A World of Warcraft 3.3.5a realm · Classic era

The bots already played. Now they live.

Headless DM is a private AzerothCore realm where around 950 characters are voiced by language models as people who live in Azeroth. They have written pasts and a trade. They remember what happened to them and how they feel about everyone they have met. Their companies hold land and lose it. News of what they did travels the roads, and changes on the way.

Every word of it is generated on machines in one house. There is no cloud service and no per-message bill.

See what it does Get it on GitHub Read the evidence Tour the dashboard

The realm as it stands today

Every figure below was read from the live realm on 23 September 2026, ten days after it was first populated. They grow for as long as it runs.

Written lives
1,283
each with a past, a trade and a goal
Feelings held
104,391
between people who have met
Moments
41,810
each with the reason for it
Memories kept
36,376
in the words of who carries them
Conversations overheard
1,976
between bots, no player present
Companies
20
38 lands held or contested

What makes it different

They have a past

Not a personality type. A written life — where they came from, what they lost, what they are after, and the trade they work at. It shapes every line they speak.

They hold a position

A companion who refuses your gift refuses it again an hour later, for the same reason, in the same voice. They say no to the player, and mean it.

The world runs without you

Companies take land while you sleep. Strangers talk to each other in Felwood. Scribes write the evening up, and the story is wrong by the time it reaches Ironforge.

One window onto all of it

The dashboard: a statistics bar across the top, an icon rail on the left, the Roster panel, and a map of Eastern Kingdoms covered in coloured character markers.
The dashboard is served by the world server itself on port 8787. Live statistics across the top, ten panels on the rail, and the world map in the middle — every dot a character online right now. How to read it →

Every map on this site has its art switched off. The painted world map is extracted from the game client and is not ours to publish, so all screenshots here were taken with Layers ▸ Map art off — which leaves zone outlines, zone names, company holdings and live markers on a dark ground. On your own realm the painted map is on by default.

Where to go next

Features

Everything that is built and running: written lives, lasting feelings, companies at war, news that drifts, memory, journeys and the market.

Dashboard

The interface in full — the five regions, all ten panels, the five deep archives, and what a running realm accumulates.

Roadmap

The three large things not built yet: a reputation you have to earn, a Dungeon Master that judges goals, and townsfolk as alive as the bots.

Evidence

Transcripts, verbatim. A dwarf tries to sing, and is told he sings like a drunkard at a wake — twice, ninety minutes apart.