Nothing has been taken
The new authority speaks as though the city was waiting for its arrival. Construction expands behind closed boundaries, and every restriction is described as temporary or necessary.
Occupation · Forbidden routes · Playable opening
STORY-01 / TIER 2 / OPENING PREMISE
Shadow
Exodus.
The Temple has been seized. The new authority calls it restoration. Residents are displaced, work is requisitioned, and Couriers begin moving through routes the official maps refuse to acknowledge.
- Classification
- Temple fiction
- Public records
- Eight
- Disclosure
- Opening only
What a new player knows
The proclamations say restoration.
The doors close anyway.
Public notices describe an old right being restored. On the street, people lose rooms, routes, work, records, and the ability to challenge what is happening to them.
Names disappear from doors
Residents are moved, labour is compelled, services narrow, and routes vanish from public maps. Couriers continue beneath the account imposed above them.
Campaign entry
The first scene
is enough.
A name is missing from a register. A work order has no accountable author. A familiar route no longer appears on the map. Someone needs to cross before the next patrol.
None of these situations tells you what the story means. Each gives your character a person, place, risk, and immediate decision.
Enter the public alpha ↗What is released now
A frozen public spine.
A developing reader edition.
Eight Shadow Exodus records are included in the current 256-record PUBLIC release. The authored prose edition is not represented as complete on this website.
- Work
- Temple: Shadow Exodus v0.1
- Source status
- Frozen bounded development artifact
- Public release
- TLL-T0-PUBLIC-LATEST-LORE-ALPHA-v0.1-2026-08-14
- Public records
- 8 Shadow Exodus records
- Complete prose edition
- Not released here
- Campaign entry
- Public Explorer alpha