Woe
There are dark clouds ahead on the horizon, omens speaking of change, mysteries puzzling the people and hearsay spread by children and travellers alike
Each player chooses to create either a Mystery, Omen or Hearsay
Mystery
Mysteries are intriguing parts of the community that the people themselves don’t necessarily understand, but may have started using or taking advantage of.
Omens
These are the signs of things to come.
These are harbingers of doom or blessings upon the community. Each warden creates an Omen for themselves or by rolling on the three tables below. They then share how they experienced this omen with the group and Storyteller.
What
What did you See / Hear / Smell
- A Three Headed Crow
- Nothing, only Utter Silence
- Terrible and unnatural screaming
- A long dead loved one / Rival
- The Stench of death in water
- A Bleating Headless Fawn
- A man bathing in a river without a face
- Flames streaking across the heavens
- Strange Markings upon the skin
- Nine eyes gazing upon you
Where
Where did you experience this Omen
- In a Dream
- In a Vision
- In the Mists
- In the Wilds
- In the Shadows
- On the Wind
- Within the Flames
- Within the Water
- Amongst the People
Why
What do you think it means?
- It symbolises coming sickness
- It symbolises coming tragedy
- It symbolises coming death
- It symbolises coming change
- It symbolises coming truth
- It symbolises the presence of a spirit
- It symbolises coming calamity
- It symbolises coming abundance
- It symbolises the waking of a god
- It symbolises the coming of the end
Hearsay
These are rumours spread by the people and travellers, perhaps strange things are unfolding in the north, is it heading here? Many dead have been found on the paths nearby.