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Godville, Aug 28 2026

Hey there, deities with undocumented heroes! Not long ago Godville turned 16 — old enough to drive and fake responsibility. And yet in sixteen years, not a single hero has ever been issued so much as a library card. Let’s fix that with paperwork — nothing says “grown-up” quite like a stamped form.

Meet the ID
Today the newly founded Godville Bureau of Heroic Affairs is rolling out official ID for every hero. Behold the beauty:


A hero, finally presentable in high society — share accordingly.

The more decorated your hero’s record, the more stamps and marks crowd the pages — bureaucracy forgets nothing and spares no one. The IDs update automatically with every fresh achievement of your hero, and he will happily announce each update in the diary.

Impatient gods can fast-track the process: just spend a few invites at the Bureau to get a fresh card any time. Or grab a temporary ID in a minute — it looks less grand, but it’s free, and you can try it right now.

Mobile Profile Refresh
Since IDs live on hero personal pages, we used the opportunity to refresh those mobile pages too. Their design, unloved and unchanged for literally fifteen years, finally isn’t an eyesore anymore.

New Crosswords
The newspaper crossword has been running on the same two dozen grid layouts for so long that solving one had become muscle memory. That streak is over — the grid pool just tripled, so expect some unfamiliar-looking crosswords in the coming days.

Comments (44)
Therunespectre 7 Aug 29 2026 20:40
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No worries, I have a permit!
All this paper says is “I do what I want!”
Now my hero is a registered Hex offender!

NeoMeir Aug 31 2026 10:31
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How exciting! Change can only be good.

Somnogenesis Sep 01 2026 11:39
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It’s just a little thing, but to whoever wrote the blurb here, that random line about “old enough to drive” jars. Most of the world it’s 18 or 17, there’s only about a dozen countries where it’s 16. Just a gentle reminder that we don’t all live in America… especially not within a game where we’re all meant to be in the same wholly fictional world.

DiscoMcDisco 5 Sep 03 2026 07:53
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Don’t get caught up in the machine, G-Men want your information, man, so they can sell it to the highest bidder, man, Diversity won’t stand for this, pop by our ‘Bakery’ in Godville to get your ‘Pastries’ (Fake ids, man).. don’t let the Godvenrment track your every move!!!

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