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Ride beneath a dying moon. Gather Dread. Seed horrors in the earth while torch-bearing humanity tries to burn every impossible thing you call forth.

Your rite: awaken all four Broods, keep them alive, then return to the buried Heart with 30 Dread.

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FIELD NOTES FOR THE UNBURIED

How to haunt a kingdom

Ride and gather

A D or the arrow keys ride left and right. Hold Shift or the touch Gallop button to sprint. At zero Steed, the bar turns purple: release Gallop and recover 25 stamina to sprint again.

Spend Dread

Ride through glowing wisps to collect Dread. Near a stone sigil, press E to awaken it for 8 Dread or deepen it for 14 and then 22 Dread.

Feed the Broods

Active Broods automatically hatch crawlers. Higher levels are tougher, hatch faster, and eventually call brutes. Their small bars appear only after taking damage.

Mark the outcasts

At a lonely fire, press E and spend 3 Dread to Mark its outcast. New Acolytes automatically walk to open structure jobs; empty fires attract another outcast after 22 seconds.

Raise staffed growths

Build at fixed foundations with E. Pastures make Dread, Spires attack, Barricades block and repair, and Charnel Yards turn human remains into bonus Dread. A growth works only after its Acolyte arrives.

Break the crusade

Press Space when Tendril reads Ready to strike nearby humans. Soldiers close in, archers fire at range, and torchbearers deal extra damage to structures.

Guard the Heart

Heart is base health; zero ends the run. Veil is your health; zero only dissolves you briefly and spills some Dread. Steed is gallop stamina.

Complete the rite

Broods shows how many sites are active. Assault counts waves and the next arrival. When all four Broods live, return to the central Heart with 30 Dread and press E.

Esc or P pauses. Leaving the game window also pauses and releases all controls. Touch controls provide the same actions. The thin strip at the bottom maps your position, the Heart, Broods, outcast fires, and fixed structures. A structure's hanging job mark glows when its worker is present.

THE NIGHT HOLDS ITS BREATH

Paused

Movement, attacks, spawning, and the next human assault are stopped.

THE EARTH OPENS

The Sleeper Rises

The human crown is a small and temporary thing.

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