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Bleak times have come to the Known World.
It is the year 4218. The Kylearian Empire holds the whole of the world in its adamantium grip. More that two thousand years have passed since His Divine Regency, the Emperor Marcus Kylearius, conquered the Known World and placed himself upon the Throne Absolute – where he sits to this day. His reign is cold and cruel and complete; from the courts and magistrates to the farmers and tradesmen, there is no aspect of life that his functionaries do not watch over. The Emperor sees all, knows all; and the great bureaucratic machine of the Empire rolls ever onward, grinding the hopes and dreams of its citizenry into dust between its gears.
The power of the Empire is matched only by that which has existed before it, the One True Church, offering salvation to those who accept the teachings of Anselm, the Sun God, into their hearts. Yet deliverance has its price. The clergy peddles salvation like trade goods so that the Church might line its coffers with silver, and what once was spiritual has become political. To disobey the Holy Edicts are to condemn one’s soul to eternal damnation in the afterlife; the Church’s enemies are branded as heretics and hunted down by the Justicari, who can find evil within the purest heart, and purifies the wicked with flame and steel.
For time immemorial the people of the Known World have lived beneath the shadow of Church and Empire, afraid to act or speak without first considering how their deeds will be perceived by those who rule. And times are changing – for the worse. Over the course of the last ten years the skies have slowly become darker and the land has grown colder. Midday is no brighter than twilight and the night is blacker than pitch. The warmest day of summer caries with it an autumnal chill, and winter is longer than spring and summer combined. Trees grow short and stunted, flowers refuse to bloom, and meadows once bright and green have become dull and gray. Each year the farmlands yield a crop smaller than that of the year before, and only the wealthiest of men do not go hungry. Goblins and Ghuls lurk in the shadows, carrying off those who are not wary into their dark lairs. And the truth of an ancient heresy, long concealed by Church and Empire, can no longer be denied.
The sun is going out.
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The game would be RP-intensive, include firearms and steamworks, and deal with "dark" subject matter (though not of the nature that the "mature" connotation implies). As stated above, all characters would be human, and no divine magic is available in the setting.
Influences include Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun and Guy Davis' Baker Street comic book series (check them out if you don't know them - they're really good!).
Not everyone's cup of tea, I know. But if anyone is interested, drop me a line here and we can see where this goes.
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Bleak times have come to the Known World.
It is the year 4218. The Kylearian Empire holds the whole of the world in its adamantium grip. More that two thousand years have passed since His Divine Regency, the Emperor Marcus Kylearius, conquered the Known World and placed himself upon the Throne Absolute – where he sits to this day. His reign is cold and cruel and complete; from the courts and magistrates to the farmers and tradesmen, there is no aspect of life that his functionaries do not watch over. The Emperor sees all, knows all; and the great bureaucratic machine of the Empire rolls ever onward, grinding the hopes and dreams of its citizenry into dust between its gears.
The power of the Empire is matched only by that which has existed before it, the One True Church, offering salvation to those who accept the teachings of Anselm, the Sun God, into their hearts. Yet deliverance has its price. The clergy peddles salvation like trade goods so that the Church might line its coffers with silver, and what once was spiritual has become political. To disobey the Holy Edicts are to condemn one’s soul to eternal damnation in the afterlife; the Church’s enemies are branded as heretics and hunted down by the Justicari, who can find evil within the purest heart, and purifies the wicked with flame and steel.
For time immemorial the people of the Known World have lived beneath the shadow of Church and Empire, afraid to act or speak without first considering how their deeds will be perceived by those who rule. And times are changing – for the worse. Over the course of the last ten years the skies have slowly become darker and the land has grown colder. Midday is no brighter than twilight and the night is blacker than pitch. The warmest day of summer caries with it an autumnal chill, and winter is longer than spring and summer combined. Trees grow short and stunted, flowers refuse to bloom, and meadows once bright and green have become dull and gray. Each year the farmlands yield a crop smaller than that of the year before, and only the wealthiest of men do not go hungry. Goblins and Ghuls lurk in the shadows, carrying off those who are not wary into their dark lairs. And the truth of an ancient heresy, long concealed by Church and Empire, can no longer be denied.
The sun is going out.
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The game would be RP-intensive, include firearms and steamworks, and deal with "dark" subject matter (though not of the nature that the "mature" connotation implies). As stated above, all characters would be human, and no divine magic is available in the setting.
Influences include Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun and Guy Davis' Baker Street comic book series (check them out if you don't know them - they're really good!).
Not everyone's cup of tea, I know. But if anyone is interested, drop me a line here and we can see where this goes.
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