The Element of Golden Light

Luxium Aureum is a rare element of great power.

To the layperson, its most obvious trick is that it brightens under pressure. Give it a squeeze with your hand, and it will emit enough light to guide you through the dark. At ambient air pressure, it continuously glows softly.

But to the alchemist or sorcerer, luxium has far more important magical capabilities beyond mere radioluminescence and piezoelectricity.

The Night of Falling Stars

The invaders descended upon Earth with one objective: to strip our world of its most precious resource.

Luxium aureum is Gold 223, a glowing isotope of Gold.

The game starts a few years after the invaders first landed. You will participate in (or at least bear witness to) the dynamically unfolding story of human complacency, resistance, and complicity, to the cold reign of The Wrynth.

It Beckons

Any significant quantity of Luxium has a radioactive signature. A beacon, which inevitably draws the Wrynth Seekers nearer.

Since they landed, the Wrynth demonstrated far more incredible magic using the substance than humans had ever seen. This has sparked an ongoing revolution among innovative human alchemists and sorcerers to discover its hidden capabilities, in an attempt to catch up with the Wrynth. Luxium is the Philosopher's Stone: both the fuel and the instrument of real magic.

Acolyte Shrine

Shrines are supply depots and military garrisons from which the Wrynth can deploy Acolytes.

The monolith above the ground is merely an entrance to a large subterranean dungeon, where enslaved men are indoctrinated and transformed into Acolytes to serve the Wrynth.

Emblematic of Wrynthic architecture, shrines have smooth-cut interiors encased by rugged rocky exteriors. The Wrynth are apparently able to easily control the shape and flow of solid rock. These structures can be found near populations of subjugated humans, or up in the mountains near the mines.

Chimeric Mines

Triangular mine entrances are found throughout the mountainous regions. Mining operations continue nonstop, day and night. Acolytes are deployed as guards to protect the workers from outside interference.

Workers live and die in these mines, never seeing sunlight. Underground fungal crops provide sustenance. Birthing chambers provide fresh workers to replace those killed by accidents or overwork.

The Wrynth Tower

On every island where the Wrynth conduct mining operations, they build a great tower.

At the tower, the Grand Overseer receives daily deliveries of refined Luxium ingots. Each wagon load is escorted by an Executor surrounded by an armed retinue.

On occasion, the tower produces a bone-chilling deep thumping sound, reverberating through the ground, which can be heard miles away. Other times, the tower emits a gut-wrenching low-frequency droning, rumbling, groaning sound.

The Mud Bog

The tower is surrounded by a terrible bog, within a massive volcanic caldera. The cursed swamp is a tangled mess of dead trees, bubbling acid pools, and steam geysers. Wretched creatures and wandering abominations thrive here.

There is only one solid-ground pathway through the mudland, but it's heavily patrolled by Acolyte guards.

Initiate

The initiate monks are men that were enslaved and handed over by their own local lords to the Wrynth.

They undergo intense obedience conditioning. Malnourished, unarmored, and untrained in combat, they make weak opposition.

Zealot

Once initiates, they proved unsuited for sorcery, and thus were trained for battle instead. Brainwashed with bloodlust, and armed with fair weaponry and light armor, zealots are dangerous and aggressive opponents.

Sorcerer

Charged with the indoctrination of initiates, and leading zealots in combat.

He uses an orb to telepathically coordinate his troop. He can conjure ball lighting as a ranged attack.

When cornered, he may physically strike you with his orb, which is no joke, it's heavy.

Vanguard

Heavily armored combat expert. Trains zealots in fighting skills.

An extremely dangerous opponent. To be feared. Wields large two-handed weapons. Aggressive and highly skilled, he will use tactical feints to throw off your defensive instincts.

You're in trouble.

Inquisitor

Highest rank of Acolyte. He is tasked with maintaining the loyalty of local town lords.

A powerful warlock, who can telekinetically throw his enemies ragdolling across the room. He can also bend the trajectory of incoming arrows. Skilled in melee combat, he feints with his staff. Armor encumbers human sorcery, and thus his lack thereof presents a vulnerability.

Grunt

Dim-witted unskilled laborer. This miserable creature is inured to pain, slogging through its suffering with indifference. Wears gloves and is covered from head-to-toe to prevent infection because its poorly-engineered skin keeps sloughing off. Sometimes wearing a mask to assist its breathing. Mostly tasked with moving things. Grumpy, although poses no serious threat.

Miner

Thick hide and strong bones make them unusually tough for an unarmored opponent, and they're usually armed with dangerous mining tools like pickaxes. They're also known to have a nasty bite that causes infection. They boss the grunts around.

Cultivator

Fast moving arachnoid. Found tending to the fungal crops or birthing chambers, she is defensive of her brood, and may stab at you with her long arms.

She carries a swarm of smaller arachnoids on her back.

Digger

Massive creature with specialized claws that can chip through solid rock. Directed by seekers to create new tunnels. They have very poor eyesight, and move slow, but have claws that can easily rip you in half. Consider yourself warned.

Seeker

A Wrynth with no mask or helmet.

Specialized for the ability to remotely sense luxium. During mining operations, the seeker directs diggers and miners to ore deposits.

Seen outside the mines when the Wrynth are trying to track down missing or stolen luxium.

If threatened, it will throw deadly ball lightning. Up close, it can kill you quickly by touching you with its deadly electric hands.

Makes a terrible gurgling growling noise.

Executor

Heavily armored Wrynth commander. Tasked with directing luxium operations including mining, relocation, repossession, or delivery to the tower.

Some executors are tasked with supervising an Acolyte Shrine.

Wields a massive two-handed sword, in one hand. Can telekinetically throw enemies and bend arrows with one hand, all while feinting with a huge sword in the other.

You are in grave danger.

Arachnid

While the Wrynth often ride horses, they are sometimes seen riding giant spiders as mounts.

Generally, horses make better mounts for traveling, but the Wrynth prefer the arachnids in battle, as they are heavily armored and very aggressive and dangerous on their own, even without a rider.

Grand Overseer

Highest rank of Wrynth on Earth. Lord of The Executors. Representative of the The Collectors. Not born on Earth. Rarely leaves the Wrynth Tower.

The Overseer has immense powers. From a distance, with its mind, the Overseer can vaporize people into dust, war-of-the-fucking-worlds style.

We advise you not to mess with this guy.

After The Fall

The Wrynth descended on the towns of Falrysk. All who resisted fell where they stood.

Forced to submit to the Wrynth, the lords had no choice but to dissolve their militias, and endure a brutal taxation regime demanding grain and slaves.

The balance of power in Falrysk was destabilized, and the lands were plunged into chaos rife with bandits, thugs, and petty wars.

Thousands fled the towns and built homesteads on remote countrysides.

The Rebels

Not all bowed to the Wrynth.

Many rebel groups congregate deep in the forests, where the Wrynth cannot so easily extend their control. They organize armed rebellion against the Wrynth, conducting a guerrilla war ambushing convoys and raiding the mines.

The Rebels often see the town lords as traitors who cooperate with the Wrynth to enslave the common people. The Rebels are sometimes regarded by the townsfolk as hostile bandits that further threaten the peace for everybody.

Darkness in the woods

Not everybody hiding in the woods has the best intentions.

The Embargo

The Wrynth established a naval blockade. Ships that attempt to sail from Falrysk to Thalyria are rammed to splinters by mysterious high-speed Wrynthic vessels, shaped like giant arrowheads, which patrol the strait.

Make Your Character

Customize your character's appearance.

Skill Tree

Choose skills for your character as you progress.

Specialize as a swordsman, archer, sorcerer, blacksmith, trader, etc.

Good Combat

We're longtime Chivalry and Mordhau players, so we're massively inspired by the way they've done melee combat mechanics. We're dying to bring this kind of immersive gameplay experience to the RPG genre.