World

Of Kir

Welcome
curious traveler!

If you made it here, then you are in the right place.

What sets us apart here in Kir, is that we know full well that true revolution is built on stories.

Ones that inspire us from antiquity and celebrate those who struggle now. Because we are building an international revolution. On these lands ruled by gods and empires, you will discover those who fight back through channeling the ancient magics.

Like the stories of how the Rishea resisted the Verushan Empire's colonial expansion. Or legends of how the Hanaqi escaped from the shadow force of the Ería.

That, my friends, is just two of many.

United together, we all imagine a world not of the conquered.

Because here in Kir we tell the stories of those who have fought, and continue to fight. These stories fuel and document our survival. No matter what it takes.

More is coming. Much more. Some we’ve only heard in rumors. Others are still being scratched into paper by tireless hands. Like me, you will never see my face. But you will always know that I am here to protect you and to fight those who would do you harm.

Once you start reading, you may not want to go back.

FAQs

Questions about this new world?
Answers direct from Kir

Kir is not a single place, but a constellation of histories.
Some are collected like empires do. Some are only available in fragments, their totality lost to history, or wating to be uncovered. Some are only passed down by survivors. Others are secretly documented, collected, and shuttled to the revolutionaries like you willing to take to the streets.
Empire certainly has the ability to crush and amass control. Same with the religion and gods of this place. And even the most well-intentioned of us making change can fall into the familiar trappings of power.
This question of where and how culture is shaped lies at the heart of these stories about the people willing to change their situations, and ultimately, when successful, this comes through their solidarity, interconnection, and struggle.
The Dasholin Scholars of the Eternal Library are the ultimate repository of knowledge on Kir.
They spend their days using their particular practice of the arcane science— known as Emoyan, or “The Sight” —to bear witness and document the living history of the world.
Years ago, they would, like a library, freely loan out this information to anyone who would deem it helpful. But after a few catastrophic events, they closed off much of their collection. According to them, this is for the safety, best interests, and the benefit of all.
Mostly these “arcane energies” of Kir are harnessed and focused, handed from masters to apprentices in powerful, secretive cults devoted to their craft.
More often than not, these magics are used against the people who threaten these groups.
But not always.
They rot before they fall, and when they finally do, they take much with them: languages, lineages, entire ways of being. Yes, the collapse is violent, uncertain, and loud…
But what truly matters is what rises in the silence afterward. What might we build if we refuse the old blueprints? What grows when we no longer dream in the shapes of empires and prisons?
In Kir, many have begun asking those very questions. These are the beginning of their stories.
As one elder revolutionary poet once said…
“It has to start somewhere. It has to start sometime.
What better place than here? What better time than now.”
Those who are willing to stand up against the oppressors and face them against the most extreme risk.
The dice are weighted. The challenges, immense.
But that has never stopped any great visionary. These are the stories you’ll read.
You have been warned.
The question assumes there are only two sides. In Kir, there are dozens. Some hidden in shadows of empire. Some stolen through magic. Others freshly minted by the revolutionaries willing to risk it all.
As for me? I am on the side of truth. No matter how much it stings.
The trick you’re looking for is not in what you tear down. It’s in what you refuse to build in its place.

ORIGINAL TEXTS FROM KIR

The Liberated Archives, Volume 1

They don’t want you to know… so now you must learn.
A notice posted on a door. A warning to the oligarchs of the city of Pradita. A letter to the working people reminding them of a time when they chose to rise up and fight back.
This anthology of secrets collects together letters, reports, posters, myths, journals, and more that tells the never before heard tales of what it took to spark a revolution in Kir. In the past, all these texts were hidden from you. Until now.
Out now on Royal Road! CLICK HERE TO READ
In Search of Gods Great and Small: Book 1 - Pradita

Told in the earnest, uncertain ink of a first-person travel journal, this narrative follows Rhom Alagathi, who has trained for years to become a Bookmaster of the Eternal Library—guardians of the world’s most dangerous truths. To begin his journey, he must leave the city of Pradita for the forbidden state of Ería, where imperial myths justify the enslavement of the Hanaqi people.
But unseen forces trap him, and the cost of escape may be higher than he imagines. Told through Rhom’s journal entries, this dark academia-infused epic explores elitism, empire, and the price of rewriting history.
Out now on Royal Road! CLICK HERE TO READ!
The Wandering Star

In the white silence of Rish’ea’s winter, two souls walk into legend. Omiryn must escort Ninye, daughter of a chieftain, across a land made treacherous by politics, magic, and old wounds.
As they cross tundra, forest, and fire, they find themselves entangled in a struggle that could break— or remake —a nation. A cinematic journey through survival, trust, and the quiet magic of transformation.
CLICK HERE TO READ!
Flight of a Radical

Tonight, at a party for the young elite of the Free City of Orn, Samik Sliathe, has a story to tell. About how he was born into bondage, his brutal upbringing, and his journey for freedom and liberation through the Shadowed Forests of Ería.
A travel adventure in the spirit of Simon Jimenez’s The Spear Cuts Through Water and in political conversation with Ursula Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, FLIGHT OF A RADICAL is an accessible, sometimes uncomfortable, but ultimately liberatory story about what it means to run and when it’s important to turn around and fight.
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