Three Parts · Nine Acts
Long ago Yu the Great tamed the floods and sealed something beneath the Silverthread River, and the dragon king Ao Lan has guarded those waters ever since. Now the river is failing, and the Ninefold Coil is stirring in the dark. The story is told as a trilogy of three Parts, each of three Acts.
Spoiler-light: this page covers premises and places only. Twists, guardians and endings are left for you to find.
Three Acts, 23 dungeon floors and 12 guardians, from the drought at Lotus Ford to the far edges of the Nine Provinces. Heroes rise from level 1 to level 22.
For forty days no rain has fallen. The Silverthread has shrunk to a black and bitter trickle, and fishermen whisper of robed figures slipping into the Sunken Shrine downstream, the old tomb where Yu sealed something beneath the water. Elder Mei has pinned a notice to the door of the Hall of Wandering Blades: heroes wanted.
From a rat-infested granary to a drowned shrine, a burning fox court in the Bamboo Sea and the snowbound road to Kunlun.
A season after Kunlun, Elder Ruo spreads the old province maps across the table. The fishermen at Heron Quay say the tide has gone mad. The caravans say the Ember Wastes are growing. The world map opens, and with it the road beyond the river country.
On the Eastern Coast, a fleet of wrecks where the tide turns every forty steps. In the Ember Wastes, a palace swallowed by sand, where you must carry water.
In the north, a timber fort has been snowed in for two years, and it is nearly dark at noon. In the capital, Luoyi, people are forgetting: a gate guard asks your business, listens politely, and asks again as though he had not.
Beneath a frozen lake, a court where the cold wears down anyone far from a campfire. Beneath the capital, a mausoleum where the map itself fades unless a lamp is lit.
Part One ends on a cliffhanger at Lotus Ford. Your save, heroes, companions and gear are intended to carry into Part Two.
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Act 1 starts in Lotus Ford with an empty Guild roster and forty days of drought. Your progress is saved in this browser.