A small 2D MMORPG about a valley coming apart
Generations ago the Wardens raised a ring of standing stones around the March to hold something beneath it. The stones are failing — not randomly, but in order, from the head of the valley back toward the sea.
You start at Aldermoor, at the safe mouth of the valley, and every step inland takes you somewhere the wards are holding a little less well. Green fields give way to old forest, then a drowned causeway, then a mine cut straight through a stone's roots, then a burned mountain, and finally the breach itself.
It is built in the Intersect engine by one person, which shapes every decision on this site: forty-five maps rather than four hundred, three classes rather than eight, and every zone finished before the next one starts.
There are five warding stones you can actually reach, and each one tells you how far in you have come: whole and moss-covered in Greenmarch, cracked in Thistlewood, half-drowned on the Causeway, burned silent on the Ashen Steps, and shattered outward at the end.
Three of the eight are never visited. That is deliberate, and it is what the next chapter is about.
A world that explains itself
No signposts saying 'level 30 zone'. The land is visibly sicker the further inland you walk, because the stones holding it shut are failing in order. Difficulty and geography are the same fact.
Built to be finished
Forty-five maps, seven zones, levels one to forty. Every one of them populated before the next is started. A small finished world beats a large empty one, and most projects this size die of the second thing.
Worth logging in for
Two party dungeons, a world boss on a shared three-hour timer that announces itself server-wide, a faction to grind, and two crafting professions that actually consume what you gather.
The first hour
Every screenshot on this site is a real map at the engine's actual size — 32 by 26 tiles, 32 pixels each.
Greenmarch Road
