THE FRACTURE

We taught history
to obey.

At the Singularity, artificial intelligence accelerated discovery beyond human speed. The Open Chronology Initiative turned chronotechnology into infrastructure: wounds were reversed, failed designs were corrected, and disasters were edited before the smoke cleared.

Then too many corrections touched the same history. Time did not split into tidy worlds. One continuum tore under the strain. The damage now travels in both directions.

Director of Open Access amid the machinery of the Open Chronology Initiative
SASKIA WENDTDirector of Open Access. She helped make chronotechnology ordinary—and the Fracture possible.
Achilles at Troy before he is Overwritten
ACHILLES AT TROYA mortal hero at the end of one war, moments before another age reaches backward through his wound.
Odysseus on a shore fractured by impossible history

CHRONICLE I · ODYSSEUS AND THE OVERWRITTEN

The long way home now crosses every age.

Odysseus is the cunning king of Ithaca whose stratagem helped end the Trojan War—and whose voyage home became Homer’s Odyssey. For ten years he survives monsters, shipwreck, temptation, and the hostility of Poseidon by thinking before he strikes. In Schism, he returns to find Ithaca inside a war over one chronology being rewritten, where foresight may matter more than strength.

CREEDS

Six ages disagree about almost everything. These beliefs survive them all.

Your Primary Creed defines the core identity and card access of a deck. A Secondary Creed can add a smaller allied package. Neither grants an automatic battlefield bonus. Open any Creed below to see how it fights and what lives inside it.

Productivism

“What we produce is the measure of what we are; progress outranks comfort.”
BEST SUITED TO

Players who enjoy building an economy, planning sequences, and extracting one more use from everything.

WHY PEOPLE FOLLOW IT

Build, invent, organize, and leave the world more capable than you found it.

WHEN IT HARDENS

Eventually people become inputs, rest becomes waste, and throughput becomes morality.

HOW IT FIGHTS

Compounding engines, Structures, recycling, and investments that become stronger when sequenced well.

MEET THE CREEDThe Final InspectorView card ↓
Productivism · Industrial

The Final Inspector

8 Resource · 7 Power · 9 Health

Siege. Entry — restore 3 Durability to each friendly Structure.

The inspection was routine. The evacuation was not.
WHAT YOU MAY FIND INSIDE
Factory systemsHuman ResourcesOrbital salvagersProduction engines

Technocracy

“Reality yields to measurement; the best decision belongs to whoever understands the system best.”
BEST SUITED TO

Players who like planning ahead, narrowing uncertainty, and winning through timing rather than brute force.

WHY PEOPLE FOLLOW IT

Trust evidence, competence, prediction, and disciplined judgment over superstition or inherited authority.

WHEN IT HARDENS

Expertise becomes sovereignty; freedom survives only when the model approves it.

HOW IT FIGHTS

Information, prediction, precise timing, Prepared Responses, and control over what happens next.

MEET THE CREEDOCI Swarm DirectorView card ↓
Technocracy · Ascendance

OCI Swarm Director

5 Resource · 4 Power · 4 Health

Other friendly Drone Units have +1/+1.

Every drone voted. The instructions included the result.
WHAT YOU MAY FIND INSIDE
OdysseusOpen Chronology InitiativePredictive systemsCausality engineers

Dominion

“Strength confers the right to rule; the weak have no claim against those capable of taking power.”
BEST SUITED TO

Players who want initiative, dangerous attackers, and meaningful rewards for choosing the right fight.

WHY PEOPLE FOLLOW IT

Choose courage, excellence, decisiveness, and the responsibility to prevail.

WHEN IT HARDENS

Victory becomes moral proof; cruelty becomes evidence of seriousness.

HOW IT FIGHTS

Champions, combat pressure, Equipment, conquest, and momentum from decisive attacks.

MEET THE CREEDTyrannosaurus RexView card ↓
Dominion · Primeval

Tyrannosaurus Rex

7 Resource · 8 Power · 7 Health

Resonance — gain Overrun. Loadout: None.

Sixty-six million years later, the tooth marks still testify.
WHAT YOU MAY FIND INSIDE
Achilles, OverwrittenWarrior kingsSiege formationsConquerors across Eras

Collectivism

“The individual is a cell; the whole is the organism.”
BEST SUITED TO

Players who prefer resilient boards, interlocking units, and advantages created through cooperation.

WHY PEOPLE FOLLOW IT

Find strength in solidarity, protection, sacrifice, and coordinated purpose.

WHEN IT HARDENS

Dissent becomes injury; private identity becomes pathology; the endpoint is literal hive consciousness.

HOW IT FIGHTS

Formations, shared benefits, redistribution, sacrifice, and groups that become more than their individual parts.

MEET THE CREEDMaiasaura ColonyView card ↓
Collectivism · Primeval

Maiasaura Colony

2 Resource · 2 Power · 3 Health

While another friendly Collectivism Unit is in this lane, Maiasaura Colony has Guard.

The nests were close together; whatever came for one would find the others.
WHAT YOU MAY FIND INSIDE
The ChorusCantorsLabor movementsLinked formations

Faith

“There is a being and a purpose greater than all of us.”
BEST SUITED TO

Players who value endurance, protection, reversal, and victories that emerge from surviving the impossible.

WHY PEOPLE FOLLOW IT

Live through meaning, humility, stewardship, ritual, duty, and sacrifice.

WHEN IT HARDENS

Dogma outranks evidence; obedience becomes virtue; revelation justifies incompatible absolutes.

HOW IT FIGHTS

Protection, relics, oaths, remembrance, resurrection, and forces that endure beyond ordinary limits.

MEET THE CREEDThe Unanswered SaintView card ↓
Faith · Dynastic

The Unanswered Saint

9 Resource · 7 Power · 10 Health

Guard. Entry — give your other Units Ward.

No answer came. She stood there anyway.
WHAT YOU MAY FIND INSIDE
Relics and WondersSolar ordersMartyrs and paladinsAncient rites
OTHER WAYS THROUGH THE FRACTURE

Secondary Creeds

These beliefs can accompany a Primary Creed. A deck may include up to twelve cards from its chosen Secondary Creed.

Asceticism

Freedom through refusal. Ascetics strip away possessions, dependencies, and borrowed strength to discover what remains when nothing can be taken from them.

HOW IT FIGHTS

Sacrifice attachments and excess for resilient, self-sufficient Units.

MEET THE CREEDCave-Lion Vigil-KeeperView card ↓
Asceticism · Primeval

Cave-Lion Vigil-Keeper

3 Resource · 3 Power · 2 Health

While unequipped, this has +1/+0.

Hunger narrowed the world until only the painted herd remained.

Hedonism

Life is something to experience, not defer. Hedonists pursue intensity, beauty, and pleasure—even when tomorrow must pay for tonight.

HOW IT FIGHTS

Immediate power and spectacular plays, with risks and costs that demand good timing.

SymposiumMEET THE CREEDSymposiumView card ↓
Hedonism · Antiquity

Symposium

2 Resource · Action

Choose a friendly Unit. Pause it and restore 3 Health to it. If it was already at full Health, draw a card, then discard a card.

The war could resume after the wine.

Apostasy

No authority is beyond question. Apostates break with inherited truths, expose contradictions, and turn certainty into something their enemies can no longer rely upon.

HOW IT FIGHTS

Disrupt established plans, challenge protected targets, and punish dependence on a single answer.

Fractured MassMEET THE CREEDFractured MassView card ↓
Apostasy · Singularity

Fractured Mass

2 Resource · 0 Power · 5 Health

Cannot attack. After an enemy Guard intercepts an attack in this lane, it loses Guard until the end of the turn.

Number of patients: ______

THE SIX ERAS

The ground changes. The war does not stop.

Choose an Era to see what survives there—and what the Fracture has dragged into it.
Deep time–c. 3000 BCE

Primeval

Dinosaurs, megafauna, early humans, fire, migration, extinction, and the first technologies made by hand.

THE DECKBUILDER · COMING SOON

Find your own way through history.

Explore every card, read its story, and shape a forty-card deck around two Creeds. Filter by Era, Creed, cost, card type, rarity, Affiliation, traits, and mechanics. Compare your curve, check deck legality, save your builds, and share a deck code.

EraCreedCostTypeRarityAffiliationTraitsMechanics
Nikola Tesla, Fracture Conductor
Nikola Tesla, Fracture Conductor
The Unanswered Saint
The Unanswered Saint
Schismata
Schismata
Set Pavise
Set Pavise
Helix Coupling
Helix Coupling
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