It’s been a whirlwind few weeks of dark maps, grim visions, and wyrd-laced rewrites, but today I get to share something that makes it all snap into focus: the map of Virelya, the cursed, crumbling, glory-hungry setting for Blood, Wyrd & Glory.
This is the first setting book written specifically for the game, and if you’ve been playing Blood, Wyrd & Glory since it dropped earlier this month (you brave souls), then this is the world your blades were always meant to sing in.
Virelya came fast and fevered. I didn’t build it out of nostalgia, I built it to give form to everything I love in sword & sorcery: rust-colored rain, ruins that whisper, sorcerers who pay in teeth, and names that last longer than empires. I wanted a world that felt doomed, but never dead. Less heroic quest, more haunted ambition. Less epic, more ecstatic collapse.
So what are you looking at?
That’s Virelya, a continent fractured by cataclysm, half-sunk by its own hubris, and barely stitched together by the ambitions of sellswords, cultists, and storm-chasing pirates. You’ll find a rust-colored inland sea ringed by fallen ports and coral-haunted ruins. Deserts of shattered glass where mirages lie. Ice-crushed forests that whisper your name. And fungal jungles where nothing dies cleanly. Even the stars up there? Not entirely trustworthy.
Every region you see is a seed: for peril, for power, for glory that comes at a price. The upcoming setting book (due next month!) will unpack all of this: locations, factions, cultures, rumors, relics, and threats ready to twist into your next game. No new rules. Just a blood-slicked backdrop soaked in fate, ready to swallow or elevate the bold.
This isn’t high fantasy. This is:
cults arguing over how best to burn you alive
mirrors that reflect who you were last lifetime
pirates who vote on whether or not reality still holds
ruins so old the stars changed since they were built
The map is just the first step, but it's a hell of a step. And it’s got me itching to roll up a dagger-eyed exile from the Shattered Isles and see what the Wyrd has in store.
Let me know what catches your eye. I’m still etching legends in the margins.
—Roberto
Love the grit in this!
Sounds like a great gritty setting. Looking to it being out.