EPOCHS

Epochs are a way to simply organize and categorize the timeline of a world from “beginning” to “end” within the Metastory of The Lens. Each Epoch describes what kinds of play can be engaged in, both as a TTRPG and as a board or strategy game, and each Epoch has sections to inspire a Referee in building their own adventures within a specific Epoch for their own world.

While many worlds will have timelines which follow these Epochs in specific order - Myths to Dreams to Kings to Empire to Corrpution to Collapse to Shadow to End - many do not, and loop between adjacent Epochs several times before finally coming to rest on the End of All. The World provided with The Lens, Vocroth, bounces between Empire and Corruption several times before finally collapsing in the Last Age of the Warlord and falling to the darkness.

When building out your own world, the easiest way to start is to build out linked Epochs, one to the next, and start deciding the major events which lead from one Epoch to the next.

EXAMPLE

Andy wants to build a new world for her party to travel to via their connections to the Navigators. She doesn’t really have time to