WORLD OVERVIEW

Neo York is a city carved into the sheer walls of a massive canyon, where arts, invention, and rebellion animate daily life. The authoritarian Artistry Regulation Network (ARN) dominates the city, hoarding all cultural relics and masterpieces in their impenetrable Art Depots. Creativity is strictly policed and rationed, social mobility is rare, and only those who comply may earn privilege, or so the ARN claims. After the Last Canvas Uprising fractured society, the Network seized control, uniting merchant guilds, technocrats, and former warlords under a single authoritarian banner. Their mantra, "Order Through Unity, Power Through Ascension," drives their relentless efforts to suppress rebellion, centralize creativity, and concentrate wealth in the hands of the elite.

The Network established Art Depots, massive vaults where every relic and artwork of the old world is stored, catalogued, and guarded with fanatical care. Creativity, in their eyes, is a resource to be harnessed or, when necessary, suppressed. Art is repurposed for propaganda, reengineered as tools for control, or left to decay so its spirit cannot fuel revolution. Still, rumors persist of relics that possess a strange energy, hidden away in the deepest vaults that some believe could shift the changing sands.

While the ARN enforces a rigid hierarchy, the city’s real heartbeat belongs to the Resistance (SYNDICATE): an alliance of countless independent guilds made up of artists, hackers, thieves, storytellers, and dissidents of every kind. Guilds come together to chip away at ARN control, liberate art, and outwit their oppressors.

DAUGHTERS OF ORUS

The Daughters of Orus serve as both church and gatekeeper of spiritual and social mobility. The church reveres Orus, the Golden God and First Man, whose legendary ascent from mortal origins to divine power frames their doctrine. They assert that spiritual ascension is possible for all, but only through gathering wealth, particularly gold, and by demonstrating devotion through ritual and offering.

However, true ascension and advancement through Neo York’s strict social classes are only granted at the discretion of ARN, using the church as their instrument. All who aspire to rise must pass through the Daughters, whose gilded rites and blessings mark the transition from mere citizen to one of the city’s “gilded” elite. The more GLYNT one amasses and donates, the greater the ascension.

THE PROPHECY

Despite ARN meddling with the church, there are still some in the order that whisper of a prohecy. That in a time of deepest shadow, a hidden relic shall rise from the forgotten stone. When golden light returns to the hands of the worthy, boundaries will fall, and the world’s true spirit shall awaken, ushering the ascendant into an era where creation flows unbound and all things lost are made whole once more.

THE STRUGGLE FOR STATUS

In Neo York, gilded status is the mark of ascendancy, power and influence. Status is vital for resistance members in Neo York because it brings protection, resources, and influence in their struggle against ARN’s rule. For many, ascending in status is about personal gain, for others it is a tool to achieve broader liberation and challenge ARN’s control from within. Whatever your path, accumulating GLYNT is the way.

THE GLYNT SYSTEM

In Neo York, GLYNT, serves as both the currency and the defining symbol of progress, aspiration, and rebellion. Resistance members acquire GLYNT by selling stolen art and relics on the city’s thriving black market, transforming every daring heist into tangible opportunity. Each work of art exchanged for GLYNT becomes a passport, granting its holder greater status, influence, and security within the city’s shifting social hierarchy. Advancement in status is far more than personal ambition, it is the engine by which the resistance cultivates new leaders, sustains hope, and carves a future where creativity is liberated from the relentless control of the ARN.

THE ETERNAL CONTEST

In Neo York, every ambition finds its way through GLYNT. Carve your own purpose and let it shape your rise. Whether for glory, revolution, or wealth, ascension is how destiny is claimed in the shadows of the canyon.