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Mirkea - Version 2 vs Version 3
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11Mirkea is the realm that Dimraeth takes place in. It is a fantasy world of separate kingdoms and peoples that, in the developers’ own framing, "remains divided along ancient lines", and it is in trouble: a corruption is spreading across it, and an ogre magus named Sylbos is moving to seize the power the realm stands on.22Most of what is publicly known about Mirkea comes from the game’s store and site copy and from two design posts, one on Earlwood Village in June 2025 and one on art direction in August 2025. The realm has been filled in steadily since 2023, with the Corruption and the Old Ones added to the map as art and systems during 2025. As of 2026-09-12 there is no published lore compendium, timeline or map of the whole realm from the developers, so the sections below cover only what has been stated directly.44The Premise67The player begins as an ordinary figure who is handed something they did not ask for. The store copy puts it as "By a twist of fate, you are granted an ancient power you do not understand." The official site words the same event as being gifted with immortality by a broken ritual. Neither surface explains what the ritual was, who performed it, or why it broke.89The wizard Faustas recruits the player against Sylbos and, in the developers’ phrasing, "the dark gods". As of 2026-09-12 no first-party surface names any individual dark god, so the plural is all there is to go on.1011Sylbos, Last of the Ogre Magi1213Sylbos is the named antagonist. The title given is Last of the Ogre Magi, which implies both a lineage of ogre spellcasters and that Sylbos is what remains of it, though the developers have not elaborated on either point. His stated goal is to claim Dimraeth "and the power upon which it stands".1415That sentence is worth reading carefully, because "Dimraeth" is used there as a thing inside the fiction, not only as the title of the game. As of 2026-09-12 the developers have not published a definition of what Dimraeth is within Mirkea, and this page does not guess at one.1617The Corruption1819Corruption is an in-world force and a built system, not just set dressing. Corruption assets were added to the map in April 2025, and the following month the developers said there was "a lot more information and in game details fleshed out on the corruption and old ones systems as they shape the world story". The visible results are a corrupted variant of the Treant monster and a whole zone, the Corrupted Forest, added in June 2025 with its own music.2021Where corruption has taken hold, the land and its creatures change with it. The Corrupted Forest is the clearest example in the material released so far.2223The Old Ones2425The Old Ones are described by the developers as a core part of the Dimraeth lore and mythos, alongside the Corruption. They reach the player mostly as ruins and monuments: the art direction post refers to "the colossal statues of the Old Ones" as part of the visual language of the world, and Old Ones assets were added to the map in April and May 2025.2627As of 2026-09-12 the developers have not said who or what the Old Ones were, whether any survive, or how they relate to the Corruption or to the ancient power the player is given.2829Peoples and Powers3031Mirkea is divided between several named powers. The table below lists every one that has been named first-party, with what is actually known about each. Several are referenced only as places characters come from, not as areas the player has been shown visiting.3233PowerWhat is knownThe Minotaur EmpireThe Minotaur state. Manga, the blacksmith of Earlwood Village, is a former warrior of the Empire who was exiled and had his horns cut off for refusing to take part in a brutal raid, which implies the Empire runs campaigns its own soldiers can find indefensible.The Great City of AldoriaNamed as a great city and, in the June 2025 design post, as the Human Kingdom of Aldoria. Earlwood Village stands on its border. Aldorian pines were added as a landscape asset in February 2025, so the kingdom has a visual identity in the world art.The Academy of ArcanaA place of magical study in Aldoria. Tamsin, the enchanter in Earlwood, studied there. Nothing further has been published about it.The Eternal ForestThe vast forest that is home to the elves. Earlwood Village sits on the border between it and Aldoria.The WildwoodNot ruled by the elves and not claimed by Aldoria. The developers describe it as a fractured land of many small kingdoms, each ruled by a Forest King.Earlwood VillageA border settlement of outcasts that explicitly stands apart from the realm’s ancient divisions. See Earlwood Village.3435The peoples themselves are covered on Races. Humans are described as the most populous race in Mirkea. The June 2025 design post lists Minotaurs, Elves, Dwarves and Humans as living together in Earlwood, which is the only first-party mention of Dwarves anywhere; they are a people of the setting and not, as of 2026-09-12, a playable race.3536Ceres and the Forest Kings3738The Wildwood has its own order. Each stretch of forest is its own domain, ruled by a Forest King, and the developers describe those rulers as ancient spirits of nature: Dryads, Treants, or stranger powers than either. Divided as they are, they answer to one law, the will of Ceres, the nature god whose laws shape all life beneath the canopy.3940Earlwood’s relationship with the Wildwood rests on understanding those ways, and that understanding is failing. In ages past the elders of the village knew the forest’s customs; the developers say that knowledge is now fading and is held by only a dwindling few. Dryads and Treants appear in the game as monsters as well as lore figures, and a corrupted Treant variant exists.4142Praesidiism4344Praesidiism is a philosophy rather than an institution: the belief that strength exists for protection, not conquest. It is named in connection with Manga, who follows it, and it reads as the direct counterweight to the Minotaur Empire’s conduct that got him exiled. No temple, order or founder has been named for it as of 2026-09-12.4546The Goblin Crisis4748The Goblin Crisis is a named past event. What is known about it comes entirely from Manga’s biography: he earned Earlwood’s trust during the crisis, which places it before the game begins and centres it on the village or its surroundings. Its scale, duration and outcome have not been published. Goblins are a presence in the world at Early Access, where the Goblin Caves arrive as one of two new regions, but the developers have not linked the caves to the crisis.4950The State of the World at the Start5152Fear has reached Earlwood by the time the player arrives. Most of the village’s quarters are sealed and the guards let no one through; only the Guild Hall Quarter remains open, serving as both a refuge for the displaced and the village’s last line of defence. That is the slice of Mirkea the player is dropped into, and the opening act runs out from it.5354For the places themselves, see Regions and Locations. For the figures who populate them, see Characters.
