Keep the fire lit.
or just the reach?
Family
A single household around one fire — the seed of everything that follows.
- Gather wood
- Light the hearth
- Cook the first meal
Camp
A handful of households that have chosen to stay — the first settlement to outlast a season.
- Knap stone tools
- Fish the weir & trap game
- Hunt with a spear
- Weave baskets
- Twist cordage
- Preserve & smoke food
- Raise permanent shelter
Village
Lasting homes, shared stores, and crews that work as one — a camp grown into a community.
- Organise work crews
- Train specialists — cook, tanner, artisan, carpenter
- Saw planks · weave cloth · fire pottery
- Tan hides into garments
- Raise the longhouse & granary
Town
Specialised quarters and a market that draws in the surrounding country.
New specialists staff new civic buildings — a town hall, watch post and well house — with public works and settlement upkeep to keep the town running. A need for safety arrives, and the hearth turns from cook-fire to gathering-place.
City
Walls, wards, and trades enough that few who live here have ever worked the land.
Nation
Many settlements bound under one rule, reach extending past any single horizon.
World
The whole of the known world, answering — for better or worse — to one people.
