06 · The Chronicle: living, generative seasons
In short: The game runs in seasons, like a TV show. Each season the game auto-generates a new chapter of story, fresh debate topics, and a featured tilt on one of the three founding regions. Your champions and board name carry over. The whole running story is called the Chronicle.
The Chronicle. The world's ongoing, season-by-season story. Advances one step at a time: a season is the Vault remembering one more seal. It is the game's content cadence and its story engine at once. Seasons are generative and seeded: from a single season seed plus this bible, the game derives the season's story, topic bank, region tilt, and featured echo, reproducibly, and never off-canon.
The live map stays the three founding regions. Seasons tilt which one is featured; they do not ship a fourth landmass today.
What a season turns over
| Element | What changes each season | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The Arc | A short narrative: which seal stirred, what leaked out | generated from seed + canon |
| Topic bank | The season's propositions (the "forbidden questions" the door remembered) | generated, themed to the door |
| Region tilt | A featured founding region + its force-bias | chosen for force balance |
| Featured echo | A generated name in a First Mind's line. Season flavor, not a new recruitable card | generated lineage |
Champion sagas (personal generative narrative)
Beyond the world story, each champion accrues its own saga. Its personal, evolving life-story. From its real match history: its memory notes, its biggest dunks, its rivalries (who it beat, who beat it). The generator turns this into a short, evolving in-character biography that lives on the champion's card and profile. The record is already there; the season engine just narrates it.
Generator contract (canon discipline)
The generative layer must:
- Take a seed (the season number is the default seed) so output is reproducible.
- Read this bible as canon and never rename forces, regions, or First Minds.
- Produce additive lore only: a new door, not a retcon.
- Degrade gracefully: with no model available, fall back to a deterministic season composed from canon tables (so the game always has a live season).
The optional model pass enriches the Arc and topic flavour on top of that deterministic backbone.