SkyhearthTribes

You wake with nothing

No tutorial. No quest marker. No crafting menu. You wake naked in the forest, and the forest does not care whether you live.

Lightning strikes a tree somewhere in the valley. Carry that branch back before it dies — because fire does not restart with a click. It needs fuel, it needs shelter from rain, and if it goes out you wait for the next storm.

The stars are your tech tree

At the centre of every valley stands a stone henge. Lie in the grass at its middle on a clear night, watch the constellations wheel overhead, and write down what you saw. That is how technology is unlocked — not from a menu, but from the sky.

Ether is a resource like food and water. Meditation, stillness, the fumes that rise out of deep caves: all of it feeds the same meter, and all of it is spent as you learn.

Six tribes, one valley

You are not alone. Six tribes contest the same ground, the same herds, the same water, and the same henge. Ally, trade, raid, or annihilate. You lead your tribe with your voice, and the AIs execute your directives.

A match opens as survival and closes as war. Warfare is ruthless, competitive and dirty — and unique among competitive real-time strategy, the camera never leaves your eyes. You will lead a civilisation without once floating above it.

Every system is physical

If it exists in this world, it behaves. Nothing is an abstraction on a menu.

None of it is invented

The rites are the five elements as the old cosmologies actually ordered them — earth, water, fire, air, and ether. The runes are the ten emanations of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and they keep their own names: Crown, Understanding, Wisdom, Strength, Mercy, Beauty, Splendour, Victory, Foundation, Kingdom.

These are living traditions, not set dressing scraped for a fantasy skin. They are used here under the names their practitioners use, in the order their practitioners place them, because a system that has been refined for centuries is more interesting than one invented in an afternoon — and because the structure already does what a progression tree needs to do.

Choose an affinity and the tree opens differently. What you attune to is what you become able to learn.

It is being built in the open

The game is in development and it will be free at launch. The Discord is where the build gets discussed and where the first playtest invitations will go out.