Oikoumene Key art for Russian pen-and-paper Oikoumene RPG. Set on post-post apocalyptic Earth this far distant future is corrupted by a deadly hazard called "Noise" or "Thin Water". It's nature is only vaguely, if at all, understood by locals. The only remnants of human civilization exist in Lacunes, tight areas free of a ever-present hazards of Noise Wastelands. This Lacune, build over a ruined ancient metropolis, also shelters the Everautumn Tree, growing from a seed from Counting Forest. Instead of falling to the ground its leaves fly up into the sky. Everautumn Trees are sacred to the cult of Maath'Ari, Mistress of the Circle - a Starfall Goddess worshipped as a mistress of life and death. Adepts of the cult believe that each leaf starting it's journey up to the sky marks the moment when a soul leaves a dead body and begins it's final journey to Zaalam. http://oikoumeneproject.com