Mancer: The Online Encyclopedia (Patreon)

Hey all! You may be aware that there are several projects involving Mancer - currently, the visual novel and the tabletop RPG. The world of Mancer actually has a lot of neat lore and mythology that we want to explore! However, due to various factors though (and perhaps partly a skill issue), the current projects aren't quite conveying all the worldbuilding meat as much as we'd hope:

The visual novel is largely focused on NSFW, and is also fairly casual and character-centric. We're dropping lore here and there, but covering all of it without feeling like an infodump or taking focus away from the characters and lewds is hard.

The tabletop RPG is currently on hold because it's waiting on development for SYTO's tabletop project, Voyager, to complete.

Seeing this gap, we were considering what was the best way for to put down all this lore and worldbuilding at once. A traditional wiki site was too dry and "boring-looking" for our tastes, while making YouTube videos to break down the lore was too monumental in effort to cover everything in a timely manner.

The method we settled on was building a sort of interactive lore archive website, which is linked. It was very much inspired by the League of Legends Universe website, which was the biggest influence, namely its minimalist yet epic vibe and how it has a lot more focus on images and tabs, feeling more interactive than a wiki, almost feeling like navigating an ingame menu.

Currently, the website has a few articles, but is still very much incomplete. Many characters are missing, there's placeholder text and icons everywhere, and just generally is waiting for lots of content, but the site itself is operable. We wanted to capture the dark fantasy aesthetic of Mancer similar to what was done with Our Spell Is Steel and Mancer's RPG PDFs, and hope to build on that here. (Also the site is SFW in general focusing more on the worldbuilding, so the lewds aren't there, sorry)

Once it's more complete, the site will be announced publicly! Consider this an early peek. If you're more interested in Mancer's lore aside from the regular dose of sex and fun-times, feel free to visit the site.