The lore of Valenfeld, the open-world RPG — readable online

The Books of the Vale

Valenfeld is a video game. Its world is also bound as a set of illustrated books you can read right here — pull a volume down and read it front to back, each with its own table of contents. These aren't companion summaries: every volume reads the same canon the game ships, so the page you turn here is the page a character finds in a barrow. Start with the Atlas — it is drawn by the players themselves. Play the free prototype →

The parchment atlas plate of the ValeVolume IThe Atlas of the ValeThe living map — every place pinned by the player who found it on foot, every soul who has entered the world. The Vale remembers who walked it first.Open the Atlas →
The Peoples of the Vale — title plateVolume IVThe Peoples of the ValeThe seven peoples and the elder races — where they came from, and what they hold.7 peoplesRead →The Lore — title plateVolume IXThe LoreReligions, customs, magics, and the disputed cosmology — what the Vale believes.69 entriesRead →The Powers — title plateVolume VThe PowersGuilds, houses, temples, and the five great powers grinding over found things.63 factionsRead →The Book of Beasts — title plateVolume IIIThe Book of BeastsThe bestiary — every beast, monster, and undead thing that walks the Vale.71 creaturesRead →The Wayfarer's Ledger — title plateVolume IIThe Wayfarer's LedgerTowns, ruins, delves, and the wild countries of the Vale — every charted place.216 placesRead →Personae — title plateVolume VIPersonaeRulers, keepers, outlaws, heroes of the Fire-Tales, and the named dead.164 soulsRead →The Chronicle of Days — title plateVolume VIIThe Chronicle of DaysFamines, wars, the Sundering's long shadow — the world's remembered history.14 eventsRead →The Library — title plateVolume VIIIThe LibraryThe collectible books themselves — tales, primers, ledgers, and letters, word for word as found in the game.52 textsRead →

One canon, three bindings: the game reads these files at runtime, the collectible books in the game quote them word for word, and this shelf is the same files opened on the web. When the world grows, every binding grows with it.

The Books of the Vale — Valenfeld