The Spirit of Twelve

Fifteen years ago, a thief reached into the world's first wound and pried loose what a king had died to seal. The crack has been widening ever since. A wizard hid the only ward that could close it, a child, Lily, in a quiet village at the kingdom's edge, and told no one, least of all her, what she was. The hunters have just found her. The Spirit of Twelve is an illustrated narrative adventure-RPG: a journey of choices and dice from a borderland farm to the throne room beneath a fallen capital, and the grief-mad thing that waits there, reaching not for a crown, but for someone it could not keep.A world in cutawayEvery place in the story is one illustrated diorama: a slice of the kingdom lifted out and set down in a painted sky, two walls taken away so you can see inside.

Ink line, flat colour, one light. Fifty-one scenes across four regions, from the throne room of the prologue to the ring of twelve stones the story ends on, and every one of them alive: dust in the window light, smoke from the chimneys, moths at the night lamps, rain ringing the puddles. Card-and-dice combat, in the openTurn-based fights in the old-school tabletop register. Roll a d20 against your Might, Grace or Wits, and watch it tumble across the ground between you: every hit, crit and miss on the table, no hidden maths.…