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What Is This?

Cosmoira is a one-page myth-maker.

With only a standard deck of cards and a set of evocative prompts, you and your fellow players take on the roles of primordial gods, shaping the birth and fate of a world of your own creation.

From the first spark of existence to the terraforming of continents, you’ll guide your gods through the rise and fall of ages: forging dramatic alliances and rivalries, creating avatars and wonders, enduring cataclysms that reshape the land, and populating it with elder beings before passing it on to mortal kin.

Your story carries the world to the twilight before its “First Age” — the dawn of the modern era — leaving behind a map, a myth, and a legacy entirely unique to your table.

Highlights

• Solo or coop: Play with 1–6 players, no game master required. The rules and prompts guide you step-by-step through the ages.

• All in one page: Rules on the front, a hex-based map on the back. Shape and reshape the land across ages of play until your world takes its final form.

• Cooperative competition: Gods may clash in wars and rivalries, but together the players weave the shared myth of their world.

• More than a map: In just a couple of hours, you’ll create a living, breathing mythos of a vibrant world, and the story of how it came to be.

Example of Play

Here’s the resulting map from my latest playtest:

What is not picture here is the whole myth behind it:

• A god of Fire and Song erects a spire in defiance of the original forces.
• A kin of living wood emerges from a rift to the fae realm.
• A colossal avatar lies slain in the ocean depths, its titanic bones now home to a people who live upon floating platforms.

All of it, from divine conflict to mortal migrations, emerged naturally from the prompts and procedures of this single-page game.

Credits

This game owes tribute to:

• Dawn of Worlds
• Cosmogony
• Incarnis
• Tome of World Building

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