The third vessel
Your Novel, Walked
A film book is watched. An audio book is heard. This one is entered. Your chapters are surveyed into ground and forged into a playable build — your cast, your world, your turns. Readers stop reading about your world and stand in it.
Awaiting first capture
The Vyrnland build is running in Unity. Once you capture a screenshot or a short clip, Loren will mount it here as proof of the game forge.
The Vyrnland Window
This is ground, not concept.
Every gamebook is surveyed from real chapters and compiled into a playable world. What you see here is the same pipeline your own manuscript would follow — world, cast, thresholds, and a wyrm that watches instead of waiting to be slain.
The Cartographer draws the blueprint. The forge builds it. The Vault seals it. And you walk it.
"A wyrm is a warden, never killable, never loot."
— Vyrnland canon
Door I
The Proving Chapter
$5,000
One playable chapter, forged whole — up to 2,000 words of ground. You walk your own ground before you commit the entire book, and you keep the build either way. Ground past one chapter is forged at the full-build rate; a whole novel cannot be walked under a chapter's name.
Door II
The Full Build
$30,000 studio floor
The whole novel, chapter by chapter. The floor carries the engine, art pipeline, systems and first 30,000 words; longer manuscripts then extend ground that already stands.
- — $30,000 studio floor, including the first 30,000 words
- — $0.25 per word beyond the included baseline
No full build is forged below $30,000 — the forge floor is stated plainly and holds the line on short books.
Open the Full Build within 90 days and the whole Proving Chapter fee is credited against it. You never pay twice for the same ground.
A different kind of play
The Ember Gate
A free interactive story written by this house: five chapters, one gate each, remembered choices and three endings. It demonstrates branching narrative only. It is not a Gamebook sample; a commissioned Gamebook is the full video-game production described above. Your manuscript is never used to demonstrate anything to anyone.
Reckon it now
- Proving Chapter
- $5,000
- flat, one chapter
- Full build
- $45,000
- 30% of your word count
- Credited if you open it
- $5,000
- within 90 days
Cast, atmosphere and score are added in the Forge, as with any vessel. Nothing is charged until a Charter is sealed.
The five stages of a forged game
Surveyed
Your manuscript is read and its world, cast and chapters are set down as law. Nothing is invented over you.
Mapped
Chapters become ground — rooms, routes, thresholds, and the shape of the walk.
Scripted
Behaviour is written: what moves, what answers, what can be found, what can be lost.
Compiled
The build is compiled and driven until it holds without fault on ordinary machines.
Delivered
Sealed in the Vault and handed to you as a playable download. The work is yours.
Choose your terms — Platinum in halves, Gold in thirds, Silver in quarters, Bronze in sixths: you enter on one part and the remainder is drawn in five parts, one as each stage above lights. The rites hold as they do for every vessel.
What this is, and what it is not
— You receive a playable build for desktop, delivered as a sealed download from your Vault — not a storefront release, and not a console port.
— Delivery is quoted as a range, never a promised day. The range is set at the Surveyed stage, in your chamber, where you can hold this house to it.
— Your story is never altered. The house builds ground for your chapters; it does not write your book, change your ending, or add lore of its own.
— Your manuscript is read under the house's consent law and never leaves the Cold Cell ungated. It trains nothing.
— The free Proving Ground walk stays free forever. The forged game is the thing that is bought.
Want to feel the shape of it first? The Proving Ground walk is free, and always will be.
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