Archive of Yesod - Character Suite

This is not a finished game! This is only one small part of a game to come. This specific section will likely go through a number of changes as Archive of Yesod is developed. A character sheet will also be coming soon. Yell at me if its not there by mid August!

Stretching back into your deepest cultural memories, the Library has stood silent and tightly sealed. The oldest of stories call it the house of a god. But pointedly, not your god. Not a god still extant in the world. From the vaguest of myths, it is gleamed, though never explicitly stated, that this god has left or otherwise ceased to exist. 

A rectangular shape built of gleaming silver; impenetrable to all attempts at force. Those walls held as a vessel of demons, so the stories went. Any who was able to break through would be set upon by devils clad in the same gleaming metal and devoured before the carapace was resealed by those same demons bodies. There were no concrete records of this in living memory. 

But time has turned. The great door has creaked open, splitting itself at its center and wheeling away into the walls. The dais at the foot of the door, that has stood at various times as a sacrificial alter, a throne of sovereigns, a house of law, and a stage; now houses busy market district trading in exploration and discovery. 

A generation has passed since the opening of the door. The initial excitement of new land, new discovery has been cut down like so many delvers that ventured in, never to return. A formal guild has formed for Delvers. They hold the monopoly on claims in the library, and the arcane artifacts that have since been pulled from its depths. The center of these are the MindDeck and the Books. 

Slotted into the base of your skull when you sign with the guild, the Deck is a rectangular device carried over your shoulder with four slots in it. In these slots, books may be place in order to read the information there in. Some of these "Books" contain conventional information which is conveyed seamlessly into your mind, only for it to be erased when the book is removed. Others contain more obscure information: abilities that change your body in ways that challenge reality. 

Armed with these Decks, a new class has emerged: Delvers. You join their ranks now, seeking... something from the library.