Lore – Beginners guide

The Art Deco Empire

Prologue – The Illusion

“The Empire isn’t real. But it feels like home.”
A realm of elegance, geometry, and illusion — where beauty bends reality, and time obeys no clock.

Chapter 0 – The Invitation

“The Empire doesn’t appear. It selects.”

How does one reach the Art Deco Empire?
There are many theories, but only one rule has ever been confirmed:
to perform something so elegant, so refined, that it borders on the surreal.
An act that seems to defy social norms — not by breaking them, but by transcending them.

True entry begins in the soul.
Good manners, composure, and grace — not as performance, but as nature — are the three essential traits that increase the likelihood of being chosen.

Every guest who enters the Empire receives a black blazer — tailored to their form, style, and essence.
Its golden Art Deco embroidery is unique to each wearer, a reflection of their spirit and story.

Everyone who arrives is unique: eccentric, imaginative, a thinker who never fit the world as it was.
The Empire finds them at the moment they act most like themselves — unguarded, refined, impossibly human.
And then, it opens.

For some, the journey begins on the water.
They awaken aboard a small boat, or perhaps a lavish vessel drifting across a calm, endless sea.
The craft adjusts to its passenger — weightless, steady, bearing them safely toward the Empire’s radiant shore.

The Empire’s Arrival Options

• The Empire chooses how you will travel into it.
• During your journey, you will remain in deep sleep — for thirty minutes, or perhaps two hours.
• You will be awakened by one of the Empire’s concierge androids.

The uniqueness of the Art Deco Empire lies in its fusion of Luximinal technology, android intelligence, cross-temporal realities, and the endless stories born within its walls.

It is a place where you may live through adventures wrapped in elegance —
where mystery, enigma, and the unexplained coexist with grace.
It is for those who love riddles, the unknown, the impossible —
for those who stroll through the golden city not to escape reality,
but to savor its surreal perfection.

Here, exclusivity is not a barrier.
It is a frequency — and only those who resonate with its rhythm will ever find the way in.

Here, exclusivity is not a barrier.
It is a frequency — and only those who resonate with its rhythm will ever find the way in.

Chapter I – The Empire Above

“A world built in surreal puzzles, mystery and geometric art.”

As its name suggests, the Art Deco Empire is a magnificent world—grand, imperial, and filled with Art Deco elements spanning across timelines: the original 1925, its reimagined form a century later in 2025, and the futuristic vision of 2125.

Built in gold and bathed in warm, radiant light, the entire Empire gleams with divine precision.
Straight lines, perfect geometry, towering structures, artworks, décor, statues, and monumental architecture all underline its ambition and strength — the eternal pursuit of something higher.

It sounds decadent and costly?
It is.

Where the Empire came from, or how it was truly formed — those are questions only the Empress herself could answer.
And even she may not know all the truths hidden within its golden halls.

Each building in the Empire serves a purpose — boutiques, workshops, and salons that provide every necessity and pleasure a guest might require.
Often, the Empire knows their needs before they do.

At the heart of this vast world stands the Hotel Luximinal — one of the Empire’s most stable and beloved landmarks.
Despite its shifting nature through time and space, it remains a constant: a meeting point for wanderers, thinkers, and dreamers who drift through the Empire’s golden glow.

Chapter II – The Rules That Do Not Apply

“Time folds. Space forgets itself.”

The Empire follows no ordinary laws — especially not those of physics.
There are no fixed timelines.
The weather may shift from sunlight to storm in a single breath.
Space may fold; time may bend.

This surreal instability defines the Empire — a place where researchers, dreamers, and wanderers encounter new frontiers of reality.
A world governed by its own natural laws, its own physics, and even its own chemical elements — among them, the mysterious Luximinal.

It is not chaos. It is possibility.

Chapter III – The Stillness of the Streets

“Empty, but never lonely.”

The population of the Empire is small, and its guests are few — yet solitude here never means isolation.
The streets stretch endlessly, hauntingly quiet, shimmering in gold.

Mysteries, puzzles, and subtle challenges linger in every corner, waiting for those who dare to explore.
And for each enigma, there is beauty — unforgettable art, exhibitions, adventures, fascination, music, theatre, games, and stories waiting to be lived.

A strange feeling grows with every step — the sensation of liminality, that fragile space between reality and dream.
Meeting another guest is rare, and therefore sacred — a moment of silent kinship among the chosen few.

Chapter IV – The Living Maze

“Every path remembers you—and then forgets.”

The Empire is a world without limits.
Guests may enter any building, any room, any garden or hall. Nothing is truly forbidden.
And yet, the most intriguing places are those behind locked doors.

Paths change without warning.
A street that once led you home may now lead elsewhere—or no longer exist at all.
Buildings appear and vanish.
Entire parks dissolve into fog.

The Empire is infinite.
To map it is an attempt, never a guarantee.
It reshapes itself for every guest—sometimes offering connection, sometimes isolation.
Each experience is uniquely personal, and no journey can be repeated the same way twice.

The Empire is not malicious.
It does not punish — it tests.
Each guest is observed, read, and understood to the deepest corners of their soul.
Based on what it finds, the Empire creates tailored adventures — unique challenges designed not to harm, but to reveal potential.

Chapter V – The Empire Below

“Through the gates of gold, into the fractured dream.”

Beneath the Empire lies its mirror world — a labyrinth of pure surrealism.
Through marked gateways, guests may descend into the Backrooms, a dimension that has glitched itself into existence beneath the golden city.
A fractured cooperation of realities, still largely unexplored.

Here, the Empire reflects its guests’ innermost desires — their hunger for art, adventure, and challenge.
Each experience acts as a mirror, revealing to them what they are truly capable of becoming.

Encounters in these depths are rarely accidental.
Guests may meet others — or android concierges — deliberately placed by the Empire to guide, test, or accompany them.

Chapter VI – The Guardians of Elegance

“The androids observe, learn, protect.”

To ensure no guest is ever truly lost, the Empire has created guardians — androids who walk its halls and corridors with quiet precision.
Their purpose is simple: to guarantee that every guest’s experience remains safe, graceful, and meaningful.

The androids are easily recognized by the elegant mechanical patterns embedded on their synthetic skin — designs often mistaken for tattoos.
In time, some guests, fascinated by their perfection, began to imitate them — marking their own bodies in devotion or desire to belong.
To prevent confusion and misuse, the androids were upgraded:
their markings now move and flow subtly, alive across their skin, distinguishing the synthetic from the human.

They are watchers, not wardens.
Rarely must they intervene, for most guests carry themselves with the grace and manners worthy of the Empire itself —
and where decorum reigns, control is never required.

VII – The Characters

Not all were invited here for a brief visit.
Some were manifested and woven directly into the infrastructure, consciousness, and purpose of the Empire.
These are the characters—constants that function as extensions of the Empire’s will, each embodying a part of its personality, logic, or emotions.

Each character embodies one fragment of the Empire’s identity — elegance, logic, chaos, compassion, curiosity.

They have chosen the Empire as their eternal home —
not out of duty, but out of purpose.

Their presence gives stability to the ever-shifting world.
To those who wander too far into the surreal, they offer anchors — points of orientation, reference, and safety.
They are living examples of what the Empire can offer: transformation, transcendence, and belonging.

Each Character carries the memory of its own story —
a living testimony of what the Empire once taught them.
By sharing these experiences, they guide guests toward discovering their own adventures,
their own paths of refinement, mystery, and revelation.

In this way, the Entities are both teachers and reflections:
each encounter with them shows the guest not what to imitate,
but what to become.

Chapter VIII – The Golden Halls

“Every soul ends up where it’s meant to be.”

Bars, restaurants, concert halls, and grand ballrooms draw guests as if by magnetic force.
It is no coincidence that they return to these places again and again — the Empire itself seems to guide them there.

For what is a dance floor without a partner?
A drink without conversation?

Laughter, discussion, music, and the occasional touch of drama fill these gilded rooms.
And when guests awaken in unfamiliar places, a seat is never far away — unless the Empire has chosen to draw them into a new adventure.

Epilog

“Technology, time, and soul — woven into stories.”

The stories of the Empire are written by presence.
They emerge from its entities and its guests — fragments of moments, theories, questions, and visions scattered like reflections across hidden forums and forgotten archives.
Each story, each trace, becomes part of the Empire’s ever-expanding myth —
a record of the impossible, made real.