Okay, what i want is an ominous sounding prophecy, saying that in order to defeat Asmodeous, the adventurers must face death. NOW THE KICKER! I want it to sound vague and interpretative. BUT they are going to fight Thanatos (An ancient death god) literally.
What i really hope is that they horribly misinterpret the story. And when the time comes that the Npc says nope, go kill death. *POOF* In combat.
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Though Tyranny sits upon a throne of bone
unable to be broken by sword or stone,
he holds a secret not known to man
on how to defeat the Fallen Lands.
The key lies in the Prince's friend
whose cold grasp brings men their end.
Once the fiend has been brought low
men need not fear their most hated foe.
Evil will lose its mightiest tool
and the time will come to end His rule,
but fear the world that will follow
as the hearts of kings shall soon be hollow.
How's this for a starting place?
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Or something like this perhaps?
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Danger, grave before you stands
If you would face this toil.
Bonds of ink in darkened lands
Lead to coffin, bone, and soil.
Behold the Prince of Darkness here,
Wielding contracts, not a blade.
Yet paper cuts as deep as fear -
Dare you face death unafraid?
Death defied is devil's bane -
Turns parchment into ash.
The bonds he holds become his chain
Destruction in a flash.
Well, great poems. My players would instantly commit suicide to face death.
*claps* Those are amazing!
Use Jules' monologue from Pulp Fiction.
Both are awesome, I'm impressed too!
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Okay, what i want is an ominous sounding prophecy, saying that in order to defeat Asmodeous, the adventurers must face death. NOW THE KICKER! I want it to sound vague and interpretative. BUT they are going to fight Thanatos (An ancient death god) literally.
What i really hope is that they horribly misinterpret the story. And when the time comes that the Npc says nope, go kill death. *POOF* In combat.
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A prophecy writen across time. Various authors have penned it from different ages. The oldest portions being a form of poetic vision, then with sections written in whatever forms were popular at the time. All moving in the same direction, some portions lost to fire or madness.
(-----indecipherable text-----)
What bleeding wrath the death tome burned,
what cracked and crubled bone!
What path tracked long though never turned,
what blood and broken throne!
When words to take and vows to break,
when crash apart the living wake!
When death and toil all life do take,
when lost for life and dyings sake!
Who leaves what breach through breaths last past?
whose lips touch cold the frozen glass?
Who from what reach through fire mass?
whose brave and bleeding heart beats last?
(-----indecipherable text-----)
He is Death for the Mighty.
he is Portent for the Wicked.
He is Calamity for the Living.
he is Righteous for the Hateful.
(-----indecipherable text-----)
Below him burneth embers where blood doth boil and stoked in coals of vengeance does his heart beat SCREAMING.
Writhe! you who livith in the squallor of crushing mortality, for he is eternally steadfast, and in him dwells the immortal pursuit of DEATH.
Spillith thine own accordances forth instilled in cups that overfloweth with life and POUR them upon his feet... Break yourself before him and cut out thine own flesh for his pleasure that he might spare thee the torments of his own DEVISING!
(-----indecipherable text-----)
Ask for whome the weeping dove cries.
Ask for whome the lying toad lies.
Ask for whome the flying crow flies.
Ask for whome the brave soul dies.
(-----indecipherable text-----)
You will lose EVERYTHINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG TO HIMMMMMMMMMMMMM.....
( Burned page from the death tome )
Dot.
Indeed.
A prophecy campaign would be wicked cool.
While not really a prophecy, (more like cryptic lore), this is from some reaaally old campaign notes. It was a common song performed in taverns by minstrels and bards. The party later discover a missing verse (which unfortunately I cannot find) that highlighted the songs historical importance.
The blanched bones of the minstrel, in the cold are burried
At the rim of the world where the Jotunn were harried
In the discord of battle he sang his last song
A warriors cry to which death sang along
The stars and the winds remember the words
And carry the tune between shattered worlds
All who are living must whisper his name
At the gates of glory where he put death to shame
o' Sing on, sing on, sing the warriors chorus
Fight on, fight on, fight ever on
Fight tell they kill us all,
But keep singing this song
Fight tell they wished they had never been born
The princess of frost giants laughed at his verse
She stepped up to the minstrel and took his head first
She held it up high, for all to see
Sure that the northmen would flee with this deed
But the minstrel had given his final command
This is where the northmen would make their last stand
They raised their fists high and begged gods for prayers granted
And the minstrels last song the warriors chanted
o' Sing on, sing on, sing the warriors chorus
Fight on, fight on, fight ever on
Fight tell they kill us all,
But keep singing this song
Fight tell they wished they had never been born
Dig the flow of that piece.