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This document provides examples of Duskaran names in various contexts and formats. Name Structure Duskaran names follow a three-part structure established over eight centuries: Personal name (given at birth) Wind-Kin designation (clan affiliation, optional in...

Here are lists of personal names, all drawing inspiration from Duskara's culture and environment: Female Names Name Wind-kin Surname 1. Zhathoni kin-Babu Shadowthorn 2. Teothth kin-Hanga Shadowthorn 3. Meolelle kin-Maji Beorath 4. Vyothris kin-Ma...

2187 CE: The colony ship Stellar Horizon departs Earth, bound for Kepler-442b, carrying a mixed African and Asian crew in cryogenic stasis. Mid-2200s CE: During the voyage, a solar storm causes critical damage to navigation systems, leaving the ship adrift...

Duskara: Children of the Twilight is a GMless tabletop RPG for 1+ players about building community in the twilight between worlds. You are settlers in a linear city stretched across Duskara's habitable band, descendants of a lost colony ship learning to thrive...

Before play, establish your settlement's foundation collaboratively (20-30 minutes). These choices shape everything that follows.

Each turn follows this sequence. Don't skip steps—each serves a purpose.

You are a lineage of Archivists, custodians of Duskaran history who chronicle the shifting tides of civilization across generations. Your ancestors built wind-cities along the twilight belt, carved sanctuaries in geothermal caverns, and survived where they wer...

Duskara is a tidally locked planet where one face eternally burns under a K-class star while the other freezes in perpetual darkness. Only the twilight belt—a narrow band 200-300 kilometers wide—supports human life.

Before beginning, establish the foundation of your chronicle.

In the year 2187, the colony ship Stellar Horizon departed Earth bound for Kepler-442b. After a critical malfunction in their navigation systems during a solar storm, the ship drifted off course for decades while its passengers slept in cryogenic stasis. When ...

Duskaran names reflect the harsh beauty of a tidally locked world, blending the cultural heritage of African and Asian Earth origins with eight centuries of adaptation to extreme environments. Names carry echoes of wind, twilight, thermal gradients, and the ps...

Duskaran names follow a hierarchical structure that has developed over eight centuries: Personal name + kin-[Wind-Kin] + Surname (full formal) Personal name + Surname (common formal) Personal name (casual)

Wind-Kin affiliation denotes extended family clan membership and is part of formal naming. These designations represent major cultural-environmental lineages that have developed on Duskara: kin-Hanga – of the Wind clan (surface dwellers, weatherworkers) kin-M...

Welcome to Duskara Collaborative Worldbuilding Duskara is published under CC BY-SA 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike). You're invited to expand this world by creating settlements, characters, creatures, and cultural practices that fit within the es...