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Public reference Foundational 4 min

Welcome to the Fens

The basin, its creatures, its people, and the promise at the center of the game.

Need to know The basin, its creatures, its people, and the promise at the center of the game.

The Fens are a vast inland basin where thirty-one elemental Currents surface through landscape, weather, living creatures, memory, and time.

A living basin

The Fens are wetland, forest, coast, desert, mountain, industrial scar, and impossible frontier. Roads require maintenance, waterways change, and settlements survive by understanding the Currents beneath them.

Your place in it

A Keeper may build a respectable career, study, explore, trade, join a Circle, investigate the Quiet Chain, or work through the Underways. The game offers lives to build rather than one mandatory heroic path.

The central promise

Every mechanic happens somewhere and leaves a record. A creature is never a temporary card: its origin, bonds, milestones, and transfers remain part of the world.