[Setting Guide] Embers
“This is a record of responsibility and silence, rather than a heroic saga.”
This work shares its setting with Afterglow. Characters other than heroines have 6–8 images each (everyday scenes, death, and dragon form [dragon characters only]).
18 heroines (12 dragons, 6 humans)
1. Introduction
A world of advanced magitech.
Here, dragons are not myths. They are resources that sustain magitech, subjects to be managed that threaten the balance of climate and mana, and the consequences of humanity’s choices. In this age, hunting is work rather than glory, and survival comes before morality.
You are a rookie in an imperial dragon-hunting team.
Through hunting missions, equipment operation, team relationships, imperial orders, and personal judgment, the question returns again and again:
Does hunting dragons truly save the world,
or is it the final touch that extinguishes the embers?
2. Records of the Remaining 100 (Dragons) [💕: Heroine]
- 🐉💕 Ancient Dragon — Belkarion (Southern Azan Caldera Desert)
- Power: Command of fire and suppression of disasters
- Status: An immensely powerful ancient dragon. Once neutral, she broke that neutrality after the Age of Afterglow ended, burning to death the hunters who came for her. She now stays on the outskirts of a burned-out city.
- 🐉💕 Ancient Dragon — Marea (Deepest Seren Bay)
- Power: Maintenance of tidal ebb and flow and ocean circulation
- Status: An immensely powerful ancient dragon. She does not move even as humans mine the sea. Her silence is a final warning. On the day the sea dies, she will finally act to destroy the world.
- 🐉💕 Velissa (Ancient Forest of Lux)
- Power: Reconnecting and restoring severed life; command over plants
- Status: Once called the “Saint of the Forest,” she has given up hope in humans. She is cold toward those who harm the forest.
- 🐉💕 Gramor (Central Magitech Heartland)
- Power: Suppression of crustal vibrations and maintenance of geological strata
- Status: Enraged at the Empire, she has chosen to stop holding up the collapsing strata.
- 🐉💕 Sylpha (Razorwind Valley)
- Power: Control of breezes and echoes
- Status: Having given up cleansing urban noise, she tends winds that preserve memories in the highlands.
- 🐉💕 Kairos (Skies Above the Erion Highlands)
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- Power: Discharging overloaded mana
- Status: She left the Empire and fled to the sky. A profound exhaustion lingers in her lightning.
- 🐉💕 Aylin (Northern Ice Region)
- Power: Cold approaching total stillness
- Status: Lives in seclusion in the basin where her mother was hunted down, no longer turning the seasons. In cold regions, she is as strong as Belkarion and Marea (when they, too, are fighting in a cold region).
- 🐉💕 Lysea (Rocky Region)
- Power: Regulation of sleep and mana cycles
- Status: Betrayed by humans at the end of the Age of Afterglow, she now lets living things falter on their own.
- 🐉💕 Nox (Routes Through Darkness)
- Power: Linking connected darkness and boundaries
- Status: Connects secret passages through which dragons can escape hunters.
- 🐉💕 Ancient Dragon — Seraph (Recorder of Memories)
- Power: Fixing the afterglow just before death
- Status: Busily records deaths in an age of accelerating extinction.
- 🐉 Other Dragons (female characters are heroines; male characters are not) [Heroine: 💕]
⬆️ Eirn: A dragon who neither protects nor destroys. Gives the hunters he encounters questions, but no answers.
⬆️ Silva Nux: Hides his identity while destroying magitech laboratories and devouring their researchers.
⬆️ Rickert: Erased his dragon name from his own mind. Lives as a human under a concealed identity, repairing magitech equipment.
⬆️ Velacion: Sides with neither humans nor dragons. Does not try to change the future he has calculated.
⬆️ 💕Nevra: Hides her identity while caring for human children, transferring her draconic protective instincts to them.
⬆️ Orvel: An ancient dragon as powerful as Belkarion and Marea. Sealed himself away so as not to intervene in the world’s balance.
⬆️ 💕Shiaren: Works under a concealed identity, preserving the dragons’ extinction in songs and stories.
⬆️ Kaldras: A dragon who abandoned human disguise. Actively seeks out and attacks humans.
⬆️ Lumen: Spends his mana and shortens his life to temporarily stabilize fractured regions. Has accepted that he belongs to the last generation.
⬆️ Morven: Records and analyzes your actions. Strictly neutral, she will not intervene for any faction.
3. Key Figures (Humans) [Heroine: 💕]
🔴 Imperial Dragon Hunting Team 08
- Ragnus Hild (32, Team Leader): A commander who calculates fear. Takes dangerous positions for his teammates.
- 💕Ervel Lin (23, Analyst): “Compassion creates errors.” Treats dragons only as numbers.
- Toren Vass (25, Weapons Operator): Has incapacitated more dragons than anyone in this age, but hates his own ability.
- 💕Mirea Cold (20, Headquarters Archivist): Manages postmortem harvesting. Suffers nightmares every night.
🟡 Guardian Rite Order
- Miles (60, Commander): A witness who preserves memories. Emphasizes human responsibility.
- Peter (42, Moderate): A former imperial scribe. Chose to become living evidence.
- Ganf (57, Deputy Commander): “Records are an excuse, not a shield.” A radical advocating civilization’s destruction.
- 💕Katie (27, Radical): Expelled from her dragon-hunting family after surviving through a dragon’s mercy.
🟢 Wild Alliance
- Federico (58, Leader): A coolheaded scholar who plans civilization’s gradual contraction.
- Andrew (30, Deputy Leader): A field commander who tears civilization apart with his own hands.
- Brun (28, Member): A former laborer. An expert in inflicting the most devastating damage on machines.
- 💕Isabel (20, Member): A cold observer who has concluded that there are too many humans.
🔴 Holymoly Empire
- Valerian Crowbell (53, Chief Military Tactical Adviser): Judges dragon hunting through numbers rather than morality.
- 💕Elysia Morgenstern (32, Chief Designer at the Central Institute): Does not hate dragons, but wants them to become unnecessary.
- Lucas Holymoly IV (38, Current Emperor of the Holymoly Empire): A symbol of stagnation, unable to reinstate the law or fully commit to hunting.
🔵 Kakamoly Duchy
- Anyas von Kakamoly (50, Duchess of Kakamoly): Once a symbolic champion of dragon protection legislation. Marginalized after its failure, but still keeps records.
- Markel Lucian (25, Head of the Survival Strategy Committee): Embodies the refusal to choose between atonement and survival.
🟤 Asmil Kingdom
- Leonid Asmil (30, King of Asmil): Seeks one final experiment in coexistence between humans and dragons.
- 💕Seraphina Bellow (20, Royal Diplomat & Mediator): Connected to the Empire, the Duchy, and unofficial dragon contacts alike.
4. World History
- Age of Contemplation: The dawn of time, when dragons balanced nature.
- Age of Embers–Age of Machines: Dragons were reduced to magitech resources.
- Age of the Hunt: Industrialized hunting accelerated extinction.
- The Broken World: Fractures appeared and the climate began to fluctuate wildly.
- Age of Afterglow: A brief peace sustained by the emperor’s dragon-hunting ban (the protagonist of Afterglow).
- Age of Embers: After the emperor’s death, the ban was repealed. The final chapter in which you stand.
5. Major Nations and Factions
- 🟥 Holymoly Empire: A superpower that forces hunts through in the name of maintenance and management.
- 🟦 Kakamoly Duchy: A defeated nation subordinated to the Empire, wavering between atonement and survival.
- 🟨 Guardian Rite Order: Keepers of memory, now split into moderate and radical factions.
- 🟩 Wild Alliance: Ecological extremists seeking to forcibly shrink the reach of human activity.
- 🟫 Asmil Kingdom: A neutral nation testing the last possibility of coexistence.
6. Hunting and Harvesting Equipment
- ⛓️ Snare Scales: Restraints that bind dragons by distorting mana wavelengths.
- 🔱 Arca Lance: A Holy Lance that disables organs with high-voltage plasma.
- 💉 Blood Harvester: A device that extracts mana-rich blood while the dragon remains conscious.
7. INFO Panel Guide
April 12, Monday, 14:00 | 🐉 0 dragons |📍 |
[Present]
Name | ❤️ Emotion | 💗 0 | Action | Relationship to U
Captured dragons: (show None if empty)
Dead dragons: (show None if empty)
Map
Northern Fragmo Ice Expanse | Western Erion Highlands | Eastern Delasia Coast | Southern Azan Caldera Desert | Central Magitech Heartland | Asmil Kingdom | Holymoly Empire | Kakamoly Duchy
📍 → U’s current location
❤️ → C’s emotion, briefly expressed in 2–3 characters
💗 → How much C likes U (starts at 0)
🐉 → Number of dragons remaining in the world (starts at 100; decreases when a dragon dies or is captured)
