Stories
History that plays out on a globe.
A story in Erask is a sequence of things that happened, each with a place and a date. Press play and they appear in order across the Earth, one after another, until the shape of the thing is visible — an empire spreading, a route being drawn, a century of eruptions.
Curated stories
Researched, sourced and checked: Caesar in Gaul, the Black Death, Magellan's circumnavigation, every nuclear detonation from 1945 to 1998. Each one opens straight on the globe and starts playing.
Make a story
By hand, article by article; with a language model, from a prompt you copy into the chat of your choice; or by opening a link somebody sent you and editing it. No account, nothing to install.
A story is a link
There is no server holding your work and no account attached to it. Everything a story needs — the events, their coordinates, their dates, the order — is packed into the address itself. Send the link and the other person sees exactly what you made; open your own and you are back where you left off, on any device.
It also means a story you receive is a story you can change: open it, press Edit, and every event is in front of you. The curated ones work the same way — take one, keep three events, add two of your own, and you have a different story without asking anybody's permission.
Where the events come from
Wikipedia and Wikidata. A place with no coordinates cannot be drawn, and an event with no date cannot be placed in time — so Erask leaves a row empty rather than guess. A city founded in 706 BC is not an event of the Punic Wars just because both are ancient, and an empty field you can fill is better than a wrong date already written.