Weyrwood

Weyrwood is a 174,000-word, text-based interactive fantasy novel set in a Regency society shaped by manners and magic. You play a fledgling member of the shabby-genteel who has returned from your education to untangle your inheritance from your small town’s complicated magical property laws. Your choices control the story, which unfolds without graphics or sound effects.

Life in Prosper

To keep your place among the Gentry and live among the Willed, you must maintain your spina, a magical currency. If you cannot, you will be tithed to the daemons and become one of the Fallen, their Will-less thralls. You attend assemblies, visit friends and neighbors, navigate scandal and intrigue, court prospective suitors and can take a lover. You can also win a high-stakes card game, fight a courtly duel and build influence at social events, with the possibility of becoming a Pillar of Society.

The Wood and its bargains

A magical contract binds Prosper, the Wood and the daemons to the fragile arrangement you now enjoy, but someone is tampering with it. You can investigate the daemon plot and protect your town, or side with the daemons and help destroy it. You can ally with the daemons or the weyrs, bargain with the forest’s magical weyrs to preserve your Will, and gain wyrdsense to perform sorcery.

Your choices

You choose a female, male or non-binary protagonist, and can be gay, straight, bi or asexual. You can try to survive long enough to claim your inheritance and return to the City, or remain in Prosper and seek the wealth, freedom and influence it can offer.