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Card Suit Interpretations
♥ Hearts (Bonds & Memory)
How does this event affect relationships, culture, collective memory, or the bonds between people and place? Card Prompt A This event will echo through generations—wind-songs will be composed, oral traditions will preserve it 2 An old Earth custom is ...
♦ Diamonds (Resources & Survival)
How does this event impact water, materials, technology, infrastructure, or the physical struggle to endure? Card Prompt A A major discovery—new aquifer, intact Earth tech, rich mineral deposits in day-side margins 2 Trade routes open between settleme...
♣ Clubs (Conflict & Challenge)
How does this event involve struggle against environment, opposing factions, or internal discord? Card Prompt A A new threat emerges—superstorm intensifies, day-side mining operation turns hostile, disease spreads 2 Settlements must unite—against envi...
♠ Spades (Endings & Transitions)
How does this event mark closure, death, transformation, or the passage from one era to another? Card Prompt A Something ends irrevocably—this event will reshape Duskaran civilization permanently 2 A cycle completes—generational transition, settlement...
Special Card: Ace of Spades
When this card is drawn, the chronicle approaches its conclusion. Continue playing for 1-3 more generations, then write your final entry. The lineage of Archivists is reaching the end of its recorded history—for better or worse.
Event Tables
Major Historical Events (d66)
D66 Event 11 A settlement petitions to join the Duskaran Accord, seeking protection or trade access. 12 Ancient Earth technology is discovered in the ruins of the original landing site. 13 A weatherworker guild announces a breakthrough in wind patte...
Archivist Names (d66)
D66 Name D66 Name 11 Kael 41 Nyra 12 Maren 42 Vex 13 Thorn 43 Zylah 14 Lyss 44 Korin 15 Verin 45 Salen 16 Ash 46 Thrae 21 Cyra 51 Olan 22 Dray 52 Xen 23 Eryn 53 Vyra 24 Fenn 54 Zeth 25 Grael 55 Aris 26 Hira 56 Bren 31 Isen 61 Cal...
Archivist Titles (d66)
D66 Title 11 Keeper of the Wind-Scrolls 12 Guardian of the Crystal Archive 13 Chronicler of the Twilight Belt 14 Recorder of the Deep Roads 15 Scribe of the Accord 16 Voice of the Forgotten 21 Witness of the Storms 22 Tender of the Stone L...
Form of the Archive (d66)
D66 Medium 11 Wind-scrolls etched on treated fabric, stored in sealed cylinders 12 Stone tablets carved in the old script, sheltered in alcoves 13 Memory-storing data crystals salvaged from Earth technology 14 Oral tradition passed through song an...
A Truth They Preserve (d66)
D66 Truth 11 Humanity arrived on Duskara by accident, not by choice. 12 The Stellar Horizon was never meant to come here. 13 Earth still exists somewhere among the stars. 14 Psychic abilities emerged from environmental radiation, not divine gift. ...
A Secret They Carry (d66)
D66 Secret 11 They have falsified records to protect someone they love. 12 They discovered evidence that a revered historical figure was a tyrant. 13 They possess a map to the Stellar Horizon's intact core systems. 14 They know the location of a f...
Playing with the End
Final Entry Format
1. State the Date & Final Archivist 2. Reflect on the Lineage What did the Archivists preserve? What was lost? How did their work shape Duskaran civilization? 3. Address the Future Will there be another Archivist? What remains to be recorded? What will those ...
Example Final Entry
Archivist Helion Valeris, Cycle 9,200, The Age of Reckoning Seven generations of my lineage have recorded the rise and fracture of Duskaran civilization. We watched settlements flourish and fall. We preserved knowledge that saved lives and truths that destroy...
Duskara: Stormtide
Content for Duskara: Stormtide
Introduction & Setting Overview
Before We Start
Content Warning: Environmental peril, resource scarcity, survival themes, psychic phenomena. Before you start, define lines that should not be crossed. Pause or rewind the game if something uncomfortable happens during a session. Always make sure everyone is c...
Welcome to the Twilight
Eight hundred years ago, the colony ship Stellar Horizon limped into orbit around an unknown world. Navigation systems shattered by a solar storm, life support failing, the crew had no choice but to land on the only marginally habitable planet they could reach...