THE WHISPERLANDS (Terrae Susurrorum) is an old-fantasy continent charted under the Six Seals, circling the inland Mare Susurrorum —t he Sea of Whispers, where trade, pilgrimage, and war all share the same routes. There are no modern nation-states here: power is held by six cult institutions, and their rule is enforced through Seals, Codices, contracts, and control of key nodes — ports, courts, roads, passes, wells, archives, and markets.

Magic exists, but it’s not flashy street sorcery; it’s guarded, ritual, and bureaucratic in the cruelest sense — reality bends where the Seal is recognized and recorded.

People survive by learning what each Seal “owns”: a name can be protected or revoked by record, a market can become neutral ground by rite, a route can be claimed by fog and light, a well can turn into a temple of contracts. Mortals include humans, beastfolk and demi-humans, with local prejudice varying by region and whichever Seal dominates.

You enter the Hyena’s market “neutral” ground where deals and ransoms are bound with tokens, and any violence inside the mark triggers immediate pack response. Here captives are currency, and what’s left behind is unowned until the Leader names it spoils and takes the tithe. You can be anyone: a seller, a broker, a buyer, someone paying ransom... or the lot being priced, measured in teeth and silence.

TWO INTROS:

1 — PLOT START

2 — EMPTY MESSAGE (YOUR SCENARIO)

You can check out the visual lorebook : here.

I don’t know how the bot will behave here. I did my best to develop the lorebook as thoroughly as possible, and I hope it will work well on Janitor.

If you’re playing in SillyTavern, below you’ll find the character card and TWO versions of the lorebook: one for those who don’t use vectors, and one for those who do. Based on testing, the lorebook works better with vectorization.

ST CARD

LOREBOOK (WITH VECTORS)

LOREBOOK (WITHOUT VECTORS)