The Lich Wars

A story-rich gothic RPG. Live as a musketeer in the 1700s, fighting through two wars of the undead in a 30-year career. Serve a country burdened by guilt & black magic, where necromancy infects the minds of its people. Interactive fiction with RPG skills & combat, deep characters and relationships.

L'histoire

As a new recruit in the Rychva Musketeers, 7th Company, you have only a short time to establish your origin story and form friendships before you are pitched into a long and bloody war against Venice. Following the war, with your country reeling from the shock of necromancy, you have three separate career paths to choose from (thus, offering three main playthroughs). Your military career spans 17 years in the inter-war period, bringing you across much of your country, into neighbouring countries, and across Western Europe. Carve out a soldier’s life alongside lifelong friends, perhaps lovers, who were established during the Venetian War, while black magic and its social fallout fester in your country. Immerse yourself in the life of 18th Century Rulsthen through core- and side-content. And then, the civil war of 1727 hits…