Local-first intelligence, a living archive, original worlds, and real-world progression — gathered under one house, built to outlive its founder.
Five public houses, each with its own finished identity — and one engagement layer that runs across them all.
Your personal AI council and intelligence interface. Local-first, zero-egress — own your loop, don't feed your edge to someone else's model.
Enter Aether →A living workspace and archive — and Athenaeum Games, historical worlds drawn straight from it. Verified knowledge, becoming playable.
Open Athenaeum →Original characters, animation and media — the loud little pink heart the whole house grew its colour from.
Visit YAKK →Ali's of Aberdeen and a family wine legacy — made slow, kept honest. The roots the house grows from.
The legacy →Contribute to the archive, level your real self, ride with a guild. Earned progression — capability, never addiction.
Add verified knowledge or fieldwork to the archive. Truth-checked first — then it counts.
Real-life quests and contributions become XP and rank. Capability, not cosmetics.
20–30 high-trust companions, seasonal contribution events with a real heartbeat.
Athenaeum Games surfaces the gaps; filling them enriches the worlds for everyone.
The Alexandria Archive compounds verified history into playable worlds through Athenaeum Games — provenance-tagged, fact sorted from myth.
Jerusalem, Acre, Damascus — the Third Crusade, 1187–1192. Researched, fact-from-myth, fed straight from the archive.
Every world detail is provenance-tagged. The same truth layer that builds the worlds scores your Ascent contributions.
Steward-owned, and built to refuse greed.
“A house is not measured by what it sells, but by what it refuses to.”