The Granary Seal
73 generations
House Bramhope
Mercy is a debt paid by children.
They kept the famine ledgers honest until an heir opened the stores too late. The realm survived. The name did not.
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Blood is currency.History is debt.
guide one bloodline through six ages and a hundred generations, then let the Soul Teller write the permanent record of every heir, betrayal, famine, mercy, and extinction you earned.
100generations in a finished bloodline
75inheritable traits with drift and mutation
400+hand-written events across the realm
1.1mpossible lineage banners
Bloodweight 2.0 · The Era Spine
One bloodline. Six ages.
A single line now crosses a hundred generations and six ages — founding keep, charter, state, mercantile, industrial, and the present. The page ages with the blood: oaths harden into charters, charters into records, scripture into paperwork. The heir who closes the ledger is the same blood that lit the first candle.
The Six Ages
From wet ink to the public record.
The same bloodline carries through all of it. The realm modernizes around the blood — its events, its language, its faces, and the ledger itself age forward, generation by generation.
World Builder
Author the world. Then let it judge you.
Before the founder takes the seat, build the world the bloodline will answer to: its starting age and era, the founding house, the estate and relic, the rules of succession — and the rival powers.
Every rival house now breeds its own living heir each generation — named, aged, and succeeded like your own. Name the one sworn nemesis fated to dog your line across all six ages, and the Soul Teller will remember the enemy as clearly as the hero.
Every Era Leaves a Face
Time shows in the blood.
Portraits, records, interface texture, and the chronicle's own language move forward with the age. A founding heir is painted in gilt and oath; a modern one is set against paperwork and glass.
And the Soul Teller no longer speaks in one register — choose the voice that interprets your line, from plain chronicler to something stranger.
Watch
The Soul Teller reads every account.
A bloodline ends. The chronicle is written. Every line in the trailer is real prose, pulled from a dynasty that actually lived inside the simulation.
Example Dynasties
Every run leaves a different relic.
Bloodweight is a dynasty engine with memory. Names, doctrines, rival branches, taboos, faith, scarcity, banners, and grudges survive the heir who caused them.
The Ruby Medallion
91 generations
House Assizestock
The portrait improves. The blood does not.
A line of tutors, heralds, and beautiful cowards. Their shadow branch returned wearing the family colors and a better claim.
The Iron Crown
100 generations
House Veyr of the Black Reliquary
We arrived intact. We were not saved.
They reached the last page with the realm whole, the faith altered, the heirs exhausted, and every kindness itemized.
The Heir Arrives Accused
Every portrait is a verdict in progress: body, mind, doctrine, blood memory, faction pressure, and the old family harm made visible.
What You Actually Do
Breed. Govern. Fail beautifully.
The manuscript look is not a skin over a spreadsheet. Every major system is an artifact: wax seals, tally strokes, body sketches, council writs, family relics, and a ledger that knows exactly who made the future worse.
Origin
Forge The Founder
Before the first heir, you author the founder: physical traits and starting archetype, a heraldic banner and sigil, a relic carried into the dark, a motto, and the one-line origin the chronicle opens on.
Inheritance
Breed The Heir
Traits are not perks. They are tissue, appetite, fear, faith, and temperament moving through the line. The next heir arrives already accused by history.
Council
Convene The Witan
Every generation is pressed by writs: famine, plague, doctrine, rivals, trade, war, scandal. Locked seals mark choices the realm will not let you avoid.
Causality
Pay The Weight
The Causality Bridge traces the disaster back to the person who made it possible. No event is purely random. Every ruin has an author.
Chronicle
Read The Soul Teller
When the bloodline ends, the site becomes the afterlife: a permanent, shareable chronicle written from the full data of your extinct house.
Witness Mode
Witness The Bloodline
Or never touch it at all. Witness Mode runs the dynasty autonomously from a seed — heirs decide for themselves while you read a hundred generations the way you would read a book.
The Soul Teller
Your failure becomes literature.
At the end of a run, Bloodweight sends the complete dynasty record to the site: heirs, events, relics, factions, faith, shadow lineages, and the long arithmetic of blame.
House Valdremor — 100 generations
Not heroes in the manner of songs, nor villains in the way of simple tales, but something more complex and terrible: a family that refused to die.
House Firemic — 38 generations
They were certain that what they were accumulating was legacy. What they were accumulating was weight.
House Ashvane — 30 generations
He built the wall and named it mercy. The plague, it should be noted, has no opinion about architecture.
The Ledger Is Open
Bring it a bloodline worth judging.
Bloodweight is out now on Steam Early Access, and on the Apple App Store for iPad. The site is the living archive: chronicle generator, manual, press kit, comparison tools, and the place where extinct families keep talking.