Relic
The goddess's sword → the cursed blade
The same object in two states. It fell as it left the hand that meant to guard it, and it was sealed as it broke.
Sword of Seraphim
Sword of Seraphim
Eight shards of a sword, scattered by a goddess. One of them sleeps in the tepui ranges above a sea of cloud. A mobile MMORPG that climbs the mountain by following the trail left by everyone who reached for the shard and lost their mind to it, one after another.
6
Classes
96
Skills
8
Shards of the goddess's sword
The world
A broken sword, in eight pieces
The story begins three hundred years ago.
The goddess Seraphim owned a sword. On the night Harushem, bishop of the temple, moved it, a red comet hung in the sky — and the sword passed into the hands of the demon king and became a cursed blade. The goddess broke that blade into eight shards and scattered them across the world, and in doing so sealed its power.
The six-winged guard who followed her each carried one shard away in a different direction. Three hundred years on, the shards are waking again, amplifying the possessiveness of whatever they touch. The player is both the one who chases the shards and the one who works out why they were sealed.
Relic
Shards of the goddess's sword — 8
Eight attributes (strength, agility, constitution, intellect, water, fire, wind, dark) across six grades — forty-eight shards. Collect all eight and the Seraphim weapon for your class wakes up.
Mechanism
The rune circle
The sealing mechanism. "A seal has never once been broken from outside — it is always opened from within."
Mechanism
The reliquary
The sealed vessel at the summit. It is the stage on which this story lands its conclusion — the hand that guards and the hand that covers are not the same hand.
Story
A story you have to walk to before you can read it
Reach a particular place and the story held there plays. It is a story that advances as you do, and chapters you have passed can be read again in the hall of records.
Prologue
The broken sword
Chapter 1
The hand that meant to guard
Chapter 2
Fragments
Chapter 3
The fallen wing
Chapter 4
The hand that would not let go
Chapter 5
The day they turned back down
Chapter 6
The hand that closes the lid
Only the titles go out first. The twenty-three pages of text are read where they stand, as you climb.
Regions
The tepui ranges
Table mountains rising out of a sea of cloud. This is where one knight of the guard fell, still holding a shard. A climb of thirty steps passes through five zones.
Leg 1 · The gate
The outpost
The gate of the mountain, reached by breaking through the cloud sea. The palisade is half burnt from a raid, and the footprints came up from below, not down from above.
Leg 2 · Amplification
The orc village
A splinter of white gold the size of a fingernail glints at the top of the totem. The orcs are not native here — they were drawn up by that light. They are not the cause but the symptom.
Leg 3 · The wild
Breath of the wild
The upper mountain, where human order runs out. It is the corridor the oldest things on this mountain still walk.
Leg 4 · The sky
The wyvern nest
The domain of flying drakes above the cliffs. The road to the summit narrows here.
Leg 5 · Below the summit
The fallen swordsman's rest
Where the person who got nearest to a shard now stays. The reliquary at the summit is in sight.
Bestiary
What you meet on the mountain
We list only the eight that actually stand in the game right now. As more are placed, the bestiary grows.
Goblin
Lv 1The first thing you meet on the outpost path. It marks the start of the climb.
Orc
Lv 5A band drawn up the mountain by the light of a shard. The wounds they left on each other tell you about this mountain's sickness before anything else does.
Ent
Lv 25Griffin
Lv 28Cyclops
Lv 31Chimera
Lv 34Dragonoid
Lv 37Demon king
Lv 40The one who once held the cursed blade. This telling never says his name.
Bestiary images will only ever be in-game screenshots (play captures are being prepared). Descriptions get filled in species by species, as the design for each is settled — we do not fill a blank with something plausible.
Classes
Six classes, ninety-six skills
What sets it apart is not the count but the consistency — use a skill and exactly what the text says happens, happens.
Tank
Warrior
The one who holds the front. The shield of the party.
Support
Paladin
Healing and party buffs. The one who keeps everyone alive.
Melee damage
Viking
Sustained damage and a deep health pool. Wins by staying in the fight.
Melee damage
Shinobi
Burst damage and mobility. Strikes and withdraws.
Ranged damage
Archer
Physical damage at range. Owns the distance.
Ranged damage
Mage
Magic damage at range. One cast that changes the field.
Why we build both
The short game and the long game help each other
The short game gives us something to judge by
Shipping casual games teaches us what works and what does not, in real figures. That learning goes into the design of the long project.
The long game gives us a direction
With one thing we intend to build for years, the short ones stop scattering. It becomes clear what we are accumulating.