Events

Event nodes on the map offer a short scene and a choice. Some cost HP or gold; some hand you a die, rune or relic. Walking away is often an option.

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  The Bone Carver

  A hunched figure works a knucklebone with a bronze knife. "A die for a price," it rasps. "The price is marrow."

  • Pay in blood (lose 8 HP, gain a Necromancer Die)
  • Walk away
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  Wayside Shrine

  A moss-eaten altar to a god nobody remembers. Coins glint in the bowl. It is watching you decide.

  • Offer 20 gold (gain the Bone Throne)
  • Pray quietly (heal 6 HP)
  • Rob the bowl (gain 15 gold, lose 5 HP)
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  Frozen Cache

  A raider's pack, iced into the ground beside its owner. The knots are frozen solid; you could cut them, or chip the ice with bare hands.

  • Chip it free (lose 4 HP, gain 25 gold)
  • Take only what shows (gain 8 gold)
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  The Wandering Smith

  A smith crouches over cold coals, turning a glowing rune in her tongs. "Bought with coin or with flesh — the rune doesn't care which."

  • Pay 25 gold (gain an Echo Rune)
  • Pay in flesh (lose 10 HP, gain an Exploding Rune)
  • Leave the coals
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  The Blood Pact

  A crown of black iron rests on a cairn, humming low. To lift it is to bleed for it.

  • Take the crown (lose 12 HP, gain the Cursed Crown)
  • Leave it humming
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  The Old Battlefield

  Bones half-sunk in frost, picked clean but for what they carried. Coin and cold iron lie in the mud.

  • Search the dead (gain 20 gold)
  • Pry loose a warped die (gain an Iron Die)
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  The Frost Hermit

  An old woman tends a fire that gives no heat. "Rest, or take the loaded bone — I've no use for luck anymore."

  • Rest by the cold fire (heal 12 HP)
  • Take the loaded die (gain Loaded Dice)
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  The Raven's Omen

  A raven lands on a cairn, one eye milk-white. It caws three times and drops a splinter of carved bone at your feet.

  • Heed the omen (gain an Echo Rune)
  • Read its flight for silver (gain 12 gold)
  • Wave it off
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  The Drowned Hoard

  Half-sunk in a black tarn, a warrior's chest glints. The water is very cold, and very deep.

  • Wade in for it (lose 10 HP, gain 30 gold)
  • Fish it out patiently (gain Loaded Dice)
  • Leave the dead their gold
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  The Gallows Tree

  A dead oak hung with the shields of the defeated. One still gleams beneath the rust.

  • Cut the shield free (gain an Aegis Rune)
  • Say a rite for the hanged (heal 8 HP)
  • Rob the swaying corpses (gain 18 gold, lose 6 HP)
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  The Burned Mead Hall

  A longhouse gutted by fire. A cracked drinking-horn still holds a swallow of something amber, and a whetstone rests by the cold hearth.

  • Drink the dregs (heal 12 HP)
  • Prise the silver rings loose (gain 20 gold)
  • Pocket the whetstone (gain a Whetstone Rune)
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  The Troll's Toll

  A troll squats on the only bridge for a league. "Pay the toll," it grunts, "or bleed the toll. Makes no odds to me."

  • Pay 25 gold (gain Warden's Aegis)
  • Bleed for passage (lose 12 HP, gain an Iron Die)
  • Ford the river instead
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  The Witch of the Fen

  A fen-witch stirs a pot of something that whispers back. "A taste sharpens the eye," she says. "A secret sharpens the blade. Both cost."

  • Sip the brew (lose 6 HP, gain a Sharpen Rune)
  • Trade her a secret (pay 15 gold, gain a Tally Rune)
  • Back out of the bog
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  The Sleeping Jotun

  A frost giant sleeps beneath the glacier, its breath frosting the air. In its open palm rests a single heavy black die.

  • Steal the die (lose 8 HP, gain a Weighted Die)
  • Rest in its vast shadow (heal 10 HP)
  • Tiptoe away
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  The Standing Stone

  A weathered menhir crawls with runes. Touch them and they burn cold; some are still hungry to be read.

  • Trace the deepest carving (gain a Corrupted Rune)
  • Chisel a rune free to sell (gain 22 gold, lose 5 HP)
  • Bow, and leave it whole (heal 5 HP)
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  The Winter Pack

  Yellow eyes ring the treeline. The pack is starving; so, by now, are you.

  • Cut through them (lose 14 HP, gain 25 gold)
  • Buy them off with meat (pay 10 gold, gain a Skull Beacon)
  • Climb a rock and wait them out
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  The Blind Seer

  A blind seer reads bones by touch alone. "Your fate is heavy with skulls," she murmurs. "Shall I lighten it — or read it true?"

  • Let her carve your die (lose 6 HP, gain a Necromancer Die)
  • Cross her palm for a reading (pay 18 gold, gain a Ledger Rune)
  • Refuse to know
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  The Robbed Barrow

  A barrow gapes open, plundered generations ago — but the dead king's iron ring still circles a finger of dust.

  • Take the crown-ring (lose 10 HP, gain the Cursed Crown)
  • Reseal the tomb with proper rites (heal 10 HP)
  • Sift the rubble for coin (gain 15 gold)
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  The Grave-Feast

  A long table stands laid in the dark — smoked fish, black bread, mead still warm. The dead eat well here, and there is an empty seat with your name scratched into the bench.

  • Sit and eat your fill (pay 25 gold, gain 7 max HP)
  • Pocket the silverware (gain 15 gold, lose 5 HP)
  • Toast the dead and move on (heal 6 HP)
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  The Heartspring

  A spring wells up through the barrow-floor, steaming in the cold. The old songs say it rises from the world-tree's roots, and that those who drink carry a little of its stubbornness away with them.

  • Drink deep (gain 5 max HP)
  • Bottle it for the road (gain 15 gold)
  • Wash your wounds (heal 10 HP)
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  The Storm-Glass Altar

  Lightning fused this altar to black glass long ago. Thunder still lives inside it — for anyone reckless enough to reach in.

  • Grasp the living glass (lose 9 HP, gain a Storm Rune)
  • Offer gold to the storm (pay 20 gold, gain Twin Fang)
  • Shelter in its lee and move on (heal 6 HP)

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