Heirloom

The house endures. Lead it.

Take the Seat

Choose how this ruler enters the hall, then carry the house into its first season.

Start in seconds with a generated founder, or open the full builder and shape every detail yourself.

Quick Start

Generate a founder, background, style, and suggested ambition automatically, then jump straight into the first event.

First run guide

What you are doing

Read each scene, choose an approach, use cards to improve the attempt, then check what changed. Resources open risky choices; your ambition gives the life a clear goal.

Custom Run Setup Choose your name, origin, portrait, emblem, stats, and traits.

Identity

Shown in your status line.

Given name

Family name

Background

Starting cards, resources, and event bias.

Choose your origin

House origin

Choose a style

Stats

Remaining 0 / 0

Allocate points (max 0 per stat). Each stat begins at 1, then your origin and style add their mark.

Starting Traits

0 / 2 selected

Traits are simple, permanent run-start nudges.

Legacy: 0

Legacy

Review the bloodline, spend Legacy, and shape what future rulers inherit.

House Chronicle

The founding house

A young house still learning what it can pass on.

Current Stage

Founding House

Permanent progress lives here. Run resources and Scrip stay with the current ruler.

Permanent Currencies

These are kept outside the current run and spent on future bloodlines.

Legacy Permanent0

Earned at life end. Spent in the inheritance tree for future rulers.

Heirloom Shards Permanent0

Spent on Legacy Starts, Signature cards, and bloodline traits.

Inheritance Tree

Spend Legacy on permanent house advantages. These inheritances shape future rulers, not just the current scene.

Branches

Where one bloodline begins to take on a nature of its own.

Heirloom Vault & Bloodline Traits

Spend Heirloom Shards on permanent Signature cards and bloodline traits. These unlocks affect future runs or succession drafts.

Lineage

MAJOR

Core loop

Choose, commit, resolve

Each turn begins with a scene. Pick an approach, commit cards if the choice is tested, resolve the result, then read the changes before moving on.

What changed

Your Hand

The house’s answer

First card

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Second card

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Choose an approach.

Household & Chronicle

The wider state of the house, and the memory it is leaving behind.

Take the measure of the house before the next turn.

Resources

Standing & kin

Conditions

What lies ahead

Wider world

House purpose

Faction standing

Known faces

House notices

Chronicle