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.

Guided

Guided Founding

Shape the first ruler step by step, then begin the first season.

Advanced

Advanced Setup

Manual founder setup for details, stats, and starting traits.

What happens after I choose?

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

Guided Founding walks through identity, background, style, strengths, traits, and ambition before starting a normal run.

Advanced Setup opens the manual builder below for name, background, style, portrait, stats, and starting traits.

First run guide

What you are doing

Read the scene, choose an approach, use cards, then check what changed.

Advanced Setup Manual founder setup: name, origin, style, stats, portrait, emblem, and traits.

Identity

Shown in your status line.

Given name

Family name

Background

Starting cards, resources, and event bias.

Choose your origin

Family 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.

Bloodline Chronicle

The founding family

A young lineage 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.

Latest change Result

More details

Your Hand

Card tools

Committed

First card

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Second card

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Choose an approach.

House

Current house state stays collapsed until you need it for this decision.

Open House for current state; open Chronicle for what has already happened.

Current resources, people, conditions, world pressure, and ambition are grouped here instead of competing with the current choice.

Resources

People

Conditions

World

Ambition

Records

Discovered lore and older consequences live outside the House panel.

Chronicle

What has happened over time. It is not required reading for the current choice.