The world assembles itself around the flame as you scroll — and the fire grows with the eras: ember, wildfire, tamed, kept.
Motion grayboard · gray blocks on purpose · judge the choreography, not the looksScroll to build
This device shows the static board (small screen or reduced motion). The scroll choreography runs on desktop.
Night woods edge to edge. Eight stones fly in and ring the flame — the first human act.
Arrive → stones seat one by one → exit through the treesDawn opens the horizon and the fire runs WILD — bigger than its frame, throwing sparks. The stones rise into a raised hearth; tents and cookfire smoke hold the corners.
Stones lift → two courses + cap → exit through the gateTwenty-six bricks mortar into a chimney — and TAME the fire: each course seats and the wild flame steps down with it. Scroll back and it takes itself apart.
Courses 1–5 → arch span → hearth floor → exit through the forge archThe columns consolidate into jambs and a shelf; the room furnishes itself — rug, chair, books, a cat — and the city glows through the window.
Consolidate → rug unrolls → furniture arrives → exit through the windowThe room falls away and fires ignite everywhere — the new hearth. They converge into a single ember, and the arch draws around it: the structure forms around the fire.
Fall away → multiply → converge → First Light → restKeep the fire.
The fire never changed. The rooms did.