The world

The Great Library is fading. Its pages go blank when knowledge stops being witnessed in the living world. Every morning the Library sends you out to one real place to see it again.

Your Wayfarer

A hooded traveller with a lantern. You choose their height, build and pace, the colour of their cloak, and their name. As you learn, the cloak changes: ember thread stitches along the hem one row per rank, the lantern's light grows, and from the third rank stars appear on the cloth. Ranks run from First Year to Archivist.

Your companion

A wolf, a lynx or an owl. You name it. It arrives with you, watches you answer, and speaks in short lines after each encounter.

The satchel

Six objects, one per wing of the Library. Each fills with ink as you answer, and grows through six stages.

The Map, fully grown — **The Map** · Wing of Maps

The Alembic, fully grown — **The Alembic** · Wing of Elements

The Chronicle, fully grown — **The Chronicle** · Wing of Ages

The Music Box, fully grown — **The Music Box** · Wing of Voices

The Terrarium, fully grown — **The Terrarium** · Wing of Living Things

The Pocket Watch, fully grown — **The Pocket Watch** · The Clock Tower

All six satchel objects across their six growth stages, painted in watercolour — Every object across its six stages.

The Forgetting

There is no villain. The antagonist is a soft fog that recedes as you learn. Story scenes appear in the Library between expeditions and never gate the daily game.