About
How it works
The collection
- 40,029 people who died before 1926, each exactly once.
- 39,093 can be minted, for 1 USDG, over 60 days.
- 936 legends sleep. Forty lives of one civilization wake the next, least famous first. Burning opens when the mint ends.
Fragments and legends
- A life is a latent lift: only part of its print was found, 35–65% of it. That share is its Coverage.
- A legend is the first complete print: forty fragments of its civilization, joined, in the civilization's own ink. The seams of the forty lifts stay faintly visible.
The print
Right thumbRulers
Right indexWriters
Right middleArtists
Right ringScientists
Left thumbSoldiers
Right littleOthers
Arch → Double loopFields they worked in
Ink ageEra
PigmentCivilization group
● ◆ ■ ▲Family, mind, succession, other ties
01 02 …Each 4 in the Wikidata ID
CoverageHow much of the print was recovered
Continental EuropeEast AsiaItalian City-StatesClassical MediterraneanBritish IslesArab WorldTurkic WorldAmericasIberiaScandinaviaAfricaIndian SubcontinentIran & Central AsiaAncient Near EastSoutheast AsiaOceania
Inscribe (test)
- On the testnet, lives can be written into a legend you hold, and legends into one another. Each card carries a weight: a life is 1, a woken legend 40, and an inscribed card adds its weight to the one that keeps it.
- Heavier legends take titles and their prints turn toward a galaxy. Try it on the testnet →
Rarity: ID bits
log2(N / same class) + log2(N / same civilization) + log2(N / fours) + log2(N / kin)
Higher means fewer people share the traits. Nothing is set by hand.
Prints are synthetic, drawn from Wikidata records (CC0). They are not real fingerprints.