Reveal your Build
Your symbolic chart deals five elemental scores, three Natal cards, a secondary element and a weak element. It changes strategy—not real life.
HOW TO PLAY · GAMEPLAY V3
Your chart is the class.
Your choices are the run.
Read the Qi
Flow raises odds. Resonance strengthens a matching card. Defiance lowers odds but raises rewards. Element sequences trigger visible combos.
Play the hand
Your deck holds at most eight cards and your hand holds three. Play one card in a life scene or up to two against a Gate Boss.
Live with the result
Breakthrough, Success, Setback and Scar create different futures. Setbacks unlock Echoes; Scars add dangerous cards and recovery routes.
THE THREE RESOURCES
Success and failure both create strategy.
RESOLVE
Earned through commitment and success. Spend 3 after a Gate to upgrade a card, or 2 to recharge it.
SCARS
Failure history, not currency. Thresholds at 2, 4 and 6 unlock Scar cards, stranger routes and recovery endings.
FATE
Rare. Spent by Defiance cards to break requirements, reach locked paths, or rewrite a rule.
EIGHT DIFFERENT GATES
IThe ThresholdDraft
IIThe ClimbMomentum
IIIThe WagerStake
IVThe PromiseBond
VThe CrownPower Cost
VIThe LedgerCompound / Protect
VIIThe TurningDeck Transformation
VIIIThe Last LightReflection · No RNG
FIVE-ELEMENT COMBOS
WATER→WOODReveal a route
WOOD→FIREReward surge
FIRE→EARTHStabilize risk
EARTH→METALWealth conversion
METAL→WATERAdapt the hand
PARALLEL LIFE
Change one real decision.
After the ending, choose one of your three major turning points. Fate copies the exact history before that moment, forces a different choice, and compares both completed lives.
THE LAST LIGHT
No roll. No card. One answer.
Your final value and the life you actually played determine a deterministic Life Title. The Memory Keeper then writes one cached biography; if AI fails, the ending still works.
DEAL MY HAND ↗