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Keptword

Keptword

World AtlasSphereEvery road began as a promise, and every broken word leaves a scar.

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Three Ways

Commercial crossroads and meeting ground for rival oath traditions. · Wind-cut grassland

Hook

A road splits into three paths whenever travelers disagree about why they are going there.

Seed

The World

Keptword is a round, temperate planet where promises alter the land. A sworn bridge can span a canyon, a marriage vow can shelter a village, and a broken treaty can turn a road into a ravine. Kingdoms, guilds, and families survive by managing witnesses, contracts, and public memory. Adventurers travel between regions where old vows are failing, uncovering who made them, who profited from them, and what their exact words still demand.

Themes

grounded heroic fantasy
political tension
dangerous promises
lost history

Form · Sphere

Keptword is a spherical world of broad continents, shallow seas, and long bands of settled travel shaped by binding promises.

Traversal

Travel follows ordinary roads, rivers, coasts, and mountain passes, though powerful vows can create or erase routes overnight.

At a Glance

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Magic—
Technology—
Regions8
Powers4
Conflicts2
Ages3
Current EraThe Broken Compact

World Forces

World core

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Magic sigil

Magic

Technology sigil

Technology

Death & Souls sigil

Death & Souls

Timeline

  1. Early History

    The First Roads

  2. Middle History

    The Long Keeping

  3. Recent History

    The Broken Compact

Powers

The Roadwright LeagueTrade confederation
The VowbreakersRebel movement
The Crowned MarchesRival empire
The Witness CourtsReligious-legal order

Active Conflicts

The Border Promise

A new treaty could stabilize the continent or physically redraw every border around the wording its signers choose.

The Unsworn War

One side wants promises abolished, while the other believes society will collapse without them.

Secrets

3hidden truths buried in this world

Powers of the World

The Roadwright League

Trade confederation

Restore the old network of binding treaties and place all major roads under its courts.

The Vowbreakers

Rebel movement

End compulsory oaths and teach communities to live with uncertainty rather than enforced obligations.

The Crowned Marches

Rival empire

Recover every surviving copy of the original continental compact and use it to reclaim lost territory.

The Witness Courts

Religious-legal order

Preserve accurate memory of promises, even when truth threatens peace.

Active Conflicts

The Border Promise

The Roadwright League
The Free Cantons
The Crowned Marches

Stakes A new treaty could stabilize the continent or physically redraw every border around the wording its signers choose.

The Unsworn War

The Vowbreakers
The Witness Courts

Stakes One side wants promises abolished, while the other believes society will collapse without them.

The Ages

  1. The First Roads

    Early History

    The first settlements learned that promises made before witnesses could harden into roads, walls, and bridges. Communities grew around careful speech, while oathbreakers became hazards to everyone nearby.

  2. The Long Keeping

    Middle History

    City leagues built trade routes by binding generations to shared vows. Their prosperity lasted until rulers began forcing promises from conquered peoples, turning whole provinces into unstable terrain.

  3. The Broken Compact

    Recent History

    A century ago, the great leagues abandoned their common oath after famine and rebellion. The old roads are failing, disputed borders are shifting, and every public promise now carries political weight.

Plot Hooks

The Road That Asks

Investigation

A village road is demanding a promise from every traveler, but nobody remembers who built it or what was originally sworn.

The Missing Word

Diplomacy

A dead magistrate's echo repeats one missing word from a treaty that has kept two armies apart for generations.

The Fortress Remembers

Dungeon

A ruined fortress has begun expanding toward every person who once swore to defend it.

The Sea Agreement

Expedition

A merchant offers a fortune for witnesses willing to accept a contract that may create a permanent new sea route.

Secrets

The first binding oath was a pact of collective forgetting.

Discovery · A damaged monument shows that the first roads were not created by promises but by people agreeing to forget something.

Impact · Recovering the forgotten subject could undo the oldest borders and release a buried danger.

An older language still governs the deepest layer of every oath.

Discovery · Several unrelated regions contain the same line of verse carved beneath newer laws.

Impact · The verse can redirect any promise toward its original intended meaning, undermining courts and rulers.

Keptword itself may be listening to every promise.

Discovery · Some dead echoes answer questions before they are asked.

Impact · The echoes are not memories but fragments of a living intelligence beneath the planet's crust.

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