OV The Curse of the Inertial Star of Satan
4 months ago
– Wed, Dec 03, 2025 at 05:15:20 AM
It should probably surprise no one that a project born under Satan’s Inertial Star refuses to move in a straight line. The original campaign staggered through delays, and had its share of… let’s call them “hostile omens”. Peculiar remarks in logistics or marketing - mail correspondence that vanished, broken promises and so on.
We’re not saying that’s exactly what happened this time. Some of this is on us, some of it is bad timing, and some of it is just the usual grind. But in the Fracture, even our own mistakes feel like part of the curse.
The good news: the infernal mechanics of the pledge manager have finally started to turn.
A smoke test has gone out to a small group of backers and, if everything survives the flames, the full Survey will be unleashed within about a day.
Watch your inbox and spam folders this week for an email from BackerKit to find your Survey.
As mentioned in the last update:
Confirm your shipping details.
Claim any additional goodies you desire.
You’ll be able to revisit and change your address and details right up until shipping.
We’ll remind you before the gates close.
The campaign text is more or less finished. We’re currently carving out the last stat blocks, harvest tables, and similar mechanical pieces, which will be added this week.
If you’d like to walk the halls before the frescoes are dry, you can help us proofread. We’re adding the raw campaign text as a Google Docs link to your BackerKit digital downloads.
Read the full campaign early in its raw, exposed form. Send us notes if you spot errors, glitches, or cursed typos or even fix the broken horologium with help of the clock maker's only truth?
Layout is in progress right now. We’ll share some sneak peeks in the coming weeks so you can see how the Crown of Ruin is taking shape on the page.
Our current (mortal, non-binding, somewhat-defiant-toward-Fate) plan is:
Layout finished: end of December
Final edits: January
Printing: February
If nothing explodes, is banned, or becomes possessed, that’s the path we’re walking.
If your Survey wanders off into the Shimmer, you can drag it back here:
https://crown-of-ruin.backerkit.com
If your pledge was tied to a Facebook account, the Survey will be sent to that same email address.
Need to change where it goes or run into trouble? Seek aid here:
https://crown-of-ruin.backerkit.com/faq
Thank you for your patience, your faith, and your willingness to back a project that very much does not try to play nice with the light.
“She was embalmed in molten silver. Her tongue still stings when the moon is right.”
Dreaming of that face again
It's bright and blue and shimmering
Grinning wide
And comforting me with its three warm and wild eyes
TOOL - Third Eye
OV Pledgemanagers and the Meridians and Parallels of Creation
6 months ago
– Thu, Oct 09, 2025 at 04:55:37 AM
I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I watered it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine.
And he knew that it was mine,
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
William Blake - The Poison Tree
After lots of back and forth we decided to switch to Backerkit as a pledge manager. Soon, you will get an important email with your BackerKit survey link – the key to claiming your rewards and shaping what you’ll receive from the forges of the Crown of Ruin.
Simply follow the link when it arrives, answer the questions written in flame, confirm your shipping details, and claim any additional relics you lust for. Haxan is running a Halloween sale at the same time so it’ll be a great time to summon extra tomes for friends and stock up on other products from the first Kickstarter. The Infernal Coasters and Tarot of the Inertial Star – rare relics of the first print, are priced to vanish into the void.
Your link has not yet been summoned, but it will arrive soon through the ether. Once you’ve completed the survey, you can return to it and revise your answers until it closes, we'll let you know when all ledgers are sealed and the vessels of fulfillment are to be awakened.
If your survey wanders astray, you can recover it here:
https://crown-of-ruin.backerkit.com
Once again, we find ourselves at the familiar edge of the Abyss – the printers’ deadline looms, the press hungers, and yet the tome is not yet in full layout. The final page count remains a shifting phantom, refusing to settle until the last glyph is set.
The good news: this time, the printed volumes will travel directly from the presses to the vaults of GamesQuest, cutting down shipping time considerably.
If final layout reaches completion within November’s span, the printing and shipment can ignite the January darkness. A delay on the horizon nonetheless.
To help starving cultists in times of Lust we've constructed some wip layouts just to give you a glimmer of hope.
While we carve the final pages and prepare the tome, there are other ways you can satisfy your demons:
Join the Discord – Step into the cathedral of the Astro Coven. Share art, tales, and discuss the lore with fellow Death Singers. DISCORD LINK
Help Solve the Great Trial – A mystery hidden within the lore of Crown of Ruin. Your insight may alter the course of what comes next. Clues can be anywhere!
Aid the Proofreading Rites – The campaign text hungers for sharp eyes and steady hands. Every correction is a stitch in the skin of the book. Send an email to [email protected] if you are interested!
We’ll keep working our asses off in the meantime – writing, conjuring, and cursing.
See you soon, in fire and ink.
Call for me darkness
We can hold on hope
We'll sleep alone
One last embrace at the gates of disorder
Don't follow me down
I promise I'll find you soon
Gunship - Gates of Disorder
OV Blackened Leaves and the Coordinates of God
6 months ago
– Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 03:36:37 AM
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
The leaves have blackened and dropped before we even noticed the season had changed. Autumn came fast, and while the winds gnaw at the marrow of the trees, we remain hunched over our pages, seeking answers, licking our claws. As usual in the House of Haxan, the campaign has swollen into something larger than we first conjured. We whisper “about 150 pages”, but the beast is still growing, and layout will probably fatten it further.
For those who delight in the smell of bloodied ink and misplaced commas, we are inviting proofreaders and suggestion-bringers. If you wish to join in this ritual of correction and small cruelties, send your will to [email protected] and we’ll hand you a link to the core document.
A small confession: our pledge manager lies broken, gurgling in the shadows. We had hoped to bind its wounds in September, but that corpse resisted revival. Instead, we will abandon it and march into Kickstarter’s own system. With luck (and perhaps a crow’s blessing) it will stir to life this coming weekend. Another update will arrive with more detail once the machine groans awake.
For those in the US who hunger now rather than later: a limited stock of first editions lies waiting. If you, or some poor friend you wish to curse with reading, want another copy before the Crown of Ruin launches, you may claim one through www.astroinferno.com with shipping that does not demand your entire soul. Only part of it.
Upon the void’s unfathomed chart,
Where silence strikes the beating heart,
The Compass burns, the Needle weeps,
And Heaven hides what Hell still keeps.
The North is fire, the East is bone,
The South a throne of dust unknown,
The West dissolves in rivers black,
The pilgrim fears to not turn back.
Yet in the midst, no line, no rod,
There lies the coordinates of God.
Neither height nor width can bind,
But pulse of heart, and fire of mind.
What Fallen drew this map of flame?
What demon sealed it with no name?
Between One and Five, no ROT that's odd,
Do shadow really guard the path to God?
And about The Great Trial: we know the silence has settled, and our attention stolen by the campaign itself. Yet the last month(s) saw a few milestones passed, and some new pages of that nightmare unlocked. Since the reward unearthed is digital, there is no rush, time will not rot it. But if you crave puzzles and the taste of half-finished mysteries, sneak stealthily into the Discord and see what others have pieced together.
The Crown of Ruin is still heavy on our heads. The weight is cruel, but it is also a crown, and we must wear it until the work is done.
Even Satan is bound before the Ruin
This is me
Hell, I don't know where it went wrong
I was chewed out, spitting blood
Guess I was holding on to dust
But can we wait for this feeling to pass?
It's like a drug feeding me in the dark
We're on the run from the King of Terrors
Just look away, there's no need to scare us
We all choose to find hope
Because hope is choosing to find meaning
In a meaningless world
Oh, Father, I can't hear You yet
I want to feel You near, it's suffocating
Scare them, scare them, scare them
Make them worship
- President - In the Name of the Father
OV the Heat, the Crown, and the Sorrower’s Tempest
8 months ago
– Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 02:21:23 PM
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
– William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Darkest Coven,
The eyes of summer have scorched our world. Blistering heat poured down like judgment from a sun that forgot mercy. In that thick silence, time dissolves. I must admit – I gave in. I took two weeks extra to drift in the shimmer, a total of 6 weeks away from the forge and the pen, and so things have been quiet. For two weeks straight we've had around 30C - so it has been impossible to conjure the forces needed for the wicked labor of the Witches'.
Today, I descend once more into the work – hammering shut the final gates of Crown of Ruin. The writing enters its last phase and about ten illustrations remain to be summoned, visions of horror and unholy wonder that will brand the soul of this campaign.
Soon, we will enter the layout phase, and then the grim beauty of the Crown will be unveiled.
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing...”
— Edgar Allan Poe
But that is not all.
Some of you could have asked: What of the Great Trial? Weren’t the Trials of the Witches over? And yes, they are – but the Great Trial is not.
New progress from backing cultists has awakened TGT from its summer slumber, and its verdict draws closer. Solving it will unlock The Sorrower’s Tempest, a sidequest and addition to the Crown of Ruin. A twisted and dark "chamber-play" about an evening with unusual dinner-guests that... well let's say Shakespeare would have appreciated the plot. When this will be finished is up to the community and puzzlers.
More shall be revealed… as the Great Trial progresses.
The Road to Ruin: A Rough Timeline
We want to be transparent about the months ahead, and share the current shape of our infernal calendar as we go.
This is my current plan, not very optimistic in the slightest and hopefully I can even outdo myself and finish some steps early.
August – Writing shall be complete, editing begins
September – Art finishes, deeper edits
October – Proofreading, layout, Beta version for backers and final image conjuring
November – Printing and shipping
Right now I'm merging some chapters to make the campaign three acts with 6 chapters each. This will introduce some "interlude" and "epilogue" parts, but I think it is worth it for the symbolic value alone.
“Do not go gentle into that good night...”
— Dylan Thomas
So, this is the final stretch. The Crown of Ruin is turning out heavy, but we carry it gladly – so that you may open its innards, into the depths of your quivering game, with dice in trembling hands.
Thank you for your patience, your passion, and your faith in the Dark!
S.O.L
Sink down
Is the water like
Heaven?
Baby oh my God
Baby oh my God
Wet pearls
Like fingers beneath my skin
Wet earth
Baby oh my God
Baby oh my God
I could crush it oh so easily
Just breathe on me
I've got that something for ya
Just breathe on me
I've got that something for ya
Off with my head
Breathe on Me - Naoko and Obzene
OV the Call of Mammon and the final rewards
10 months ago
– Fri, Jun 06, 2025 at 06:23:34 AM
FINAL 24 HOURS OF THE WITCHES' TRIALS
The clock is ticking, and the last veil is thinning.
Hex3, Hex X and RotX still has slots.
If you’ve been lurking in the shadows, unsure whether to plunge into the Trials – this is your moment. There are still unclaimed rewards for those bold (or blasphemous) enough to reach for them.
We’re talking Character Sheet Pads, the GM Screen, the full Tarot of the Inertial Star deck, the hidden secrets of the Hex and Rot. Physical backers of the Flesh Edition can unlock €104 worth of bonus rewards if they claim one of the hidden offerings whispering beneath the black surface. You can upgrade your current pledge to one of the secret ones costing a mere €20 or €50 more, and getting all the extras!
But you'll have to puzzle for it! Luckily we have a very nice helpful satanic community to help out with just that. So why not give it a go, who knows what may lurk beyond?!
The Satanic Window closes:
June 7th
14:00 CET
13:00 GMT
8 AM EDT
5 AM PST
Join our Discord and search the HexX, RotX or Hex3 threads to begin your ascent! https://discord.gg/T7PeB5EYXm
The Witches are very sorry for the nagging, but this is really a great opportunity to snag some killer extras while making your mark on the dark legacy of Crown of Ruin. If you’ve ever wanted to be in the ritual rather than just reading about it – this is your chance to bleed into the pages themselves.
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