H
Hide
Build secret dens, veil your tracks, preserve ancient customs. Outlast the pyres.
The Black Death was only the beginning.
BORN OF FOLKLORE.
HUNTED BY FEAR.
Folkborne is a dark fantasy game where the creatures of old legend were real, hunted, and forced to choose between hiding from humanity, protecting it, or ruling what remains after the plague.
— Read the Chronicle —The First Choice
What will your kind become?
H
Help
Cure villages, protect children, bargain with plague doctors. Be the saint they cannot name.
H
Haunt
Raid caravans, curse hunters, become the nightmare humans always feared you were.
R
Rule
Unite the Old Folk and raise the Feral Crown. End the long hiding by force.
The Six Pillars
A plague-age RPG of myth, survival, and sovereignty.
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Playable Folklore Beings
Become creatures inspired by world folklore — each with unique powers, taboos, needs, and unfinished business with humanity.
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Monster Civilization
Grow a hidden settlement. Recruit exiles. Write laws. Decide whether your society lives beside humanity, beneath it, or apart.
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Reputation, Not Morality
Villages remember kindness, terror, bargains, disappearances, and broken oaths. They may fear and revere you in the same breath.
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Plague and Superstition
The plague rewrites politics, faith, medicine, and fear. Every sickness becomes an accusation. Every death becomes a blade.
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Faction Diplomacy
Negotiate with human kingdoms, plague doctors, church inquisitors, witch circles, merchant leagues, and rival Folk clans.
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Ritual Magic, Old Customs
Rites, masks, songs, bones, herbs, moon cycles, and ancestral relics. The world bends for those who remember the old words.
Playable Lineages
Six shapes of survival.
The Plague Age
A world sick with fear.
The plague does not only kill bodies. It changes laws, prayers, borders, markets, and myths.
Ashwood Marches
Saint Veyra's Kingdom
The Morrowmire
“When the first village burned its healer, the crows gathered. When the second burned its midwife, the old woods answered. When the third blamed the Folk, the plague learned to speak.”— Fragment from the Ashwood Chronicle
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