Places of Roo
Choose a road.
Roo is a northern country of forests, fjords, roads, ruined structures and settlements built beside remains far older than human memory.
Hammerhill
Timber halls, forges and a hilltop square built around monumental Vanir stonework.
Upperhall
The seat of the king, rising in a dramatic fjord. Full visual page coming next.
Triport
The coastal gateway through which the wider world has begun returning to Roo.
The old world beneath the new
Human timber. Vanir stone.
Across Roo, ordinary settlements stand beside ancient structures built on a scale too large for humans. People call them ruins, holy places, forts or wonders. They do not have the language to describe the mechanisms still hidden inside some of them.
Enter the ruins →The Moonless Sky
Around two thousand years ago the moon disappeared and the seas became violently unstable.
MagicSix principles
Truth, Lie, Dream, Silence, Ambiguity and Unknown define the established forms of magic.
PeopleMeet Fander
A curious Arwen whose blood can awaken mechanisms left behind by the ancient world.
The story begins here
Book One
Roo is reconnecting with the wider world while its political and social order begins to fracture. Three brothers are caught inside that change.
Coming soon