Provision
Food, medicine, stores and distribution.
Future adaptation · chronology to agree
One survival Family
Survival draws most remaining family branches together beneath one crest. Work groups become fewer, more focused and responsible to the whole Family.
Established future direction · chapters in developmentTHE CREST IN THIS ERA
One crest for those who remain
Most surviving branches blend into one Family. Work groups consolidate around keeping everyone alive.
A single durable crest replaces competing family marks. Seven subtle traces acknowledge the origin without dividing the survivors into seven sovereign identities.
Follow the changing crests ↗
Fewer roles. Shared survival.
Works
Shelter, power, salvage and repair.
Watch
Scouting, protection, communications and shared records.
Working role framework. Crew names, membership, managers and any later breakaway factions need chapter records; these lists do not establish completed events.
The family tree keeps the ancestry even when surnames, marriages and shared culture blend. A later character’s working crew need not match an ancestral specialty. Preserve the approved founding line; a crew transfer does not rewrite genealogy.
APOCALYPSE · LORE
The Collapse
The apocalypse drives further consolidation. By its end, most surviving family branches have blended into one Family beneath a shared crest, with concise work groups focused on collective survival. Genealogy and inherited traditions survive the loss of separate organizational identities.
The consolidation is established future story direction. Specific disasters, losses, dates and game adaptations remain open. This later apocalypse is separate from the ancestral Doom of Vardessa.
THE CODE IN THIS ERA
The survival code · proposed
These are roleplay principles for this setting. Current community standards, consent and host-game rules apply across every era. Additional chapter rules require Commission review.
Community standards ↗- Account for scarce food, medicine and equipment; agree how needs are prioritised.
- Share watch, repair and care duties. Settlement leadership answers for the people relying on it.
- Agree character death, infection, rescue and loss rules before play. Preserve the record of both sacrifice and survival.
How this era plays
- Provision: food, medicine, stores and distribution
- Works: shelter, salvage, power and repair
- Watch: protection, scouting, communications and records
New arrival → settlement specialist → settlement or expedition lead
What enters the record
Agree the cause, dates, technology and survivor branches before canon play. These games remain separate worlds unless a transition is explicitly approved.
Select the game, session group and loss rules; prepare one achievable survival chapter.
Read the historical archive ↗WHAT THE GENERATIONS KEEP
Tradition, without standing still.
The name is entrusted
Carry the family name through conduct, craft and obligations fulfilled. Prestige is earned over generations.
Hospitality and the table
Make room for guests, introduce newcomers properly and build relationships over shared time. Italian family culture informs the fiction without prescribing how real people must behave.
Discretion before display
Let quality, patience and a kept word speak. Old money is expressed through stewardship, restraint and care for what the next generation inherits.
Respect across generations
Learn the stories, preserve the songs and remember who made the present possible. Respect for elders leaves room for younger generations to question and change the code.
A living inheritance
Names, sayings and family lines endure; institutions, loyalties and customs evolve. No descendant is obliged to repeat an ancestor’s feud.