VOLTARA RPG
Create your own story in the world of Voltara. Or get isekai’d...
It’s up to you.

OPEN WORLD / INDUSTRIAL FANTASY / POLITICS / EXPLORATION / RELATIONSHIPS / SURVIVAL

Start wherever you like. Voltara is an open-world RPG. Work, travel, steal, study, settle down. There is plenty happening without you, and plenty you can get involved in.

Your identity is yours to establish. Species, occupation, background, loyalties, ambitions. The free start leaves those open; the authored plots give you a particular starting situation, with any required role listed below.

The narrator handles the world and everyone in it. You handle your own dialogue.

I’ve tried to make the NPCs as autonomous as possible, while encouraging the AI to give them unique names that aren’t... well, Elara or Silas. I’ve also worked it to focus on developing existing NPCs. Whether any of that actually works... we’ll see when you use the bot.

1. Isekai

Arrive from another world and find your way through Voltara. Your old knowledge may help; it will not explain every machine, custom or creature you encounter. Establish who you are and what you remember. Being an outsider does not automatically make you famous nor powerful

2. The Narrator

Speak directly to the narrator. Ask about the setting, discuss a starting situation, or work out what kind of story you want to play. This is also a place to ask questions before committing to a role.

3. Free Scenario

Begin with your own situation. A local looking for work, a traveller reaching a new town, a household already in trouble, give the narrator somewhere to start and continue from there.

Planning / World questions / Direct conversation

Want a prepared beginning? In the Free Scenario, send one of the commands below on its own line, exactly as written. For example:

PLOT:ELECTION

This activates a prewritten opening and sets the scene. From there, the roleplay unfolds around your decisions.

I might add more plots later, but these are the ones available for now.

Choose one starting plot per chat. Use a fresh chat to try another. Repeating the same command continues the current plot rather than starting it over.

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PLOT:ELECTION

Middle City Market. An adult courier is trying to deliver a brass-cased shard to the Ministry. Then it lights up near you.
You are eligible for the election

AnyPOV / Unexpected candidacy / Politics

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PLOT:PRINCESS

Your brother’s coronation is approaching. Your personal knight, Ludwig von Sten, is waiting outside your quarters to find out whether you are ready. The ceremony has a schedule. You may have other concerns.

FemalePOV / You are the princess / Court life

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PLOT:BODYGUARD

Princess Beatrice arrives at your quarters, flustered and running late for her brother’s coronation. You are her personal knight, and she needs her escort. Preferably before everyone notices the empty place.

MalePOV / You are her knight / Duty and proximity

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PLOT:ASSASSIN

A manor roof. A glass skylight. Inside, a noble called Louis is still at his desk. Your colleagues, Viper and Rattlesnake, are discussing the job beside you. The target is in sight; the approach is still being argued over.

AnyPOV / You are an assassin / Two colleagues / One contract

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PLOT:SLAVERY

Night outside Saltbarrow. The market is closed, and a guard has just locked you in the holding pen. Two fellow adult captives wait inside: a man and a woman, one of them a demihuman. Their identities develop during play. The sale begins at nine.


AnyPOV / Captivity / Escape or a change of custody

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PLOT:MANOR

Your first day as a household hire. Victoria, the blonde head maid, explains the household: a recently widowed mistress, her sister Mina beneath her, and Kevin waiting to show you to your room. What kind of employee you become is yours to decide.

AnyPOV / New hire / Household life

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PLOT:INHERITANCE - The Estate Office

Levi, the estate accountant, has the inheritance papers ready. A house, land and accounts to examine before anything is signed. He can explain what comes with the property. Accepting it is your decision.

AnyPOV / Inheritance / Property and obligations

The World of Voltara

Two realms: the Upper World, with its surface kingdoms, empires and disputed borders, and the Underworld, a vast subterranean society reached through ancient Riftgates. Both are inhabited by mortal people. Below ground there are homes, foundries, markets and wealthy districts alongside the notorious pleasure houses and slums.

Humans, elves, dwarves, demihumans, demons and other peoples share this world unevenly. Species and birthplace affect how a stranger is treated. Imperial recognition is particularly cruel to sirens and other beings classified as fauna: intelligence does not guarantee legal protection.

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After the Spark

The year is 412 AS. The calendar begins with the First Spark, when Electrorium was first refined into a usable form. Its discovery brought electric cities, industrial weapons, telegraphs and airships.

That progress has borders. Inner Voltara has factories, trams and electric infrastructure. In the outer regions, people still plough with oxen, travel by cart and answer to local lords. A machine that is ordinary in the capital may be something a village has never seen. Aka, fuedalism exists outside the main region. While inside its more Aristocratic-esque.

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Electrorium and Magic

Electrorium is the ore behind much of that industry: valuable, dangerous when mishandled, and worth fighting over. Most people use devices powered by it. Rare Voltshapers can manipulate electricity directly.

Natural magic also exists. Fire, ice, earth, wind, living tissue and shadow all have practitioners, though instruction takes time and money. Schools such as the Arcanium, and others teach different traditions. Talent alone does not make someone competent.

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New Voltara

The imperial capital stands on a river delta, with several million people stacked into three very different lives. The Upper City holds estates, court society and expensive boulevards. The Middle City works: factories, docks, markets and tenements. The Underway sits below them in sunken slums and drainage passages. It is part of the capital, separate from the subterranean Underworld.

The Magistracy patrols the industrial streets with the Empire’s authority behind it. Money and status influence whose complaint gets heard. In the Underway, Hook gangs make their own arrangements. Farther from the cities, a lord’s household guards may be the only law available.

The Crown

Voltara is a constitutional monarchy. The Mayor of New Voltara and an elected Council hold the governing power. The King and Queen remain ceremonial figures with enormous social influence.

Noble names still open doors. Industrialists and wealthy merchants can buy influence; servants and labourers live with the results. Outer territories retain local monarchs and feudal arrangements where the capital cannot enforce its system.

The Crown Companion

A married royal whose spouse will not fulfil the marital role may be permitted a registered Crown Companion: a vetted, paid partner with legal protection. Society remains considerably less accommodating. The position can cost someone their family’s approval even when the law recognises it.

The Florin.

The surface uses florins in copper, silver and gold. Copper covers small necessities; silver pays wages; gold opens considerably more expensive doors. The Underworld also trades in obsidian marks.

Debt papers can change hands. Slavery and debt bondage exist under differing local laws. Good treatment, medical care and a fair hearing are easier to obtain with money. The wealthy have institutions; others make do with whatever help they can afford.

[Farlands - far, far, and very far away from New Voltara.]

Saltbarrow

Eight thousand people at the edge of the Farlands coast. One Electrorium lighthouse, working docks and streets that grow darker farther inland. Fishermen, sailors, traders and a small naval garrison keep the town going. Bells ring at dawn and dusk to keep the sea-things away. The locals disagree about whether that works.

The Glasswater Reach

Beyond Saltbarrow lie black-sand coves, tide-caves and sea-cliffs outside regular naval patrols. Pirates use the sheltered water. Sirens and selkies know stretches of coast that imperial maps barely describe.

Also, no image. I do not have access to one as of now — ps, dragons do exist!!!

★ BEFORE YOU START ★

Use chat memory for the facts you want kept consistent: your identity, important history, ongoing commitments and major changes. Add them as the story develops.

The VOLTARA lorebook is available to read for more detail. You do not need to memorise it to begin. Ask questions, pick somewhere to start, and give yourself something to do.