Castrum vs Live Through Time

You are a faidit, a rebel Occitan lord from the 13th century. Develop your castrum - a fortified village - to face off the attacks of your adversaries, the crusaders and offer a refuge to the pursued Cathars. With the help of your faithful friends, cross Cathar Country in search of items that you will be able to combine in your WORKSHOP to save the Occitan culture from destruction. Castrum offers you: - A HISTORY mode, playable anywhere at any time, during which you collect items to develop your castrum. - A MONUMENT mode, playable only during your visit to the monuments of Aude, which lets you play geotagged mini games. You will need to visit 5 monuments to complete your quest. Over the course of the adventure, you will be able to: - Collect 54 items and craft close to 200 with them; - Go into your INVENTORY to discover the items to craft; - Win surprise rewards by visiting the 20 Cathar country monuments. During your visit, you must complete 5 mini games: if you succeed, you unlock a legendary tool which is added to your collection. Some examples of mini games: - Catapult game: destroy the fortresses by discovering their weak points - Flute Hero: play medieval melodies in time - Matching game: find the right combinations - Shooting game: eliminate your enemies via 360° immersion in the monuments - The source of sign language: learn to speak like the monks of the Middle Ages Castrum gives you the chance to immerse yourself in lavish settings by visiting the 20 Cathar country monuments off the beaten track, in the company of characters associated with the history of the Aude département. The 20 monuments of Cathar country: 10 CASTLES Aguilar castle Arques castle Montségur castle Peyrepertuse castle Puilaurens castle Quéribus castle Saissac castle Termes castle Villerouge-Termenès castle Lastours castle 7 ABBEYS Alet-les-Bains abbey Caunes-Minervois abbey Fontfroide abbey Lagrasse abbey Saint-Hilaire abbey Saint-Papoul abbey Villelongue abbey 2 MEDIEVAL SITES Castles and ramparts of the city of Carcassonne Medieval city of Fanjeaux 1 MUSEUM Quercorb museum Who are the Cathars? Appearing around the year 1000, Catharism was a dissident Christian religion, originating from the East, particularly influential around Toulouse, Carcassonne, Béziers and Albi. The region therefore became a refuge for the Cathars when the Church pursued them during the Albigensian crusade, all the way to the heights of Montségur. It is this saga that the castles of Cathar country recount.

When do you want to live? Forget generic AI chatbots, passive story generators, and AI amnesia. Live Through Time is an uncompromising, historically authentic, and mythological text RPG driven by a proprietary 3-Pillar Hybrid Engine: deep generative prose, an ironclad deterministic JSON state machine, and a relational GraphRAG memory database. Every wound you suffer, coin you spend, and enemy you make is mathematically enforced. If you make reckless decisions, the world will not save you. THE 3 PILLARS OF OUR UNBEATABLE ENGINE: 1. The Narrative Engines (Hourglass, Oracle, and Unbound): Generates rich, atmospheric second-person prose while enforcing real physical laws, tactical environments, and historical limits. 2. The Ledger System: A strict state machine tracking your immediate inventory, health, wealth, active Oaths, and physical surroundings. Items do not vanish. Wounds do not miraculously heal. 3. The Librarian & Chronicle: Over 4,000 lore cards dynamically interlinked. Betray an ally or bury an artifact, and the database commits that truth permanently across hundreds of turns. 12 FULL HISTORICAL ERAS (SANDBOX REALISM) Drop into 12 meticulously researched timelines with over 100 historical figures: • Imperial Rome (80 AD) – Colosseum gladiators, patrician intrigue, and the Subura underbelly. • The Black Death (London 1348) – Scavenge and survive during the medieval plague. • Feudal Japan (1603) – Samurai honor, ronin skirmishes, and the dawn of Edo. • Nassau Buccaneers (1715) – Piracy, naval combat, and colonial trade empires. • The French Terror (Paris 1793) – Revolutionary tribunals and the guillotine. • Victorian London (1848) – Industrial slums, workhouses, and class warfare. • Tombstone Frontier (1881) – Gunfights, silver mines, and frontier lawmen. • Western Front (1917) – Slogging artillery barrages and trench warfare. • Deep South (Mississippi 1933) – Great Depression blues, drought, and bootlegging. • Syndicate Streets (Chicago 1952) – Mob warfare, dirty cops, and speakeasies. • Pirate Radio (London 1966) – Offshore rock stations and counterculture heists. • Cold War Divided (Berlin 1983) – Stasi surveillance, border tunnels, and espionage. 7 MYTHOLOGICAL SAGAS (EPISODIC 7-CHAPTER ARCS) Walk among ancient gods and monsters in structured, multi-chapter epic campaigns: • Olympus: Gods & Monsters (Greek) – Perseus, Atalanta, Jason, and Odysseus. • Midgard: The Heroic Age (Norse) – Shieldmaidens, runic curses, and Ragnarök. • Duat: The Scales of Fate (Egyptian) – Anubis, Osiris, and trials of the underworld. • Avalon: Mists of Camelot (Arthurian) – The Holy Grail, chivalry, and dark fae pacts. • Shenzhou: The Jade Throne (Chinese) – Cultivation, imperial mandates, and demons. • Aztlán: The Blood Sun (Mesoamerican) – Solar rituals, jaguar knights, and cosmic tribute. • Iram: City of Djinn (Arabian) – Scheherazade, Sinbad, sandstorms, and ancient spirits. NEXT-GENERATION NPC BEHAVIOR • Speech Fingerprints: Dockworkers, emperors, and street thieves speak with distinct historical dialects and rhythms. • Refusal Anchors: NPCs are not agreeable yes-men. They hold strict boundaries they will never cross without true psychological or physical leverage. • 3D Emotional Vectors: Real relationships aren't a flat slider. NPCs track Trust, Fear, and Intimacy independently. • Autonomous Off-Screen Clocks: Rival factions and enemies advance their own agendas in the background. The world does not pause while you talk. TOTAL CREATIVE FREEDOM • Forge Your Own Destiny (CYOC): Build custom characters and insert them into any era • Craft Your Own World (CYOT): Construct custom timelines, write world rules, and share them with the community • Timekeeper Mode: Inspect and edit narrative blueprints mid-session, rewrite AI messages, and export complete chat logs • The Rewind Mechanic: True lethality with a fair fallback Step into the past. Shape the myth. Face the consequences. Terms of Use: https://www.livethroughtime.com/terms