Esteemed Agents,

We are, once again, delighted to have you on board for this adventure. Thank you for signing up, and if you haven’t done so yet, feel free to also reserve for a mere €5 to receive a FREE pin and sticker sheet once you back the campaign. 

Over the next week, we’ll gradually reveal many details regarding this campaign, from our talented artists to our crafty writers to the actual storyline to the many new features and classes we will bring to the Hidden Isle system. But today, we want to take a moment to look back with you to 2019, when this all started, and ask ourselves: How did we end up here?🤔

Let’s run through this in the shortest way possible. Once upon a time there was a frustrated digital games designer known as Georg Hobmeier that worked on a solitary Tarot card game. He was introduced to the artists Eliot Baum and Viv Tanner, and together they embarked on an adventure known as the board game Sefirot.
After their art went viral, Georg’s company Causa Creations picked up the project and provided production and funding. A Kickstarter campaign was made in the spring of 2021, which went very well, resulting in the production of Sefirot and a Tarot deck with 82 cards. Since the cards were based on the lore of a mythical island known as Dioscoria, creating a follow-up project that somehow expanded on the story seemed like a logical next step.

Entering the scene were James Patton, who already worked on this project as an editor, together with his collaborator Daniel Adams. Expanding on the initial lore and the Blades in the Dark system, they cooked up a Tarot-based TTRPG system known as The Hidden Isle! In the fall of 2023, a Kickstarter campaign was launched, and once again, it went rather well.

More campaigns followed: two zine campaigns in 2024 and 2025, an update to Sefirot known as Silver Seals in 2024, and an update to the Sefirot Tarot deck in early 2026 under the moniker Gilded Legacy. It should be noted that none of these projects would be possible without the talented producers working on this, Zsombor Svab, Chris Knapp, Julia Gruber, Ben Wahl, and Tea Peregi.

And this is how we arrive now here in July 2026. Many battles have been fought. The best may still be ahead of us. Taking course on Haven’s Heir. Coming to Backerkit in September 2026. 🌟

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Stay safe and stay connected,