Command a company of golem-knights on a collapsing imperial frontier.
The Palatine Empire is old, vast, and coming apart at the seams — and its frontiers are where the unravelling cuts deepest. This is one such frontier: the contested borderland between the kingdoms of Talins and Severni Mars, two realms of the empire whose quarrel has turned the roads into a battleground. Imperial authority runs thin here, and no peace lasts for long. Lords rise and are broken. Roads that ran safe last season now run thick with brigands. The great Tower Wizards read uncertain omens in smoke and stone. And striding through all of it come the Palatine Knights: warriors merged with golems of enchanted stone, flesh fused to rock until the battle is done.
You command one such company. The work begins small and practical — escorting nervous merchants, clearing the bandits who have closed the roads, hunting the fell things driven down out of the deep country. Between fights you recruit and arm your warband, bring your knights to their Order Houses for finer arms and enchantments, and raise squires toward full knighthood.
But the larger war is always waiting. The Order of Saatti and the Order of Agilaz are fighting through proxies across this border, and every company working it is eventually asked to choose a side — or has one chosen for it. Your contracts, your allies, your enemies: each accumulates into a reputation, and reputation decides what kind of work, and what kind of war, finds you next.
Play it in your browser
Wars of the Palatine is a tactical campaign game of company command in the age of the golem-knights: recruit a warband, march a contested map, fight hex-and-counter battles, and build renown — or ruin — over a full campaign.
▶ Play now on itch.io
Runs in the browser — no download required.
Enter the world
- The Palatine Knights » — golem-bonded warriors and the Twelve Orders they fight in
- The Empire » — the kingdoms, their cities and regions, the Tower Wizards, and the war on the border
- Adversaries » — the bandits, monsters, beasts, and Shadow wizards arrayed against you
- Timeline » — from the Fall of the Gods to the present succession wars
- The Rulebook » — the full game rules as a tabletop manual, free to download
New to the Palatinate? Read The Palatine Knights, then go play.
Left of Center 