Shadow State is a conflict between two hidden worlds: the unseen systems that catalogue and control every life, and the rebels who become ghosts in the signal to escape them. One Shadow State watches. The other hides. But beneath their war, something neither side controls is happening: the world itself is disappearing. The systems can no longer fully map it. The hidden can no longer trust the places they escape into. Between them drifts a generation of lost transmitters, broadcasting through magic, grief, addiction and council estate dreams while reality quietly fades around them.