Mandrake

Overview

Horticulture is a cursed and forbidden practice... except to you. You come from a long line of sorcerers who practiced the green and growing arts, and you're able to grow such marvels as runner beans, cherry trees, and the humble turnip. As your skills grow, you'll plant stranger seeds like thunder-calling taran or rhewyn, which waters your gardens for you. Perhaps you'll even grow a goose-tree!

Gameplay

Place beds, decorations and resting spots. Find, plant, nurture, grow and harvest plants both mundane and magical, and gradually expand your gardens into the tangled grounds of your family's abandoned castle.

Discover a beguiling new world inspired by British history and folklore - a world of old, wild powers, uncanny spirits, deep histories, and deeper mysteries.

You won't just work in your gardens. Forage for resources in the nearby woods and along the beach. Go fishing (but take care not to be cursed by the river). Delve into dangerous mines in search of bright minerals and stolen secrets.

Breathe life into the Mandrake lodge with your choice of furnishings and renovations; acquire old books, and spend evenings reading in candlelit comfort. Learn to cook. Meet your neighbours, become entangled in their lives, give them gifts and learn their stories.

The World

Long ago, the world changed. The Covenant of the Hearth decreed that the day belonged to humanity, but the night belonged to other things. Now all earthly lights save hearthfires go out when the sun sets, and the Mara ride the night-winds. Don't go out after dark - the night is not for you. For now.