Where to begin
A world preserved in fragments
These records gather what is currently known about Roo and the world around it. Some describe history. Some describe belief. Some describe mechanisms no living culture fully understands. In Roo, those categories do not always agree.
The old world
What survived
The Moonless Sky
The moon vanished, the seas rose, and Roo was cut off from the world for nearly two thousand years.
Open record → History guideThe Age of Man
From the Vanir–Aesir war to Drianor, the Time Flood and the return of navigable seas: seven thousand years in one trail of fragments.
Walk the timeline → Ancient worldThe Vanir Ruins
Structures built on a scale too large for humans still stand across Roo — and many mechanisms still function.
Enter the ruins → Field guideReading the Ruins
Priests, treasure hunters, scholars, cults and jarls can all look at the same ancient place and see something different.
Read the field notes → Ancient mechanismThe Tidal Gate
A vast sea gate set into an enormous wall between two seas.
Approach the gate → BloodlineDrianor
A hero, a prophet, perhaps something more — and one of the few known to command ancient mechanisms.
Read the record →The living world
What people believe, fear and fight over
The Six Forms
Truth, Lie, Dream, Silence, Ambiguity and Unknown bind magic to six different principles.
Study magic → ReligionFaith in Roo
The Vanir faith and the growing Church of Drianor coexist in a world where belief is not always the same as truth.
Enter the temple → Folklore that breathesThe Hidden Beings
Trolls, woodlings, rå and other beings exist — even if most people would laugh at you for saying so.
Look into the forest → RebellionThe Dales
Jarl Resgar Vasa's rebellion has shaken royal authority and forced old questions into the open.
Follow the road → Port cityTriport
A Rooan coastal gateway where the wider world arrives by sea after centuries of isolation.
Go to the harbor → EmpireVarren & Highward
A southern empire whose capital stands directly over an enormous ancient ruin.
Cross the sea → World guideRoo and Vanaheim
Roo is only one northern country in a much larger world of kingdoms, empires and old mysteries.
See the wider world →People at the center
Lives shaping the present
Fander
Quick-witted, observant and drawn toward the questions everyone else avoids.
Meet Fander → PrincipleMorango
He hates slavery, racism and captivity, even when resistance comes at a cost.
Meet Morango → MisfortuneKarden
Cunning, self-interested and followed by a pattern of breakage, accidents and unexplained bad luck.
Meet Karden → Ancient magicNecken
An ancient user of Lie magic whose impossible life has endured for millennia — and whose sustaining lie is beginning to fail.
Enter Necken's record → Royal powerKing Erik
Roo's king carries secret knowledge of the ancient world — and fears the catastrophe he has seen in fragments could return.
Enter the king's record → GloryPrince Birger
A prince who wants to become famous, remembered in sagas and spoken of as a great heroic figure.
Meet Prince Birger → PrejudicePrincess Frida
A princess whose contempt for the Arwen exposes one of the deepest divisions in Roo's old social order.
Meet Princess Frida → RebellionJarl Resgar Vasa
Jarl of the Dales and the rebel power whose uprising has destabilized the authority of King Erik.
Enter Resgar's record →