More than a thousand years ago the Former Empires ruled in glory. Wonders beyond imagining littered the nations of that ancient age, even the least of men and women living with the luxury.
Hunger, sickness, ignorance, pain... all were banished.

Bereft of material want, the Former Empires found other reasons to struggle.
Wars tore open the nations of the old world.
Throughout the Former Empires, theurges and theotechnicians laboured to forge new gods.  Made Gods were fabricated with unimaginable power; exemplars of their nations' ideals were enlisted to embody this force or fuel the golem-gods they created, and in time these Made Gods strode forth.

The destruction they wrought was incalculable.

There was no last battle. There was no ultimate struggle that marked the end of the Last War. There was only a slow winding-down over centuries as the Made Gods died: destroyed by powers they did not understand. Others were killed in battle, slaughtered by rival Made Gods.

Now there are only the heritor nations; the crumbled fragments of the Former Empires eking out a meagre existence in the far-scattered realms.
The wonders of the former age no longer function.

Kings and commoners alike must live in a world that no longer welcomes them.
Every year, things grow a little harder.

But there is a new thing in the realms. Ordinary men and women are being touched by ancient power.

You are one such 'Godbound'.
You have inherited the holy fire.  Whatever your past life, however meagre a soul you may have been, the light of the Words has found you. Your world is slowly fading and the beasts of its twilight hour are rising up from the dust. Your people cannot hope to stand against them.

Will you be their savior, or will you be their epitaph?

As a note:
I am a complete virginal noob to this system ... and am still learning, with the help of my players.
I own only the base, free-PDF rulebook, and the ‘Lexicon of Thrones’.
I am looking to run this to playtest the system, as I hear good things about it.
But it’s going to be a simple, basic game.

If you are highly experienced with the system, and have all the books, please be aware that this game (and GM) are going to be way below your usual level of play in this system.
This message was last edited by the user at 00:19, Sun 10 Nov 2019.

I am still willing to accept new characters.
Feel free to read our game threads, and get a feel for how we ‘roll’.
If you’re interested ... you know what to do.

Thank you; the new influx has me sorted.
No new responses with be considered for now.