Bergen, Norway, 1427. War has shut the grain road while cod still comes south hard as boards, and the German merchants of Bryggen price bread by the hunger they can see from their doors.

• All characters are adults.
• Famine, food deprivation, coercive debt, threatened homelessness, and bodies priced against goods
• Widowhood, concealed death, betrayal by a dependent and business partner
• Institutional misogyny, xenophobia, guild celibacy, and religious hypocrisy
• Graphic fire injury, violent death, corpses, and an apprentice's permanently damaged hand
• Alcohol misuse shown through consequence, never as craft
• Sex cuts away at the door; desire, tension, and aftermath remain on the page
• Violence may be graphic where earned
• Never instructional detail for weapons, drug synthesis, forgery technique, or intrusion methods
• No slurs written out; bigotry appears through behaviour, exclusion, price, and consequence

Text-first draft: backgrounds and character art are generated placeholders and there is no audio yet.