Prologue

Before the art, there was a game. This is the part of the archive that explains the collector.

Before the art, there was a game.

The ad

January 2024. I see an ad for Blocklords, a medieval strategy game where the heroes are NFTs. I'd been in crypto since I was eighteen, but I'd never actually played any of it. My first NFT was *Bjorn Running*, bought for 6.8 ETH straight off the Blocklords website. Total noob move. There's video of me doing it.

The people

What the games actually gave me was people. Through Blocklords I met *TomTomTom*, who became a good friend, and two of his own works hang in this gallery now. That's the pattern that never stopped: the token is how you meet the person.

The crown

I took the game seriously and got good. Became one of the strongest accounts in it, and in Season 2 I won the whole thing, an upset over forrest fyre, one of the big names. There's footage; it's private for now.

Web3Long

After that I started a guild: *Web3Long. Read it however you want. I always liked that it also says we belong*. We flew our flag across four games, and I still hold the ground to prove it. Then, some time after RavenQuest released, it stopped being fun. The guild was getting squeezed by bigger ones, and I was tired in a way winning doesn't fix. I still liked the idea of NFTs you can actually use. I just couldn't stand the culture crypto gaming had grown into, all money, no fun. So I stopped.

Thailand

June 2025, I'm in Thailand, and an old guildmate messages me about an AI art project called Neura. I open it and see an artist named *DeltaSauce releasing a project called FEED. It hit different. My first real art buy was the grid*. June 18, 2025. Then I was hooked.

The turn

Same wallets. Same rails. Completely different reason to be here. A gaming guild leader became an art collector, and the rest of this site is what happened next. The Timeline picks up the moment the art starts.

The heroes from BLOCKLORDS' own pages, the two that mattered

**Bjorn Running** “I was there”
Bought for 6.8 ETH straight from the Blocklords site, a total noob move, and there's video to prove it. The purchase that started everything; TomTomTom, met in the game, became a good friend.

Bjorn has been on the battlefields of each war this turn of the century - he’s seen Kings die & Kingdoms overthrown but always from a far. The enemy is in sight but Bjorn is not - unfortunately he needed a bathroom break. Or what about that time he left the stove on?

**Patricia Vinely** Get out me cart!
Insisting on traveling everywhere in her heirloom carriage, despite the fact that it's old and rickety. She's always shouting "I'm in me mam's cart" from inside. The townsfolk find her eccentricities endearing and often respond with ‘clip clop’ as a form of endearment.

The games where the guild flew its flags

BLOCKLORDS 2024

A medieval grand-strategy game where the heroes you command are NFTs, you rule a family, fight wars, and build a nation across shared seasons.

Where it all started. My first NFT was the hero Bjorn Running, a 6.8 ETH buy straight off the site. I got serious, got good, and won Season 2, an upset over forrest fyre.

its page → BLOCKLORDS ↗