IThe city
Kormor Kirak
A walled mountain city of gaslight and wet stone. Ward symbols in red ochre on the doorframes, Albion factories and Terrassian clockwork in the same market, and a century of war beyond the passes.
Your first visit
One city.
One city.
Five things to know.
You do not need to learn the whole setting first. Kormor Kirak is a walled mountain city in 1793, ruled by a vampire queen, held between two exhausted empires, with a comet climbing over it. Everything else follows from these five cards. Each opens a full record.
IIThe castle
Castle Torony Piros
Half its mass hangs over the cliff. A ballroom with dungeons under the dance floor, a throne of iron and bone, and a cavern beneath it all.
IIIThe Queen
Kiraline Veresz Eroszakos
A vampire sovereign who rules openly and bureaucratically. Everyone knows what she is. That is not the secret.
IVThe comet
The Comet Chamber
The Crimson Comet climbs, and the Queen is building a chamber to catch its power. The escalation track runs on that clock, one phase a week.
VThe players
Caught between empires
An Albion accountant, a dying diplomat, a smuggler with a secret, a princess in a cage, and a city full of people selling information to all of them.
Then read
The Bloodletter
Penny fiction from inside the city: washers and clerks, smugglers and seamstresses, the watched and the disappeared.
Then play
One Night of Freedom
An interactive story: you are the Princess and you want one night outside the castle walls.
Then follow
The Eternal Courant
The city's broadsheet, issue by issue, as the escalation track advances toward the Convergence.