Plate I
Setting · The Borderlands
The Standing Archarchival pigment, 50 × 70 cm
From the threshold of the second city. Recorded once, in winter, before the gates fell.
£ 68
Plate I · Recto
Folio MMXXVI
Veyrun - The Great Plaza
Volume I
Ruins ofVeyrun
A solo dark fantasy game of survival, reckoning, and ruin.
You are old now in the way that only survivors of impossible things become old. Worn but not diminished, reduced to something harder and more essential.
You do not mistake survival for mastery.
Players
One
Duration
90–180 min
Narrative Die
d20 → d4
Edition
First Pressing
The Fall,
and what was found across the threshold.
Veyrun's magnificence was such that it was mistaken for permanence.
Its domes and spires and squares and boulevards rose and sprawled in a landscape of marble and gilt. Its scholars learned the dead language of creation itself. Its alchemists bent substance to their will with a casualness that later ages would mistake for mastery.
At the summit sat a class of people who elevated themselves above the banality of humility and consequences. They pressed through every boundary that nature had set for human knowledge. They found the threshold between the divine and the damned, and they crossed it searching for greater power.
The rift opened without ceremony. What came through was the answer to a question that should never have been asked, and it was delivered without mercy to the people who asked it. The power was consumptive. Infinite like a virus. Indifferent in its appetite. They became the Svelgna. The devoured.
Veyrun's towers are broken shells. Its libraries are tombs of lost knowledge. The great market squares are hunting grounds. You are one of the last of your generation who remember it as it was.
The world, in plates.
Each landscape recorded in pencil and ink. Numbered editions; signed in the lower margin.
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Plate II
Setting · Drowned Plaza
The Cathedral of Saltarchival pigment, 50 × 70 cm
Where the high courts once stood. The water came from underneath.
£ 68
Plate III
Setting · The Long Road
Marker on the Moorarchival pigment, 40 × 50 cm
A solitary stone on the road south. The Vitna did not record what is buried beneath it.
£ 54
Plate IV
Setting · Corrupted Forest
Shrine in the Rootsarchival pigment, 50 × 70 cm
Growth of the kind the Svelgna leave behind on what they have claimed.
£ 68
Plate V
Setting · Dead Capital
Boulevard at Duskarchival pigment, 50 × 70 cm
The wide road that no one walks now. Statuary still standing, watching it.
£ 68
Plate VI
Setting · Borderlands Watch
The Last Outpostarchival pigment, 40 × 50 cm
The keep above the sea. Recorded by a watchman who did not return.
£ 54
Plate IV — Featured Specimen
The Core Volume
- Edition
- First Pressing, v2
- Year
- MMXXVI
- Players
- One
- Components
- Narrative Die set (d20 → d4), Quest Journal, Kvern Deck, narrative markers
- Weight
- 2.4 kg
- Condition
- New · Sealed
Catalogue No. I
Ruins of VeyrunThe Core Volume — Solo Edition
The complete game. You are Vitna. You walk the ruins. You carry Kvern — Rist, Dreft, Seithr — broken and dangerous and necessary, unstable as a wound that will not close. The Narrative Die descends, hex by hex, from the wide road of the d20 to the hard red of the d4. When the d4 shows a 1, the Drottnar is encountered. Everything you have endured has been in service of that moment.
Specimen Price
£ 84.00
Stock
412 of 1,200
Specimens of the Field
The game and the volumes around it. Each item numbered by hand, shipped wrapped in unbleached muslin. The work is what it is. We do not say more than that.
All Specimens · 12The GameExpansionsLore VolumesComponentsPlates & PrintsApparelSorted by Plate No.
Plate No. II
Lore Volume
PRODUCT SHOT
An Account of the Fallannotated reprint, 412 pp.
Survivor accounts of the rift, gathered from the borderlands across forty years. Sewn binding, deckled edge. Difficult to read in one sitting.
£34.00
Acquire →
Plate No. III
Component
PRODUCT SHOT — NARRATIVE DIE SET, BRASS
The Narrative Diesix dice, hand-cast brass
d20 through d4 in solid brass, cast one set at a time. The descent from the wide road to the red. Surface marks are not flaws but evidence.
£52.00
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Plate No. IV
Print
PRODUCT SHOT
Plate I — The Standing Archarchival pigment, 50 × 70 cm
The opening plate of the manual, reproduced from the original ink and watercolour. Numbered edition of 200, signed in pencil at the lower edge.
£68.00
Acquire →
Plate No. V
Expansion · Sold Out
PRODUCT SHOT
The Borderlandsfirst expansion, 96 cards
A second hunt set in the corrupted forests south of Veyrun, where the second guild rooted itself in the years of exile. Originally numbered 1–600.
£42.00
Notify →
Plate No. VI
Component
PRODUCT SHOT — QUEST JOURNAL, CLOTH-BOUND
The Quest Journalblank, 240 pp., cloth
For tracking HP and the hunt. Ruled in sepia. Holds the names of the dead, the hexes laid, and whatever else is worth keeping after the d4 falls.
£22.00
Acquire →
Plate No. VII
Apparel
PRODUCT SHOT — BRASS LAPEL PIN
The Vitna Pinsolid brass, lapel
The mark of the six guilds, struck at 18 mm. Worn historically by survivors of the borderlands exile. We do not check whether you have earned it.
£14.00
Acquire →
Plate VI — The Narrative Die
The Descent, in Six Steps
Not a single die, but a sequence. Each new hex laid is a roll. A 1 steps the chain down. The Svelgna grow worse and the probability of the next betrayal grows higher. When the d4 shows a 1, the Drottnar is encountered.
d20
Black
the wide road
d12
Green
the first turning
d10
Blue
the cold approach
d8
Yellow
the hour of dread
d6
Orange
close to the centre
d4
Red
the Drottnar is encountered
When you are rolling the d4, you are in the red. Every hex you lay carries a one in four chance that your quest ends.
Notes from the Field
On the broken Kvern
The knowledge that remains is not without cost. It was broken along with everything else — warped by the rift, stripped of the scholars who understood it, left to survive in fragments. What you practice now is not the Kvern of the old kingdom. It is what Kvern became after the fall: dangerous, unstable, and necessary. You work it anyway. There is nothing else.
Why the Vitna scattered
They broke into six guilds and dispersed — each into a different territory beyond the reach of Veyrun's authority, each rooting itself in a different landscape, learning it and surviving in it and building in the wilderness what they had been prevented from building inside the kingdom. The connections that once bound guild to guild have thinned to silence. Each member fights alone and none carry the fallen.
On numbering a thing
Each Narrative Die is cast individually, by a single hand, and each one is therefore marked by the small accidents of that hand. We do not consider these flaws. A die without an accident is a die that has not been made. We do not promise you the work will be uniform. We promise it will be ours.
The creatures, in plates.
Each specimen drawn from field-record. Edition of two hundred per plate, signed in pencil at the lower margin.
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Plate X · Tier I
Specimen · vornar
The Quiet Specimenink and watercolour, 30 × 40 cm
Recorded once, in a field outside the third gate. No second sighting.
£ 42
Plate XI · Tier I
Specimen · skála
The Sea-Walkerink and watercolour, 30 × 40 cm
Found at sea. Found at the sea-bottom. The Vitna assume one creature.
£ 42
Plate XII · Tier II
Specimen · gryma
The Hollow Sisterink and watercolour, 30 × 40 cm
Walks the broken shrines. Sings only when alone.
£ 42
Plate XIII · Tier II
Specimen · brálf
The Last Houndink and watercolour, 30 × 40 cm
Catalogued posthumously. The last record of a creature that recorded its own death.
£ 42
Plate XIV · Tier III
Specimen · kolma
The Iron Anchorink and watercolour, 40 × 50 cm
Larger than what made it. Smaller than what feeds it.
£ 54
PLATE — THVAR
Plate XV · Tier III
Specimen · thvar
The Pale Sentinelink and watercolour, 40 × 50 cm
Seen at every funeral the Vitna remember. Seen at none of their own.
£ 54
PLATE — MØRKA
Plate XVI · Tier IV
Specimen · mørka
The Shadow Reachink and watercolour, 40 × 50 cm
Has no fixed shape. Has a fixed appetite.
£ 54
PLATE — DRAUG · DO NOT APPROACH
Plate XVII · Tier V
Specimen · draug
The First Drottnarink and watercolour, 50 × 70 cm
If found, do not engage. The Codex permits no rite for this encounter.
£ 84