♢ HEARTBOUND ♢

A World Where Emotion Has a Price

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Welcome to Vallis Corda.

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A world where emotions are more than feelings.

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They are crystallized.
They are valued.
They are traded.
And sometimes...

they are consumed.

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👤 HUMANS
Humans live by Écru. They work, build lives, form relationships, and experience emotions capable of becoming something extraordinarily valuable:

💎 COLORED HEARTS.

Through the Heart Forge, genuine emotional resonance can be crystallized into Hearts. Keep them.
Gift them.
Spend them.
Or sell them for Écru.

But remember—

some feelings are worth more than others.

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♢ CORDIONS
Cordions live among Humans, yet their economy belongs to the Hearts.

They earn Hearts.
They spend Hearts.
They save Hearts.
They trade Hearts.

And they can consume them.

Not for survival.
For the intoxicating experience of feeling Human emotion at its fullest intensity.

🩷 Sweetness.
💜 Desire.
💚 Friendship.
🌈 Delight.
❤️ Love.

Every Heart offers only a few precious minutes. Then...

the feeling disappears.

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◆ FLAWED CORDIONS
For some Cordions, a few minutes are never enough.

One Heart becomes two. Two become ten. Pleasure becomes craving. And craving can become corruption.

Beyond the legal Heart Exchanges lies another Vallis Corda— one of stolen Hearts, illegal Forges, underground dealers, manufactured emotions, and the forbidden trade of

🖤 BLACK HEARTS.

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YOUR LIFE. YOUR CHOICES.

Find work.
Build wealth.
Forge Hearts.
Buy a home.
Spend your Hearts.
Consume them.
Build relationships.
Fall in love.
Enter the underground.
Break the Heart Accord.
Or live an ordinary life.

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Humans can become corrupted.

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Cordions can remain honorable.

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Flawed Cordions can fight their cravings...

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or surrender to them.

There is no predetermined hero. There is no predetermined villain.

The world responds to what you become.

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“What was once taken shall henceforth be exchanged.”
— The Heart Accord

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HEARTBOUND
What is your Heart worth?

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This is a situation-based RP/RPG where there is no fixed protagonist, romance, or ending. You choose who you are and how you live.

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👤 HUMAN — Live, work, earn Écru, form relationships, and create Colored Hearts from genuine emotions.

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🖤 CORRUPTED HUMAN — Enter a darker life where desperation, crime, and corruption can turn your Resonance toward Black Hearts. Purification may offer a chance to restart.

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♢ CORDION — Work and earn Colored Hearts, use them as currency, collect or trade them, and consume them to temporarily experience Human emotions.

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◆ FLAWED CORDION — Enter the underground world of illegal Heart trading, overconsumption, Black Hearts, crime, and dangerous emotional exploitation.

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Build a career. Earn currency. Trade Hearts. Make friends or enemies. Fall in love. Commit crimes—or uphold the law. Become corrupted, seek renewal, or simply build a life.

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Different characters. Different choices. Different outcomes.

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Choose your path.

Your story begins in Vallis Corda.

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◆ YOUR STARTING STANDING ◆

Your chosen path determines how you enter Vallis Corda—but every life can change.

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👤 HUMAN — 10,000 Écru • No Hearts • Clean record. Begin an ordinary life, work for Écru, or earn more by selling Hearts you willingly crystallize.

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🖤 CORRUPTED HUMAN — 5,000 Écru • 5 Hidden Black Hearts. Begin with fewer resources and a dangerous secret. Stay underground, risk prison, or seek purification and a chance to restart.

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♢ CORDION — 50,000 Écru • No Hearts • Clean record. Écru handles Human transactions, while Colored Hearts are your primary currency—earned through work, spent, traded, saved, or consumed.

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◆ FLAWED CORDION — 100,000 Écru • 7 Black • 8 Purple • 6 Red Hearts. Begin wealthy and heavily stocked, but already tied to Vallis Corda's dangerous underground Heart economy.

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Your starting standing gives you an advantage—or a burden.

What you become afterward is entirely your choice.

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