A Cosmic Fantasy Frontier

And so that's the chief points in an overview of the monstrous world.

This is a place where the incredible is the basic trade, but not a place where those incredible moments occur without a very dangerous context. It's a place where the gods lie imprisoned and are well-known by the people, but they aren't anything like mortals at all. Instead, they are fractal things, expanding forever outward; incomprehensible and alien, creatures of unfathomable cosmic horror.

Yet games in Oshanal are not about cosmic horror or existential dread, and they're not about the apocalyptic wastes left behind after the devastating magical war. In the world of the Hanging Towers, people have overcome the potential madness of their surroundings. They've persisted, they've endured, and now they're beginning to thrive anew.

Traditional cosmic horror depicts worlds where the supermassive is insurmountable, and mortal life can never achieve notice of the ancient eyes that dwell past creation. Hanging Towers games are very different because not only did mortals achieve that notice, they also survived it and surpassed it.

Now these mortals, the characters of Hanging Towers stories, have become something different, something strange and incredible. Many are ascending in one way or another. There are dynasties of child gods, empires of monster hunters, and it is increasingly normal to dreamwalk for hidden secrets and lore of the Never Was. Mortals are on the cusp of something even greater, if they can do it without losing control of the Spinning Cage and loosing the monstrous divine again.

So, what does cosmic horror look like in a fantasy world where magic is powerful and capable of defeating the eldritch beyond? When the people of your world are, themselves, incredible and vast? What does a post-apocalyptic wasteland look like after everyone's survived it, the post-post-apocalypse where life flourishes again, changed but enduring?

Those are the central questions of games set in the world of the Hanging Towers, a world of cosmic fantasy, full of frontiers of magical splendor and strange alien radiance.