Lore
The setting, in the words of the people who live in it. This page is hand written: the rest of the wiki is generated, and the setting is not data.
Three gods began answering, and the world had to be renamed around them. Nobody living can point to the year it started, and everybody has an opinion about the other two faiths.
→ Faith — the three faiths, how a new one appears, and why the three do not agree with each other.
The one thing to know
Section titled “The one thing to know”The gods are not described as arriving. They are described as starting to reply, which is a different thing and is how everyone tells it. The oldest accounts in Haldor describe a long quiet century first — ledgers that balanced themselves, gates that opened for whoever carried the right mark, a forge that never went cold.
Each god settled into a faith that already had more followers than it had temples, and the renaming went with the settling. The names of the places are new. The places are older.
Severance
Section titled “Severance”Anyone can cut a link to the networks that maintain this place. People who have done it are called Severed, and nobody argues about whether they are still people.
What the Severed lose is concrete: access, services, information, the small quiet conveniences of a world that still works. What they get is the absence of an obligation. The game treats both as real, and it never tells you which one is larger.
Connected · Partially severed · Severed are the three tiers the North talks itself into at night.
Haldor
Section titled “Haldor”A town built around something that still works: a hall that counts, a forge that is a cradle, a gate that reads the marks people carry.
Nobody in Haldor agrees about what the building was for. That disagreement is the town.
What this wiki will not tell you
Section titled “What this wiki will not tell you”- what the gods want, and whether they want anything at all;
- why the borders are where they are, and who drew the first ones;
- what the wardens of the gates actually answer to;
- why all three faiths insist, so strongly, that doubt is expensive.
Those are endgame. If you are reading this wiki to solve them, stop: they are not puzzles, they are reasons to keep playing.