Vessar
World
Vessar. A sea that is gone.
Ambercombe, one day
The starting village in Whitmere as a map excerpt in game pixels, pre-rendered with the same light and weather rules as the game. At night, lanterns and windows carry the picture.
Vessar
Thirty-one years ago a thirty-year war ended when both sides set off a forbidden weapon. The inland sea between the continents tore open and ran dry. Since then the Ebb has been rising from the dry seabed: the dead come back, magic turns unreliable.
The ceasefire, the Grey Water Accord, was signed on the wreck of the flagship. Both sides sealed their files and tell their children a different story. You are the first generation after, sent to the borderlands as a Warden.
Corvane, the West
The Concordat
Law, registers, memory. A council of crowns under an elected High Chancellor; decisions are slow, written and binding. Slate, limestone, brass, lanterns, canals. The returned dead are citizens by law and unpaid labour in practice.
The Riven
In between lies the dry sea: endgame, PvP, Saltcross as the neutral trading town on the wreck, and graves on the wrong side of the line.
The MVP area
Four areas, level 1 to 15, all on the side of the Concordat in Corvane. Point at an area or select it with Tab.
Schematic overview, not to scale
Whitmere Zone · Level 1–10
Starting zone for level 1 to 10: fields, a canal as the guiding line, marsh and heath. Ambercombe is the starting village, Reedhouse sits at the lock, Tidemark Post on the rock.
Listen
Music and ambience are made by code, like the pictures: synthesis in Python, no samples, no sound libraries, no AI. Nothing plays on its own, and only one piece plays at a time.
Music
- Title theme
Flute over lute, strings, a bell. 90 seconds, seamless.
- Whitmere
The lute leads, the flute answers, a quiet drone. 120 seconds.
- Lanterhall
Bell motif, strings, flute and lute. 120 seconds.
- Boss fight
String ostinato, timpani, frame drum, brass. 60 seconds.
Ambience
- Whitmere by day
Wind over fields, leaves, birds, a distant canal.
- Lanterhall at night
Canal, single bell strokes, wind in the alleys.
- Slackwater Mine
Drips, chains, creaking beams, the hum of the Ebb.
The files are OGG Vorbis. Older Safari versions do not play them.