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Theatrum Orbis

Learn & Invent

🚧 In progress. (Closely tied to Discovery.)

For the player: acquire praxes, combine knowledge, and originate memes no one holds — then teach them, sell them, or hoard them.

How memes make it live: you are an active meme-creator and carrier. Where NPC discovery is slow, random, and demand-gated, you can pursue a praxis deliberately and combine memes no local would think to pair. Civilizations shift because you moved knowledge.

To design

Section titled “To design”
  • How player invention differs mechanically from NPC discovery (deliberate pursuit; novel combinations; leaping past affinity with skill/insight).
  • Learning: from teachers, books (literacy + language), observation, experimentation.
  • The economics and politics of knowledge: teaching, secrecy, guild monopolies, knowledge leaking.
  • How a player-originated meme enters the world’s storage tiers and spreads.