Hearth & Law

Every choice leaves a mark on the land. Keep the commandments and the fields hold, the house stays warm, and a name can outlive you. Walk in sin and the color drains out of the world — until the household line itself is cut off. Hearth & Law is a household simulation. You are given a child at eight years old. You name them. You choose a countenance. Then you live. THE HOOK This is not a high score. Light of the land. Fear of the Lord. A household that can starve — or bury you in peace and still have faces at the table. THE PLAY 52 stories, many paths. Sabbath. A stranger at the gate. A false measure. Wrath. Mercy. A careless vow. Walk a living village: the Chapel, the Well, the Hearth, the Market, the Fields, the Road. Watch a face age from child to patriarch in the years the Lord gives. A holy life can reach great age, even the fourth and fifth generation. Let the light die, and the…