House

Heirloom

The house endures. Lead it.

Take the Seat

Start a ruler now, or shape the founder first.

Default
Quick Start
Begin with a generated founder.
Optional
Customize
Customize your founder and starting style.
What happens after I choose?

Quick Start prepares a legal founder, opening deck, and suggested ambition so the first scene can begin immediately.

Customize opens the builder below for name, background, style, portrait, stats, and traits.

First run guide
What you are doing
Read the scene, choose an approach, use cards, then check what changed.
Founder Builder Name, background, starting style, stats, and traits.

Identity

Shown in your status line.

Background

Starting cards, resources, and event bias.
House origin

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.

Legacy0
Heirloom Shards0
Current Stage
Founding House
Deeper inheritances open once the house has mastered its first true arts.

Inheritance Spine

The enduring spine of the house. These inheritances shape nearly every future ruler.

Branches

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

Heirloom Vault

Relics, tokens, and witnesses too weighty to bury are kept here for the bloodline. Spend Heirloom Shards to unlock Signature cards. Signature cards are offered to heirs at succession, with more slots and stronger drafts unlocked deeper in the tree.

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
Recent result

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

House Notice