Chronicon Apocalyptica

Chronicon Apocalyptica is a 250,000-word, text-based medieval fantasy novel with no graphics or sound effects. You play an Anglo-Saxon scribe in the year 1000, carrying a Book of secrets that predicts an elven changeling will take King Æthelred II’s place. If the elves capture the Book and its ink, the prophecy says, the world will be torn apart.

The witan advisors to Æthelred send you on a secret mission to investigate whether the Book is true. You assemble an unlikely party—a nun, a holy warrior, a bard, a beekeeper and his bee—each with a mysterious past. On your quest to separate fact from fiction, you judge a witch trial, infiltrate the magical land of the elves and travel through time.

Investigate England’s past

You can discover rare sources, excavate ruins and collect local legends as you explore decaying strongholds, funeral barrows and time itself. The story brings you into contact with Excalibur, the Green Children of Woolpit and the Tremulous Hand, a disembodied hand with a taste for parchment. Your analytical, investigative and storytelling skills help you decide where your loyalties lie: with the church, the crown or the people of England.

Shape your choices

You can fight the forces of darkness or try to outwit them, and choose romance or rivalry with your greatest foe. Your decisions also determine who sits on the English throne and whether you uncover the secret at the heart of English history or fall to the Book’s evil.

You can play as a male, female or non-binary character, and choose to be gay, straight, bi or asexual.