WORLD ▸ AVARRA ▸ DUNGEONBORN SOUL
Mother, the planetary Dungeon System, cultivates monsters and heroes alike. Thalen is her latest experiment — a chimera built to see how far controlled evolution can really go.
CORE DATA ▸ AVARRA
The line between “dungeon” and “world” is more of a suggestion here.
A world-scale LitRPG about living dungeons, guided evolution, and a champion who was supposed to be a tool — not a person.
Avarra isn’t just a world with dungeons — it’s a world made out of them. Every region is an ecosystem tuned by Mother, the planetary Dungeon System, to test, refine, and escalate threats. Adventurers aren’t just looting; they’re data points in an ongoing experiment.
Thalen is one of Mother’s most ambitious projects: a dungeonborn chimera carrying multiple bloodlines and an intrinsic link to the System that birthed him. He’s meant to be her champion, a scalpel she can send into problems too delicate for a mindless dungeon. The question is whether a being designed to adapt will accept the limits she sets.
In Avarra, even the “heroes” are part of the experiment.
PROTAGONIST ▸ DUNGEONBORN CHIMERA
Thalen’s body is a patchwork of bloodlines and dungeon-grown adaptations. His instincts are tuned for survival, but his growing sense of self keeps clashing with the role Mother expects him to play. The more he evolves, the less predictable he becomes — for everyone.
Welcome to a planet where “dungeon” is just the local word for “ecosystem.”
CORE MECHANICS
Avarra is laced with cores: dungeon hearts that shape their surroundings, spawn monsters, and generate challenges. Mother oversees the network, tuning difficulty and rewards to shepherd the world along pre-planned evolutionary paths.
Expect:
EXPERIMENTS
Rather than relying on adventurers to change the world, Mother begins designing her own champions: dungeonborn entities with built-in System interfaces. Thalen is one of these — but not the only one.
Design goals include:
DOCUMENTS
The Dungeonborn Soul story bible tracks Avarra’s regions, dungeon types, and Mother’s long-term goals. This page only surfaces the setting and System flavour; deeper spoilers stay locked in the full document until the books catch up.
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