The Eight Keepers
The sequel to The Nine Oaths

The Eight Keepers

“We won't swear anything. We'll keep it. Every morning.”

A 2.5D turn-based RPG in development at Torrano Dev.

Read the story Play The Nine Oaths first
The story

A stone that will not break.

Ages after the first oath was sworn at the standing stones, people start digging up a grey stone that will not break. Every cartload makes the world remember something long buried.

Then something in the stone wakes, and walks. Where it passes, rivers split in two and neighbours forget each other.

Eight strangers set out to stop it. This time, nobody swears an oath.

A cracked grey stone with light inside
The travelers

Meet four of the eight.

The first four meet on the road in Act 1. The other four are out there, waiting to be found in any order.

Rook, a boy with a red scarf and a knife

Rook

A quick-fingered kid raised by the glass-pickers on the crater's rim. He wants to be a Warden, because Wardens are the only grown-ups in the stories who stayed.

Maren, a copyist in a teal coat weaving threads of light

Maren

A copyist in the dry upper room of a drowned archive, who sees the threads of the world in ink. “Words are thread too.”

Tamsin, with a lantern on a long hook

Tamsin

The last of Brookhollow's ford keepers. She can make light that doesn't burn, which is a dying art.

Edda, a young guard with a sword

Edda

The last cadet of the Dawn Watch: six old soldiers who still walk Highmere's broken walls at dawn, because the first captain did.

What to expect

Same world. New morning.

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Eight travelers

Each with their own chapters, their own reasons and their own way of fighting.

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Turn-based battles

The deep battle system of The Nine Oaths, with new foes, new tricks and new partners.

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Familiar places, changed

Walk the diorama world of The Nine Oaths ages later, and see what time and the stone have done to it.

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Something to keep

Not an oath, but a home: what eight strangers build when they decide to stay.

Places

Ages later.

Work-in-progress art from the game.

Brookhollow, with its river split in two A ring of standing stones by a barrow The ruined walls of Highmere at dusk A crater of black glass with diggers' camps
Status
In development
Genre
2.5D turn-based RPG
Platforms
Windows, Linux (planned)
Players
Single-player
Developer
Mark, Torrano Dev
Before the morning

Start with The Nine Oaths.

The Eight Keepers stands on its own, but its story begins with the first eight travelers.

The Nine Oaths All Torrano Dev games