Duty Is A Mountain, Death A Feather

Or at least that’s what the Synod of Necromancers insists. Those who fail to do their duty to further the glorious struggle to extend the boundaries of the Bone Republic to the farthest corners of the world – even if that was because they were unfit for military service in life – clearly don’t deserve […]

At the Temple of the Goose Goddess

If you seek swiftness, ferocity, implacability, then make the trek over the granite hills to the abandoned lakeshore, given over to the dozens of birds that prowl it in tireless rage, where all that now remains is the idol to the Lady of Geese. If – big if – you manage to withstand the gauntlet […]

The Rooftop Ondine

Urban Hexcrawl encounter 32 Just appeared one day in the pond-sized pool of water that had collected on the roof since the “real estate mogul” who owns the building found that a little benign neglect of the drainage system was another good way to squeeze a little more profit out of the place. The pool […]

Baba Yaga & Her Fledglings

Eagles bring her tidings from the four corners of all nine worlds, ravens harry & peck at any who trespass in her clearing, her hut roams the taiga on chicken legs, but it still somehow comes as a surprise to people when they encounter Baba Yaga’s bird maidens. Conventional wisdom has it that they’re what […]

A Grave Disappointment

You were given to understand it would be someone entirely different who came to collect the souls of the fallen from the battlefield. Illo by “Vergvoktre”, who- or whatever that is. Cover of the album “Granting Death” by Krahnholm.

The Cruel Tutelage of the Gnarled Sifu

Those who have sworn an oath to exact vengeance even at the cost of their own souls may find their way to the Gnarled Sifu. It stands at the edge of a forgotten burying ground surrounded by the tangled forest beyond an almost depopulated village. On certain days in the depth of winter when freezing […]