Boundless: The Whispering Flame
From the Patreon archives
My latest post was about the Unsung Blade, one of the backgrounds available for Chronicles of the Boundless. Today, I want to talk about the Whispering Flame.
In this game, there used to be spirits, and the spirits were everywhere. People lived either in fear of them, or they revered them. Eventually, a cult called the Church of the One Light decided to wage war upon the spirits and kill them all, crossing into the spirit world to do so.
One of the pillars of the setting is that spirits cannot be killed. So as spirits were slain, their energy spilled into the world, and that’s what brought magic into the realm.
Some people started harnessing that magic to help their daily lives. But that gave those people power. And I don’t mean just magical power; I mean power, power.
And people having that kind of power, well let’s just say the Church of the One Light wasn’t too happy about it. So they decided to call magic their right alone, their divine right. Everyone else was considered a heretic for using magic.
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The Whispering Flame is one of the mages who was lucky or fool or cursed enough to learn how to do magic. Maybe they learned from a long lost master, or were were trained by the Church to help resist the corruption of their world, or as a weapon to hunt down other mages in the realm.
Odds and ends
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Nightsong: in case you didn’t know, we have the Nightsong Living World Jam going on at the moment and 60 people have joined. The goal of the jam is to create canon content for the world setting, all teamed around one event that is happening currently within the world. If that’s something that you’re interested in, here’s the link. https://itch.io/jam/nightsong-living-world-season-1
Freeblade: I still need to decide what I’m going to do with Nightsong, as in, like, the game is going to take some time to develop and one thing that I’ve been thinking about is potentially releasing it as, like, a setting primer along with some rolling tables to create your characters and the core mechanics maybe will live in another PDF. I’m not sure, we’ll see. But I’ve been thinking about what the name of the system behind Nightsong, the system that powers Nightsong, is going to be, and I think it’s going to be called Freeblade. So the player kit pamphlet in Nightsong is being transformed into the Freeblade PDF. I’m extending it, adding more rolling tables and procedures and whatnot, so if you’re a Patreon member, you’re going to get that PDF very soon.
Nightsong website: i’ve also been working on the official website for Nightsong. In the past, it was just a very basic one-page site, but I’m making it into more of a full-fledged thing that will host the game marketing material, compatibility logos, and the third-party license page. I’ve also been thinking about adding tools like an hex-map generator and interactive rolling tables. I’ll share a link to this probably next week; so stay tuned.
Music: i’m a really big fan of video game soundtracks and movie soundtracks and TV show soundtracks to listen to while I work. And the soundtrack that I want to share today is the soundtrack of Wolfwalkers. The movie is absolutely fantastic, but the soundtrack is equally as good. https://music.apple.com/ca/album/wolfwalkers-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/1539748859