The fluorescent hum of the library’s overhead lights was the only sound in the world, or at least that was how it felt to Elias. He sat hunched in the back corner of the stacks, a fortress of forgotten encyclopedias built around his chair.

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• The Ashen Mire: A swamp of black water and petrified trees where the dead do not rot; they simply get up and wander.
• The Glass Desert: A former kingdom vaporized by raw Ruin. The sand is razor-sharp glass shards, and at night, psychic "Echoes" of the dead relive their final screams.
• The Rust-Cage: A sprawling, vertical prison-city built inside a dormant colossal golem. Factions of cannibal scavengers fight over the last working water pumps.

The game mechanics in Ruin Masters are based on a straightforward system that uses a combination of attribute scores, skills, and dice rolls to resolve challenges. Here are the core mechanics: