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Great write-up on some of Chandley's more mystical neighbors and the legends that inspired them. Can't wait to meet and treat with them on the game proper!

Mandrake is a rural life sim set in a village called Chandley, whose people have to get along with all sorts of neighbours, some far from human. Regal woods-gods; dangerous, rootless spirits roving the wilds; gentler, domestic sprites that nevertheless abide by their own, sometimes obtuse, rules.

In Mandrake, our drowned isle is poor Oleas, which lay just off the coast near Chandley, and was home to the Rose dynasty – the historic rivals to the Mandrakes, our protagonist’s family house. The locals say that on quiet evenings, you can still hear the bells of Oleas ringing under the waves…