The big one: your ancestors now answer for their reigns — and they have faces.
✨ New
The Skein paints your dead. Every heir's face is now recorded the day they pass — open the Skein and see the actual portrait of every hand your line has known, all the way back to the founder. The family record finally looks like a family.
Every reign gets a reckoning. "A formidable hand" never told you why. Now each ancestor's card carries their defining marks — "made enemies of every hall · carried the dream within reach" — drawn from eight counts the game has always kept: the coffers, the name, the houses, the dark years, the blood, the dream, the customs, the talk. Right-click any ancestor (on the Skein or the Timeline) for the full eight-count reading.
Betrothals are binding now. When an event pledges your line to a house, matchmaking honors it: the pledge hangs over the hall, the promised house sends a marked candidate, and spurning them costs you — a grudge, a stained name, a house that does not forget.
Houses show their hand. A house's page now shows how close its ambition is to ripening, and when you're reading your blood-enemy's page, the feud's heat is part of the record.
Your lifetime, tallied. Past Lineages now closes with your reckoning across all accounts — generations lived, events resolved, longest line — and a right-click opens the full ledger: every crucible, every heir born and lost, every chronicle sent.
🛠️ Fixed
Fairer ratings, retroactive justice. A scoring flaw since v1 quietly punished every heir who simply left the customs alone — on the heaviest-weighted count in the rating. Quiet reigns now earn what they earned; expect more honest "exalted" hands.
You can no longer resume a bloodline whose save is gone and land in a broken, half-loaded hub.
Reading your chronicle in-game now keeps the shareable link — COPY SHARE LINK lives right in the reader, fresh from the Soul Teller or re-opened years later.
Quitting at a succession is safe — the open choice is saved the moment you arrive, ESC backs out, and CONTINUE returns you to the same crossroads.
An empty chronicle now says so in the Soul Teller's voice instead of showing a blank book; a slow binding admits it's slow; and a right-click on any record always answers, even when the page is illegible.
Portraits could render blank inside scrolling lists — fixed.
The line remembers. Now you can read what it remembers.