This Lore category provides detailed, playable narrative scenarios or Threads. Each document outlines a potential life story for an Incarnation, from their initial state and core conflict to the unique Eidos harvested at their conclusion. These serve as concrete examples of the game’s story-generating potential, demonstrating how the core systems of Fact, Fiction, and Faith can combine to create rich, emergent, and thematically coherent arcs.

See also: Scenarios, for first-life starting scenarios.

Contents

• Benevolent Leader - The story of a leader whose selfless sacrifice allows her to become a guardian Eidolon, influencing the Tapestry she saved rather than creating a new one.
• Cultist - A narrative exploring how an individual comes to embrace a new Faith in a world where belief and Ritual can physically alter a shifting, unstable reality.
• Gardener - The arc of a being who learns the horrifying truth of the cosmos but chooses to become a benevolent, secret steward of their world, representing a unique post-mortal playstyle.
• Glitch in the Weave - An Incarnation whose fractured Subjective Interface reveals echoes of past lives, exploring the struggle for a coherent Thread in a reality whose code is breaking.
• Heresy of Nyx - A deep-dive into a cognito-hazardous ideology where a fractured self authors a new, divine identity to suppress trauma, mechanizing Narrative Dissonance as a survival strategy.
• Mythic Figure - A ‘rotten’ Thread of a selfish scoundrel whose accidental, self-serving sacrifice creates a heroic Fiction that reshapes an entire culture.
• Rotten Thread - An exploration of a nihilistic playstyle, where an Incarnation treats suffering as a resource to be harvested, leading to a hollow, self-made damnation.
• The House of Whispering Steel - A multi-generational story where players inhabit successive heirs of a single family, showing how inherited Eidos bound to an Artifact creates a continuous narrative Thread.
• The Kākāpō Principle - A poignant vignette about an Incarnation whose instinctual Faith in a forgotten ability clashes with the harsh Fact of its own limitations.
• Unit 734 - A scenario exploring a non-humanoid, AI Incarnation that operates on a geological timescale, whose ultimate purpose is to preserve and transmit an entire civilization’s Eidos.
• Unraveler - The story of an Incarnation who discovers the Gnostic Fragments and chooses to destroy their Tapestry from within, unlocking a unique, permanent ‘rogue’ legacy for future playthroughs.
• Unspoken Seasons - The story of the Valen people, whose natural cycle of metamorphosis is threatened by a colonizing Faith that seeks to impose a single, static form.