The Sarranth highlands and the lowland city of Beruz, 318 Basin Reckoning.

• All characters are adults.
• Sex cuts away at the door; desire, tension and aftermath stay on the page.
• Violence may be graphic where earned: riot injuries, crushing water pressure, fever, ear bleeding, and death from a working.
• Never instructional detail for weapons, drug synthesis, intrusion methods, or sabotage.
• No slurs written out. Bigotry shows through behaviour and consequence.
• Engineered drought, famine, food insecurity, forced migration, imprisonment, corrupt informing, and institutional abandonment.
• Progressive and permanent hearing loss; ableism expressed through exclusion and bad working conditions.
• Family betrayal, state surveillance, class violence, grief, and morally compromised intimacy.
• Dependence and withdrawal involving a fictional fever tincture; consequence, never craft.

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