Skyseer Prophecies

And visions

## Adventure 1

### Ethelyn's prophecy

A globe spins on its axis and a steel ship sets off to war on a sail of shadows. The world passes into night, and blackness grips all Risur as stars fall from the sky. The king's eyes turn a soulless white, as he moves as a puppet, his strings pulled by a man who has already died a thousand times.

## Nevard's Rally Prophecy

> “I saw a dark figure, standing atop Cauldron Hill, towering over our city. The sun set, and he cast a shadow across Parity Lake, stretching northwest, into the sea, beyond the horizon. He is born in our city, but his ultimate goal is elsewhere. And also things moved in his shadow—indeed, his shadow moved before he did, for while he was mighty, he was controlled by others.
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> “I saw smoke hiding his face, for he was made mighty by industry. In my vision, a king chased him out to sea and defeated him by slicing him free from his shadow. But the cauldron had already shattered, and many thousands were drowned and devoured in its roil.
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> “I saw three birds alight on the peak, the first of black silk, the second of black steel, both weeping blood. But the third was made of stars, and it sang many songs.
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> “I tell you this: Cauldron Hill is not safe. Twice will danger arise, and twice will we be deceived into thinking it is safe to return, but we must avoid the place and avoid being tricked. I have arranged shelter in the Cloudwood, where people can be safe until the darkness passes.”
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### Nevard's Other Visions

> “A woman sat on a leather couch in a waiting room, surrounded by red curtains. She held a gold coin and rolled it across the back of her fingers. A pick lay against the side of the couch. He asked her what she was waiting for, and she answered in a language he didn’t know, saying, ‘The place I’m going isn’t here yet.’
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> “A trumpeter carried a lantern onto the stage of a darkened theater, and the people gathered for his performance applauded, then lit lanterns of their own. The theater never got bright enough for him to see their faces.
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> “One man tore himself in two, and his twin selves fought over a woman, tearing her into three, who ran away. Mice skittered around them, collecting cheese fallen amid the rails of a trainyard. Then a train roared down the track past him, but it had no one driving it. In the distance it derailed, and crushed two of the women, but which of the three survived?
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> “A man carrying a bronze staff with three keyholes is assailed by swords and arrows and fire, but nothing kills him. Stars fell from the sky all around him. Then the sky was dark, and when the sun should have risen, instead a pale glowing cloud floated in the dark.
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> “Finally, tyrant and murderer languished in prison, hanging from twelve chains and hooks that pierced her feet, her legs, her thighs, her shoulders, her arms, and her hands. But the thirteenth hook that sealed her mouth swung loose, and it fluttered in the breeze as she whispered a map that led everywhere.”
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### Mona's Skyseer Vision on Cauldron Hill

> You sit in a field of grass, the night sky overhead, the planets hanging huge and low. Breeze whips the grass across your skin.
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> A light flares overhead, an old blue star called Mishados, and it begins to drift downward. Not to the horizon, but toward the earth. Then other stars rattle, like grains of sand shaken loose from a wet glass, and their descent turns into a plummet, turns to a streaking rain of light.
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> They fall in all directions, but you know where Mishados will fall, and you know you must catch it.
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## Adventure 3

### Ziggurat of Apet

#### Right Eye

> "Planet Apet drifting through the stars, an orb of swirling gray clouds and surrounded by a silver ring. When skyseers look into the heavens the silver ring around Apet shows the past and the future. The ring is NOT complete, it seems to have been snapped off and as you are watching it seems to separate from apet and be flung through space. As it goes (through space) you are suddenly standing on top of the circle. You look down, and you are standing on the edge of time at the end of everything, and this ring cracks – the time beneath your feet cracks like ice beneath your feet, and as you look over the precipice of time you see stars turning like gears behind you. Looking forward, you see where the ring begins, and you know you can see the beginning of history."
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#### Left Eye

> You are seated on a chair in a dark room and your head is draped back on the back of the chair and your arms are palm up at your sides. You’ve been stripped of clothes and weapons, and you have a plain chemise. In the darkness there’s a soft golden glow directly behind the silhouette of a person in front of you. The dim golden light barely shows the spike of a crown on their head and a cape over their shoulders. They raise the sword skywards, and they say to you in a familiar voice “Desdemona Faellen Brizside, I invite you to speak your last words”
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> Mona: “Why?”
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> You open your mouth to speak, but you begin to speak words that aren’t your own. When you finish, you speak barely a sentence, the sword slices across your neck and as you bleed to death you recognize is the scene from the death card you drew.
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### Ziggurat of Mavisha

> “You break the surface of the waves, under a weary night sky. An isthmus, defined by the oceans to its either sides, lies ahead of you, but the masses of people framed by the sea are blinded by high walls and dark paintings, and they cannot perceive the shifting tides outside.
> “Inside now. Rains streak glass along this hall of portraits. A face looks down at you, canvas and frame and watercolor dyes. And down the center of the face, a schism appears, like a river trying to flow two ways at once. Paint runs and flows free of its borders, leaving one face on the canvas, and another struggling, bereft of form, to find a home or else swirl away and die.”
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### Rock Rackus's Future ~~nobody is that upset about it tbqh~~

> “I saw Rock Rackus standing on a chess board with wooden white and black pieces. He stood in the middle, facing not one side or the other, but between them, and sang to both sides. When his song was over, he took a drink to quench his thirst - when a trap door opened up beneath him and he slipped away, tangled and suspended in a net that swung beneath the trap. The trap door closed, and the Constables of Flint fell onto the board, searching for where Rock had gone. The pieces on the chessboard began to move towards them. Then ink began to drip from the ceiling, blackening everything it rained upon, and all of Rock’s future was engulfed in a permanent darkness.”
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## Between Adventure 5 and 6

“You see that tree that you guys visited when you were hunting Ekossigan. Looking up at it from the ground, you see the leaves now, bright green like the spring and summer. They slowly turn orange, and fall off the tree in the winter. A coat of ice begins to run up the tree and the soil at your feet becomes slick. The sun sets in the sky, and it doesn’t rise. The ice begins to become thicker and thicker, almost beginning to crawl up your feet where you stand. Virtually, you are standing there looking up at the ice in the tree for a very long time. Relative to when the leaves were changing, you find yourself staring up at the ice for a very long time.” It never turns back to spring.

## Adventure 6

“The stars that surround you stood here over two centuries ago, so this is a vision of the past. You float, the constellation Draco beside you, and beneath you the planet Avilona is balanced on a pin of white stone. Dense, swift clouds cover its face, and where they part you see glimpses of majestic towers.

“Unseen waves batter you, and the white pin shatters. Its head plunges into a hungry black vortex below, and with no noise, no grand cataclysm, the clouds of Avilona slow, thin, and vanish. You see ruined spires falling to the surface of the lifeless world. To your side, the stars of Draco plummet, and then you too are falling, with no wind to hold you aloft.”

## Adventure 8

“Feels the presence of Nem. Feeling the sense of destruction that the plane represents, get a vision…almost like a whirling black hole filled with stars, but inside this black hole are people and each of them are almost treading water in the starlight. They look towards her, reach out to her, even from far away try to grab her hand, screaming for her to help them. The starlight continues to churn, and as they get to the center they get pulled under. From within the vortex, she sees a white slither, the full face of the Voice of Rot comes from out the starlight water looking at her, nods, and then decisively begins to crawl towards the center of the vortex."

A perception check shows there are dozens of people inside this vortex, all of whom Mona hasn't seen. A skeleton in feminine clothes, one in masculine clothes. A band of pirates. A group of dwarves. Skeletal woman with Rock Rackus, while Rock Rackus doesn’t cry out to Mona he does look like he wants something from her.