Devlog#6 Elystrad Roadmap

Devlog #6 — The Elystrad Roadmap

“You don’t map the world. You map what it remembers.”

Wardens,

With Wandering Vaults and Other Oddities lit and breathing, it felt like the right moment to reveal what lies ahead — not just beneath the ground, but across all of Elystrad. 

This is a living roadmap. 

Each zine is modular, lore-rich, and playable on its own. 

Some are mechanical. 

Some are myth. 

All are fragments of the First Flame, passed on in pieces.

 --- Vol. 1: Wandering Vaults and Other Oddities

 Status: Released 

Theme: Vault delving, mutation, and the cost of returning Vault Delving Rules & Triggers Vault Marks & the Vaultborn Warden’s Advice & DM Tools Sample Vault Events & Lore Fragments

"The Vault doesn’t forget. It just waits for you to remember."

--- Vol. 2: The Black Sun Almanac

 Status: In Development 

Theme: Cursed time, prophetic stars, and reality fractures The Skywound Calendar (Veins, Bloods, Chimes) Vault Day mechanics (boons, blights, anomalies) Moons, omens, and star cults How time governs dungeons and fate

"Even fate bleeds beneath a broken moon."

--- Vol. 3: Echoes & the Unwritten 

Status: In Development

 Theme: Memory, recursion, and narrative ghosts Waking Echoes & Shattered Legends Echo-based relics, NPCs, and dungeon changes Optional: Echo-touch traits and haunting consequences

"Some echoes don’t fade. Some rewrite the present."

---  Vol. 4: Guilds of Kavareth 

Status: Planned

 Theme: Power, factions, and delver politics Guild advancement (Novice to Guildmaster) Debt Chips, favors, and influence mechanics 1-page spreads for in-world faction use

"The guilds don't rule the city. They just decide who survives it."

--- Vol. 5: Vaults & Valuables

 Status: Planned

Theme: Relic economy, barter, and strange markets Elystrad currency: Shards, Crowns, Marks Relic rarity, Living Relics, and black market tools Sample traders, smugglers, and Vaultborn gear

"Value is just memory hardened into shape."

--- Vol. 6: The Bleeding Years (Optional or Final) 

Status: Planned 

Theme: World history, Sundering aftermath, and the rise of Kavareth Timeline of the Bleeding Years (0–56 A.S.) Vault Wars, Orvex fallout, and sky-vs-surface factions Lore fragments and historical dungeons

"The world ended once. Everything since has just been trying not to remember."

--- What Comes Next? This roadmap will grow as Elystrad grows. Some zines may split. Others may burn away. But all follow one rule:

Build what echoes. Burn what doesn’t.

If any of these volumes resonate, I’d love to hear from you — which ones are you most curious about? 

Your echoes shape the world more than you know.

 --- Next up: Vault Echo # 2 / vault Echos series page—

It was never meant to be found.

And once lit… it can’t be unseen.

> “Some lights guide.

Others expose.”