Anima
Living current binding land, spirit, blood, memory. Church overwrites it; Solomons preserve it; old faiths still hold it in remnants. All arcane backlash flows through Anima.
-
-
The Five Cards of Fate
Madam Eva’s locked reading. Fate-locked — do not obscure.
-
Wards of the Old Ways
Regional pre-Church spiritual traditions. Persecuted / suppressed by Church of Lathander but persist in remnants. Include Bogoviti / Zmey / Samodivi (Balkans) and dozens of regional clans/orders/sects worldwide.
-
Concord of Dawn and Dusk
Treaty signed 3412 (~50 yrs ago). Church rules day/law; vampires rule night/margins; old faiths starved by both. Details deliberately buried — PCs must uncover.
-
Battle of Ashwain Stones
Church of Lathander vs. Bulgarian/Balkan warlord Strahd von Zarovich, 3412. Church lost. Recorded as “missionary failure.” Anima wound at the Ashwain Stones petrified forest never healed.
-
The Old Faith / Wards of the Old Ways
Primal, blood-and-soil counterweight to the Church of Lathander. Druids, Barbarians, and Rangers as last walkers of the “hidden roads” — bound to Anima, the spiritual current that predates the modern pantheons.
