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Anno Domini 838 · The Reign of Theophilus
The Chronicle awaits
your hand.
A weekly multiplayer roleplaying game of the Eastern Roman Empire. You write your week in plain English; the chronicle answers in Byzantine prose. Your house endures — or it does not — across generations.
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Season I — Now opening
The Shadow over Amorium
In the spring of this year the Sovereign Theophilus, having ridden into the Caliphate with the tagmata of the East, laid Sozopetra in ash — the birth-town, men say, of the Commander of the Faithful himself. The Caliph has sworn upon his father's grave. From Samarra he gathers an army not seen in living memory, and the armies of the Saracens are turning toward Amorium, whence the Sovereign's own house took its name.
You begin in Nicaea, on the road that all such armies must pass. What you do — what your house does, this generation and the next — will be remembered, or forgotten, by the chronicle.
The Rule of the Game
How the Chronicle Is Kept
You inscribe a soul
Choose your archetype, spend a hundred points across the seven attributes, take debuffs to gain more — and name the successor to whom your house will pass.
You write your week
Each cycle, submit your turn in plain prose. Say what you intend, who you visit, what you risk. There is no menu, no dice the player must roll.
The chronicle answers
Within the week, your turn returns as Byzantine prose — what came of it, who heard, who took offense. Each month a chronicle-newsletter gathers the rumours.
“For the things of this world are unstable, and human affairs revolve as on a wheel.”
— Theophanes the Confessor, Chronographia (AM 6098 / AD 605–606)
trans. Mango & Scott, Oxford 1997
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