The Black Ledger

WAR FANTASY IN THE AGE OF GUNPOWDER The country is tearing itself apart — a regency and a reforming rebel faith locked in a civil war of muskets and bayonets, trench lines and river crossings, with foreign powers and profiteers circling the wreckage.. You are Kindled: one soldier in ten thousand who survived the battle-drug Flashdraught instead of burning out from it, left able to call fire from their own blood and breath. You've signed with the Black Ledger, a free company of Kindled mercenaries who load their own rifles and sell their fire to whoever's paying — loyal to no cause but the contract, and the debt the Book never forgets. Every side will pay you. None of them will tell you the truth. • A Civil War With No Clean Side: Crown and rebel faith have fought each other to a bloody standstill for three winters. • Play a Kindled Mercenary: Survive the battlefield drug that's supposed to kill you, and become a loaded charge in human form — ignite gunpowder at a glance, discharge as a shockwave that levels men like grapeshot, or burn like a fuse that never quite finishes catching. Primed. Volatile. Yours to set off. • Sell Your Fire to Any Side: The Black Ledger takes every faction's coin and answers to none of them. • Master Flintlock Combat: Muzzle-loaders, breech-locks, and rare repeaters each reload, fire, and fail on their own terms. • Fight a War of Trenches, Not Charges: Sieges, river crossings, and powder-starved standoffs have replaced the old cavalry charge. • Face the Wrought: The same alchemy that arms both sides also breeds monsters — and not every leash holds.