The Annals — a living kingdom in a single file

A procedurally generated medieval realm that lives on its own — harvests and plagues, dynasties and civil wars, bandits, omens, and a dragon asleep on its hoard — while its chronicle writes itself in the margin. Watch it like a nature documentary, or reach in and turn the dials of fate.

Play it: annals-kingdom.netlify.app

Everything is one HTML file. No build step, no backend, no saves — the entire kingdom regenerates deterministically from a seed in the URL hash, so a link is a world: share #s=your-seed-here and the recipient forges the exact same realm, down to the last shepherd.

What lives in it

• A forged world — terrain, rivers that carve valleys and end in meres, biomes, roads found by pathfinding, towns planned street by street, heraldry drawn house by house
• A working economy — seven goods, prices from scarcity, caravans and cargo cogs you can follow down the roads, tolls, famines, and the occasional beached whale
• A dynasty — named notables who marry, scheme, and die; successions, regencies, usurpers, family trees you can browse; great houses with temperaments, grudges, and civil wars fought by armies that camp outside the walls
• The fates — weather and floods, fires with real flames, plague waves, bandit kings, comets and eclipses, wolf-winters, white harts, and one dragon
• Towns that change — houses rise with prosperity and rot with decline, forests are cleared into farmland, new villages are chartered, windmills and abbeys and wayside shrines appear over the decades
• An auto-director and Watch mode — leave it alone and a camera drifts to whatever story is breaking, with a caption card; press C and the realm narrates itself
• The Chronicle — every event inked with its date, filterable, exportable, with a Charts view of population, treasury, and prosperity across the centuries
• Acts of God — a board of interventions: plague, fire, earthquake, dragon-waking, assassination, contested successions, or the charter of a new village exactly where you click

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