Empire? The Hexed Realm!

Empire? The Hexed Realm! is a community world building and strategy game where you play as the lost people of great kingdoms or empires in a new and strange world. You will be beset by Urges, changing and amplifying the core of who you are, while trying to regain some long lost normalcy in a realm where tales belonging only in myth occur yearly.

Life was as usual in a rural area of villages. The harvests were not great but so far no one starved. The crown came to collect their tenth every year until one day they did not. A courier was sent away to the capital. They returned within the week, the roads they had spent a lifetime riding back and forth gone outside the village. For a while life continued as usual but as the young grew old and those born without the Crown’s blessing came of age whispers of Flora, the trees’ voice, began to spread.

A grand fleet set out to discover new lands. For weeks they braved the seas, masts creaking in winds strong enough to make sailors fly. Then one night the water disappeared and their hulls cut through a vibrantly pink void. When dawn rose the fleet was stranded on plains with tall grass, the only water around a creek so shallow you could walk through it. Ships turned to houses over decades. A prospering community taking shape in the new lands, though none were able to leave.

The grand magi had done the impossible - a portal to another dimension. First through were a thousand hardy penal volunteers from around the country. As the last one stepped through a howling wind tore through the barrier, sounding distressingly like laughter before the portal winked out. The Magi never managed to reestablish it, their meticulous notes now seeming like nothing but gibberish.

Lost at sea, fallen from the sky, enraptured by strange lights, the paths are many but the destination the same. Welcome to Empire? the Hexed Realm!

If you have played an Empire! game before some core parts will remain familiar but much more than usual has changed. If it is your first time first of all - glad to have you here! In the Hexed Realm you will take on the dual roles of a lost population of around ten thousand humans, or the equivalent therof, as well as the Exemplars that lead them. This new Realm contains both wonder and horrors you previously thought impossible, the shadows of great powers looming over even the tiniest of grass straws. So far you have been alone as sentients in your isolation but borders previously thought impassable are becoming more malleable by the day. An adventure, and perhaps a way home, awaits beyond.

If you're interested in joining the game, please join our Discord server and post in the Application thread once it opens. If the game rules seem complicated, please do not hesitate to ask questions on the Discord. This same community of players has been playing variations of this game for over a decade; we get really excited over potential newcomers!

Empire? The Hexed Realm Team

Head GM: Torv

Approvals: Torv

Map Maker & Editors: Torv & Aerin

Battle Collator: Also Torv, please change this

Round Opener Helpers: Arxangel, NorthOfOrdinary, Rolepgeek

Head Table Helper: Aerin

Table Helpers: Arxangel, NorthOfOrdinary