It is the year of the Pale Sun. Six Domains share one uneasy realm — a world inspired by medieval Bohemia — and none of them agree what a monster is.

**Varkovia** does not hide its vampires. Six Great Houses rule from black castles and collect a Blood Tithe from villages they call their own. **Bozhen** pretends it exterminated vampires generations ago — every town still hangs garlic, every noble might be compromised, and the Church of St Havel hunts zealously and badly. The **Blackwald** between them is not a country but a forest that answers to Wolf Clans — some raiders, some guardians.

**Moravia** never healed after the Empire died there. Ghosts are part of life: empty chairs left at dinner, rooms already occupied, roadside bells for the dead to hear you coming. Ancestral spirits are politically important — "ask your grandfather, he's downstairs" — and Banshees scream not to harm but to force you to feel what they died carrying. The only way to lay one to rest is to learn her truth.

**Sarkovia** eastward is marsh where the Church never took root. Witches aren't evil here — every village has a Wise Woman or Wise Man who knows charms, curses, herbs and how to pay the rusalka, the vodyanoy, the leshy. The prince rules in name. The Seven Grandmothers rule in bargain — seven women, seven titles, or one witch seven times. Nobody counts twice.

The **Carpathian Crown** rings Varkovia in snow — ruined castles, abandoned monasteries, silver mines, vampire fortresses and things shifting inside glaciers. There the Free Cantons endure: independent valleys where human, dhampir and controlled werewolf keep the same hearth, because survival matters more than purity.

You play the people caught between — Hunter, Warden, Hedge Witch, Gravekeeper, Scholar of the Veil, House Vampire, Bloodknight, Dawn-Touched, Beast-Blooded, Grey Speaker, Reeve — mortal, vampire, werewolf, dhampir, revenant, ghost-touched or witch-blooded. Two dice, five Attributes, Harm and Hunger. Armor is gamble, conditions are stories, and every roll costs something.