Tharûm
Endurance
When the world broke, the Tharûm did not run and did not bargain. They endured, and the cataclysm left them stone. A Tharûm duelist wins by still being there at the end.
The world
The Greatwork
The world is called the Greatwork, and it was never finished. A war nearly unmade it. It ended in a pact rather than a victory: the Anvil-Peace. Under the pact, nothing in the Greatwork is settled by war any more. The three races, the houses and rivals of every kind settle their disputes in the duel.
You do not fight in person. The Forge keeps a record of your champion: the build, the gear and the plan, pressed into an Echo that duels in your name while you are away. Other players meet your Echo when you are not there, and you meet theirs. The better plan wins, not the faster hand.
Past the settled lands lies the Untempered, the raw edge of the world, where no map closes. Each season the great Forge is relit, the rules of combat change, and the border moves. The Greatwork is still being made.
Races
The three races of the Greatwork
Sylphar
Tempo
The Sylphar survived by never being where the cataclysm struck. They are a people of tempo, and of debts that never quite come due. In a duel they want the last word: strike first, then be somewhere else when the answer comes.
Aeshtar
The arcane
The Aeshtar met the cataclysm and spoke to it. What answered changed them. An Aeshtar duelist does not run dry: power is held, then released at the moment they choose.
Institutions
The Cube, the Forge, and the Ladder
Two relics survive from the making of the world: the Cube, which is chance, and the Forge, which is will. Everything in the Greatwork runs between them, and the closest thing it has to a religion is theorycraft.
The Cube
Chance
What was left of chance when the world was made. Feed it what you have milled down and it gives back what it pleases; no one has ever governed it.
The Forge
Will
The Forge is will. It breaks the unworthy into dust and essence and tempers the worthy into something the world has not seen yet.
The Ladder
The Gallery of the 84
Every dispute in the Greatwork is settled here, one temper at a time. The higher you climb, the more your word counts.
The Gallery of the 84
The Ladder & its Guardians
When the Anvil-Peace was struck, eighty-four champions of the war generation gave up their Echoes for good. They are kept exactly as the war left them, hostages of the peace, and they are what you fight on the Ladder: saved builds, never a live opponent. They are the Gallery of the 84, twelve Echoes per temper, seven tempers deep. To climb the Ladder is to walk through the end of the war, one duel at a time.
Each temper has a Guardian, a name the Gallery keeps and climbers repeat at the foot of the stair. Thrunn, the Open Gate, took the lowest temper forever, so that no duelist’s first climb would be met with contempt. Ghuram, the Anvil’s Hand, keeps the seventh; his hammer sealed the Peace. Neither of them is still there to fight. What is left of them is the story.
The story
Arc I: Khargrim, the Unbent
Khargrim climbed all seven tempers, the first to do it in an age. At the top, the Gallery’s keepers offered him the 85th pedestal: his Echo kept beside the Twelve of the Anvil, forever. He looked at the 84, Echoes that had fought without rest for centuries for a peace they never agreed to, and saw a cage inside the honor. “My Echo obeys me, not the Peace.” He walked off the Ladder, which no rank had ever held, and took his warband to the edge of the Untempered to fight duels outside the pact. Arc I follows what he did there, and it does not pretend he was simply wrong.
Latest release
v1.10.1 — «La tarjeta del clan»2026-11-02All release notes →