Cloud Empress: Land of the Living

WHERE SPORES SPEAK

When travelers arrive in the Living Lands, they feel the breath of the trees as the wind crests the bluffs to dizzying drop-offs. They watch the cold, blue waters bite at the mineral shoreline. They watch the horizon climb into great spore skyscrapers. It's an unsettling sensation, stepping onto the fungal floor and noticing how the ground gently turns towards the boot. Such a focus feels like being smelled by a stray dog. Like hearing the hum of the universe harmonize with your pitch while you have yet to make a sound.
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IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING

Cloud Empress: Land of the Living is a setting-supplement book for the Cloud Empress: Ecological Science-Fantasy RPG. It contains descriptions of the wilderness, people, and conflicts in the overflowing region known as the Living Lands during the late autumn of the Century Brood. To play you will need a copy of the Cloud Empress: Rulebook.

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Cloud Empress is an ecological science fantasy campaign setting that places you in a world ruled by the patterns of giant psychic cicadas. Cloud Empress creates a new Earth, thousands of years in the future inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind, Frank Herbert’s Dune, and Hiromu Arakawa’s Full Metal Alchemist.

Cloud Empress imagines the far future. Find a way to thrive, live, and love in the psychic wreckage of Earth among the junk of the ancient people who abandoned it.

Cloud Empress is a comprehensive setting book supported by a self-contained rulebook focused on story-driven gameplay and evoking a science-fantasy setting.

This is a world where we are small things, where we are cursed, where reality is slippery, and we survive in beauty and in terror. Explore a land governed by the patterns of giant psychic cicadas – the Imago. When the Cloud Empress goes missing, glory-hungry soldiers from royal lands above the clouds threaten the balance. The fields below will burn without your help.

Game, graphic design, and layout by watt.
Illustrations by pbbeta, Garin, sacred field, and watt.
Editing and development by Christian Sorrell
Copyediting and proofreading by Walton Wood
Sensitivity editing by Basil Wright

Hardcover book, 108 pages.