OTHER WORLDSADVENTURES
WORLD 01

YOUR FIRST ENTRY

Begin inVelisar.

Velisar stands on the western shore of the Serevan, where river trade from the interior meets the routes crossing the great inland sea.

It is a city of merchants, scholars, sailors, engineers, old families, newcomers, and peoples whose histories began far beyond its walls.

Beneath its harbor lies something older.

REGIONWestern Serevan
ERA~6,000 years after the Breaking
KNOWN FORTrade · Archives · Drowned ruins
STATUSMapped. Mostly.
DISCOVERY001

VELISAR ARCHIVES

A map thatshould not exist.

ARCHIVE ITEMV-117
VELISAR?
COASTLINE COMPARISONPROVENANCE DISPUTED

FIELD NOTE · SERA VAREN

The coastline is wrong.

Sera Varen was cataloguing a collection of unremarkable harbor surveys when she found the map.

Its ink, material, and handwriting appear consistent with records copied several centuries ago. The coastline does not.

The document depicts structures now deep beneath Velisar Harbor as though they stood on dry land.

“Someone mapped the drowned quarter before we knew there was a drowned quarter.”

That alone might be dismissed as misdating, forgery, or an imaginative reconstruction.

But the map contains one additional detail.

It shows a passage beneath the harbor that has only just been opened.

WHAT WE KNOW

01

The structure exists.

A newly opened submerged passage matches part of the architecture drawn on the map.

02

The dating is plausible.

Nothing yet proves the document is ancient, but neither its material nor its catalog history provides an easy explanation.

03

The coastline cannot be correct.

If the map depicts the region literally, it represents a landscape that vanished thousands of years before the document was supposedly created.

WHAT IS DISPUTED

One artifact.
Several explanations.

Forgery.Someone created the document using knowledge obtained from the newly discovered ruins.

Misdated copy.The archive record is wrong, and the map is far newer than it appears.

Preserved knowledge.Someone possessed an older source whose history has been lost.

Something else.The map records knowledge nobody living at the time should have possessed.

FOLLOW THE THREAD

Where would you look next?

01

The Drowned Quarter

Streets, foundations, and towers remain beneath Velisar Harbor.

Coming soon
02

The Harbor Pylons

Ancient structures rise from the water beyond the oldest docks.

Coming soon
03

Sera Varen

The junior archivist who found a document that should not exist.

Follow this thread →
04

The Still Reach

A stretch of the Serevan where the water sometimes ceases to behave like water.

Coming soon