Themes & Discretion
Some of the pages on this wiki handle real things. Mental health struggles people actually live through. Questions about power and accountability that real institutions still get wrong. Depictions of what systems do to the people inside them. They are written carefully, but they are not soft.
This page is a directory. It is here so you can find those pages on purpose if you came looking for them, and so that you do not run into them by accident if today is not the day. The flags at the start of uniquely difficult entries will tell you what is contained within the page. They are not warnings against reading; they are signposts so you can decide. The pages themselves were written to be worth the weight.
If what you find here is heavy for you
Some of what is in this directory is real. Systemic abuse, self-harm, suicide, the kinds of pressure that do not lift on their own. If anything you read here puts weight on you that you cannot put down, please reach out to a mental health professional, a crisis line in your country, or someone you trust. The articles linked below are written carefully, but they are not a substitute for that help. They are also not in a hurry; you can come back to them when you are ready.
A note on fiction
Every page in this wiki, and every page it links to, is fiction set within the lore of Landfall. The characters depicted are played by real people, but a player is not the character they play. Acts committed in the canon, including violence, coercion, abuse of power, self-harm, and suicide, should not be read as reflecting the values, views, or real-life behavior of the players behind the roles. The fiction takes these subjects seriously with precisely the hope that the reality the players live in does not have to involve similar struggles.
Power, Consent, and Accountability
This cluster is about what institutions do, what they should not do, and what the people inside them owe to the people outside them. The questions here are not abstract; the wiki engages with each of them through specific arrangements that someone in the canon actually built.
X-Seven
Contains: questions about democratic legitimacy, deception in the founding of states, the architecture of unaccountable power, the doctrine of necessary moral injury.
The covert paramilitary unit Kara embedded in the founding text of the United Provinces’ Constitution, hidden inside a clause most readers would skim past. The article works through six distinct ethical objections to the arrangement she built, including the citizens’ ratification of something they were never told about, the absence of any body that can hold the unit accountable, the doctrine that someone has to be willing to be damaged so others stay clean, and the recursive paradox that the strongest argument against X-Seven is also the argument Kara used to build it. Her own private reasoning is included. The article does not resolve, and is not meant to. It is the wiki’s most sustained piece of ethical analysis.
The Roscarte Coup
Contains: political assassination, public execution, regime erasure, the relationship between unreturned love and destruction.
The fall of the Ehrengard Empire to Seraphine du Roscarte, framed in the public record as a political correction and in private as the inversion of a devotion Seraphine had carried for years and that Avery had never returned. The article’s Philosophical Aftermath section is one of the wiki’s most direct ethical treatments: whether love of that kind is meaningfully distinct from the destruction it produced, whether the noble class that swore fealty under duress bore any moral weight for what followed, and whether Avery, who had known and not spoken, carried any responsibility for what her silence triggered.
What Marsh Did
Contains: political assassination by the founder of a polity against its own cofounders, intimate partnership as the vehicle of a political conclusion, sustained falsification of public records, the categorical question of whether the end determines the moral character of the method.
The killings of Fuhai cofounders Nova, Luna, and Octavia on the order of President Marsh Horton in the second decade of the settlement, after Camina Gravacs assembled documentary evidence that the three retained undisclosed ties to Echo Sprawl and were on track to make the rail company they had built the operational center of Fuhai. The article works through five angles: the gap between the cofounders’ provable arrangement and their unprovable intent, the Accumulation Doctrine as the structural condition under which Marsh’s informal authority had grown to a size that allowed her to act around her own legal architecture, the question of Camina’s responsibility for a framework she built without ordering the conclusion, the falsified public record that has not been re-attributed, and the categorical question of whether a method the corporate executives of Citadel Corporation and the others would have recognized retains its character when it is used by someone defending the polity that was built against them. The article does not converge with X-Seven or The Roscarte Coup. It was written to sit alongside them.
Belief and Coercion
This cluster sits where personal belonging meets institutional coercion: the dynamics of high-control religious movements, the mechanics by which membership becomes a trap, and what is owed to the people inside such movements when their leadership collapses and they are left holding what is left.
Larrism
Contains: cult coercion, marital coercion within a faith, religious totalitarianism captured at the level of the state, the killing of ordinary cult members by paramilitary actors after the collapse of the cult’s leadership.
The doctrinal and structural record of the Larry Cult, paired with a substantial ethical analysis covering seven angles of how the faith operated and what it did to the people who joined it: the structural condition of a movement built on a single living figure, the trap of bundled sacraments, membership as ranked scarcity, the right to declare members exiled, the capture of state institutions, the question of who counts as complicit when belief and coercion are entangled, and what was done by paramilitary actors to the surviving ordinary adherents after the leadership was killed. The article includes a real-world reference on the signs that a group is becoming a high-control movement, written so that someone who recognizes them in a community they or someone they love is part of has a better chance of knowing what they are seeing. The personal arc of the figure at the center of the movement, Huge Larry, is treated on his own bio page in a parallel section.
The Night of the Veil
Contains: detailed political assassination including the staging of bodies for psychological effect, the use of a captive spouse as a witness to her husband’s killing, the targeted killing of non-combatant civilians (including children) during religious services, the systematic destruction of an entire faith community by a state paramilitary, and a state coverup of a senior official’s role in the destruction.
The coordinated assassination of the Larrist leadership by Sovarre on a single night, paired with the week of explosions that destroyed the lay membership in their chapels, settlements, and homes. The article walks through each of the eight assassinations in detail (Larry’s helmet pried off and the operator who saw the face under it never on the record again, Isaac’s deliberately slow cut while his servants heard nothing, the operator who used Exoticus’s widow’s napkin to clean the blade in front of her without ever looking at her), the timed detonations of chapels mid-service with children present, and a partial Bureau inventory of what was recovered from the rubble. It then documents the canonical role of Nordvik Alvaldi in personally setting some of the charges during a Seraphine-induced psychotic break, the Imperial cabinet’s coverup of that role, and the foreshortening of Kara’s mourning so the regent could have political distance from the timing. That foreshortening drove the most sustained relapse documented in What Kara Carried. The article ends in three competing historical frames (containment, integrated atrocity, morally inseparable but categorically distinct) that have not converged in the record.
Systems and Survival
This cluster is about what happens to ordinary people when the institutions above them stop working, or were never working, or were working all along but for someone else.
Echo Sprawl
Contains: depictions of systemic abuse, forced labor, environmental collapse, the elimination of currency in favor of subsistence-by-compliance, suicide, despair.
The post-Blaze arcology where the three surviving megacorps (Citadel, Oki, Goldworks) own the air, the water, the food, the housing, and the labor contracts the residents trade their lives for. The page is a portrait of what happens to ordinary people when no institution above the corporations exists to check them, and of the particular kinds of cruelty that emerge when survival itself becomes the product being sold.
What People Carry
This cluster is about interior life. What people lose, what people survive, what people do in private when the public version of themselves does not have room for any of it. Some of the articles here look at a single final week; others trace patterns that ran across whole adult lives. They are companion pieces to each other in the sense that all of them are about what does not get said out loud.
How these articles were written
The subjects covered in this category are especially difficult and are not treated lightly. The heavier articles below were developed in direct collaboration with people who have lived and overcome the kind of struggle the article describes, as part of how those collaborators have done their own work of healing, and as a deliberate effort to give visible language to experiences that are too often brushed off or treated as taboo. Note that some creative liberties have been taken at different points both to integrate the story into the canon or to preserve privacy by avoiding a verbatim recap.
The choice to attach these experiences to specific characters is intentional. The figures who carry them on this wiki are, in many cases, the most prominent and celebrated of their period and these histories are attached with mutual consent of the author of the article and the user playing the character. That is not an accident. These struggles are not confined to anyone’s image of who they belong to. They sit alongside everything else that a person is, and they are present in lives that look, from the outside, like they have nothing to do with this kind of subject. In lives that often appear high-functioning and prolific, but nobody is completely free of struggle. The articles below are written from that premise and serve to humanize the characters we discuss over the course of our gameplay.
If you wish to tell your story at a safe distance by attaching it to a staff member’s character, please open a ticket or message a staff member directly.
The Death of Edward Redcliffe
Contains: suicide, depression, the late-stage signs that surround them.
The full account of Edward’s last week. His public farewell address. His last conversation with Avery on the patio of the Vesperine Temple at sunset, where she sat closer than she usually did and tried to reach him. The hour he died and what that hour meant to him. The article closes with a record of the signs his friends did not recognize in time, written plainly so that someone else might.
What Kara Carried
Contains: self-harm, suicidal ideation, the death of a parent in childhood.
The private record of Kara’s lifelong practice of self-injury, beginning in the weeks after her mother was killed and continuing across the whole of her reign with periods of abstinence and periods of relapse. The article covers the night her mother died, the practice itself, the three people in her lifetime who knew, three ethical angles (the cultural line between honored wounds and stigmatized ones, the sovereign’s choice to conceal, and what the three confidants carried in silence alongside her), and a plain-language reference on the signs the pattern presents in those who carry it. Written so that someone who recognizes any of it in a friend, a partner, or themselves has a better chance of knowing what they are seeing. Kara’s own first-person account, Kara’s Diary, is the primary source the article works from and is quoted throughout it.
What Camina Carried
Contains: sexual coercion, online grooming, survival sex work.
The record of a single event that happened to Camina Gravacs as a newly-eighteen-year-old in Echo Sprawl, set within the five years of online grooming and the months of work in front of a camera that preceded a physical encounter. The article works through eight angles: consent and what was read, power asymmetry, loneliness as a precondition, the body’s delayed and cyclical protective response, the conditioning that outlasts the abuse and reorganizes later sexuality, the absence of a name in the available language for what happened, the structural pipeline that places trans women in this position before any individual abuser arrives, and the cumulative diagnosis (CPTSD) that the literature gives to a person who has carried all of these.
This list will grow. Other pages on the wiki touch material that belongs in one of these clusters and are not yet developed enough to sit here on their own; they are tracked separately and will be added when they are ready. Our players and staff absolutely adore creating ethical dilemmas through statecraft and politics, and providing commentary via real-world parallels.