After the horrors of they discovered in the bowls of the wrecked Gossamer Drift, Ritalsin’s flyin ship, the companions rested in the sacred shrine of the Saumen Kar’s Sven Griefs and prepared for FINAL journey along the Shadow Roads to the Namless Spires! Eight hours of peaceful sleep beneath the Snow Mother’s protection! Durst, Dian,a […]
Ahhhh, the companions entered the belly of the BEAST! The Gossamer Drift – Ritalson’s crashed vessel – still held the tormented dead! Spectral crew members rose from frozen corpses, their dreams DEVOURED, their essence STOLEN! These wrathful spirits attacked with frost-touched claws and mournful wails! Diana, seeking redemption after her previous embarrassment, attempted another summoning! […]
I. Overview This ritual has no elegant name in any scholarly tradition I have found. The cultures that preserved it called it, in their various languages, variations of the same desperate phrase: the last lock, the final word, the door that cannot be opened twice. I have given it the name it carries here because […]
Ahhhh, THE DEMON BUNNY FELL! Hugh’s warhammer CRUSHED the infernal rabbit into goo! But greater treachery awaited! Our heroes attempted NEGOTIATION! Jotaro punched through Aldric’s window! The merchant offered terms! Claiming that they it was all just a misunderstanding! And that they had gotten off on the WRONG FOOT! Shakoom responded with a booming voice […]
You want to hear about Lost Ludwig? Aye. I will tell you. But you put another log on that fire first. A proper log, not that green rubbish, I want to see the flames. And you, boy. Close that shutter. No, not the wooden one. The iron one. The one your grandmother had the wise […]
Oh, you want this story? This one? You are sure? Because I have others. I have the one about the beetle who married a sandstorm, that is a good one. No? This one. Very well. Very well. Everybody sitting? Everybody comfortable? Anybody need to relieve themselves? Do it now, because once I start I am […]
I. Overview The Rite of the Borrowed Eye is among the more disturbing rituals I have encountered in the course of this work, which is a distinction that requires some effort to earn in a catalog that also contains the invocation protocols of the Enchiridion. What distinguishes the Rite is not its power, which is […]
by Valdren Thross, 4601 AR Valdren Thross opens his treatise with a warning that I have read many times and that I believe he meant seriously rather than as a scholarly formality. The warning states that the applications he is about to describe have never been tested, and that they likely never will be, because […]
DO NOT READ THIS BOOK! Chronicler’s Note: The nature of the Insidias Armis is not documented. Its subject, its author, its age, and its origins are not documented. What is documented, in scattered accounts across several institutional records and in at least one personal correspondence I was not meant to see, is what has befallen […]
The Vocati Codex is the surviving compendium of the Vocati Somnia tradition, and its relationship to the Bleicth Testament Vocati is the first thing that should be understood about it. The Testament is older, stranger, and organized according to principles that resist the kind of linear reading that produces useful instruction. The Codex is the […]