Book
The long-form story: characters, doctrine, consequences and the slow pressure beneath the island.
Structure is not symbolic
Arborea Games:
Making the Island Inhabitable
Arborea began as a universe. Arborea Games turns it into territory: books, games, visuals, lore, and playable fragments.
- Doctrine
- Erradium
- Horizon
- Asymmetry
Arborea Island
Ignored by maps.
Claimed by doctrine.
Long dismissed as fog-bound and useless, Arborea changed when surveys contradicted doctrine.
The island was removed from maps. Satellite imagery was corrected. Shipping records lost its name.
Beneath the basalt, Erradium waited in concentration.
The Frequencist Order seized the island and sealed it.
Not conquest. Containment. Orthogonality.
What lies below is not a resource. Mishandled, it ends
civilizations.
Forced to answer, it reaches beyond the world.
The divine is in the blast radius.
Contained by geometry.
Erradium does not choose sides.
Above, it binds.
Below, it answers.
Above the Horizon, Erradium integrates. Flesh mineralizes. Astral
form aligns. Will is drawn into structure.
The Daughter remains
herself — reduced, refined, stabilized.
Below the Horizon, coherence fails. Identity thins. Memory leaks. Shape remains useful. Something else learns how to stand inside it.
The divine has form in the astral planes.
So does what hungers against it.
The statues are not what they seem.
Guardians of Arborea
The mineralized women patrol the island.
They maintain its core
functions.
They are known as the Daughters of Erras.
Do not mistake their form for corruption.
Evil wears softer bodies.
Below the Horizon, exposure does not refine. It hollows.
The body remains useful.
Something else enters.
Its purpose is simple:
Access to Erradium, and flesh obedient enough to carry what has no
body.
The body remains the door.
What we make
Books, games and visual lore.
Unreal Game
A playable way to explore Arborea, inhabit its spaces and test fragments of the larger signal.
Gamebooks
Bite-sized adventures in the spirit of le livre dont vous êtes le héros: choices, consequences and strange paths.
Visual Lore
Illustrations, fragments and atmospheric records that make the universe easier to feel before it is explained.
AI use / human story
Human first.
We focus on the universe and the craft, while our Sister Company handles the AI research. Arborea uses that work to create visuals and deepen the atmosphere, but the story, characters, and world remain proudly human-made. This is a passion project.
We write the books, shape the characters, and let the story grow slowly. No rush. We enjoy the process while our sibling brand continues testing the boundaries month after month.
Stay tuned.
We are Arborea
Contact
For publishing, licensing, media, production, or collaboration enquiries, contact Dercetech. Follow Arborea Games on X for project updates.
Parent company
Dercetech Corporation
Dercetech owns the Arborea IP, funds the project, and operates the wider business structure: management, services, production, and long-term development.
Sister company
Bad Sector Games
Bad Sector Games is the AI-heavy skunkworks: fast experiments, game-dev automation, monthly prototypes, and field notes from the edge of the pipeline.
Their experiments borrow heavily from Arborea: It branches outward from Arborea to test adjacent games, tools, and formats at speed.