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Detective Board

Every character, faction, location, Motive, Epiphany and lore thread in Silvernia, pinned to one wall. Every thread carries the reason those two cards are connected. Drag a card to rearrange the board, tap one to isolate its connections, tap several to see only the threads that join them, and tap or hover a string to read the link. Threads drawn as a dashed line are community readings rather than confirmed lore, and the key under the board says what each colour means.

The board is built from the same roster and lore the rest of the site reads, so a card here always has a page behind it. Start from a character you already follow and walk the threads outward: who they answer to, which faction pays them, and which case put them in the same room as someone else. The written index under the board says the same thing in order, sorted by how many threads each card carries, which is the faster read on a phone.

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S.T.A.T.S. faction splash art for Silver Palace, showing the detective agency's members

Faction

S.T.A.T.S.

Surveillance, Tracking and Troubleshooting Services. The detective agency on Morgue Street where the Detective lives and works, and the agency the whole story runs through.

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MISS 306, an armed maid and high-ranking graduate of the MISS agency in Silver Palace

Faction

M.I.S.S.

Maid Institute, Society and Services. Trains and hires maids and servicepeople, who can also be hired as bodyguards and mercenaries. Its people are trained in firearms and combat.

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Cinderella splash art in Silver Palace, one of the Fableborne reworked from a fairytale

Faction

Fableborne

Creatures and humans born from myths, legends and fairytales, carrying non-human traits from their storybook counterparts. Extremely powerful and flagship-tier.

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Vita et Mors, twin ethereal figures of life and death on a throne in Silver Palace

Faction

The Purists

A secret society, also called Vita et Mors, that exploits Silverium to gain power and carry out assassinations. Tied to several attempts on Queen Auguria. No named playable member is confirmed.

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The Silvernia skyline in Silver Palace, spires and rooftops beneath the floating palace

Location

Silvernia

The city the whole game takes place in. A minor trading post until Silverium was found beneath it, then the Hub of Miracles, and now a place where conspiracies fester beneath a facade of peace.

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The S.T.A.T.S. agency on Morgue Street in Silver Palace, an ornate white mansion at a street corner

Location

Morgue Street

An iconic enclave of High Peers and a thoroughfare linking several districts. A hornet's nest of rival factions held in fragile equilibrium, and the starting point for most cases.

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The Memoir Bar interior on Morgue Street in Silver Palace, a dim wood-panelled bar lined with bottles at dusk

Location

Memoir Bar

A rowdy establishment that becomes the beating heart of High Peers after dusk. Amid the drunken whispers and gossip, vital clues sit waiting to be found.

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Ashley as a blood-soaked girl on a rainy Bridgehead night in Silver Palace

Location

Bridgehead

The company docks where Ashley thanks the Detective, calls him her prince, and leaves to take her revenge alone. Also the site of the Red Rose's first kill on a rainy night.

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Lore

Silverium

The crystalline element found beneath Silvernia that catalysed the city's industrialisation. Extremely high energy density, unstable in raw form, and the thing every faction is fighting over.

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Lore

Rustium

Silverium's corrupting counterpart, attested on four items. It mutates plants through four stages, from unnatural colouration to a fruit nourished by blood, and unlike Silverium it never returns to the Argent Strand.

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A werewolf fighting the detective in a Morgue Street plaza in Silver Palace

Lore

Werewolves

Metal-Blooded beasts who pass for ordinary citizens until high-purity Silverium exposes them, which grants monstrous strength and a feral lust for violence.

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A harpy attacking the Royal Equestrian Tournament in Silver Palace while Gratia takes to the air

Lore

Harpies

Named alongside the werewolves as Silverium's spawn in the Classical Curations essay on the Silverium Conspiracy, which quotes the claim in order to reject it. They turn up as a bounty enemy type, and one attacked the Royal Equestrian Tournament.

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The Wolf King's Hunt encounter card at Felix, Morgue Street, High Peers in Silver Palace

Lore

The Wolf King

A named wolf whose hunting ground sits at Felix, Morgue Street, High Peers as a repeatable map encounter. His card warns that the law of the jungle rules there, and of cunning predators who present themselves as prey. No story role is confirmed.

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Top Hat, the prototype Silverium steed reconciled with Gratia in Silver Palace

Lore

Top Hat

The queen's prototype Silverium steed Gratia lost and then reconciled with. She named him after the Detective's distinctive headwear, and he turns out to be able to fly.

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Ashley in Silver Palace, hired as the Detective's assistant

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Ashley

The civilian behind the Cinderella persona. She talks her way into the Detective's employ posing as a Royal Academy graduate who asks for no wages, offering only the mystery of the stolen silver.

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Queen Feliana

The current queen, described by many inhabitants as very young. She took the throne three years ago after Auguria's death, ruled by a regent until the former Prime Minister resigned.

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Moira, Cynthia II's governess in Silver Palace

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Moira

Cynthia II's governess, who chaperones her everywhere and whose distrust of commoners Cynthia learns to set aside.

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Irwin

Firtho's late father, a Royal Academy man. His old circle is what makes the Williams Manor case cut so deep for her.

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Lore

The Silverium Fount

The source Silverium is drawn from. The key to it is engraved "Heaven Granteth the Queen Power to Give, and to Take", and the same inscription adds "The Queen; not the Queen and the nobles", writing the aristocracy out of the arrangement.

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Lore

The Marian Era

The only named historical period in the released text. The Silver Palace rose above the ground during it, opening chasms that kept intruders away from the founts, done through Silverium's gravitational properties.

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Lore

The Great Work

The alchemical layer the progression systems are built on. An Implement set quotes the Rosarium Philosophorum, a Hilbert's Hotel achievement is named after that text, Alba names the Albedo on its ascension ladder and Ferrugo describes the Nigredo without naming it. Three in-universe books are quoted once each: Forbidden Alchemy, The Dark Arts of Equilibrium and The Great Chain of Being.

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Lore

The Castle Act

Passed 200 years ago, granting every citizen the right to protect their own residences and estates. Cited on three Silvercraft Buzzers whose top tier is openly lethal and whose disclaimer admits the Act's protection is limited.

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Lore

The Mind Palace

The mental space the Detective reasons inside. In-game text treats it as real geography: a map whose surface is endless white sand, each grain a possibility, crossed with a bookmark described as a ball of yarn for the labyrinth. The four Shots exist only within it.

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Lore

Silverillia

Jellyfish-like Silverium lifeforms. A Detective photograph records countless of them drifting inside a working street-side Spinotrode, so they live inside the city's power grid. Gucia is the only character who claims expertise in them.

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Mermaidomorphosis

A public manifestation named twice and never explained. The research notes credit it with revealing Silverium's inherent properties, then reduce those properties to two open questions: is it alive, and does it hold memory.

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Lore

Mechanical Life

The phrase two in-universe textbooks argue over. Cybernetics treats control as the whole problem; Fluid Intelligence and Its Creation forbids automatons imitating human conduct in Chapter II and concedes the sentient machine in its Final Chapter. Both are quoted on UMI hardware.

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Lore

Silver Creatures

The class the household Silvercraft implements belong to: buzzers, tungsten lamps and a quillon dagger, in three tiers each. A lamp launches itself at a target and self-detonates, and its notes praise an in-built tracking feature.

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Lore

Silvernia's Food Economy

Fifty-four restaurant dishes in eighteen exact sets of three, every dish in a green, a blue and a purple version. The tier is the price and the flavour text treats it as the customer's class: students, then homemakers on a snatched break, then noble ladies flaunting wealth. Served through the Purchasing Food system, one item per category, same-category effects replacing rather than stacking.

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Lore

Property Investment

The city economy, run from a screen titled City Property. You observe a building in the world, invest in it with Stocks, and it pays revenue that banks up until you claim it. Premises are numbered addresses inside a district, each district carries a Land Ownership percentage, and a Milestone track sets goals including buying its Landmark: the Boutique district names Midsummer Night's Ballroom. The achievement ladder runs from one million Stocks held to five hundred million, far beyond what one district earns.

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Lore

Stocks

Negotiable share paper, spearheaded by the United Mining Industry, and the only currency the property market spends. The description calls it more fluid than traditional currency and astonishing for a flimsy printed page valued on par with Silverium. The certificate art carries a denomination, a red overprint, a seal and a countersignature.

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Lore

The Twelve Shops

Named retail premises that stock the city, six of them food: Gelato & Chill, Wheaty Baker & Deli, Milk Punch, Burgerstack Masters, Honey and Milk, Chipmunk Grocery, plus Perfumes & Vanity, two Solferino stores, McBarley, Wisdom Books and Hearts and Arrows. The game accounts for roughly twenty premises, so around eight shopfronts are standing empty. Each food shop sells raw ingredients alongside its own products.

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Lore

Pierre's Food for Thought

A third in-universe textbook quoted by chapter, alongside Cybernetics and Fluid Intelligence and Its Creation. Chapter 2 tells a reader who cannot afford marbled beef to brush honey over the steak instead. The other two books are issued to security captains and UMI stewards; this is the only one written downward.

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Head Chef Alex

A Gourmet Market chef, killed by werewolves. His hat was held over a six-year-old's eyes during the attack and the child will not sleep without it. The market's shop owners jointly prepared memorial bouquets, arranged by the florist Hypnos Garden and given to every visitor.

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Lore

Commissions

The city's whole job list on one screen, sorted by how far away the work is. Five category headers ran in the Dichotomy beta: Major Cases, Curious Cases, Private Requests, City Errands and Business Expansion. Payout follows the header rather than the effort, so a Curious Case is worth twelve City Errands, and the Evidence Board sits one button away on the same screen.

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Lore

Reputation

The Detective's standing in Silvernia, built as much from retrieving a package or solving a street puzzle as from the cases that make the papers. Its own background line puts finding the neighbour's missing cat next to laying mysteries to rest. It banks into Reputation Levels, and those levels unlock progression the money currencies cannot buy.

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Faction

City Grime Alliance

The city's street-level information network, named on a four-piece Implement set: the paper-sellers, shoe-cleaners and messengers who "scrawl down every tidbit of information that they catch wind of". Its pieces run Individual Struggles, At Home in the Storm, Rousing Fanfare and Breaking Stories, and its set bonus is the only one in the game that gives the wearer nothing and hands the whole benefit to a teammate sharing their Reactor Attribute.

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Lore

The Working Class

Silvernia's servants, labourers, shopkeepers and street trades. All twelve 3-star Motives are unsigned by any roster character and tell their stories instead, and four Implement sets read the same ladder from the other end: Retainer's Code for the servants, To Serve and Protect for the constabulary as a stopgap, Cogs of the City for the labourers, City Grime Alliance for the street.

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Ginkgo

The coffee manager behind the Manager's Brew, extracted at exactly 93C. The Festival Drinks Mystery names her: she handled little but coffee until a stall keeper friend took her to a food festival, and she went home and revamped the menu.

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Vorsch

The industrialist of the Mechanical Creations Mystery. He holds that everything ought to have a fixed order, a class and a code of conduct, and spent a fortune on managers and directors to enforce it. The board already named him before he had a card.

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Howard Williams

The author of a manuscript arguing for vampires, which Baron Edgar read and dismissed as stage makeup and nerve agents. Edgar judged exposure too dull and resolved to make vampires real instead, at the cost of Williams' life and his family's.

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The Doppelganger Mystery Motive card art

Motive

The Doppelganger Mystery

★★★★★ · Hero

The Detective siblings as a matched pair, trading information on a glance while they skipped class and played at detective games. Then the mirror became the only way to see the other's face, and each became the other's assistant, detective, cause and effect.

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Motive

The Ordinance Mystery

★★★★★ · Hero

Rex's first order as he takes the force in hand: root out the corrupt within it. Textbook rules warp on contact with the street, idle constables may be lazy or worse, and political currents blur the outline of the city like rain.

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Motive

The Chivalry Mystery

★★★★★ · Guardian

Chivalry has grown faint and the knights' reputation has not recovered since the airship incident. Gratia handles the dangers within sight and does nothing against her conscience, and a young woman in power appoints her the representative of chivalric ideals until the city believes in honesty, kindness and courage again.

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Motive

The Cinderella Mystery

★★★★★ · Guardian

The apron that was fit for the stove, the washbasin and any amount of harsh words, until it turned into a ball gown. Then midnight struck, everything collapsed back into silence, and a single slipper fell from her hems as she fled.

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Motive

The Burning Stone Mystery

★★★★★ · Outlaw

Three attempts, three failures, and every cry swallowed by the din until she went silent as stone. Pressure cracked the stone, injustice beat it raw, and betrayal sharpened something hotter than grief. She took up gun and blade and set herself alight.

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Motive

The Bloodbath Mystery

★★★★★ · Saviour

House Flora dresses its members by rank: white for children, pink for maidens, red for adulthood. Its innermost circles keep a fourth echelon above red, black for the house's sins, the colour of dried blood. Red Rose has prepared for that day her whole life.

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Motive

The Daydream Mystery

★★★★★ · Witness

Cynthia dreams of her cousin while a duke calls it a dream of power and a countess a dream of kinship. A servant grips her cousin's arm and a cape coils round her neck, so Cynthia rallies a toy legion and knights who would never betray her. Then she wakes, and her cousin is the gateway back.

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Motive

The Sleeping Beauty Mystery

★★★★★ · Witness

Sleeping Beauty drifts into an endless dream cradled by tangled blossoms, sixteen years overlapping in one moment, until the story returns to her birth and the blessing and curse that fell together. The closing line calls that repeating destiny the city in miniature.

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Motive

The Stolen Silver Mystery

★★★★ · Hero

Rain washed away the blood and ash but not the fire, and an umbrella pressed into her hands at her lowest reignited it. A helpless girl vanished into the rain, a newly hired assistant walked into S.T.A.T.S., and she asked how guarded Silverium leaves a locked box without a trace.

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Motive

The Heart Rate Mystery

★★★★ · Guardian

Fast meant danger and slow meant death, so the girl the Grim Reaper had shadowed since childhood learned to live by her pulse. After a certain someone came back her heart quickened anyway, which puzzles her, because it was never a real heart.

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Motive

The Formalism Mystery

★★★★ · Guardian

Investigation reports, interrogation logs, case notes, financial statements, monthly reports and bonus evaluations, cycling endlessly on steadfast rules and superficial process. Lorin calls it a riddle of red tape that would stump the most seasoned inspector.

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Motive

The Wild Trio Mystery

★★★★ · Guardian

Three defiant youths write off the Oz School of Metallurgy as a place for losers and the River Constabulary as overpaid cowards, then tag the walls in the footsteps of the legendary Silverfist and run laughing before anyone arrives.

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Motive

The Resurrection Mystery

★★★★ · Guardian

A letter signed Edgar, mocking a manuscript on vampires built from stage makeup and nerve agents. Exposing its author would be dull, so he resolves instead to teach him how to make vampires real, at the cost of the man's life and his family's.

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Motive

The Office Mystery

★★★★ · Outlaw

Bentham came out of UMI's arena with an office of her own, the one place she can drop the flawless corporate mask. Hand-ground coffee, a little pop music, or a nap. With her workload there is no time to worry whether her posture is ladylike.

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Motive

The Prosperity Mystery

★★★★ · Victim

She takes off her silk gloves and stirs the rivers of history into a current, a miracle belonging to Silvernia alone. Cheer the gears in the steam and the goods leaving the workshops, and sing an age of partnership, revolution and unprecedented prosperity.

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Motive

The Ivory Tower Mystery

★★★★ · Saviour

Gucia never cared for office politics and never learned the silver tongue of business. Her interest is non-human life, which needs neither money nor friends, and she means to collect and document it until it teaches her something about human suffering.

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Motive

The Duplicity Mystery

★★★★ · Witness

A good bartender is either making friends or on his way to it, and Argos is either working a side job or on his way to one. Thirty millilitres loosens any tongue, and he listens to the truths and nonsense without sorting them, because he knows someone who can.

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Motive

The Flashbulb Mystery

★★★★ · Witness

Lips fabricate testimony and pen and paper invent whole cases, so Grimm raises the camera and lets the lens bear witness instead. In the corners the Argent Strand's light cannot reach, the deeper the shadow the brighter the flash.

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Motive

The Festival Drinks Mystery

★★★★ · Witness

Grind, preheat, wet the filter, pre-brew, extract at exactly 93 degrees, and the result is the Manager's Brew. Ginkgo had handled little but coffee until a stall keeper took her to a food festival, and the ice cream and pastries there told her the menu needed rewriting.

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Motive

The Richness Mystery

★★★ · Guardian

The rules of the alleys and the streets are not quite the same, and he is still learning his new trade. Whole milk is like a young apprentice, needing only guidance to grow into butter or ice cream. He glances out of the window, and today the cat that steals a sip is not there.

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Motive

The Pincers Mystery

★★★ · Guardian

Her iron prosthetic is weapon and shield at once, and a barrier between her and ordinary people. She does not mind, since the leader of UMI's Office of Security Operations ought to inspire fear. Someone has to be on call around the clock, and she is the best at it.

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Motive

The Aberrant Mystery

★★★ · Outlaw

Another midnight, another scene of carnage, rain carrying the rust smell of blood. The survivors lie paralysed and look at the wolf king in terror and confusion, not knowing why this wolf hunts its own kind, or that the next hunt is already starting.

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Motive

The Protection Mystery

★★★ · Victim

Sponge cakes, banana pies and fruit punch came from those hands, which is why the young lady trailing her maid freezes at what she sees: a flash of white, a werewolf falling, and the same hands steadying a shield. Do not be too curious, the shield bearer says, it makes your protector nervous.

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Motive

The Soft Songs Mystery

★★★ · Victim

Haunting, elegant and flowing like water, her singing is a knell announcing death. A gorgeous guise masks the malice, and the prey her melody fools bleeds into an eternal sleep in disbelief. The banquet has begun and the elegy is ready.

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Motive

The Bullet Mystery

★★★ · Saviour

A noble wonders aloud whether a battle maid is worth hiring, and how anyone could protect him in so cumbersome a gown. She reads the ambush before it lands, the hired thugs fall in seconds, and his cheek ends up under her boot. He pays the full advance.

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Motive

The Fatuity Mystery

★★★ · Witness

The butter was whipped early, the sugar came up a quarter ounce short, the berries were not ripe, and even the sparrows would not touch it. Never mind: rest by the fire, the bread will bake one way or another, and she will turn the odd flavours into something called happiness.

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Motive

The Rich Fragrance Mystery

★★★ · Witness

He moves easily among the noblewomen, makeup striking and posture at ease. A flutter of the feathered fan spreads a peculiar fragrance through the rouge and powder, and he is all things exquisite and affectionate. Your skin looks flushed today, darling. Why not try the new product.

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Lore

Major Cases

The campaign as the game divides it, in acts of three scenes, each carrying an official title, a time of day, a location and a one-line beat. The board covers the prologue through Act IV.

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Lore

Evidence Locker

A running close reading of the in-game text the game files out of sight: ascension material ladders, achievement descriptions and item flavour text, quoted in full and read for what they establish about Silvernia.

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Lore

The Pre-Argent Light

The faith that came before Silverium. One Implement set carries the whole of it: people were once offered a choice of "whether to follow light and its virtuous glory", and those who took it "reaped fine harvests". No god is named, and the set title defines the religion by the thing that replaced it.

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Four factory girls sewing by lantern light in Silver Palace, their aprons stencilled 01098

Lore

Gravelkin

A people, and the periphery region they come from. Named three times in released text, and the United Mining Industry is in the frame on all three: Ashley's bio, Captain Kaboom's intel, and one item line placing UMI's Office of Frontier Exploration on the periphery.

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Epiphany

The Destined Death

The Prose Edda and The Poetic Edda · Snorri Sturluson and anonymous Old Norse poets

Baldr's mother takes an oath from every thing in the world not to harm her son, overlooks the mistletoe, and the god dies anyway because the killing was already foretold.

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Epiphany

The Count of the Cavern

The Count of Monte Cristo · Alexandre Dumas, 1844

Framed by three men who wanted his ship, his fiancée and his silence, a sailor spends 14 years in a sea fortress, escapes to a fortune hidden in a cave, and returns as a count to take all three of them apart.

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Epiphany

Frustrations of Youth

The Sorrows of Young Werther · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774

A young man falls for a woman already engaged to someone else, writes letters about it for an entire novel, and shoots himself. The book set off a wave of imitation across Europe in dress, in mood and in suicides.

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Epiphany

Diamond Necklace

The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant, 1884

A clerk's wife loses a borrowed diamond necklace and the couple spends ten years in poverty paying off the replacement. The friend she borrowed it from then mentions the original was paste.

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Epiphany

The Cursed Hound

The Hound of the Baskervilles · Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902

A family legend says a demonic hound hunts the heirs across the moor. The detective finds a real dog painted with phosphorus, and a motive as ordinary as they come: inheritance.

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Epiphany

The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis · Franz Kafka, 1915

A travelling salesman wakes up as an enormous insect. The horror is domestic rather than physical: his family's slow, entirely reasonable reclassification of him from son to burden to problem.

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Epiphany

The Last Leaf

The Last Leaf · O. Henry, 1907

A painter with pneumonia decides she will die when the last leaf falls from the ivy outside her window. One leaf holds on through two nights of storm. The old artist downstairs painted it on the wall in the freezing rain.

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Epiphany

The Hero's Shoulder

The Nibelungenlied · Anonymous Middle High German epic, c. 1200

Siegfried bathes in a dragon's blood and comes out invulnerable everywhere except one patch where a linden leaf had stuck to his skin. Years later his wife lets slip where that spot is.

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Epiphany

Bloodline Feud

Hamlet · William Shakespeare, c. 1600

A prince learns from his father's ghost that his uncle murdered him to take both the throne and the queen. He feigns madness, hesitates for four acts, and by the final scene almost the whole family is dead on stage.

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Epiphany

Villainous Crown

Macbeth · William Shakespeare, c. 1606

Witches tell a general he will be king. He murders the king, takes the crown, and finds he has to keep killing to keep it, working through friends and children until he is a tyrant scanning prophecies for loopholes.

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Epiphany

The Castaway's Tale

Robinson Crusoe · Daniel Defoe, 1719

A shipwrecked Englishman spends 28 years on an island, rebuilding a one-man version of the society he left out of salvaged tools, a ledger of profit and loss, and eventually a rescued companion.

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Epiphany

Cinderella

Cinderella · European folk tale, Perrault and the Brothers Grimm

A girl kept as a servant by her stepmother gets one night at the prince's ball through magical help, loses a slipper on the stairs, and is identified by it. In the Grimms' version the stepsisters cut pieces off their own feet.

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Epiphany

Death of a Clerk

The Death of a Government Clerk · Anton Chekhov, 1883

A minor official sneezes on a general's bald head at the theatre, apologises, keeps apologising, follows the man to his office to apologise again, and is shouted out of the building. He goes home, lies down, and dies.

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Epiphany

Song of the Paladin

The Song of Roland · Old French chanson de geste, c. 1100

The oldest surviving French epic. Charlemagne's rearguard is ambushed in a mountain pass, and Roland is too proud to blow his horn for help until his men are already dying.

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Epiphany

The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes · Hans Christian Andersen, 1845

A girl wears a pair of red shoes to church out of vanity and is cursed to dance without stopping, through fields and graveyards, until she begs an executioner to cut off her feet.

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Epiphany

Flattery and Honesty

King Lear · William Shakespeare, c. 1606

A king divides his kingdom by asking his three daughters to say how much they love him. The two who flatter him get the land. The one who refuses to perform is disinherited, and the flatterers destroy him inside a year.

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Epiphany

The Tragedy of Man

Le Père Goriot · Honoré de Balzac, 1835

An old man bankrupts himself buying his two daughters into Paris society, and they are too embarrassed by him to attend his funeral. The law student watching decides to beat Paris at its own game.

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Epiphany

The Barber of Meadow

The Barber of Seville · Pierre Beaumarchais, 1775

A barber helps a young count win a girl whose guardian intends to marry her himself, using disguises, forged letters and bribes. The one outright comedy on the shelf, and the only book here where nobody dies.

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HuginCharacter · 33 connections

The Raven's Beak

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  • The Raven's Clawsemploys Detective of The Raven's Claws
  • The Destined Deathequips The Lv.20 version of the surplus-CRIT-Rate clause The Sword in Silvernia runs at Lv.60, paying ATK rather than CRIT DMG.
  • The Sword in Silverniaequips If the Gravity Overdrive loop is already at 50% CRIT Rate from Motive and Implements, this converts the surplus into up to 125% CRIT DMG across both the sword combo and the gunshots.
  • The Morgue Street Murderequips The only Gravitas title in the game, and the Detective is the only Gravitas unit on the roster.
  • Muninidentity The male and female builds of the same Detective
  • Lorinally Called the Detective back to Silvernia for the Nameless Ashes case
  • Lorinally Offered a partnership, believing the world needs a system rather than heroes
  • Alfally Refused to leave after being rejected and appointed herself guardian of the office
  • Grimmally Ghost-wrote the newspaper reports that made the Detective's cases famous
  • Argosally Greeted him like a returning legend and poured the city wanderer on the house
  • Argostheorytheory Alumni books, graduation days and passing notes in a test put them at the same school before the Detective left
  • The Duplicity Mysterydepicts Argos is waiting for the one who can solve the puzzle he has already collected
  • Ashleyemploys Engineered her own hiring so he would chase the truth she could not chase alone
  • Red Roseally Shadows his case, cutting alarms and finishing off assassins to keep him safe
  • Rexrival Named him prime suspect in the Williams grave-robbing, then came to respect him
  • The Fairytale Sourcesidentity Hugin and Munin are Odin's two ravens, thought and memory
  • Firthoally Childhood friend who brews the stabilizer holding his nightmares at bay
  • Cynthia IIemploys His landlady and his client, who waives his rent forever if he keeps making time to play
  • Gratiaally The Queen's Herald asks him to keep guiding her from the shadows as her lucky four-leaf clover
  • Benthamemploys Offers to buy his findings on the factory, along with her friendship
  • The Cinderellasinvestigates The case Lorin pulls him into, first filed as the Nameless Ashes
  • The Marked Bulletinvestigates Tracing the round that killed his sibling is why he came back at all
  • The Evermore Airship Incidentrival Branded the queen slayer after the airship went down
  • Queen Auguriaally Awarded the Detective a Reactor and the Silver Merit Order shortly before her death
  • The Mind Palaceinvestigates Where the Detective reasons, and the only place the four Shots exist
  • Reputationidentity Reputation is the Detective's own standing, not a faction's, and it gates their progression
  • The Doppelganger Mysterydepicts Casts the two Detective builds as reflection and source, each the other's assistant and cause
  • The Curiosity Mysterydepicts The master she wants to learn every novelty alongside
  • The Lucidity Mystery (Hugin)depicts The Detective build who thinks it through to the end and stays silent
  • The Bitter Tea Mystery (Munin)depicts The younger brother on the other side of that first cup
  • The Bitter Tea Mystery (Hugin)depicts The younger brother remembering the first cup, and unsure how firmly to hold it
  • Major Casesinvestigates The campaign is the Detective's revenge case: it opens at a sibling's grave in the prologue
  • Return From the Underworlddepicts The closest fit to the game's own premise: Orpheus failed because the rules of the dead held, and the Detective came back anyway
SilveriumLore · 17 connections

The crystalline element found beneath Silvernia that catalysed the city's industrialisation. Extremely high energy density, unstable in raw form, and the thing every faction is fighting over.

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  • United Vermentum Worksinvestigates The site of the Silverium extraction that made the Cinderellas
  • The Puristsinvestigates Exploit its powers to gain influence and carry out assassinations
  • Silverniaidentity Found beneath the city and turned a minor trading post into the Hub of Miracles
  • Spinotrodesidentity Spinotrodes stabilise the raw element and convert it into the city's electricity
  • Personal Reactorsidentity Personal Reactors are how a character turns the element into ability
  • The Argent Strandidentity Spent Silverium is conducted back into the Strand, and Silverium beings return to it
  • Werewolvesinvestigates High-purity Silverium is what exposes a Metal-Blooded beast hiding as a citizen
  • The Great Disasterinvestigates The explosions began near Silverium facilities, and survivors report living light before the blast
  • Harpiesinvestigates Named alongside the werewolves as Silverium's spawn in the Conspiracy essay
  • The Silverium Fountidentity The founts are where Silverium is drawn from, and the crown holds the key to them
  • Silverilliaidentity A named Silverium lifeform, sold in terrariums where buyers watch them fade into inactivity
  • Mermaidomorphosisidentity Credited with revealing Silverium's inherent properties, and with asking whether it is alive
  • Stocksidentity A printed page the game says is valued on par with Silverium itself
  • The Stolen Silver Mysterydepicts The riddle she offers in place of wages, silver gone from a locked box
  • The Prosperity Mysterydepicts Credits the whole industrial miracle to Silverium by name
  • The Pre-Argent Lightrival The set dates the faith to "before Silverium" and calls it the other half of a choice the city did not take
  • The Great Workdepicts The purification ladder every Silverium concentrate climbs, Basic to Filtered to Rectified to Pure, is a distillation sequence
RexCharacter · 15 connections

The Scales of Black and White

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  • River Constabularyemploys Superintendent of River Constabulary
  • The Ordinance Mysterysignature Signature Motive, paired with Rex by the game's own roster
  • The Fall of the House of Rotequips The Lv.40 version of the same clause, paying 40% ATK instead of Amplitude Multiplier.
  • Bloodline Feudequips Resonance Effects scale on Amplitude, not on CRIT, and this turns Amplitude Coefficient above 50% into up to 125% Amplitude Multiplier.
  • Vengeance From the Voidequips Live only on the To Serve and Protect 4-piece, which is his best set anyway.
  • Grimmrival Rex seized his body and barred the Detective from it, before the death proved staged
  • Red Roserival Engineered a werewolf disturbance to pull the Detective clear of the superintendent
  • Huginrival Named him prime suspect in the Williams grave-robbing, then came to respect him
  • Lorinrival Sent by the Navy to oversee Lorin's constabulary
  • Daniel Bouldeninvestigates Arrested him once the Detective exposed the smuggling scheme
  • The Fairytale Sourcesidentity Tied by fairytale curse to the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland
  • Mechanical Lifeally Keeps two mechanical dogs, Chalky and Centimeter-wave Radar, and talks to them like dogs
  • Major Casesrival Act II, Scene I: Rex takes the remains away and the investigation stalls
  • Cathedral of Illuminationinvestigates Rex bars the Detective and Firtho from the grounds after the grave is robbed
  • The Cursed Hounddepicts The shelf's dog story, set against the one superintendent who patrols with two Dobermans
AlfCharacter · 13 connections

A Story Truly Yours

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  • M.I.S.S.employs Maid of M.I.S.S.
  • The Curiosity Mysterysignature Signature Motive, paired with Alf by the game's own roster
  • The Count of the Cavernequips The Lv.20 entry point: 60 Break Exploit, then 0.3% Stun Buildup Bonus for every point past 180.
  • Villainous Crownequips Converts Stun Buildup Bonus above 100% into 36% ATK, so the stun she is built for starts paying in damage.
  • Farewell, Chivalrous Ageequips 100 Break Exploit is the largest single grant of it, and Chivalrous Dream stacks on Basic Attack hits.
  • Lorinemploys Brought Alf in as the first assistant candidate, and she failed every test
  • Huginally Refused to leave after being rejected and appointed herself guardian of the office
  • Grimmrival Thrashed him for breaking in, unknowingly protecting the notebook he came to hide
  • S.T.A.T.S.employs Agency staff, trained through the maid institute
  • Maid Institute, Society, and Servicesemploys Introduced in her own bio as Maid No. 49 of MISS
  • The Bitter Tea Mystery (Munin)depicts Blamed first for the blend, the running joke that opens the card
  • The Bitter Tea Mystery (Hugin)depicts Blamed first for the blend, the running joke that opens the card
  • Major Casesally Act I, Scene III, "Assistant": Alf joins and the office is staffed
LorinCharacter · 13 connections

The Indispensable

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  • River Constabularyemploys Chief Inspector of River Constabulary
  • The Formalism Mysterysignature Signature Motive, paired with Lorin by the game's own roster
  • The Count of the Cavernequips 60 Break Exploit into Stun Buildup Bonus, with no stacks to maintain.
  • The Cursed Houndequips The Lv.40 rung above The Count of the Cavern, converting Break Exploit past 180 into 40% ATK.
  • Farewell, Chivalrous Ageequips Dodging or parrying grants all 5 stacks of Chivalrous Dream at once, and dodge-cancelling combos is his entire loop.
  • Huginally Called the Detective back to Silvernia for the Nameless Ashes case
  • Huginally Offered a partnership, believing the world needs a system rather than heroes
  • Alfemploys Brought Alf in as the first assistant candidate, and she failed every test
  • Argosally Told the Detective that Lorin had been waiting for his return
  • Rexrival Sent by the Navy to oversee Lorin's constabulary
  • Silver Fistidentity He is the street legend, and poses as the still-living Silver Fist to steer the gang straight
  • Silver Fisttheorytheory The Wild Trio Mystery is filed under Lorin's own Guardian Identity and his intel note calls him an unstoppable iron fist; neither is proof
  • Major Casesally Act I, Scene I: the Detective agrees to work with Lorin after a talk at the bar
Royalty and AristocracyFaction · 13 connections

The wealthy top echelon: nobility closest to the crown, and aristocrat landowners and capitalists who dabble in court politics and conspiracies.

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  • Red Roseemploys Dancer of Royalty and Aristocracy
  • Gratiaemploys Knight of Royalty and Aristocracy
  • United Mining Industryrival Its rise has aristocrats fearing the capitalists will uproot their wealth and status
  • House Lunafamily A noble house branching off the royal line
  • House Florafamilytheory A noble house read from the flower titles its agents carry
  • The Silverium Fountrival The key's second clause excludes them by name: "The Queen; not the Queen and the nobles"
  • Silvernia's Food Economyidentity Top-tier dishes are written for nobles flaunting wealth, and one drink has the last of the aristocrats denying the loss of their fortunes
  • Stocksrivaltheory Written as a recent abundance of capital, in the hands of the class the nobles fear will uproot them
  • The Working Classrival Born With a Silver Spoon sits one row above City Grime Alliance in the same Implement table
  • The Bloodbath Mysterydepicts Reads noble rank as something worn, and sin as the rank above the highest
  • The Daydream Mysterydepicts Two titled relatives read the same dream as power and as kinship
  • The Bullet Mysterydepicts The noble employer who tests her and then pays in full
  • The Rich Fragrance Mysterydepicts The noblewomen the counter is worked, and flattered, for
The Working ClassLore · 13 connections

Silvernia's servants, labourers, shopkeepers and street trades. All twelve 3-star Motives are unsigned by any roster character and tell their stories instead, and four Implement sets read the same ladder from the other end: Retainer's Code for the servants, To Serve and Protect for the constabulary as a stopgap, Cogs of the City for the labourers, City Grime Alliance for the street.

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  • City Grime Allianceally The street trades are where the city's information actually starts
  • Maid Institute, Society, and Servicesemploys Retainer's Code is the institute's creed, and every one of its four pieces is named for somebody else's comfort
  • Captain Kaboomemploys A Gravelkin orphan on the UMI payroll, leading the Spinotrode maintenance team in High Peers
  • The Twelve Shopsally The unsigned 3-star Motives are the shopkeepers the twelve-premises registry never names
  • United Mining Industryrival Cogs of the City asks the city to raise its torches; the Mechanical Creations Mystery answers with Vorsch's overseers, precise, punctual and ruthless
  • Royalty and Aristocracyrival Born With a Silver Spoon sits one row above City Grime Alliance in the same Implement table
  • River Constabularyally To Serve and Protect calls the force a mere temporary measure in the knights absence
  • Vorschemploys His overseers are the layer of management the city's workforce answers to
  • The Mechanical Creations Mysterydepicts The workforce his overseers exist to keep precise and punctual
  • The Would-Be Adults Mysterydepicts A child who works, wondering what a childhood spent in a park would be like
  • The Coin Mysterydepicts Household saving counted in pennies, suppers and boots
  • The Richness Mysterydepicts A shopkeeper learning a new trade, unnamed by any roster
  • The Blade Wind Mysterydepicts One of the twelve unsigned 3-star Motives that carry a story no roster character claims
United Mining IndustryFaction · 13 connections

The corporation that took the reactor trade through mass-produced Reactors, run by people outside the old aristocracy. Its rise enrages nobles who fear capitalists will uproot their status.

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  • Captain Kaboomemploys Technician of United Mining Industry
  • Benthamemploys Secretary of United Mining Industry
  • United Vermentum Worksemploys So autonomous that its own headquarters cannot see inside it
  • The Puristsrival At odds with the corporation whose collaboration with the crown threatens their power
  • Personal Reactorsemploys Took the trade through mass-produced Reactors and enraged the old aristocracy
  • Royalty and Aristocracyrival Its rise has aristocrats fearing the capitalists will uproot their wealth and status
  • Black Knightsemploystheory Black Knights tied to UMI appear as open-world enemies in trailers and CBT1
  • The Twelve Shopsidentity The bitterest coffee in the game is sold as a favourite among United Mining Industry workers
  • Stocksidentity Issued under UMI's name: the paper is worthless except as the company's promise of rights to its holder
  • The Working Classrival Cogs of the City asks the city to raise its torches; the Mechanical Creations Mystery answers with Vorsch's overseers, precise, punctual and ruthless
  • The Office Mysterydepicts The ruthless internal arena the office was won out of
  • The Pincers Mysterydepicts Names its Office of Security Operations and the leader who runs it
  • Gravelkinemploys UMI's Office of Frontier Exploration works the Gravelkin periphery, per Rectified Decay Concentrate
FirthoCharacter · 12 connections

The Medical Lancet

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  • The Corner Clinicemploys Doctor of The Corner Clinic
  • The Heart Rate Mysterysignature Signature Motive, paired with Firtho by the game's own roster
  • Diamond Necklaceequips A Lv.20 stand-in for the same team CRIT DMG payout, at a flat 25%.
  • The Last Leafequips The Lv.40 rung of the same healer ladder, paying Amplitude Multiplier like The Castaway's Tale does at Lv.70.
  • The Priest and the Bread Thiefequips She is the only character who actually heals, so the whole healer column is hers alone.
  • The Castaway's Taleequips The same shape paying Amplitude Multiplier instead of CRIT DMG.
  • Return From the Underworldequips The only healing title that pays the target rather than the whole team, stacking Heartfelt Elegy to 12% ATK on whoever she heals.
  • Huginally Childhood friend who brews the stabilizer holding his nightmares at bay
  • Williams Manorinvestigates Counterfeited her own death overnight to expose the locked-room trick
  • Irwinfamily Her late father, a Royal Academy man
  • S.T.A.T.S.employs Agency coroner as well as her own clinic's surgeon
  • Mechanical Lifeidentity The mechanical heart that now beats within her allows her a new lease of life
The Twelve ShopsLore · 12 connections

Named retail premises that stock the city, six of them food: Gelato & Chill, Wheaty Baker & Deli, Milk Punch, Burgerstack Masters, Honey and Milk, Chipmunk Grocery, plus Perfumes & Vanity, two Solferino stores, McBarley, Wisdom Books and Hearts and Arrows. The game accounts for roughly twenty premises, so around eight shopfronts are standing empty. Each food shop sells raw ingredients alongside its own products.

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  • Silvernia's Food Economyidentity The shops stock the ingredients and sell the tiers the menu prices
  • Morgue Streetidentity Jon's Pizza is exempted from the district's racketeering, and a factory worker saves up to take his family there
  • Voicepipe Caféidentitytheory The lab-glassware coffee menu matches the cafe's own pamphlet, which advertises beakers and slender-necked flasks
  • United Mining Industryidentity The bitterest coffee in the game is sold as a favourite among United Mining Industry workers
  • Pierre's Food for Thoughtidentity Attributed to Pierre, whose kitchen carries two of the four named restaurant menus
  • Head Chef Alexidentity The Gourmet Market traders arranged his memorial bouquets themselves
  • Property Investmentidentity The tutorial puts the investment interaction on a shopfront of the kind the shop registry names
  • Commissionsinvestigates City Errands are filed by district, so the job list doubles as a tour of the quarters the shops sit in
  • The Working Classally The unsigned 3-star Motives are the shopkeepers the twelve-premises registry never names
  • The Richness Mysterydepicts A dairy counter of the kind the retail registry stocks the city from
  • The Fatuity Mysterydepicts A baker's counter of the kind the twelve premises registry stocks
  • The Rich Fragrance Mysterydepicts The perfume and cosmetics counter among the named premises
"Cinderella"Character · 11 connections

The Vengeful Ant

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  • Fableborneemploys Cinderella of Fableborne
  • The Burning Stone Mysterysignature Signature Motive, paired with "Cinderella" by the game's own roster
  • The Sword in Silverniaequips Thermal Rampage plus its two upgrade nodes give 55% CRIT Rate for free, so the clause above 50% is already live before you gear for it and every point past that becomes CRIT DMG.
  • Cinderellaequips The whole Quenched window is basic attacks, and this is 80% Basic Attack DMG.
  • Until Death Do Us Partequips Lovelark only pays out when the next hit is a different damage type, and her rotation alternates constantly: sword combo into Re-Smelt into the Charged Attack into the Ultimate.
  • Ashleyidentity Ashley is the civilian behind the Cinderella persona
  • The Cinderella Mysterydepicts The fairy tale itself, filed as a Guardian Motive, away from the Outlaw who carries the name
  • The Fairytale Sourcesidentity The flagship Fableborne, reworked from the Cinderella tale
  • Gravelkinidentity Ashley's bio names her a Gravelkin woman who applied for a clerical position
  • United Vermentum Worksinvestigates The Gravelkin clerk who survived the factory's Silverium extraction and went back for it
  • Cinderelladepicts The only Epiphany that shares its name with a playable character, and the two are separate things you can hold at once
GratiaCharacter · 11 connections

Her Majesty's Protégé

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  • Royalty and Aristocracyemploys Knight of Royalty and Aristocracy
  • The Chivalry Mysterysignature Signature Motive, paired with Gratia by the game's own roster
  • The Metamorphosisequips 50% Amplitude Multiplier to every Glacies teammate, which in practice means Bentham.
  • Song of the Paladinequips Her shields scale off her own Max HP, so 20% HP is a direct 20% larger shield rather than a defensive stat with no offensive use.
  • Queen Felianaally Handpicked by the queen and sworn to her service
  • Order of the Tideemploys An Argent Knight of the order
  • Top Hatally Lost the queen's prototype Silverium steed, then named him after the Detective's hat
  • Huginally The Queen's Herald asks him to keep guiding her from the shadows as her lucky four-leaf clover
  • The Queen's Heraldemploys Staged the harpy attack to show the public a knight fighting for her people
  • Harpiesrival Took to the air on Top Hat to bring the tournament harpy down, and was disqualified for it
  • Commissionsally Bewildered Bunny and Mr Horse is her Private Request: she packs the sandwich the children carry
GrimmCharacter · 11 connections

Silver-tongued Headliner

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  • S.T.A.T.S.employs Journalist of S.T.A.T.S.
  • The Flashbulb Mysterysignature Signature Motive, paired with Grimm by the game's own roster
  • The Metamorphosisequips 50% Amplitude Multiplier to every Fulmen teammate, and the Fulmen carry is Rex, whose damage is Resonance Effects.
  • The Price of Safe Passageequips Up to 30% ATK for every Fulmen teammate, which is Rex, and 25% Ultimate Charge Efficiency for the Ultimate that extends the debuff he exists to apply.
  • The Tragedy of Manequips 10% Fulmen DMG to the whole team for 40 seconds after his Ultimate, which is already the button he leaves on.
  • Alfrival Thrashed him for breaking in, unknowingly protecting the notebook he came to hide
  • The Cinderellasinvestigates His hidden notebook renames the Nameless Ashes the Cinderellas
  • Huginally Ghost-wrote the newspaper reports that made the Detective's cases famous
  • Rexrival Rex seized his body and barred the Detective from it, before the death proved staged
  • City Grime Allianceally His Flashbulb Mystery makes the set's argument professionally: testimony lies, the unnoticed rhythms of everyday life do not
  • Major Casesinvestigates Act II, Scene III, "Identifying John Doe": the notebook is found and the Grimm case is cracked
Mechanical LifeLore · 11 connections

The phrase two in-universe textbooks argue over. Cybernetics treats control as the whole problem; Fluid Intelligence and Its Creation forbids automatons imitating human conduct in Chapter II and concedes the sentient machine in its Final Chapter. Both are quoted on UMI hardware.

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  • Mermaidomorphosistheorytheory Both chains ask the same question from opposite ends, one about built minds and one about the substance
  • Personal Reactorsidentity Every Reactor Crystal is described as both a rock and an ecological vessel
  • Silver Creaturesidentity Consumer implements that hunt, track and self-detonate, filed by the database as creatures
  • Firthoidentity The mechanical heart that now beats within her allows her a new lease of life
  • Rexally Keeps two mechanical dogs, Chalky and Centimeter-wave Radar, and talks to them like dogs
  • Guciatheorytheory The line asking whether Silverium is alive is credited to a certain unpublished thesis; Gucia's thesis is unpublished
  • Pierre's Food for Thoughtidentity The third book quoted by chapter, sibling to Cybernetics and Fluid Intelligence and Its Creation
  • Vorschidentity Holds that steel, steam and people alike owe the world a fixed order and a code of conduct
  • The Mechanical Creations Mysterydepicts Argues a fixed order and code of conduct for everything, the position the textbooks fight over
  • The Ivory Tower Mysterydepicts Her subject stated plainly: life that is not human
  • The Great Workdepicts The second in-universe reading list: alchemy on the ascension materials, cybernetics and fluid intelligence on the components
Red RoseCharacter · 11 connections

The Rose as an Engine of War

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  • Royalty and Aristocracyemploys Dancer of Royalty and Aristocracy
  • The Bloodbath Mysterysignature Signature Motive, paired with Red Rose by the game's own roster
  • Frustrations of Youthequips A larger 50% CRIT DMG, but only to Ignis teammates, which narrows it to Cinderella and Alf.
  • The Hero's Shoulderequips The Lv.60 rung of the same Ignis-only ladder as Frustrations of Youth, handing Cinderella and Alf attribute DMG instead of CRIT DMG.
  • The Red Shoesequips Three stacks of Sanguine Step is 42% CRIT DMG for the whole team with no attribute condition, stacking on top of the CRIT DMG Bright Rhythm already grants.
  • Ashleyemploys Quietly pays the assassin to keep the Detective alive, again and again
  • Huginally Shadows his case, cutting alarms and finishing off assassins to keep him safe
  • Midsummer Night's Ballroomemploys Proprietress of the ballroom, where she finally tells Ashley's whole story
  • House Floratheorytheory Likely an agent of the house whose members carry flower titles
  • Rexrival Engineered a werewolf disturbance to pull the Detective clear of the superintendent
  • The Fairytale Sourcesidentity Her name nods to Rose-Red from Snow-White and Rose-Red
WerewolvesLore · 11 connections

Metal-Blooded beasts who pass for ordinary citizens until high-purity Silverium exposes them, which grants monstrous strength and a feral lust for violence.

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  • Cynthia IIally Spent a month's allowance on stabilizers for the werewolf girl she rescued
  • Baron Bartonrival His collapsing Crescent Guild sits behind the framing of the werewolf family
  • Silveriuminvestigates High-purity Silverium is what exposes a Metal-Blooded beast hiding as a citizen
  • Morgue Streetrival Hidden in plain sight among the street's ordinary citizens
  • The Wolf Kingidentity Cunning predators who present themselves as prey, the same passing-for-a-citizen idea
  • Baron Edgaremploys Loosed his werewolf companions on the cathedral to drive Firtho off the body
  • Head Chef Alexrival Killed in the werewolf attack his hat shielded a child from
  • The Bellowing Mysterydepicts A Metal-Blooded hunter written from inside the hunt
  • The Aberrant Mysterydepicts The kind he turns on, terrified and unable to explain it
  • The Protection Mysterydepicts One of them falls to the shield before the young lady's eyes
  • The Cursed Hounddepicts The clearest argument on the shelf for the rational explanation over the supernatural one, which is useful in a city with a werewolf problem
Cynthia IICharacter · 10 connections

The Goldbud

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  • House Lunaemploys Luna's Scion of House Luna
  • The Daydream Mysterysignature Signature Motive, paired with Cynthia II by the game's own roster
  • The Red Shoesequips The straightforward alternative: 42% team CRIT DMG off her Ultimate, for when the team is a crit carry and the grouping is the only reason she is there.
  • The Barber of Meadowequips The clause pays for damage dealt while off the field, and her Ultimate leaves a boomerang that keeps pulling and hitting after she swaps out.
  • The Fairytale Sourcesidentity Her bread-kitty entourage and marketing lean hard on Hansel and Gretel
  • Huginemploys His landlady and his client, who waives his rent forever if he keeps making time to play
  • Morgue Streetemploys Owns the whole street through a trustee
  • Moirafamily Her governess, who chaperones her everywhere
  • Queen Felianafamily Confirmed as the queen's cousin, which puts House Luna inside the extended royal family
  • Werewolvesally Spent a month's allowance on stabilizers for the werewolf girl she rescued
Morgue StreetLocation · 10 connections

An iconic enclave of High Peers and a thoroughfare linking several districts. A hornet's nest of rival factions held in fragile equilibrium, and the starting point for most cases.

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  • Cynthia IIemploys Owns the whole street through a trustee
  • Silverniaidentity An enclave of High Peers and the thoroughfare linking several districts
  • S.T.A.T.S.identity Part cluttered headquarters, part modest flat, the agency anchors the street
  • Memoir Baridentity A landmark of the street
  • Voicepipe Caféidentity A landmark of the street
  • Stonefall Syndicaterival One of the rival powers holding the street in fragile equilibrium
  • Werewolvesrival Hidden in plain sight among the street's ordinary citizens
  • The Twelve Shopsidentity Jon's Pizza is exempted from the district's racketeering, and a factory worker saves up to take his family there
  • The Furious Speed Mysterydepicts The street trade the neighbourhood cheers on, bag snatching included
  • The Morgue Street Murderdepicts The first modern detective story, and Silvernia puts it on the map as a district you can walk through rather than in the credits
MuninCharacter · 10 connections

The Raven's Claws

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  • The Raven's Clawsemploys Detective of The Raven's Claws
  • The Destined Deathequips The Lv.20 version of the surplus-CRIT-Rate clause The Sword in Silvernia runs at Lv.60, paying ATK rather than CRIT DMG.
  • The Sword in Silverniaequips If the Gravity Overdrive loop is already at 50% CRIT Rate from Motive and Implements, this converts the surplus into up to 125% CRIT DMG across both the sword combo and the gunshots.
  • The Morgue Street Murderequips The only Gravitas title in the game, and the Detective is the only Gravitas unit on the roster.
  • Huginidentity The male and female builds of the same Detective
  • The Mind Palaceinvestigates Where the Detective reasons, and the only place the four Shots exist
  • The Doppelganger Mysterydepicts Casts the two Detective builds as reflection and source, each the other's assistant and cause
  • The Lucidity Mystery (Munin)depicts The Detective build who thinks it through to the end and stays silent
  • The Bitter Tea Mystery (Munin)depicts The elder sister remembering the first cup of tea, badly made and never bitter
  • The Bitter Tea Mystery (Hugin)depicts The elder sister on the other side of that first cup
River ConstabularyFaction · 10 connections

The police and military of Silvernia, cobbled together by the military in the knights' absence. Handles arrests and investigations, sometimes stepping on the agency's work.

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  • Lorinemploys Chief Inspector of River Constabulary
  • Rexemploys Superintendent of River Constabulary
  • S.T.A.T.S.rival Conducts its own arrests and investigations, sometimes stepping on the agency's work
  • Order of the Tideidentity Cobbled together by the military in the knights' absence
  • The Working Classally To Serve and Protect calls the force a mere temporary measure in the knights absence
  • The Ordinance Mysterydepicts His first order is to root out the corrupt inside the force itself
  • The Formalism Mysterydepicts Reads the constabulary from the paperwork side, where the drudgery outlasts the crime
  • The Wild Trio Mysterydepicts Dismissed in the same breath as a pack of overpaid cowards
  • Evidence Lockerinvestigates Exhibit No. 1: the four Constable Badges are the Constabulary describing its own recruits, from a cynical intake question to the persistence the top tier settles on
  • The Priest and the Bread Thiefdepicts A bishop lying to the police to save a bread thief, shelved in a city whose police force is funded by the powerful
S.T.A.T.S.Faction · 10 connections

Surveillance, Tracking and Troubleshooting Services. The detective agency on Morgue Street where the Detective lives and works, and the agency the whole story runs through.

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  • Grimmemploys Journalist of S.T.A.T.S.
  • The Evermore Airship Incidentrival The S.T.A.T.S. duo disappeared at the same time the queen died
  • Morgue Streetidentity Part cluttered headquarters, part modest flat, the agency anchors the street
  • The Raven's Clawsidentity The agency the detective duo's banner flies over
  • Firthoemploys Agency coroner as well as her own clinic's surgeon
  • Alfemploys Agency staff, trained through the maid institute
  • Ashleyemploys Listed as agency staff under her civilian name
  • River Constabularyrival Conducts its own arrests and investigations, sometimes stepping on the agency's work
  • The Stolen Silver Mysterydepicts The agency doors she engineered her way through
  • The Flashbulb Mysterydepicts The agency the photographs are taken for
The Argent StrandLore · 10 connections

The cycle Silverium returns through. Circuitways conduct spent Silverium back into it, Silverium beings fade into inactivity and return to it, and in-game text calls its end a destination none can escape.

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  • Silveriumidentity Spent Silverium is conducted back into the Strand, and Silverium beings return to it
  • Spinotrodesidentity Spinotrodes convert the element, Circuitways return what is left of it
  • Rustiumrival The corrupting counterpart: Rustium takes root in living things instead of returning
  • The Silverium Conspiracyinvestigates The Marian Era raising of the palace put the Silverium founts out of reach
  • The Silverium Fountidentity The founts are where the cycle starts, and the Strand is where it ends
  • The Mind Palacetheorytheory Two cycles running opposite ways: the Strand dissolves matter, the Palace accumulates mind into a tower
  • The Cognito Seatheorytheory The Illusion of Life set reads the sea and the Strand as one thing seen from two sides
  • Silverilliaidentity Terrarium text has them returning to the Argent Strand when they fade
  • The Flashbulb Mysterydepicts Sets his work in the corners its light does not reach
  • The Great Workdepicts The Great Chain of Being is quoted on Pure Essence Concentrate saying distillation is return, which is the Strand's cycle stated as alchemy
The Fairytale SourcesLore · 10 connections

The storybook layer under the cast. Cinderella, the Queen of Hearts, Hansel and Gretel, Snow-White and Rose-Red. Every one of them is reworked darker than the original.

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  • Rexidentity Tied by fairytale curse to the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland
  • "Cinderella"identity The flagship Fableborne, reworked from the Cinderella tale
  • Cynthia IIidentity Her bread-kitty entourage and marketing lean hard on Hansel and Gretel
  • Red Roseidentity Her name nods to Rose-Red from Snow-White and Rose-Red
  • Huginidentity Hugin and Munin are Odin's two ravens, thought and memory
  • The Cinderella Mysterydepicts Retells the Cinderella story as the city's own, apron to gown to abandoned slipper
  • The Little Mermaid Mysterydepicts Reworks the Little Mermaid, then promises to undo her ending
  • The Sleeping Beauty Mysterydepicts Reworks Sleeping Beauty, blessing and curse arriving in the same instant
  • Cinderelladepicts One of the two fairy tales on the shelf, and the story the Fableborne woman is named out of
  • The Red Shoesdepicts The other fairy tale on the shelf, kept word for word from Andersen
ArgosCharacter · 9 connections

The Eye of Argos

Read more about Argos

  • M.I.S.S.employs Bartender of M.I.S.S.
  • The Duplicity Mysterysignature Signature Motive, paired with Argos by the game's own roster
  • The Red Shoesequips 42% team CRIT DMG with no attribute condition, which matches a support who is brought for almost any carry.
  • Resurrected Monstrosityequips Testing Records builds on his Tactical Assault, Skill and Ultimate, then a teammate's Tactical Assault spends it for 41.5% Amplitude Multiplier.
  • Memoir Baremploys Tends the bar where the returning Detective's journey begins
  • Huginally Greeted him like a returning legend and poured the city wanderer on the house
  • Lorinally Told the Detective that Lorin had been waiting for his return
  • Hugintheorytheory Alumni books, graduation days and passing notes in a test put them at the same school before the Detective left
  • Maid Institute, Society, and Servicesemploys A male member, which his bio calls something of a rarity; he tends the Memoir Bar and likes paid leave
Major CasesLore · 9 connections

The campaign as the game divides it, in acts of three scenes, each carrying an official title, a time of day, a location and a one-line beat. The board covers the prologue through Act IV.

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  • Hugininvestigates The campaign is the Detective's revenge case: it opens at a sibling's grave in the prologue
  • Lorinally Act I, Scene I: the Detective agrees to work with Lorin after a talk at the bar
  • Alfally Act I, Scene III, "Assistant": Alf joins and the office is staffed
  • Rexrival Act II, Scene I: Rex takes the remains away and the investigation stalls
  • Grimminvestigates Act II, Scene III, "Identifying John Doe": the notebook is found and the Grimm case is cracked
  • The Cinderellasinvestigates Act III, Scene III: Ashley falls under suspicion and leaves
  • Memoir Barinvestigates Act I, Scene I: the bar talk that starts the partnership
  • Voicepipe Caféinvestigates Act I, Scene II: the café where the first curious case reopens the Detective's past
  • Midsummer Night's Ballroominvestigates Act IV, Scene I: the only morning scene, where the Detective gains an informant and a dance partner
SilverniaLocation · 9 connections

The city the whole game takes place in. A minor trading post until Silverium was found beneath it, then the Hub of Miracles, and now a place where conspiracies fester beneath a facade of peace.

Read more about Silvernia

  • Silveriumidentity Found beneath the city and turned a minor trading post into the Hub of Miracles
  • Morgue Streetidentity An enclave of High Peers and the thoroughfare linking several districts
  • Captain Kaboomemploys The Kaboom Team are children without a home who keep the city's fuse boxes and stoves running
  • The Marian Eraidentity The era that lifted the Silver Palace above the city and reshaped its topography
  • The Castle Actidentity A 200-year-old statute letting every householder use force on their own doorstep
  • The Sleeping Beauty Mysterydepicts Its closing line calls the destiny fated to repeat itself the city in miniature
  • The Prosperity Mysterydepicts The prosperity is framed as belonging to this city alone
  • Cathedral of Illuminationidentity The city grew up around a church that was already standing
  • The Sword in Silverniadepicts The one title that relocates its source outright, so the sword in the stone becomes the sword in Silvernia
AshleyFigure · 8 connections

The civilian behind the Cinderella persona. She talks her way into the Detective's employ posing as a Royal Academy graduate who asks for no wages, offering only the mystery of the stolen silver.

Read more about Ashley

  • "Cinderella"identity Ashley is the civilian behind the Cinderella persona
  • The Cinderellasidentity One of the girls the case is named for, and every apron in the factory carries the same number
  • Huginemploys Engineered her own hiring so he would chase the truth she could not chase alone
  • Red Roseemploys Quietly pays the assassin to keep the Detective alive, again and again
  • United Vermentum Worksinvestigates A survivor of the Silverium extraction carried out at the factory
  • Bridgeheadinvestigates Thanks the Detective at the company docks, calls him her prince, and leaves alone
  • S.T.A.T.S.employs Listed as agency staff under her civilian name
  • The Stolen Silver Mysterydepicts The hiring told from her side: a girl vanishes into the rain and an assistant walks in
BenthamCharacter · 8 connections

The Quartz Net

Read more about Bentham

  • United Mining Industryemploys Secretary of United Mining Industry
  • The Office Mysterysignature Signature Motive, paired with Bentham by the game's own roster
  • Bloodline Feudequips Pure Amplitude scaling with no stack upkeep, which is the safer pick if the charge attack sequence gets interrupted often enough that Weave Dance falls off before the Ultimate.
  • Killing That Which You Loveequips Glacies-locked, and the stack condition is Basic Attack or Skill, which is what two Funds casts into Liquid Assets already spends.
  • Huginemploys Offers to buy his findings on the factory, along with her friendship
  • United Vermentum Worksinvestigates Plainly hunting the factory's secrets herself, and warns even UMI cannot see inside it
  • Queen Auguriatheorytheory Read by the community as tied to the Augurian Reactor thread
  • The Destined Deathdepicts The book the Simulation screen shows equipped on Bentham, about a death that arrives whatever precautions are taken
Captain KaboomCharacter · 8 connections

Of Tinkers and Tunes

Read more about Captain Kaboom

  • United Mining Industryemploys Technician of United Mining Industry
  • The Would-Be Adults Mysterysignature Signature Motive, paired with Captain Kaboom by the game's own roster
  • White Beast of the Deepequips The Break Exploit line that pays in DMG Bonus rather than more stun.
  • Death of a Clerkequips Radiatio-locked, and Fatal Shadow stacks on any damage dealt rather than on a specific button.
  • Spinotrodesemploys The Kaboom Team buzz around Silvernia's Spinotrodes keeping the city lit
  • Silverniaemploys The Kaboom Team are children without a home who keep the city's fuse boxes and stoves running
  • The Working Classemploys A Gravelkin orphan on the UMI payroll, leading the Spinotrode maintenance team in High Peers
  • Gravelkinidentity Her intel calls her a Gravelkin orphan, along with the rest of the Kaboom Team
The Silverium FountLore · 8 connections

The source Silverium is drawn from. The key to it is engraved "Heaven Granteth the Queen Power to Give, and to Take", and the same inscription adds "The Queen; not the Queen and the nobles", writing the aristocracy out of the arrangement.

Read more about The Silverium Fount

  • Silveriumidentity The founts are where Silverium is drawn from, and the crown holds the key to them
  • Queen Felianaidentity The reigning queen holds the key the inscription grants power through
  • Royalty and Aristocracyrival The key's second clause excludes them by name: "The Queen; not the Queen and the nobles"
  • The Marian Eraidentity The palace rose in this era, opening chasms that put the founts out of reach
  • The Castle Actidentity The crown's power to take, delegated downward and bounded by a doorstep
  • The Argent Strandidentity The founts are where the cycle starts, and the Strand is where it ends
  • The Pre-Argent Lightidentity Religious language outlived the religion: the Fount's key reads "Heaven Granteth the Queen Power to Give, and to Take"
  • The Great Worktheorytheory A crown that reserves the power to give and take Silverium, and a Marian Era book on transmuting it labelled forbidden
Queen AuguriaFigure · 7 connections

Reigned roughly twelve years before being assassinated. She awarded the Detective a Reactor and the Silver Merit Order shortly before her death.

Read more about Queen Auguria

  • Benthamtheorytheory Read by the community as tied to the Augurian Reactor thread
  • The Evermore Airship Incidentrival The crash where the queen was ultimately killed
  • The Puristsrival Tied to several attempts on her life and to the crash that killed her
  • Queen Felianatheorytheory Succeeded her three years ago, but the precise family tie is unconfirmed
  • Isabella II, The Conquerorfamilytheory Possibly reigned after Isabella II on the same royal line
  • Huginally Awarded the Detective a Reactor and the Silver Merit Order shortly before her death
  • The Silverium Conspiracyinvestigates The Classical Curations essay threads the crown's handling of Silverium through her reign
Silvernia's Food EconomyLore · 7 connections

Fifty-four restaurant dishes in eighteen exact sets of three, every dish in a green, a blue and a purple version. The tier is the price and the flavour text treats it as the customer's class: students, then homemakers on a snatched break, then noble ladies flaunting wealth. Served through the Purchasing Food system, one item per category, same-category effects replacing rather than stacking.

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  • The Twelve Shopsidentity The shops stock the ingredients and sell the tiers the menu prices
  • Royalty and Aristocracyidentity Top-tier dishes are written for nobles flaunting wealth, and one drink has the last of the aristocrats denying the loss of their fortunes
  • Personal Reactorsidentity Glacies Reactors created the ice cream trade and their scarcity keeps ice cubes expensive, which a home recipe complains about
  • Ginkgoally Names the Manager's Brew and its 93C extraction, the one attested join between a Motive and a published menu item
  • The Festival Drinks Mysterydepicts A festival of ice cream and pastries is what sends her back to the menu
  • The Richness Mysterydepicts Milk guided into butter or ice cream, the trade behind the dish tiers
  • The Fatuity Mysterydepicts Odd flavours turned into something sellable, the trade under the dish tiers
The CinderellasLore · 7 connections

The constabulary case first filed as the Nameless Ashes: victims burned beyond identification. Grimm's hidden notebook is what renames it and points the Detective at the factory.

Read more about The Cinderellas

  • Grimminvestigates His hidden notebook renames the Nameless Ashes the Cinderellas
  • Ashleyidentity One of the girls the case is named for, and every apron in the factory carries the same number
  • Hugininvestigates The case Lorin pulls him into, first filed as the Nameless Ashes
  • United Vermentum Worksinvestigates Grimm's notebook points the trail at the factory
  • The Burning Stone Mysterydepicts The injustice behind the vengeance: she is one of the burned the case was filed over
  • The Fine Stitches Mysterydepicts The girls behind the case, sewing for each other before the burning
  • Major Casesinvestigates Act III, Scene III: Ashley falls under suspicion and leaves
Baron EdgarFigure · 6 connections

The culprit behind the Williams Manor faked death, and a former colleague of Firtho's late father Irwin at the Royal Academy.

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  • Williams Manorinvestigates The culprit behind the faked death at the manor
  • Irwinally A colleague of Firtho's father at the Royal Academy, which is what makes the case cut deep
  • Werewolvesemploys Loosed his werewolf companions on the cathedral to drive Firtho off the body
  • Howard Williamsrival Read his vampire manuscript, judged exposing him too dull, and chose to make the fiction real instead
  • The Resurrection Mysterydepicts Signed in his own name, and it is his decision the letter records
  • The Fall of the House of Rotdepicts The Royal Academy administrator who turns up offering his carriage is named Edgar, and his assistant is Madeline, which is Poe's own cast
GuciaCharacter · 6 connections

From the Ivory Tower

Read more about Gucia

  • Hunters' Guildemploys Apprentice of Hunters' Guild
  • The Ivory Tower Mysterysignature Signature Motive, paired with Gucia by the game's own roster
  • Flattery and Honestyequips Illumination already raises the team's Amplitude Coefficient, and this converts every 1% of it into 0.1% team DMG for 40 seconds when a Resonance Effect triggers.
  • Resurrected Monstrosityequips Banks Testing Records on her Erudition loop and hands the carry 41.5% Amplitude Multiplier when they use their Tactical Assault, which is the swap-in that puts them on the field.
  • Silverilliainvestigates Her one specialism: ask her about Silverillia and she is fairly familiar with them
  • Mechanical Lifetheorytheory The line asking whether Silverium is alive is credited to a certain unpublished thesis; Gucia's thesis is unpublished
Queen FelianaFigure · 6 connections

The current queen, described by many inhabitants as very young. She took the throne three years ago after Auguria's death, ruled by a regent until the former Prime Minister resigned.

Read more about Queen Feliana

  • Cynthia IIfamily Confirmed as the queen's cousin, which puts House Luna inside the extended royal family
  • Gratiaally Handpicked by the queen and sworn to her service
  • Queen Auguriatheorytheory Succeeded her three years ago, but the precise family tie is unconfirmed
  • The Great Disastertheorytheory Gained power from the chaos and blocks investigation, though she may be a victim too
  • The Silverium Fountidentity The reigning queen holds the key the inscription grants power through
  • The Chivalry Mysterydepicts The young woman in a position of power who names Gratia the representative of chivalric ideals
SilverilliaLore · 6 connections

Jellyfish-like Silverium lifeforms. A Detective photograph records countless of them drifting inside a working street-side Spinotrode, so they live inside the city's power grid. Gucia is the only character who claims expertise in them.

Read more about Silverillia

  • Spinotrodesidentity A Detective photograph shows countless Silverillia drifting inside a working Spinotrode
  • Silveriumidentity A named Silverium lifeform, sold in terrariums where buyers watch them fade into inactivity
  • The Argent Strandidentity Terrarium text has them returning to the Argent Strand when they fade
  • Guciainvestigates Her one specialism: ask her about Silverillia and she is fairly familiar with them
  • The Little Mermaid Mysterydepicts Sets the promise among Silverium's own sea life
  • The Ivory Tower Mysterydepicts The non-human life she is the only character to claim expertise in
United Vermentum WorksLocation · 6 connections

The factory at the centre of the Cinderellas case. So autonomous that even UMI headquarters cannot see inside it, and the site of the Silverium extraction Ashley survived.

Read more about United Vermentum Works

  • Ashleyinvestigates A survivor of the Silverium extraction carried out at the factory
  • Benthaminvestigates Plainly hunting the factory's secrets herself, and warns even UMI cannot see inside it
  • The Cinderellasinvestigates Grimm's notebook points the trail at the factory
  • United Mining Industryemploys So autonomous that its own headquarters cannot see inside it
  • Silveriuminvestigates The site of the Silverium extraction that made the Cinderellas
  • "Cinderella"investigates The Gravelkin clerk who survived the factory's Silverium extraction and went back for it
Williams ManorLocation · 6 connections

The locked-room vampire case Firtho takes on. To prove a death was faked she injects herself with a nerve agent and counterfeits death through the night.

Read more about Williams Manor

  • Firthoinvestigates Counterfeited her own death overnight to expose the locked-room trick
  • Baron Edgarinvestigates The culprit behind the faked death at the manor
  • Howard Williamsidentity The manor carrying his name, and the locked-room death staged inside it
  • The Resurrection Mysterydepicts Names the stage makeup and nerve agents the manor's faked death was built from
  • Cathedral of Illuminationinvestigates Howard Williams is buried here, and his body is gone by the next morning
  • The Fall of the House of Rotdepicts Run the manor case and you get Poe's mansion: lamps dimmed on the late master's orders and the original paintings quietly swapped for copies
Maid Institute, Society, and ServicesFaction · 5 connections

MISS: the body that trains, numbers and places Silvernia's maids. Alf is introduced in her own bio as "Maid No. 49 of MISS", a number in place of a surname, and Argos is a male member, which his bio calls something of a rarity. The Retainer's Code Implement set is its creed.

Read more about Maid Institute, Society, and Services

  • The Working Classemploys Retainer's Code is the institute's creed, and every one of its four pieces is named for somebody else's comfort
  • Alfemploys Introduced in her own bio as Maid No. 49 of MISS
  • Argosemploys A male member, which his bio calls something of a rarity; he tends the Memoir Bar and likes paid leave
  • The Protection Mysterydepicts A trained maid whose second job is the shield, exactly as the institute advertises
  • The Bullet Mysterydepicts The firearms and combat training the institute lists, demonstrated on the client
Personal ReactorsLore · 5 connections

The devices characters carry that turn Silverium into supernatural ability. The seven Reactor Attributes, from Ignis to Gravitas, all run off them.

Read more about Personal Reactors

  • Silveriumidentity Personal Reactors are how a character turns the element into ability
  • United Mining Industryemploys Took the trade through mass-produced Reactors and enraged the old aristocracy
  • Mechanical Lifeidentity Every Reactor Crystal is described as both a rock and an ecological vessel
  • Silvernia's Food Economyidentity Glacies Reactors created the ice cream trade and their scarcity keeps ice cubes expensive, which a home recipe complains about
  • The Heart Rate Mysterydepicts Turns on the fact that the heart keeping her alive is not a real one
StocksLore · 5 connections

Negotiable share paper, spearheaded by the United Mining Industry, and the only currency the property market spends. The description calls it more fluid than traditional currency and astonishing for a flimsy printed page valued on par with Silverium. The certificate art carries a denomination, a red overprint, a seal and a countersignature.

Read more about Stocks

  • Property Investmentidentity Every purchase and every Commercial Value upgrade is paid in Stocks and nothing else
  • United Mining Industryidentity Issued under UMI's name: the paper is worthless except as the company's promise of rights to its holder
  • Silveriumidentity A printed page the game says is valued on par with Silverium itself
  • Royalty and Aristocracyrivaltheory Written as a recent abundance of capital, in the hands of the class the nobles fear will uproot them
  • The Coin Mysterydepicts The paper the saved remainder turns into
The Great WorkLore · 5 connections

The alchemical layer the progression systems are built on. An Implement set quotes the Rosarium Philosophorum, a Hilbert's Hotel achievement is named after that text, Alba names the Albedo on its ascension ladder and Ferrugo describes the Nigredo without naming it. Three in-universe books are quoted once each: Forbidden Alchemy, The Dark Arts of Equilibrium and The Great Chain of Being.

Read more about The Great Work

  • Silveriumdepicts The purification ladder every Silverium concentrate climbs, Basic to Filtered to Rectified to Pure, is a distillation sequence
  • The Argent Stranddepicts The Great Chain of Being is quoted on Pure Essence Concentrate saying distillation is return, which is the Strand's cycle stated as alchemy
  • The Marian Eradepicts Forbidden Alchemy, the book that names the Albedo, is dated to the Marian Era
  • The Silverium Founttheorytheory A crown that reserves the power to give and take Silverium, and a Marian Era book on transmuting it labelled forbidden
  • Mechanical Lifedepicts The second in-universe reading list: alchemy on the ascension materials, cybernetics and fluid intelligence on the components
Cathedral of IlluminationLocation · 4 connections

A church in the eastern part of High Peers, older than Silvernia itself, now "perpetually under repair" and so poor that "even thieves prefer to try their luck elsewhere". Its cemetery is where the Howard Williams grave is robbed.

Read more about Cathedral of Illumination

  • The Pre-Argent Lightidentity The cathedral is the faith's surviving building, and it predates the founding of Silvernia
  • Silverniaidentity The city grew up around a church that was already standing
  • Rexinvestigates Rex bars the Detective and Firtho from the grounds after the grave is robbed
  • Williams Manorinvestigates Howard Williams is buried here, and his body is gone by the next morning
CommissionsLore · 4 connections

The city's whole job list on one screen, sorted by how far away the work is. Five category headers ran in the Dichotomy beta: Major Cases, Curious Cases, Private Requests, City Errands and Business Expansion. Payout follows the header rather than the effort, so a Curious Case is worth twelve City Errands, and the Evidence Board sits one button away on the same screen.

Read more about Commissions

  • Reputationidentity City Errands exist to be paid in Reputation, which the tutorial states outright
  • Property Investmentidentity Property Investment starts as a Business Expansion job before it becomes a standing system
  • The Twelve Shopsinvestigates City Errands are filed by district, so the job list doubles as a tour of the quarters the shops sit in
  • Gratiaally Bewildered Bunny and Mr Horse is her Private Request: she packs the sandwich the children carry
HarpiesLore · 4 connections

Named alongside the werewolves as Silverium's spawn in the Classical Curations essay on the Silverium Conspiracy, which quotes the claim in order to reject it. They turn up as a bounty enemy type, and one attacked the Royal Equestrian Tournament.

Read more about Harpies

  • Silveriuminvestigates Named alongside the werewolves as Silverium's spawn in the Conspiracy essay
  • Gratiarival Took to the air on Top Hat to bring the tournament harpy down, and was disqualified for it
  • The Queen's Heraldemploys Staged and controlled the tournament harpy to show the public a knight protecting people
  • The Soft Songs Mysterydepicts Written from inside the bounty enemy the Silverium Conspiracy essay names and rejects
Howard WilliamsFigure · 4 connections

The author of a manuscript arguing for vampires, which Baron Edgar read and dismissed as stage makeup and nerve agents. Edgar judged exposure too dull and resolved to make vampires real instead, at the cost of Williams' life and his family's.

Read more about Howard Williams

  • Williams Manoridentity The manor carrying his name, and the locked-room death staged inside it
  • Baron Edgarrival Read his vampire manuscript, judged exposing him too dull, and chose to make the fiction real instead
  • The Resurrection Mysterydepicts The author whose vampire theories the letter calls childish parlour tricks
  • The Metamorphosisdepicts His notes describe a metamorphosis triggered by a serum and a mask, which puts the manor's inheritance dispute closer to Kafka than it sounds
Memoir BarLocation · 4 connections

A rowdy establishment that becomes the beating heart of High Peers after dusk. Amid the drunken whispers and gossip, vital clues sit waiting to be found.

Read more about Memoir Bar

  • Argosemploys Tends the bar where the returning Detective's journey begins
  • Morgue Streetidentity A landmark of the street
  • The Duplicity Mysterydepicts The counter where the drink loosens the tongue and the clue arrives
  • Major Casesinvestigates Act I, Scene I: the bar talk that starts the partnership
Midsummer Night's BallroomLocation · 4 connections

The Red Rose's venue and the room where the powerful gather. Where the Detective finally draws her out and hears Ashley's whole story.

Read more about Midsummer Night's Ballroom

  • Red Roseemploys Proprietress of the ballroom, where she finally tells Ashley's whole story
  • The Cinderella Mysterydepicts The dance floor the gown spins across before midnight ends it
  • The Fine Stitches Mysterydepicts The ball the curtain-fabric gown is made to reach
  • Major Casesinvestigates Act IV, Scene I: the only morning scene, where the Detective gains an informant and a dance partner
Property InvestmentLore · 4 connections

The city economy, run from a screen titled City Property. You observe a building in the world, invest in it with Stocks, and it pays revenue that banks up until you claim it. Premises are numbered addresses inside a district, each district carries a Land Ownership percentage, and a Milestone track sets goals including buying its Landmark: the Boutique district names Midsummer Night's Ballroom. The achievement ladder runs from one million Stocks held to five hundred million, far beyond what one district earns.

Read more about Property Investment

  • Stocksidentity Every purchase and every Commercial Value upgrade is paid in Stocks and nothing else
  • The Twelve Shopsidentity The tutorial puts the investment interaction on a shopfront of the kind the shop registry names
  • Commissionsidentity Property Investment starts as a Business Expansion job before it becomes a standing system
  • The Coin Mysterydepicts Leaving the rest with the banker, which is where the city's property money starts
Silver FistLore · 4 connections

The street legend a teenage gang still worships. Rather than beat them, the man behind the tag poses as the still-living Silver Fist to steer them back to school.

Read more about Silver Fist

  • Lorinidentity He is the street legend, and poses as the still-living Silver Fist to steer the gang straight
  • Oz School of Metallurgyinvestigates The Wild Trio Mystery has the youths dismiss the school in its first line, which is why go back to school is what wins them over
  • Lorintheorytheory The Wild Trio Mystery is filed under Lorin's own Guardian Identity and his intel note calls him an unstoppable iron fist; neither is proof
  • The Wild Trio Mysterydepicts The legend the gang follows, and the tag they leave on every wall
SpinotrodesLore · 4 connections

Cone-tipped reactors that stabilise raw Silverium and convert it into electricity for the city grid. The Kaboom Team buzz around them keeping the city lit.

Read more about Spinotrodes

  • Captain Kaboomemploys The Kaboom Team buzz around Silvernia's Spinotrodes keeping the city lit
  • Silveriumidentity Spinotrodes stabilise the raw element and convert it into the city's electricity
  • The Argent Strandidentity Spinotrodes convert the element, Circuitways return what is left of it
  • Silverilliaidentity A Detective photograph shows countless Silverillia drifting inside a working Spinotrode
The Chivalry MysteryMotive · 4 connections

Chivalry has grown faint and the knights' reputation has not recovered since the airship incident. Gratia handles the dangers within sight and does nothing against her conscience, and a young woman in power appoints her the representative of chivalric ideals until the city believes in honesty, kindness and courage again.

Read more about The Chivalry Mystery

  • Gratiasignature Signature Motive, paired with Gratia by the game's own roster
  • The Evermore Airship Incidentdepicts Dates the knights' lost reputation to the airship crash
  • Order of the Tidedepicts The order whose good name the appointment is meant to restore
  • Queen Felianadepicts The young woman in a position of power who names Gratia the representative of chivalric ideals
The Duplicity MysteryMotive · 4 connections

A good bartender is either making friends or on his way to it, and Argos is either working a side job or on his way to one. Thirty millilitres loosens any tongue, and he listens to the truths and nonsense without sorting them, because he knows someone who can.

Read more about The Duplicity Mystery

  • Argossignature Signature Motive, paired with Argos by the game's own roster
  • Hugindepicts Argos is waiting for the one who can solve the puzzle he has already collected
  • Memoir Bardepicts The counter where the drink loosens the tongue and the clue arrives
  • M.I.S.S.depicts A male member of the maids' institute, working the side job the card is built on
The Evermore Airship IncidentLore · 4 connections

The airship crash that killed Queen Auguria and coincided with the S.T.A.T.S. duo's disappearance. It is what got the Detective branded the queen slayer.

Read more about The Evermore Airship Incident

  • Huginrival Branded the queen slayer after the airship went down
  • Queen Auguriarival The crash where the queen was ultimately killed
  • S.T.A.T.S.rival The S.T.A.T.S. duo disappeared at the same time the queen died
  • The Chivalry Mysterydepicts Dates the knights' lost reputation to the airship crash
The Great DisasterLore · 4 connections

The catastrophe three years before the present timeline that killed thousands and reshaped the city's politics. Officially an isolated refinery accident, which does not survive contact with survivor testimony.

Read more about The Great Disaster

  • The Marked Bulletinvestigates The death it caused happened in the catastrophe three years ago
  • Queen Felianatheorytheory Gained power from the chaos and blocks investigation, though she may be a victim too
  • Silveriuminvestigates The explosions began near Silverium facilities, and survivors report living light before the blast
  • Fablebornetheorytheory The Fableborne emerged after the event, which reads as more than coincidence
The Ivory Tower MysteryMotive · 4 connections

Gucia never cared for office politics and never learned the silver tongue of business. Her interest is non-human life, which needs neither money nor friends, and she means to collect and document it until it teaches her something about human suffering.

Read more about The Ivory Tower Mystery

  • Guciasignature Signature Motive, paired with Gucia by the game's own roster
  • Mechanical Lifedepicts Her subject stated plainly: life that is not human
  • Silverilliadepicts The non-human life she is the only character to claim expertise in
  • Silver Creaturesdepicts The wider class of Silverium life her documentation covers
The Marked BulletLore · 4 connections

The round that killed the Detective's sibling. Tracing it is the reason the Detective came back to Silvernia at all.

Read more about The Marked Bullet

  • Hugininvestigates Tracing the round that killed his sibling is why he came back at all
  • The Great Disasterinvestigates The death it caused happened in the catastrophe three years ago
  • The Lucidity Mystery (Hugin)depicts The blood-stained round the three years of tracing are spent on
  • The Lucidity Mystery (Munin)depicts The blood-stained round the three years of tracing are spent on
The Mind PalaceLore · 4 connections

The mental space the Detective reasons inside. In-game text treats it as real geography: a map whose surface is endless white sand, each grain a possibility, crossed with a bookmark described as a ball of yarn for the labyrinth. The four Shots exist only within it.

Read more about The Mind Palace

  • The Cognito Seaidentity Both described in the same white-sand vocabulary, one holding possibilities and one holding thought
  • The Argent Strandtheorytheory Two cycles running opposite ways: the Strand dissolves matter, the Palace accumulates mind into a tower
  • Hugininvestigates Where the Detective reasons, and the only place the four Shots exist
  • Munininvestigates Where the Detective reasons, and the only place the four Shots exist
The Red ShoesEpiphany · 4 connections

A girl wears a pair of red shoes to church out of vanity and is cursed to dance without stopping, through fields and graveyards, until she begs an executioner to cut off her feet.

Read more about The Red Shoes

  • Argosequips 42% team CRIT DMG with no attribute condition, which matches a support who is brought for almost any carry.
  • Red Roseequips Three stacks of Sanguine Step is 42% CRIT DMG for the whole team with no attribute condition, stacking on top of the CRIT DMG Bright Rhythm already grants.
  • Cynthia IIequips The straightforward alternative: 42% team CRIT DMG off her Ultimate, for when the team is a crit carry and the grouping is the only reason she is there.
  • The Fairytale Sourcesdepicts The other fairy tale on the shelf, kept word for word from Andersen
The Sword in SilverniaEpiphany · 4 connections

Excalibur comes out of a stone in one version and out of a lake in another. Either way it is the object that proves a king is the rightful king rather than just the strongest man available.

Read more about The Sword in Silvernia

  • "Cinderella"equips Thermal Rampage plus its two upgrade nodes give 55% CRIT Rate for free, so the clause above 50% is already live before you gear for it and every point past that becomes CRIT DMG.
  • Huginequips If the Gravity Overdrive loop is already at 50% CRIT Rate from Motive and Implements, this converts the surplus into up to 125% CRIT DMG across both the sword combo and the gunshots.
  • Muninequips If the Gravity Overdrive loop is already at 50% CRIT Rate from Motive and Implements, this converts the surplus into up to 125% CRIT DMG across both the sword combo and the gunshots.
  • Silverniadepicts The one title that relocates its source outright, so the sword in the stone becomes the sword in Silvernia
Voicepipe CaféLocation · 4 connections

Where intellectuals, clerks and merchants gather between shifts. A conduit for the city's endless chatter, exactly as the name suggests.

Read more about Voicepipe Café

  • Morgue Streetidentity A landmark of the street
  • The Twelve Shopsidentitytheory The lab-glassware coffee menu matches the cafe's own pamphlet, which advertises beakers and slender-necked flasks
  • The Festival Drinks Mysterydepicts The counter the Manager's Brew is poured at
  • Major Casesinvestigates Act I, Scene II: the café where the first curious case reopens the Detective's past
CinderellaEpiphany · 3 connections

A girl kept as a servant by her stepmother gets one night at the prince's ball through magical help, loses a slipper on the stairs, and is identified by it. In the Grimms' version the stepsisters cut pieces off their own feet.

Read more about Cinderella

  • "Cinderella"equips The whole Quenched window is basic attacks, and this is 80% Basic Attack DMG.
  • "Cinderella"depicts The only Epiphany that shares its name with a playable character, and the two are separate things you can hold at once
  • The Fairytale Sourcesdepicts One of the two fairy tales on the shelf, and the story the Fableborne woman is named out of
GravelkinLore · 3 connections

A people, and the periphery region they come from. Named three times in released text, and the United Mining Industry is in the frame on all three: Ashley's bio, Captain Kaboom's intel, and one item line placing UMI's Office of Frontier Exploration on the periphery.

Read more about Gravelkin

  • "Cinderella"identity Ashley's bio names her a Gravelkin woman who applied for a clerical position
  • Captain Kaboomidentity Her intel calls her a Gravelkin orphan, along with the rest of the Kaboom Team
  • United Mining Industryemploys UMI's Office of Frontier Exploration works the Gravelkin periphery, per Rectified Decay Concentrate
House FloraFaction · 3 connections

A noble house whose members carry flower titles. The Red Rose is likely one of its agents, though this is a reading rather than a stated fact.

Read more about House Flora

  • Red Rosetheorytheory Likely an agent of the house whose members carry flower titles
  • Royalty and Aristocracyfamilytheory A noble house read from the flower titles its agents carry
  • The Bloodbath Mysterydepicts Sets out the house dress hierarchy from the inside, including the black echelon above red
House LunaFaction · 3 connections

A noble house branching off the royal line, marked by the rising crescent. Cynthia II is its scion.

Read more about House Luna

  • Cynthia IIemploys Luna's Scion of House Luna
  • Royalty and Aristocracyfamily A noble house branching off the royal line
  • The Daydream Mysterydepicts The house whose scion dreams the legion, the duke and the countess
Isabella II, The ConquerorFigure · 3 connections

Honoured on a monument beside the North Church for a naval victory led with the royal navy. The inscription closes with Lest We Forget.

Read more about Isabella II, The Conqueror

  • Queen Auguriafamilytheory Possibly reigned after Isabella II on the same royal line
  • Isabella Ifamilytheory The earliest crown on the line, though the exact link is not spelled out
  • The Silverium Conspiracyinvestigates Named in the same essay as part of the royal line behind the conspiracy
M.I.S.S.Faction · 3 connections

Maid Institute, Society and Services. Trains and hires maids and servicepeople, who can also be hired as bodyguards and mercenaries. Its people are trained in firearms and combat.

Read more about M.I.S.S.

  • Argosemploys Bartender of M.I.S.S.
  • Alfemploys Maid of M.I.S.S.
  • The Duplicity Mysterydepicts A male member of the maids' institute, working the side job the card is built on
MermaidomorphosisLore · 3 connections

A public manifestation named twice and never explained. The research notes credit it with revealing Silverium's inherent properties, then reduce those properties to two open questions: is it alive, and does it hold memory.

Read more about Mermaidomorphosis

  • Silveriumidentity Credited with revealing Silverium's inherent properties, and with asking whether it is alive
  • Mechanical Lifetheorytheory Both chains ask the same question from opposite ends, one about built minds and one about the substance
  • The Little Mermaid Mysterydepicts The named manifestation its closing line reads as, foam shaped back into human form
Order of the TideFaction · 3 connections

The knightly order Gratia serves in as an Argent Knight, handpicked by the queen.

Read more about Order of the Tide

  • Gratiaemploys An Argent Knight of the order
  • River Constabularyidentity Cobbled together by the military in the knights' absence
  • The Chivalry Mysterydepicts The order whose good name the appointment is meant to restore
Stonefall SyndicateFaction · 3 connections

A notorious criminal syndicate haunting High Peers. One banner over a loose, chaotic coalition of smaller street gangs, dangerous through sheer numbers.

Read more about Stonefall Syndicate

  • Morgue Streetrival One of the rival powers holding the street in fragile equilibrium
  • The Corner Clinicrival Known as a place of no return among the local punks and gangs
  • The Furious Speed Mysterydepicts The loose street-gang coalition this kind of local celebrity operates under
The Bitter Tea Mystery (Hugin)Motive · 3 connections

The same bitter cup from the other side. Hugin remembers the first tea he shared with his elder sister, one of them unsure how firmly to hold the cup and the other which way to stir the spoon. The answer dissolved with the afternoon light.

Read more about The Bitter Tea Mystery (Hugin)

  • Hugindepicts The younger brother remembering the first cup, and unsure how firmly to hold it
  • Munindepicts The elder sister on the other side of that first cup
  • Alfdepicts Blamed first for the blend, the running joke that opens the card
The Bitter Tea Mystery (Munin)Motive · 3 connections

The tea has turned bitter and nobody can say whose fault it is. Munin remembers the first cup she shared with her younger brother, one not knowing how firmly to hold it and the other which way to stir. The tea was bad and it never tasted bitter.

Read more about The Bitter Tea Mystery (Munin)

  • Munindepicts The elder sister remembering the first cup of tea, badly made and never bitter
  • Hugindepicts The younger brother on the other side of that first cup
  • Alfdepicts Blamed first for the blend, the running joke that opens the card
The Bloodbath MysteryMotive · 3 connections

House Flora dresses its members by rank: white for children, pink for maidens, red for adulthood. Its innermost circles keep a fourth echelon above red, black for the house's sins, the colour of dried blood. Red Rose has prepared for that day her whole life.

Read more about The Bloodbath Mystery

  • Red Rosesignature Signature Motive, paired with Red Rose by the game's own roster
  • House Floradepicts Sets out the house dress hierarchy from the inside, including the black echelon above red
  • Royalty and Aristocracydepicts Reads noble rank as something worn, and sin as the rank above the highest
The Cinderella MysteryMotive · 3 connections

The apron that was fit for the stove, the washbasin and any amount of harsh words, until it turned into a ball gown. Then midnight struck, everything collapsed back into silence, and a single slipper fell from her hems as she fled.

Read more about The Cinderella Mystery

  • "Cinderella"depicts The fairy tale itself, filed as a Guardian Motive, away from the Outlaw who carries the name
  • The Fairytale Sourcesdepicts Retells the Cinderella story as the city's own, apron to gown to abandoned slipper
  • Midsummer Night's Ballroomdepicts The dance floor the gown spins across before midnight ends it
The Coin MysteryMotive · 3 connections

Coins saved and children happier. Count every penny, keep one back for supper and another for new boots, and leave the rest with the banker to buy the future.

Read more about The Coin Mystery

  • The Working Classdepicts Household saving counted in pennies, suppers and boots
  • Property Investmentdepicts Leaving the rest with the banker, which is where the city's property money starts
  • Stocksdepicts The paper the saved remainder turns into
The Corner ClinicFaction · 3 connections

Firtho's clinic, lab and workplace in a quiet, forgotten district. Known as a place of no return among local punks and gangs.

Read more about The Corner Clinic

  • Firthoemploys Doctor of The Corner Clinic
  • Stonefall Syndicaterival Known as a place of no return among the local punks and gangs
  • The Heart Rate Mysterydepicts The practice she keeps while living by the rhythm of her own pulse
The Cursed HoundEpiphany · 3 connections

A family legend says a demonic hound hunts the heirs across the moor. The detective finds a real dog painted with phosphorus, and a motive as ordinary as they come: inheritance.

Read more about The Cursed Hound

  • Lorinequips The Lv.40 rung above The Count of the Cavern, converting Break Exploit past 180 into 40% ATK.
  • Rexdepicts The shelf's dog story, set against the one superintendent who patrols with two Dobermans
  • Werewolvesdepicts The clearest argument on the shelf for the rational explanation over the supernatural one, which is useful in a city with a werewolf problem
The Daydream MysteryMotive · 3 connections

Cynthia dreams of her cousin while a duke calls it a dream of power and a countess a dream of kinship. A servant grips her cousin's arm and a cape coils round her neck, so Cynthia rallies a toy legion and knights who would never betray her. Then she wakes, and her cousin is the gateway back.

Read more about The Daydream Mystery

  • Cynthia IIsignature Signature Motive, paired with Cynthia II by the game's own roster
  • House Lunadepicts The house whose scion dreams the legion, the duke and the countess
  • Royalty and Aristocracydepicts Two titled relatives read the same dream as power and as kinship
The Destined DeathEpiphany · 3 connections

Baldr's mother takes an oath from every thing in the world not to harm her son, overlooks the mistletoe, and the god dies anyway because the killing was already foretold.

Read more about The Destined Death

  • Huginequips The Lv.20 version of the surplus-CRIT-Rate clause The Sword in Silvernia runs at Lv.60, paying ATK rather than CRIT DMG.
  • Muninequips The Lv.20 version of the surplus-CRIT-Rate clause The Sword in Silvernia runs at Lv.60, paying ATK rather than CRIT DMG.
  • Benthamdepicts The book the Simulation screen shows equipped on Bentham, about a death that arrives whatever precautions are taken
The Fall of the House of RotEpiphany · 3 connections

A man visits a childhood friend in a decaying mansion. The friend's twin sister is entombed in the vault and turns out not to have been dead. Both die in the same minute and the house sinks into the tarn.

Read more about The Fall of the House of Rot

  • Rexequips The Lv.40 version of the same clause, paying 40% ATK instead of Amplitude Multiplier.
  • Williams Manordepicts Run the manor case and you get Poe's mansion: lamps dimmed on the late master's orders and the original paintings quietly swapped for copies
  • Baron Edgardepicts The Royal Academy administrator who turns up offering his carriage is named Edgar, and his assistant is Madeline, which is Poe's own cast
The Festival Drinks MysteryMotive · 3 connections

Grind, preheat, wet the filter, pre-brew, extract at exactly 93 degrees, and the result is the Manager's Brew. Ginkgo had handled little but coffee until a stall keeper took her to a food festival, and the ice cream and pastries there told her the menu needed rewriting.

Read more about The Festival Drinks Mystery

  • Ginkgodepicts Her own recipe and her own decision to rewrite the menu
  • Voicepipe Cafédepicts The counter the Manager's Brew is poured at
  • Silvernia's Food Economydepicts A festival of ice cream and pastries is what sends her back to the menu
The Flashbulb MysteryMotive · 3 connections

Lips fabricate testimony and pen and paper invent whole cases, so Grimm raises the camera and lets the lens bear witness instead. In the corners the Argent Strand's light cannot reach, the deeper the shadow the brighter the flash.

Read more about The Flashbulb Mystery

  • Grimmsignature Signature Motive, paired with Grimm by the game's own roster
  • The Argent Stranddepicts Sets his work in the corners its light does not reach
  • S.T.A.T.S.depicts The agency the photographs are taken for
The Heart Rate MysteryMotive · 3 connections

Fast meant danger and slow meant death, so the girl the Grim Reaper had shadowed since childhood learned to live by her pulse. After a certain someone came back her heart quickened anyway, which puzzles her, because it was never a real heart.

Read more about The Heart Rate Mystery

  • Firthosignature Signature Motive, paired with Firtho by the game's own roster
  • Personal Reactorsdepicts Turns on the fact that the heart keeping her alive is not a real one
  • The Corner Clinicdepicts The practice she keeps while living by the rhythm of her own pulse
The Little Mermaid MysteryMotive · 3 connections

The mermaid casts everything aside for a hopeless love, her tears turn to pearls, and her world dissolves into sea foam. The last line breaks the frame to answer it: this time the foam will be taken and shaped into human form.

Read more about The Little Mermaid Mystery

  • The Fairytale Sourcesdepicts Reworks the Little Mermaid, then promises to undo her ending
  • Mermaidomorphosisdepicts The named manifestation its closing line reads as, foam shaped back into human form
  • Silverilliadepicts Sets the promise among Silverium's own sea life
The Marian EraLore · 3 connections

The only named historical period in the released text. The Silver Palace rose above the ground during it, opening chasms that kept intruders away from the founts, done through Silverium's gravitational properties.

Read more about The Marian Era

  • The Silverium Fountidentity The palace rose in this era, opening chasms that put the founts out of reach
  • Silverniaidentity The era that lifted the Silver Palace above the city and reshaped its topography
  • The Great Workdepicts Forbidden Alchemy, the book that names the Albedo, is dated to the Marian Era
The Mechanical Creations MysteryMotive · 3 connections

Steel is cold and steam is scalding, so Vorsch holds that everything ought to have a fixed order, a class and a code of conduct. He spent a fortune on managers and directors to enforce it, overseers who are precise, punctual and ruthless.

Read more about The Mechanical Creations Mystery

  • Vorschdepicts Names him as the man who paid for the overseers, and states the creed they enforce
  • Mechanical Lifedepicts Argues a fixed order and code of conduct for everything, the position the textbooks fight over
  • The Working Classdepicts The workforce his overseers exist to keep precise and punctual
The MetamorphosisEpiphany · 3 connections

A travelling salesman wakes up as an enormous insect. The horror is domestic rather than physical: his family's slow, entirely reasonable reclassification of him from son to burden to problem.

Read more about The Metamorphosis

  • Grimmequips 50% Amplitude Multiplier to every Fulmen teammate, and the Fulmen carry is Rex, whose damage is Resonance Effects.
  • Gratiaequips 50% Amplitude Multiplier to every Glacies teammate, which in practice means Bentham.
  • Howard Williamsdepicts His notes describe a metamorphosis triggered by a serum and a mask, which puts the manor's inheritance dispute closer to Kafka than it sounds
The Morgue Street MurderEpiphany · 3 connections

Two women are murdered in a locked fourth-floor room, and the witnesses each swear the second voice they heard spoke a language none of them recognised. The first modern detective story.

Read more about The Morgue Street Murder

  • Huginequips The only Gravitas title in the game, and the Detective is the only Gravitas unit on the roster.
  • Muninequips The only Gravitas title in the game, and the Detective is the only Gravitas unit on the roster.
  • Morgue Streetdepicts The first modern detective story, and Silvernia puts it on the map as a district you can walk through rather than in the credits
The Pre-Argent LightLore · 3 connections

The faith that came before Silverium. One Implement set carries the whole of it: people were once offered a choice of "whether to follow light and its virtuous glory", and those who took it "reaped fine harvests". No god is named, and the set title defines the religion by the thing that replaced it.

Read more about The Pre-Argent Light

  • Silveriumrival The set dates the faith to "before Silverium" and calls it the other half of a choice the city did not take
  • Cathedral of Illuminationidentity The cathedral is the faith's surviving building, and it predates the founding of Silvernia
  • The Silverium Fountidentity Religious language outlived the religion: the Fount's key reads "Heaven Granteth the Queen Power to Give, and to Take"
The PuristsFaction · 3 connections

A secret society, also called Vita et Mors, that exploits Silverium to gain power and carry out assassinations. Tied to several attempts on Queen Auguria. No named playable member is confirmed.

Read more about The Purists

  • Queen Auguriarival Tied to several attempts on her life and to the crash that killed her
  • Silveriuminvestigates Exploit its powers to gain influence and carry out assassinations
  • United Mining Industryrival At odds with the corporation whose collaboration with the crown threatens their power
The Raven's ClawsFaction · 3 connections

The banner the detective duo fights under. Munin carries The Raven's Claws, Hugin carries The Raven's Beak.

Read more about The Raven's Claws

  • Huginemploys Detective of The Raven's Claws
  • Muninemploys Detective of The Raven's Claws
  • S.T.A.T.S.identity The agency the detective duo's banner flies over
The Resurrection MysteryMotive · 3 connections

A letter signed Edgar, mocking a manuscript on vampires built from stage makeup and nerve agents. Exposing its author would be dull, so he resolves instead to teach him how to make vampires real, at the cost of the man's life and his family's.

Read more about The Resurrection Mystery

  • Baron Edgardepicts Signed in his own name, and it is his decision the letter records
  • Howard Williamsdepicts The author whose vampire theories the letter calls childish parlour tricks
  • Williams Manordepicts Names the stage makeup and nerve agents the manor's faked death was built from
The Richness MysteryMotive · 3 connections

The rules of the alleys and the streets are not quite the same, and he is still learning his new trade. Whole milk is like a young apprentice, needing only guidance to grow into butter or ice cream. He glances out of the window, and today the cat that steals a sip is not there.

Read more about The Richness Mystery

  • The Twelve Shopsdepicts A dairy counter of the kind the retail registry stocks the city from
  • Silvernia's Food Economydepicts Milk guided into butter or ice cream, the trade behind the dish tiers
  • The Working Classdepicts A shopkeeper learning a new trade, unnamed by any roster
The Silverium ConspiracyLore · 3 connections

The essay in the Classical Curations collection that threads Queen Mary, Isabella II and Auguria III together through the crown's handling of Silverium.

Read more about The Silverium Conspiracy

  • Queen Auguriainvestigates The Classical Curations essay threads the crown's handling of Silverium through her reign
  • Isabella II, The Conquerorinvestigates Named in the same essay as part of the royal line behind the conspiracy
  • The Argent Strandinvestigates The Marian Era raising of the palace put the Silverium founts out of reach
The Stolen Silver MysteryMotive · 3 connections

Rain washed away the blood and ash but not the fire, and an umbrella pressed into her hands at her lowest reignited it. A helpless girl vanished into the rain, a newly hired assistant walked into S.T.A.T.S., and she asked how guarded Silverium leaves a locked box without a trace.

Read more about The Stolen Silver Mystery

  • Ashleydepicts The hiring told from her side: a girl vanishes into the rain and an assistant walks in
  • S.T.A.T.S.depicts The agency doors she engineered her way through
  • Silveriumdepicts The riddle she offers in place of wages, silver gone from a locked box
The Wild Trio MysteryMotive · 3 connections

Three defiant youths write off the Oz School of Metallurgy as a place for losers and the River Constabulary as overpaid cowards, then tag the walls in the footsteps of the legendary Silverfist and run laughing before anyone arrives.

Read more about The Wild Trio Mystery

  • Oz School of Metallurgydepicts Opens by dismissing the school as a place only losers go
  • River Constabularydepicts Dismissed in the same breath as a pack of overpaid cowards
  • Silver Fistdepicts The legend the gang follows, and the tag they leave on every wall
VorschFigure · 3 connections

The industrialist of the Mechanical Creations Mystery. He holds that everything ought to have a fixed order, a class and a code of conduct, and spent a fortune on managers and directors to enforce it. The board already named him before he had a card.

Read more about Vorsch

  • The Working Classemploys His overseers are the layer of management the city's workforce answers to
  • Mechanical Lifeidentity Holds that steel, steam and people alike owe the world a fixed order and a code of conduct
  • The Mechanical Creations Mysterydepicts Names him as the man who paid for the overseers, and states the creed they enforce
Bloodline FeudEpiphany · 2 connections

A prince learns from his father's ghost that his uncle murdered him to take both the throne and the queen. He feigns madness, hesitates for four acts, and by the final scene almost the whole family is dead on stage.

Read more about Bloodline Feud

  • Rexequips Resonance Effects scale on Amplitude, not on CRIT, and this turns Amplitude Coefficient above 50% into up to 125% Amplitude Multiplier.
  • Benthamequips Pure Amplitude scaling with no stack upkeep, which is the safer pick if the charge attack sequence gets interrupted often enough that Weave Dance falls off before the Ultimate.
City Grime AllianceFaction · 2 connections

The city's street-level information network, named on a four-piece Implement set: the paper-sellers, shoe-cleaners and messengers who "scrawl down every tidbit of information that they catch wind of". Its pieces run Individual Struggles, At Home in the Storm, Rousing Fanfare and Breaking Stories, and its set bonus is the only one in the game that gives the wearer nothing and hands the whole benefit to a teammate sharing their Reactor Attribute.

Read more about City Grime Alliance

  • The Working Classally The street trades are where the city's information actually starts
  • Grimmally His Flashbulb Mystery makes the set's argument professionally: testimony lies, the unnoticed rhythms of everyday life do not
FableborneFaction · 2 connections

Creatures and humans born from myths, legends and fairytales, carrying non-human traits from their storybook counterparts. Extremely powerful and flagship-tier.

Read more about Fableborne

  • "Cinderella"employs Cinderella of Fableborne
  • The Great Disastertheorytheory The Fableborne emerged after the event, which reads as more than coincidence
Farewell, Chivalrous AgeEpiphany · 2 connections

An aging gentleman reads so many chivalric romances that he decides he is a knight and rides out to right wrongs that mostly are not there, including the windmills he takes for giants.

Read more about Farewell, Chivalrous Age

  • Alfequips 100 Break Exploit is the largest single grant of it, and Chivalrous Dream stacks on Basic Attack hits.
  • Lorinequips Dodging or parrying grants all 5 stacks of Chivalrous Dream at once, and dodge-cancelling combos is his entire loop.
GinkgoFigure · 2 connections

The coffee manager behind the Manager's Brew, extracted at exactly 93C. The Festival Drinks Mystery names her: she handled little but coffee until a stall keeper friend took her to a food festival, and she went home and revamped the menu.

Read more about Ginkgo

  • Silvernia's Food Economyally Names the Manager's Brew and its 93C extraction, the one attested join between a Motive and a published menu item
  • The Festival Drinks Mysterydepicts Her own recipe and her own decision to rewrite the menu
Head Chef AlexFigure · 2 connections

A Gourmet Market chef, killed by werewolves. His hat was held over a six-year-old's eyes during the attack and the child will not sleep without it. The market's shop owners jointly prepared memorial bouquets, arranged by the florist Hypnos Garden and given to every visitor.

Read more about Head Chef Alex

  • The Twelve Shopsidentity The Gourmet Market traders arranged his memorial bouquets themselves
  • Werewolvesrival Killed in the werewolf attack his hat shielded a child from
IrwinFigure · 2 connections

Firtho's late father, a Royal Academy man. His old circle is what makes the Williams Manor case cut so deep for her.

Read more about Irwin

  • Firthofamily Her late father, a Royal Academy man
  • Baron Edgarally A colleague of Firtho's father at the Royal Academy, which is what makes the case cut deep
Oz School of MetallurgyLocation · 2 connections

A named school, attested once. The Wild Trio Mystery opens with three back-alley youths dismissing it alongside the River Constabulary, and it is the school the Detective tells the Academic Rebels to go back to.

Read more about Oz School of Metallurgy

  • Silver Fistinvestigates The Wild Trio Mystery has the youths dismiss the school in its first line, which is why go back to school is what wins them over
  • The Wild Trio Mysterydepicts Opens by dismissing the school as a place only losers go
Pierre's Food for ThoughtLore · 2 connections

A third in-universe textbook quoted by chapter, alongside Cybernetics and Fluid Intelligence and Its Creation. Chapter 2 tells a reader who cannot afford marbled beef to brush honey over the steak instead. The other two books are issued to security captains and UMI stewards; this is the only one written downward.

Read more about Pierre's Food for Thought

  • Mechanical Lifeidentity The third book quoted by chapter, sibling to Cybernetics and Fluid Intelligence and Its Creation
  • The Twelve Shopsidentity Attributed to Pierre, whose kitchen carries two of the four named restaurant menus
ReputationLore · 2 connections

The Detective's standing in Silvernia, built as much from retrieving a package or solving a street puzzle as from the cases that make the papers. Its own background line puts finding the neighbour's missing cat next to laying mysteries to rest. It banks into Reputation Levels, and those levels unlock progression the money currencies cannot buy.

Read more about Reputation

  • Commissionsidentity City Errands exist to be paid in Reputation, which the tutorial states outright
  • Huginidentity Reputation is the Detective's own standing, not a faction's, and it gates their progression
Resurrected MonstrosityEpiphany · 2 connections

A student assembles a body from corpses, animates it, and runs from what he made. The creature teaches itself to read, is refused by everyone it approaches, and works through the people its maker loves.

Read more about Resurrected Monstrosity

  • Argosequips Testing Records builds on his Tactical Assault, Skill and Ultimate, then a teammate's Tactical Assault spends it for 41.5% Amplitude Multiplier.
  • Guciaequips Banks Testing Records on her Erudition loop and hands the carry 41.5% Amplitude Multiplier when they use their Tactical Assault, which is the swap-in that puts them on the field.
Return From the UnderworldEpiphany · 2 connections

A musician's wife dies, so he plays his way past the guardians of the dead and is allowed to lead her back out on one condition: do not look behind you. Near the exit he looks.

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  • Firthoequips The only healing title that pays the target rather than the whole team, stacking Heartfelt Elegy to 12% ATK on whoever she heals.
  • Hugindepicts The closest fit to the game's own premise: Orpheus failed because the rules of the dead held, and the Detective came back anyway
Silver CreaturesLore · 2 connections

The class the household Silvercraft implements belong to: buzzers, tungsten lamps and a quillon dagger, in three tiers each. A lamp launches itself at a target and self-detonates, and its notes praise an in-built tracking feature.

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  • Mechanical Lifeidentity Consumer implements that hunt, track and self-detonate, filed by the database as creatures
  • The Ivory Tower Mysterydepicts The wider class of Silverium life her documentation covers
The Aberrant MysteryMotive · 2 connections

Another midnight, another scene of carnage, rain carrying the rust smell of blood. The survivors lie paralysed and look at the wolf king in terror and confusion, not knowing why this wolf hunts its own kind, or that the next hunt is already starting.

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  • The Wolf Kingdepicts Gives the map encounter a story: a wolf king hunting his own kind
  • Werewolvesdepicts The kind he turns on, terrified and unable to explain it
The Bullet MysteryMotive · 2 connections

A noble wonders aloud whether a battle maid is worth hiring, and how anyone could protect him in so cumbersome a gown. She reads the ambush before it lands, the hired thugs fall in seconds, and his cheek ends up under her boot. He pays the full advance.

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  • Maid Institute, Society, and Servicesdepicts The firearms and combat training the institute lists, demonstrated on the client
  • Royalty and Aristocracydepicts The noble employer who tests her and then pays in full
The Burning Stone MysteryMotive · 2 connections

Three attempts, three failures, and every cry swallowed by the din until she went silent as stone. Pressure cracked the stone, injustice beat it raw, and betrayal sharpened something hotter than grief. She took up gun and blade and set herself alight.

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  • "Cinderella"signature Signature Motive, paired with "Cinderella" by the game's own roster
  • The Cinderellasdepicts The injustice behind the vengeance: she is one of the burned the case was filed over
The Castle ActLore · 2 connections

Passed 200 years ago, granting every citizen the right to protect their own residences and estates. Cited on three Silvercraft Buzzers whose top tier is openly lethal and whose disclaimer admits the Act's protection is limited.

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  • Silverniaidentity A 200-year-old statute letting every householder use force on their own doorstep
  • The Silverium Fountidentity The crown's power to take, delegated downward and bounded by a doorstep
The Cognito SeaLore · 2 connections

Where the twenty-four Identity crystals are born, six lines by four ranks. Its lowest rank reuses the Mind Palace sand image. Nothing released says where it is or whether anyone has reached it.

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  • The Mind Palaceidentity Both described in the same white-sand vocabulary, one holding possibilities and one holding thought
  • The Argent Strandtheorytheory The Illusion of Life set reads the sea and the Strand as one thing seen from two sides
The Count of the CavernEpiphany · 2 connections

Framed by three men who wanted his ship, his fiancée and his silence, a sailor spends 14 years in a sea fortress, escapes to a fortune hidden in a cave, and returns as a count to take all three of them apart.

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  • Alfequips The Lv.20 entry point: 60 Break Exploit, then 0.3% Stun Buildup Bonus for every point past 180.
  • Lorinequips 60 Break Exploit into Stun Buildup Bonus, with no stacks to maintain.
The Curiosity MysteryMotive · 2 connections

Why there is a rainbow after rain, why the sky is blue, why the hearth roars. Alf works through the questions while the kittens crowd her and mew, unsure whether they are hungry or have decided she is one of them.

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  • Alfsignature Signature Motive, paired with Alf by the game's own roster
  • Hugindepicts The master she wants to learn every novelty alongside
The Doppelganger MysteryMotive · 2 connections

The Detective siblings as a matched pair, trading information on a glance while they skipped class and played at detective games. Then the mirror became the only way to see the other's face, and each became the other's assistant, detective, cause and effect.

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  • Hugindepicts Casts the two Detective builds as reflection and source, each the other's assistant and cause
  • Munindepicts Casts the two Detective builds as reflection and source, each the other's assistant and cause
The Fatuity MysteryMotive · 2 connections

The butter was whipped early, the sugar came up a quarter ounce short, the berries were not ripe, and even the sparrows would not touch it. Never mind: rest by the fire, the bread will bake one way or another, and she will turn the odd flavours into something called happiness.

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  • The Twelve Shopsdepicts A baker's counter of the kind the twelve premises registry stocks
  • Silvernia's Food Economydepicts Odd flavours turned into something sellable, the trade under the dish tiers
The Fine Stitches MysteryMotive · 2 connections

One girl offers her hands, one her eye, and the eldest hurries them along before the curfew warden stops being fooled. They measure narrow shoulders and stitch a dream into rough curtain fabric, so that one of them, even one, can walk into the ball.

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  • The Cinderellasdepicts The girls behind the case, sewing for each other before the burning
  • Midsummer Night's Ballroomdepicts The ball the curtain-fabric gown is made to reach
The Formalism MysteryMotive · 2 connections

Investigation reports, interrogation logs, case notes, financial statements, monthly reports and bonus evaluations, cycling endlessly on steadfast rules and superficial process. Lorin calls it a riddle of red tape that would stump the most seasoned inspector.

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  • Lorinsignature Signature Motive, paired with Lorin by the game's own roster
  • River Constabularydepicts Reads the constabulary from the paperwork side, where the drudgery outlasts the crime
The Furious Speed MysteryMotive · 2 connections

Goggles, a cropped leather jacket and a magnificent motorcycle make him the centre of attention on the whole street. He waves, guns the throttle, and goes looking for whichever unlucky soul will be parted from their bag today.

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  • Morgue Streetdepicts The street trade the neighbourhood cheers on, bag snatching included
  • Stonefall Syndicatedepicts The loose street-gang coalition this kind of local celebrity operates under
The Lucidity Mystery (Hugin)Motive · 2 connections

How to name a killer from a blood-stained bullet. The wealthy trust money and the gangs trust force, so only the one who thinks it through to the end stays silent. Three years of tracing: find the flame, then find the field of flowers, and leave no thread unpulled.

Read more about The Lucidity Mystery (Hugin)

  • The Marked Bulletdepicts The blood-stained round the three years of tracing are spent on
  • Hugindepicts The Detective build who thinks it through to the end and stays silent
The Lucidity Mystery (Munin)Motive · 2 connections

The same three years of tracing, written for the other Detective. Every nameless organisation leaves exchanges, contacts and evidence behind, and pulling every thread is what makes the truth reveal itself.

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  • The Marked Bulletdepicts The blood-stained round the three years of tracing are spent on
  • Munindepicts The Detective build who thinks it through to the end and stays silent
The Office MysteryMotive · 2 connections

Bentham came out of UMI's arena with an office of her own, the one place she can drop the flawless corporate mask. Hand-ground coffee, a little pop music, or a nap. With her workload there is no time to worry whether her posture is ladylike.

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  • Benthamsignature Signature Motive, paired with Bentham by the game's own roster
  • United Mining Industrydepicts The ruthless internal arena the office was won out of
The Ordinance MysteryMotive · 2 connections

Rex's first order as he takes the force in hand: root out the corrupt within it. Textbook rules warp on contact with the street, idle constables may be lazy or worse, and political currents blur the outline of the city like rain.

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  • Rexsignature Signature Motive, paired with Rex by the game's own roster
  • River Constabularydepicts His first order is to root out the corrupt inside the force itself
The Priest and the Bread ThiefEpiphany · 2 connections

A convict freshly out after 19 years for stealing bread steals a bishop's silver, is caught, and is saved when the bishop tells the police he gave it to him as a gift.

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  • Firthoequips She is the only character who actually heals, so the whole healer column is hers alone.
  • River Constabularydepicts A bishop lying to the police to save a bread thief, shelved in a city whose police force is funded by the powerful
The Prosperity MysteryMotive · 2 connections

She takes off her silk gloves and stirs the rivers of history into a current, a miracle belonging to Silvernia alone. Cheer the gears in the steam and the goods leaving the workshops, and sing an age of partnership, revolution and unprecedented prosperity.

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  • Silveriumdepicts Credits the whole industrial miracle to Silverium by name
  • Silverniadepicts The prosperity is framed as belonging to this city alone
The Protection MysteryMotive · 2 connections

Sponge cakes, banana pies and fruit punch came from those hands, which is why the young lady trailing her maid freezes at what she sees: a flash of white, a werewolf falling, and the same hands steadying a shield. Do not be too curious, the shield bearer says, it makes your protector nervous.

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  • Werewolvesdepicts One of them falls to the shield before the young lady's eyes
  • Maid Institute, Society, and Servicesdepicts A trained maid whose second job is the shield, exactly as the institute advertises
The Queen's HeraldFigure · 2 connections

Revealed the harpy attack at the Royal Equestrian Tournament as a staged, controlled event meant to show the public a knight fighting for her people.

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  • Gratiaemploys Staged the harpy attack to show the public a knight fighting for her people
  • Harpiesemploys Staged and controlled the tournament harpy to show the public a knight protecting people
The Rich Fragrance MysteryMotive · 2 connections

He moves easily among the noblewomen, makeup striking and posture at ease. A flutter of the feathered fan spreads a peculiar fragrance through the rouge and powder, and he is all things exquisite and affectionate. Your skin looks flushed today, darling. Why not try the new product.

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  • The Twelve Shopsdepicts The perfume and cosmetics counter among the named premises
  • Royalty and Aristocracydepicts The noblewomen the counter is worked, and flattered, for
The Sleeping Beauty MysteryMotive · 2 connections

Sleeping Beauty drifts into an endless dream cradled by tangled blossoms, sixteen years overlapping in one moment, until the story returns to her birth and the blessing and curse that fell together. The closing line calls that repeating destiny the city in miniature.

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  • The Fairytale Sourcesdepicts Reworks Sleeping Beauty, blessing and curse arriving in the same instant
  • Silverniadepicts Its closing line calls the destiny fated to repeat itself the city in miniature
The Wolf KingLore · 2 connections

A named wolf whose hunting ground sits at Felix, Morgue Street, High Peers as a repeatable map encounter. His card warns that the law of the jungle rules there, and of cunning predators who present themselves as prey. No story role is confirmed.

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  • Werewolvesidentity Cunning predators who present themselves as prey, the same passing-for-a-citizen idea
  • The Aberrant Mysterydepicts Gives the map encounter a story: a wolf king hunting his own kind
The Would-Be Adults MysteryMotive · 2 connections

Captain Kaboom is fierce, quick and brave enough to pull a drowning teammate out of a river, and the whole Kaboom Team knows she is the most dependable person there is. Now and then she wonders what an ordinary childhood would feel like, for one evening.

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  • Captain Kaboomsignature Signature Motive, paired with Captain Kaboom by the game's own roster
  • The Working Classdepicts A child who works, wondering what a childhood spent in a park would be like
Baron BartonFigure · 1 connection

Head of the collapsing Crescent Guild, whose troubles sit behind the framed werewolf family in Cynthia's case.

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  • Werewolvesrival His collapsing Crescent Guild sits behind the framing of the werewolf family
Black KnightsFaction · 1 connection

Likely a mercenary company or organised crime group. Black Knights tied to UMI appear as open-world enemies in trailers and CBT1.

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  • United Mining Industryemploystheory Black Knights tied to UMI appear as open-world enemies in trailers and CBT1
BridgeheadLocation · 1 connection

The company docks where Ashley thanks the Detective, calls him her prince, and leaves to take her revenge alone. Also the site of the Red Rose's first kill on a rainy night.

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  • Ashleyinvestigates Thanks the Detective at the company docks, calls him her prince, and leaves alone
Daniel BouldenFigure · 1 connection

The investor whose smuggling scheme the Detective exposes. His arrest is what finally earns the Detective Rex's respect.

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  • Rexinvestigates Arrested him once the Detective exposed the smuggling scheme
Death of a ClerkEpiphany · 1 connection

A minor official sneezes on a general's bald head at the theatre, apologises, keeps apologising, follows the man to his office to apologise again, and is shouted out of the building. He goes home, lies down, and dies.

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  • Captain Kaboomequips Radiatio-locked, and Fatal Shadow stacks on any damage dealt rather than on a specific button.
Diamond NecklaceEpiphany · 1 connection

A clerk's wife loses a borrowed diamond necklace and the couple spends ten years in poverty paying off the replacement. The friend she borrowed it from then mentions the original was paste.

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  • Firthoequips A Lv.20 stand-in for the same team CRIT DMG payout, at a flat 25%.
Evidence LockerLore · 1 connection

A running close reading of the in-game text the game files out of sight: ascension material ladders, achievement descriptions and item flavour text, quoted in full and read for what they establish about Silvernia.

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  • River Constabularyinvestigates Exhibit No. 1: the four Constable Badges are the Constabulary describing its own recruits, from a cynical intake question to the persistence the top tier settles on
Flattery and HonestyEpiphany · 1 connection

A king divides his kingdom by asking his three daughters to say how much they love him. The two who flatter him get the land. The one who refuses to perform is disinherited, and the flatterers destroy him inside a year.

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  • Guciaequips Illumination already raises the team's Amplitude Coefficient, and this converts every 1% of it into 0.1% team DMG for 40 seconds when a Resonance Effect triggers.
Frustrations of YouthEpiphany · 1 connection

A young man falls for a woman already engaged to someone else, writes letters about it for an entire novel, and shoots himself. The book set off a wave of imitation across Europe in dress, in mood and in suicides.

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  • Red Roseequips A larger 50% CRIT DMG, but only to Ignis teammates, which narrows it to Cinderella and Alf.
Hunters' GuildFaction · 1 connection

The badge on Gucia's title page. Confirmed as her faction, with little else published about it yet.

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  • Guciaemploys Apprentice of Hunters' Guild
Isabella IFigure · 1 connection

Named as the earliest crown on the line. Her exact link to Isabella II has not been spelled out.

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  • Isabella II, The Conquerorfamilytheory The earliest crown on the line, though the exact link is not spelled out
Killing That Which You LoveEpiphany · 1 connection

The earliest of the four gospels and the bleakest. The title points at the parable where a vineyard owner sends his beloved son to tenants who have beaten every messenger before him, knowing what they will do.

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  • Benthamequips Glacies-locked, and the stack condition is Basic Attack or Skill, which is what two Funds casts into Liquid Assets already spends.
MoiraFigure · 1 connection

Cynthia II's governess, who chaperones her everywhere and whose distrust of commoners Cynthia learns to set aside.

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  • Cynthia IIfamily Her governess, who chaperones her everywhere
RustiumLore · 1 connection

Silverium's corrupting counterpart, attested on four items. It mutates plants through four stages, from unnatural colouration to a fruit nourished by blood, and unlike Silverium it never returns to the Argent Strand.

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  • The Argent Strandrival The corrupting counterpart: Rustium takes root in living things instead of returning
Song of the PaladinEpiphany · 1 connection

The oldest surviving French epic. Charlemagne's rearguard is ambushed in a mountain pass, and Roland is too proud to blow his horn for help until his men are already dying.

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  • Gratiaequips Her shields scale off her own Max HP, so 20% HP is a direct 20% larger shield rather than a defensive stat with no offensive use.
The Barber of MeadowEpiphany · 1 connection

A barber helps a young count win a girl whose guardian intends to marry her himself, using disguises, forged letters and bribes. The one outright comedy on the shelf, and the only book here where nobody dies.

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  • Cynthia IIequips The clause pays for damage dealt while off the field, and her Ultimate leaves a boomerang that keeps pulling and hitting after she swaps out.
The Bellowing MysteryMotive · 1 connection

A hoarse, piercing, entirely savage howl that works as a deterrent on its own. She wastes no words because a mauling says more, and the prey she fixes on never gets time to react.

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  • Werewolvesdepicts A Metal-Blooded hunter written from inside the hunt
The Blade Wind MysteryMotive · 1 connection

An outlander from the Far East who left home young and remembers almost nothing of it. What she does remember is her master saying the blade came from that same land, so every draw wraps her for a moment in the winds of home.

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  • The Working Classdepicts One of the twelve unsigned 3-star Motives that carry a story no roster character claims
The Castaway's TaleEpiphany · 1 connection

A shipwrecked Englishman spends 28 years on an island, rebuilding a one-man version of the society he left out of salvaged tools, a ledger of profit and loss, and eventually a rescued companion.

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  • Firthoequips The same shape paying Amplitude Multiplier instead of CRIT DMG.
The Hero's ShoulderEpiphany · 1 connection

Siegfried bathes in a dragon's blood and comes out invulnerable everywhere except one patch where a linden leaf had stuck to his skin. Years later his wife lets slip where that spot is.

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  • Red Roseequips The Lv.60 rung of the same Ignis-only ladder as Frustrations of Youth, handing Cinderella and Alf attribute DMG instead of CRIT DMG.
The Last LeafEpiphany · 1 connection

A painter with pneumonia decides she will die when the last leaf falls from the ivy outside her window. One leaf holds on through two nights of storm. The old artist downstairs painted it on the wall in the freezing rain.

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  • Firthoequips The Lv.40 rung of the same healer ladder, paying Amplitude Multiplier like The Castaway's Tale does at Lv.70.
The Pincers MysteryMotive · 1 connection

Her iron prosthetic is weapon and shield at once, and a barrier between her and ordinary people. She does not mind, since the leader of UMI's Office of Security Operations ought to inspire fear. Someone has to be on call around the clock, and she is the best at it.

Read more about The Pincers Mystery

  • United Mining Industrydepicts Names its Office of Security Operations and the leader who runs it
The Price of Safe PassageEpiphany · 1 connection

A trader hauls her cart through the Thirty Years' War, selling to whichever army is winning, and loses all three of her children to that war, each time while she is off haggling.

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  • Grimmequips Up to 30% ATK for every Fulmen teammate, which is Rex, and 25% Ultimate Charge Efficiency for the Ultimate that extends the debuff he exists to apply.
The Soft Songs MysteryMotive · 1 connection

Haunting, elegant and flowing like water, her singing is a knell announcing death. A gorgeous guise masks the malice, and the prey her melody fools bleeds into an eternal sleep in disbelief. The banquet has begun and the elegy is ready.

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  • Harpiesdepicts Written from inside the bounty enemy the Silverium Conspiracy essay names and rejects
The Tragedy of ManEpiphany · 1 connection

An old man bankrupts himself buying his two daughters into Paris society, and they are too embarrassed by him to attend his funeral. The law student watching decides to beat Paris at its own game.

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  • Grimmequips 10% Fulmen DMG to the whole team for 40 seconds after his Ultimate, which is already the button he leaves on.
Top HatLore · 1 connection

The queen's prototype Silverium steed Gratia lost and then reconciled with. She named him after the Detective's distinctive headwear, and he turns out to be able to fly.

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  • Gratiaally Lost the queen's prototype Silverium steed, then named him after the Detective's hat
Until Death Do Us PartEpiphany · 1 connection

Two teenagers from feuding families marry in secret. A faked death, a letter that never arrives, and both of them are dead for real. The whole thing takes less than a week.

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  • "Cinderella"equips Lovelark only pays out when the next hit is a different damage type, and her rotation alternates constantly: sword combo into Re-Smelt into the Charged Attack into the Ultimate.
Vengeance From the VoidEpiphany · 1 connection

An account of where the gods came from, starting with the void the title names. Ouranos imprisons his children, so Gaia arms their son against him, and he in turn eats his own. Succession by atrocity, twice over.

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  • Rexequips Live only on the To Serve and Protect 4-piece, which is his best set anyway.
Villainous CrownEpiphany · 1 connection

Witches tell a general he will be king. He murders the king, takes the crown, and finds he has to keep killing to keep it, working through friends and children until he is a tyrant scanning prophecies for loopholes.

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  • Alfequips Converts Stun Buildup Bonus above 100% into 36% ATK, so the stun she is built for starts paying in damage.
White Beast of the DeepEpiphany · 1 connection

A whaling captain who lost a leg to a white sperm whale drags his crew across the world to kill it, past every chance to turn back. He finds it. The whale sinks the ship and one man survives to tell it.

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  • Captain Kaboomequips The Break Exploit line that pays in DMG Bonus rather than more stun.

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