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title: The Crucible
summary: Generates fantasy settings through seven interconnected alchemical stages.
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## What this is

- Generates fantasy settings through seven interconnected alchemical stages
- Start with Geography, end with states locked in political tension
- Not balanced, not optimised – designed to produce contradictions and tension

## Two Paths

- **Path I: »I want to generate«**
  - Start Building
  - Recommended for first-time users
- Path 2: **»I want to understand«**
  - Learn the System
  - Recommended for designers and theorists

## The Seven Stages

1. **Prima Materia. – Land**
   - Generate biomes and resources
1. **Calcination – Kin**
   - Generates kindred, heritage, and ancestry
1. **Fermentation – Belief**
   - Generates religion and belief
1. **Sublimation – Witchcraft**
   - Generates magical traditions and crafts
1. **Coagulation – Vessels**
   - Generates institutions and factions
1. **Conjunction – Realms**
   - Generates states, tribes, and settlements
1. **Dissolution**
   - Ways for the state to interact with each over