The delay acquires names
A clinic misses a delivery. A stall opens empty. A worker cannot cross the district. Mortar posts the repair, cost, crew, and delay.
A fixed world with a past
ATLAS-00 / PUBLIC ORIENTATION
Six Ages.
One unfinished city.
Six dates open six lived versions of the same world. Rail timetables, clinic queues, utility bills, machine decisions, occupied routes, and returning residents carry history before any narrator explains it.
- Opening anchor
- 1926
- Historical cameras
- Six Ages
- Play layer
- Tier 0 / Tier 1
The Temple at work
A promise fails.
The city has to answer.
A blocked route reaches far beyond the rain falling on it. Follow the failure and the Temple becomes visible through the people required to respond.
Two accounts enter the room
The Open Furnace receives the failure. Sword keeps the hearing safe while Quill preserves testimony that does not agree.
The decision leaves the page
Someone still has to open the route, move the medicine, serve the meal, mend the pipe, or explain why it did not happen.
The historical spine
Six doors into
the same world.
These years are camera positions, not sealed boxes. Each opens on visible conditions already in motion.
- 1906
Age of Awe
Medicine, rail, and power make old impossibilities ordinary.
- 1916
Age of Anima
The First Anima War takes hold of the modern world.
- 1926
Age of Ashglass
Post-war comfort runs on mature steam, Anima, and Ashglass.
- 1936
Age of Animosity
Desks, ledgers, and machines begin deciding who may pass.
- 1941
Age of Anima 2
Occupation turns streets, courts, and worksites into controlled ground.
- 1946
Age of Animals
Return begins inside a damaged city.
What a player can touch
The setting is not
a mood board.
Open a door and meet routes, clinic queues, repair ledgers, machines, meals, hearings, and people whose day began before the party arrived.
City / Institution
The Temple
Mortar routes, Guild work, Sword watches, Quill records, Open Furnace claims, meals, beds, and repairs.
Enter the city →History / Six entry pointsThe Six Ages
From 1906 rail and medicine to 1946 return, damaged routes, crowded rooms, and rebuilding.
Choose a year →1926 / Opening anchorAge of Ashglass
Mature steam, early automobiles, automata, post-war comfort, class, monopoly, rain, and waste.
Enter 1926 →Observed, argued, never decorative
The effects are visible.
The explanation is contested.
A clinic calls Anima medicine. A railway calls it power. A utility measures supply. A Guild claims jurisdiction. Ashglass remains after use, whatever account is offered for it.
Machines issue decisions. Spirits receive incompatible names. Belief changes conduct before a court decides what happened. The atlas records public terms without settling every cause in a paragraph.
Read the public terms →How to read the atlas
Orientation explains.
Public source constrains.
These pages make the world legible. When a named fact, power, rule, date, or adjudication matters in play, the frozen PUBLIC SOURCE and confirmed SESSION state govern the answer.