A saga from lorewend

The Saga of Thorne

Human Fighter, level 2 — a sample story from the live demo

The story so far

[Hollowmere] Arrived in Hollowmere as fog rolled off the mere.
[The Forge] Bought a knife from Maeve, the wary smith.
[The Gate] Brich warned of drownings near the old mine.
[The Drowned Lane] Found three cottages with their doors hanging open and the thresholds still wet.
[The Forge] Maeve confessed the latest lost man was her brother, and gave Thorne the key to his cottage.
[Aldric's Cottage] Inside, wet footprints crossed the floor to a child’s drawing of a face in the water.
[Coldhammer Mine] That same face was cut above the mine gate, which hung unbarred and weeping black water.
[The Flooded Drift] Down in the drift a voice sang beneath the surface, sweet enough to make a strong man wade in.
[The Flooded Drift] Something answered the lantern instead: pale, long-fingered, and patient on the ladder.
[The Flooded Drift] Maeve’s knife found its throat. It sank still smiling, and the singing only grew louder.
[The Sump] Past the cave-in stood a shrine to a drowned thing the town had agreed to forget.
[The Sump] Brich came down with a lantern and the truth: the mine was sealed once, and his was the hand that broke it.
[Hollowmere] Thorne climbed back into the dawn. The drownings had stopped. What waits in the sump has not.

This story was written in play: the AI narrates, a real engine rolls the dice and keeps every number honest. Live your own at lorewend.app.