Council is a game of knowing, choosing, and consequence. The pen is mightier than the die. Every answer comes one of two ways: seized at a price, or given as grace. Behind every locked door wait three clues, so no soul is ever truly stuck. It is built to reward hope.
The whole book is here to read, chapter by chapter. Begin with How to Play — the game in five minutes — then read the five Books in order below. Prefer it bound? Read the print edition (PDF) — the same handbook, one voyage and one volume, set for paper and the reMarkable.
This book is the generic system. Each table raises its own handbook from it — exactly as the Standing Orders do for the Council of Un. The editorial trail that produced it lives in The Archive.