Madinat as-Salam — Baghdad Across Four Millennia

✈ flight — space up · x down

W A S D walk · SHIFT run · F fly

1–4 travel through time · E read · N map

C chronicle · R start · M sound · H help · P hide interface

LMB strike · Q ability · T drink · V camera

E talk / read · J tasks · I satchel · K character & saves

1–4 the open hours · N map · H help · P hide interface

Erase this traveler?

Babylon — 575 BCE

Before light you walked down to the river — as someone like you has done on this bank for four thousand years, to keep the city's accounts before the heat. On the Processional Way a man in white is watching you, the way an astronomer watches a wandering star. You have never seen him in your life. He knows your name.

He keeps two records, he says. One the king will read — Nebuchadnezzar, who built this gate for the god. And one the king never will: who dug the clay, who fired the blue, who was marched west to a war and did not come home — the account the powerful spend every reign trying to close. Tonight they are closing this one. He asks you to help him keep it open. The forgetting has taken a shape on this bank that even you can see — a shimmer massing over the docks where the press-gangs muster — and to scatter it is to take back a name.

Then the impossible part, said as plainly as the rest: "Seal what we gather and give it to the river. I will be downstream when you come again — a thousand years on, another city, another face, the same eyes. Look for me wherever a record is kept against the people who would keep it shut." Who is he? How could he know you? You will have four more centuries on this river to find out.

The River's Ledger

Five hours, one river, one city wearing five names — and beneath every empire that stamped its name on this bank, the same hands: the brick-molder, the copyist, the dyer, the fellah, the field-medic, who made the wealth and were written out of the record.

You went looking for the man in white — who he was, how he knew you, how the same eyes met you in every century. Here is the only answer the river gives: he was whoever would carry the ledger. A scribe on the ziggurat, a copyist in the Round City, a muwaqqit beneath a leaning minaret, a watchmaker on Rashid Street, a woman with a tape recorder among the museum's tablets — handed on, century to century, the one record no power on this bank has ever quite managed to confiscate. He kept it until he could pass it to you. You carried five testimonies downstream: the makers' names beside the king's, the page the chronicle left blank, the hour kept for everyone, the people's record under the censor's fire, and the faces they whitewash and we paint back.

The hours are open now — walk them as long as you like. The river remembers everyone who reads to it, and memory, it turns out, is the longest resistance. The ledger is yours to keep now. Who will you hand it to?

Traveler's Guide

W A S D / arrows	walk
mouse	look around
shift	run
space	jump
F	toggle flight — space / X for up / down
click / E	read the description of whatever you're looking at (again to close)
1 2 3 4	jump between centuries
LMB / Q	scatter an echo of erasure · use your calling's ability
E near someone	speak with them — a golden star marks a task
V	first / third person
J / I / K	book of tasks · satchel · character sheet & saves
T	drink something restorative
R	return to the era's starting point
N	the surveyor's map — landmarks ✦ and your position (also appears while paused)
C	the chronicle — every landmark you've discovered, as a museum codex
M / H / P	sound · this guide · hide interface
esc	release the mouse (pause)

Four moments on the same bend of the river — Babylon at dawn, the Round City at noon, Rashid Street at dusk, and the modern corniche at night. Walk toward anything that interests you; the chronicle panel will tell you what it is. Every brick, boat and neon sign is generated by code — no photographs, no downloaded models.

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مدينة السلام

Madinat as-Salam

One riverbank, five eras — from Babylon on the Euphrates to modern Baghdad on the Tigris, walkable across time.

✦ Offline Exploration

The Open Hours

التجوال الحر

Wander all five eras freely — every landmark, placard and chronicle. No peril, no pressure.

✦ Story · RPG

The River's Ledger

دفتر النهر

Live five eras on one riverbank. Choose a calling and carry the people's hidden ledger downstream — the record the powerful would rather close — for a stranger who somehow knows you in every age.

✦ Online · Shared

The Crossing

الملتقى

Walk an era beside other travelers in real time — see them move, wave and talk, and explore the centuries together.

Choose your calling ← back

Make your traveler ← back

Choose an era to enter ← avatar

Click anywhere to begin the journey

WASD walk · space jump · mouse look · 1–4 travel through time · M sound · H help

The Book of Tasks

The Satchel

The Traveler

Erase this hour?

Erase this traveler?

Babylon — 575 BCE

The River's Ledger

Chronicle

Traveler's Guide