Setting & Stories

Mnemonic is an anti-canon setting, which means that everything we present is meant to be revised and personalized to fit the needs of the story you’re telling. If you have strong associations with the color green, for instance, you might make it a feature of your story that when someone weaves a memory, the world around them takes on a green tinge.

You can embrace the anti-canon nature of the setting as a facet of your worldbuilding, or use it as license to change things as you need to. That being said, there are some things that are important enough to us as writers that, if you do change them, you should at least know their importance.

The entries in this chapter describe places, people, events, or objects of interest that you might want to include in your worldbuilding. You don’t need to use all of them, and you don’t need to use them as presented. Some entries come with questions to guide your storytelling. Some include sample story arcs to provide you with a ready-made structure for playing games with the session frameworks in this book. (Some entries might even contradict other entries. The setting is anti-canon even within itself.)

For storytellers who want to flesh out the world in similar ways, we’ve also provided a template that you can use to write your own anti-canon setting entries.

Take what you need. Change what doesn’t fit. Discard the rest. Enjoy your journey through the world of memory.

Using the Setting & Stories

When starting a new game, you can pick one of the settings in this chapter as a starting point for deciding what kind of story you want to tell together. The Story Arc section of each entry provides some loose scaffolding for a full story using that place as a focal point. That said, each of these entries is intended to only serve as a starting point. Think of them as pieces of inspiration to use if you need them.

In This Chapter:

  1. Template
  2. Capital City by Dee, the Weaver in Green
  3. Cawdor by Lexi Antoku
  4. The Children of An and Enki by Noora Rose
  5. Dragon's Husk by Dee, the Weaver in Green
  6. The Tale of Five Strings by Synxiec, the Weaver in Sunflower
  7. The Glittering Graveyard by Noordin Ali Kadir, The Wolf-Weaver
  8. The Goldenbloom by Crimson Stripes
  9. Harbor of Sound and Colors by Valis Teoh
  10. Ironhold by Sin, the Weaver in Blue
  11. Requiem Nimbus by Crimson Stripes
  12. Rynwood, the Forest of Silk by Dee, the Weaver in Green
  13. Spider Web Poetry by Guanzon
  14. The Unforgotten City by Synxiec, the Weaver in Sunflower
  15. Ironhold, The Weeping City by Dee, the Weaver in Green
  16. Where The Rivers Embrace by Noora Rose
  17. The Wide Sea & the Keeper by Sin, the Weaver in Blue