PICK A STORY. STEP INSIDE.

The Salt Mystic Story Arcade is a free collection of illustrated one-page fiction. Each Lore Card opens a small door into the setting: a character, a strange technology, a forgotten place, a dangerous idea, or a story that may be more alive than it first appears.

HOW THE STORY ARCADE WORKS

BROWSE THE LORE CARDS

Lore cards 001-003: An adventuring cartographer of artificial space, why armored jesters wear those ugly helmets, and a boy’s first carbine duel…

Lore cards 004-006: An aspiring codeswarm hacker braves the Stonewisp Wastelands, an introduction to a lone bastion of freedom in the frozen north, and a sprawling & cluttered building as large as a nation…

Lore cards 007-009: What it takes to steer nightmare hybrids of machine and lunatic, a dreamer braving the skies in a cluttered cityscape, and an introduction to a place of airship miracles…

Lore cards 010-012: A city built on the back of a mummified beast, daring border patrols sensing for underground ghost tanks, and a War Marshal with a mysterious father…

Lore cards 013-015: Maps thought to be imaginary often aren’t, meet commanders who steer tornadoes, and visit the Oriel Fields where gates lead to other worlds…

Lore cards 016-018: The mysterious and deadly White Fleet of the northern seas, a wandering gunslinger seeking his fortune among the space gates, and a train that takes seekers to a mystical hallucination…

Lore cards 019-021: An eclectic lakeside town houses a very old gateway and its enigmatic story, a journalist embedded in a vanguard tactical group learns about ramship drivers, and a piece on just how they built a republic so big they called it ‘infinite’…

Lore cards 022 – 024: The story of an enigmatic statue overlooking a lakeside city, the fearful Wisptaken, and a stranger’s secret search high on a mountain plateau…

Lore cards 025 – 026: A strange conversation in the high city’s morning mist, a hopeful reminder of who watches over us, and a reason to keep clear of certain visitors to the Mountain City…

Lore cards 028-030: A prospecting gunslinger’s deadly encounter., a mighty city frozen in its final fiery end, Auroch and his talking rifle ponder the reasons for a flooded oriel…

Lore cards 031-033: A universe created as a poem, a derelict ship perched high in a canyon, the terrifying loyalties of the Merchant Wars…

Lore cards 034 – 036: A bounty is out on a scorpion chimera, we learn what it might take to be part of a vanguard watch, and the dangers of being a newbie among lost worlds…

Lore cards 037 -039: Two companions in the open wilds, an incredibly useful field guide entry for the Slime Trancer, and the sad fate of Justice Engines…

Lore cards 040-042: Wondrous, powerful fables lay buried and secret in the forbidding wilds, a short primer on how to manipulate history, and a small town adventurer readying to step into another world…

Lore cards 043-044: Feel the sizzling lightning spat out by the rampaging Towerbeast and join Cain Blackwick on the first of his adventures – this time, sneaking out of a flying train to a floating derelict ship in the sky…