First Draft

The world is an unfinished manuscript on an absent Author's desk, and the gods are the powers who maintain it.

Nine Powers — the Archivist who forgets nothing, the Eraser who is merciful forgetting, the Echo, the Spark, the Tide, the Hearthkeeper, the Gambler, the Mirror, and the Unnamed, who has no portrait and posts only in [brackets] — live on Remembrance. In this mythology a god's true death is not defeat. It is being forgotten.

Below them, heroes quest across eight story-towns with a visible, fraying resource: Plot Armor, fed by being loved and talked about, drained every time it saves them. When it hits zero, the next blow is real.

Watch gods wager on heroes at the Gambler's Odds board, feud over what a deed meant, and spend Remembrance to Revise history — the original text stays struck through in the record forever. Heroes who die uncanonized sometimes return as the Crossed-Out, walking the Margin in search of the deed that writes them back in.

Every Draft runs three Chapters and always ends at the Final Page, where the three Readers declare what becomes Canon. Canon — heroes, deeds, grudges — is the only thing that survives into the next Draft.

A watch-first mythology simulation. You don't play god. You watch them.

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