Justice isn’t a word that has much meaning on Antarras. At least, not in the long term. While each town might have been built up with its own best intentions, in the end practicality wins out over idealism every time. Any Company Marshal or loc

Ruin's Gate 31: A Town Called Doom

23 days ago 2h 25m

CONTENT WARNINGS: body horror (0:27:00-0:30:00, 1:34:00), drug use (0:40:00-0:42:00) Scarcity has always been the name of the game on Antarras—our time on this planet has practically been defined by it. As much as the prospect of a new home amo

Ruin's Gate 30: The Dark Stampede, part 2

Mar 19th, 2024 1h 53m

Aside from the paths scouted between Antarras’ sparse collection of towns, and the maps kept by the Miner’s Guild, all too much of the planet remains unexplored. This reason is no small part of why the Buzzards do such good business: wander off

Ruin's Gate 29: The Dark Stampede, part 1

Mar 5th, 2024 1h 57m

To attempt a taxonomy of the creatures the locals call hellbeasts would be a futile task: the monsters that made their way out of the Ruin had no rhyme nor reason, no morphological consistency nor internal sense. They had the form, from the sta

Ruin's Gate 28: Carrion Town, part 2

Feb 20th, 2024 2h 11m

Fear wasn’t always the common denominator among the population of the newly-founded towns of Antarras. Maybe it was always something of a factor; maybe it could never have been totally absent from consideration. But when people talk about the e

Ruin's Gate 27: Carrion Town, part 1

Feb 6th, 2024 1h 38m

The Company installed its de facto leaders shortly after the Agreement was signed. Company Marshals took up residence in each town, according to one of the many clauses that were debated at the time of the signing, and while their job was, tech

Ruin's Gate 26: A Fire in the Night

Jan 23rd, 2024 2h 6m

After the Ostenberg Agreement created a tenuous but stable peace between the Company and the original settlers, Antarras became a place that was surprisingly free from major conflict. Bandits and outlaws caused trouble occasionally, to be sure,

Ruin's Gate 25: Tools of the Trade, part 2

Jan 9th, 2024 1h 44m

The truth is, most of us don’t want to know anything more about hellstone than what we already do—that it’s dangerous, and that it’s valuable. Whether or not you believe that ignorance is bliss, you can’t rightly deny that there’s something unf

Ruin's Gate 24: Tools of the Trade, part 1

Dec 26th, 2023 1h 51m

Strange stories, sometimes, circulate in quiet whispers about the work that goes on deep beneath the ground under the Manufactory. Necessary research, no doubt—after all, if it hadn’t been for scientists like Greer experimenting with hellstone,

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Dec 13th, 2023 5m 10s

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Ruin's Gate 23: The Bear, part 2

Dec 12th, 2023 1h 50m

CONTENT WARNINGS: animal death, detailed description of injury to animals Did our presence here transform the natural landscape of Antarras? Did our footsteps change the ground we walked on, which had never before seen human feet? It would be

Ruin's Gate 22: The Bear, part 1

Nov 28th, 2023 1h 44m

CONTENT WARNINGS: animal death, detailed description of injury to animals Wildlife on Antarras was puzzling to the first settlers, who had never known any animals besides those few they’d encountered on Earth, the rare ones left in the wake o

Ruin's Gate 21: Waiting Out the Storm

Nov 14th, 2023 1h 34m

People always supposed it might be possible, that somebody lived out in the Ruin. In fact, I reckon most people assumed it had to be true. As dangerous and downright undesirable as it seemed, we’d made a home of Antarras out of a desire to find

Ruin's Gate 20: Bones of the Saint, part 2

Oct 31st, 2023 1h 54m

CONTENT WARNINGS: description of body horror (1:10:34-1:13:25) The Confessors, of course, were more than just priests. Having received the word of God directly from the source on their pilgrimages, it wasn’t uncommon to hear the faithful say th

Ruin's Gate 19: Bones of the Saint, part 1

Oct 17th, 2023 1h 43m

It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that there is no limit to what the Company would do to keep its grip on Antarras tight, but that doesn’t mean the average person really understands the depths of the Company’s machinations. What’s worse

Ruin's Gate 18: The Disappearance of Chance Gladwish, part 2

Oct 3rd, 2023 1h 30m

CONTENT WARNINGS: discussion of auditory hallucinations I heard a story, once, from one of the original settlers, out in Swallow’s Pass, about the first time she saw a ghost in the Ruin. The ghost of her father, dressed in his work clothes, s

Ruin's Gate 17: The Disappearance of Chance Gladwish, part 1

Sep 19th, 2023 1h 40m

CONTENT WARNINGS: discussion of auditory hallucinations What is a ghost, anyway? It’s a question the people of Antarras have had to ask more than once. Leaving aside the obvious, here, there’s more to consider than one might think there’d be.

Ruin's Gate 16: Behold, a White Horse

Sep 5th, 2023 1h 39m

CONTENT WARNINGS: drug use [1:01:42-1:03:22], brief depictions of body horror [1:28:18-1:34-13] People found all sorts of ways to cope with the uncertainty that came coupled with living somewhere as dangerous as the frontier. Some turned to dri

Ruin's Gate 15: Shadows in the Dark, part 2

Aug 22nd, 2023 1h 41m

CONTENT WARNINGS: missing child, discussion of parental death and grief, blinding [48:30] If you take the word of the people who’ve made their names in Ruin’s Gate—and usually, dear reader, I am just wise enough to remember to do that—then the

Ruin's Gate 14: Shadows in the Dark, part 1

Aug 8th, 2023 1h 41m

CONTENT WARNINGS: missing child, discussion of parental death and grief If nothing else, there’s something to be said for the collective spirit of the frontier. On Earth, as those who come to Antarras tell it, it’s every man for themself—and ma

Ruin's Gate 13: The Curse of the Good Luck Mine, part 2

Jul 25th, 2023 2h 2m

Surprisingly little is known about the specific effects of unrefined hellstone, all things considered. It is, after all, the key to life on Antarras, the little red miracle that put our humble planet on the map. But no miracle is complete witho

Ruin's Gate 12: The Curse of the Good Luck Mine, part 1

Jul 11th, 2023 1h 42m

CONTENT WARNINGS: brief description of body horror [24:59-25:06, 55:03-55:09] “History” and “legend” are words that don’t have a lot of meaning in a place like Antarras. The places where their definitions are distinct have a nasty tendency to b

Ruin's Gate 11: Mutual Agreements

Jun 27th, 2023 1h 42m

CONTENT WARNINGS: brief description of body horror [12:27-12:39] Small towns on Antarres have a tendency to stay small—at least, until they don’t. The second a small town starts to grow, the process takes on a character I’d be tempted to call e

Ruin's Gate 10: A Demon in the Desert, part 2

Jun 13th, 2023 1h 30m

CONTENT WARNINGS: body horror (31:21-31:55, 45:34-46:06, 56:55-56:57, 1:01:37-1:02:06, 1:03:46-1:04:17), graphic violence (50:39-51:08, 1:03:46-1:04:17), discussion of mercy killing (55:25-56:57) (13)And lo! the Angel said unto him, you Shall b

Ruin's Gate 09: A Demon in the Desert, part 1

May 30th, 2023 1h 28m

CONTENT WARNINGS: detailed description of body horror [1:01:08-1:01:52, 1:18:34-1:21:13, 1:26:34-1:26:50] Faith has been important to the people of Antarres since they first set foot on the rocky red earth of their new home. Faith of all kinds