"I will show you the power of a God."
The Dark Crown is a fantasy, set at the tail end of the old days,
old era, where Kingdoms still existed, and magical powers still thrived. World
filled with wonders and magic, danger and adventure, it is up to you to create a story of another
figure, who is bound to carve their way onto the list of legends.
Wield powers beyond imagination, which are based on a very unique conceptual system, or don't.
Save the world, or destroy it. Make friends, or make enemies. Become a farmer, tailor, ruler, a hero, a villain,
a God. The choice is yours, and the world is your oyster, so you can do as you please.
That is the whole point of this work.
You are able to choose almost whichever path imaginable. Follow the story, or go the opposite way.
Create yourself in many, many different ways, choosing almost any ending one could possibly want. Make this
story fir you, and not the other way around.
Want an epic adventure? You can have it. Want to make it into a bit of a different take on a slice of life?
You can do that too. Want to be an upstanding citizen? Or want to become the most
dangerous individual around? We have it all.
Be just another human on this Earth, or solidify yourself as one of the most powerful beings in history,
everything is allowed. You can achieve anything.
Now, for some additional info, after the sales pitch:
This work aims to be one of the biggest pieces of interactive fiction up to date. I mean, it's literally
going to be a textual version of an open world game, so yeah. And also, I strive to give
the option so the reader can, almost literally, do anything within the story, and create it so there are
almost exclusively unqiue stories created at the end, for each reader.
Though, I should note that this work is also striving to be immersive in a way, that characters won't be as
compliable, so to speak. Most characters will be straight, some will be gay, some bi, and only a handful
of them will be gender selectable. Still, there will be more than enough RO's (10+ is the current
estimate, but I can confidently say that that number will grow as the story progresses), so there
will be something, or rather someone, for anyone.
Also, some characters you may meet, you will meet, or you may never cross paths with. It will
all depend on the choices made, but I'll give you a warning in advance. There
are multiple invisible things that will be tracked, such as how many days have passed,
among others, which will also have a big say in things, regardless of what you decide. Specific time of day,
or after so many days, all of that needs to be taken into account, because other characters, along with the
whole world, exist aside MC. This will all be better seen in details, and how things happen around,
while reading/playing.
For some, you'll be able to learn about by what's happening around you, while others you
won't even know exist, if you don't follow the breadcrumbs. As I said, there will be a ton of routes,
which will intertvine, so you can hop from one to another, but the time will more forward,
and if you don't take the chance when offered, some of them you won't be able to visit during the
playthrough.
Now, let's go over some cool stuff:
1. Choose one of the 6 starting powers
2. Implement new abilities into your arsenal
3. Make a deal with a Djinn
4. Exorcise spirits
5. Have a magical farm
6. Pet phoenix? Pet phoenix
7. Be a Casanova
8. Romance an enormous cast of characters, befriend them, make them
your enemies, be a loner, or whatever else may be in between
9. Become a God
10. Save the world
11. Destroy the world
12. Succumb to your powers
13. Become a religious symbol
14. Befriend a variety of different animals
15. Uncover many secrets
16. Choose whatever you want(for real, almost anything)
17. And much, much more...
Let's return the interactivity back into interactive fiction. This one should do just that.
UPDATES:
22.03.2026 - Progress update everybody! So, I wanted to inform you that there are two
"main" route, path thingies, and that I've started working on one of those, and have made nice
little progress. It already started to branch into three paths, and I have some general
idea in which direction I want them to go. Still, I don't know how long those will be,
but probably like the rest of the routes done. So I'd say, in around couple days time, I should finish
that route, and then move to the last. After that, it's mostly connecting with code,
and some adjustments to the text, so yeah, that will be quicker. We're sitting at 310.516 words
without code, and a gentle reminder that this is still just the prologue. The very beginning of
The Dark Crown.
Safe to say, this will be a work unlike any previous, ever done.