Kindred Isles
A traveller in a lantern-lit boat drifts at night toward an island village with a lighthouse and a great willow under a full moon

A cozy island adventure with friends

Kindred Isles

You wash ashore with empty pockets and no memory. The town has kept a chair for you. The island has been waiting.

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Hearthhollow

Make a home.
Make it together.

A little town on a big island, always running, always open. Your friends can drop in any time, and it'll be right where you left it.

A newcomer with a pack stands by a tent and workbench at sunset while a farmer in a straw hat waves from the village fountain

Settle in

Start with a tent and a workbench. Grow the town into something worth coming home to.

An elf and a dwarf sit at opposite ends of a bench by a fire with arms crossed while a bard plays a lute and a baker hands out bread

Make kin

Elves and dwarves who won't share a bench. A bard, a baker, a farmer who greets everyone. Bring them together.

Two adventurers with a lantern step into an old wooden lift cage at a mine entrance above a deep glowing shaft

Go down

The old mine was sealed for a reason. Bring a lantern and a friend.

The Square

Who will you be?

The Library

Books by Shawn Pemberton

Bedtime on the island

The Boat With No Oars, a Kindred Isles story by Shawn PembertonBuy on Amazon Ten Down the Well, a Kindred Isles story by Shawn PembertonBuy on Amazon
SOONJibber and the Horn of the Deep, a Kindred Isles story by Shawn Pemberton
Kindred Isles: The Big Coloring Book, 50 pictures to color, by Shawn PembertonBuy on Amazon
SOONTales from HearthhollowBedtime stories
SOONCome HomeA novel
Find them on Amazon

Original soundtrack

Songs the island sings

Tavern Songs album cover: Ash the bard plays in a packed tavern under an anvil sign

Tavern Songs

Ash the bard's songbook, straight from the tavern. Some of the old ones know more than they let on.

All the Way Down album cover: a cutaway of the island, from the village down through four glowing underground layers

All the Way Down

Every people's music, from the town on top to the very bottom.

Listen on Spotify
Town Board

News from the island

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Old Mine

Mind the gap.
Going down.

Four peoples live under the island. They stopped speaking to each other a very long time ago, and none of them quite remembers why.

Grubholm

Grubholm

Goblins, glowing mushrooms and a great deal of borrowed spoons.

>A goblin village of patched huts around a fire pit in a cave lit by glowing green mushrooms, seen from the lift landing
Cogwarren

Cogwarren

Brass, steam and kobolds who vote on everything with pebbles.

Kobolds in goggles drop pebbles into a brass pot and a slate pot to vote, in a steamy brass town under a many-handed clock
The Drowned Court

The Drowned Court

Lizardfolk royalty over a dark river. Bow lower. Lower still.

Rows of robed lizardfolk bow toward an empty shell throne in a pearl-lit hall on stilts over a dark river
Lumen Deep

Lumen Deep

A city of crystal and lamplight, and a bell that never stops ringing.

Tiny white-haired deep gnomes carry lanterns through a city of round houses under a dome of glowing hanging crystals
From the floor of the lift, a great round carved stone door glows red-gold through its cracks at the bottom of the mine

The bottom

Something down here hums.

Come find out what. Playtests are invite-only for now. Join the Discord to follow along, and you'll hear first when the next playtest opens.