. No newsletter, no resale.