As I write this, in one day’s time, the US will implement a massive global tariff programme that will place new taxes of between 10% and 60% on all goods coming through the US border. Now: we make goods that go across the US border – at least, the ones going to US customers do […]
An exploration of the core rules of Voidheart Symphony: how and why your rebels roll dice, and how that changes across realities.
Learn all about this game of occult revolution in the modern city.
That’s another one down, then. Another annual calendar that no longer has dominion over us. Another lap around an uncaring orbital body that doesn’t even try to chase us back. So long, 2024, eat our dust. It’s not been a perfect year, on a macro level, but it’s been pretty good in our neck of […]
Time For An Auditory Adventure Til Death Do Us Heart, the official actual play for Heart, is now streaming! Come join the gang as they go on an ill-fated journey to stop a wedding down in the Heart’s depths, or die trying. The show features Keiron Gillen as the maniacal Gamemaster, alongside Nathan Blades, Naomi Clarke, Grant […]
When you’re in a Hollow but you’re not in a fight against an Entity, you’re in the Exploration stage of the game. Surrounding each Entity in a Hollow are blasted hinterlands of rotten unreality where people, places, and things have been absorbed from the real world and remade into unsettling new forms. Exploring them is […]
This country is built on our bones. Labour made The Isles strong. The Empire couldn’t have existed without mills, shipyards, factories and foundries, and the owners and workers (but mostly the owners) of the nation forced the Crown to recognise their value, and reward them with democratic representation. For a while, things were good. Elected […]
Dead gods make fertile soil. Before the rise of the empire, the average Islander believed dozens of malevolent gods and spirits were ever-ready to punish them for transgressions against inscrutable laws. Ramshackle amalgamations of folk beliefs coalesced into a broad tradition of fear, obfuscation and appeasement; churches were carefully-maintained divine blind spots where births, marriages, […]
Nothing is meaningless. The Conclave is older than Hollows. In fact, it’s older than most institutions that persist in The Isles, but the fact that it specifically predates the first known Hollow is significant. It’s almost as if their long-irrelevant royal founder was prescient when she formally acknowledged The Isles’ disparate circles of sages and […]
The Crown We were great, once. Before smokestacks and presses, before looms and workhouses, before cutting-edge science and an empire that spanned the globe, the Isles were a place of quiet majesty. Of noble knights, gleaming armour, slain dragons and momentous destinies. The Crown clings to this ingrained mythology tighter each decade, and as the […]
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