It's done, loyal subjects of the Queen! Thanks to you, all Retainers will get their portrait done by the greatest artist in Halloway, Al Lukehart. We won't pretend this wasn't the goal we were hoping to achieve, so we are deeply grateful that you've made it possible.

But there are still ten days to go, and before we unveil another Backdrop from the alternate map of Halloway, we'd like to look back at one of the places from the original map.

Claypit, the Town of Free Golems, inspired a standalone little game for the first edition of Our Queen Crumbles: The Golems of Claypit, by Jason Brown & Adam Vass. It's a one-page experience that uses the same character-revelation mechanics designed for Our Queen Crumbles, with a lighter tone and a smaller-scale story. We'd love to add a copy of it to the boxed set, as a pamphlet or digital freebie with every pledge.

We'd love to help you revisit this place. But we also have new lands in store for you.

One of Halloway's most enigmatic, mysterious institutions, the House of Grey Magick rises at the heart of a vast expanse, kept shrouded by ancient spells under a thick veil of fog. Its warding circles keep the mists at bay, and the lighthouse-tower is a beacon to traverse the misty lands, only visible to those who are allowed to reach it.
The House is both academy and tribunal: here scholar study ancient art of pactmagick, the formation and application of powerful binding magick contracts. Agreements are made and broken here, and the great Library of Pacts preserves the memory of oaths spoken in the darkness of the Cresset Age, before the first Queen ever sat on the Twin Ring Throne.