The Aegis Saga

The Aegis Saga is a 280,000-word interactive fantasy novel in which your choices shape the story. It is entirely text-based, with no graphics or sound effects. As a human or turan, you face a spreading magical blight and the conflict between two races, with the fate of the world resting on the life of a human child.

The world and its choices

Humans and turans clash: humans rely on discord, while turans wield magic. After the turans’ ancestors left the world to walk between stars, wild magic began to return. Humans fight to fill the resulting vacuum, unaware that the blight is racing across the continent. The last turans live high on the plateaus and must choose whether to fight, follow their ancestors into the stars or perish.

You can play as a male or female human, or as an ungendered turan, and choose to be gay or straight. You can try to understand the humans’ new world or focus on the mysteries of the blight.

Encounters and abilities

Your choices can take you through a hostile city on the back of a feaclaw, into a powerful shaman’s confidence as he teaches you to dance time, or to find love on the shingle beside a peaceful water garden. You learn about glyf and how your magic can alter or destroy you.

Your personality changes as your character develops, but you are not locked into decisions to pass stat checks. You can reread a page you missed or skip ahead on a second read-through.