Eotenweard: The Looming Dark (Session 1)

Alun R facilitates the first session in a series of Eotenweard (his own PbtA game in development of Dark Age heroes protecting the innocent from a Darkness growing across the Old North). This session was organsied as part of The Open Hearth Gaming Community (https://openhearthgaming.com/ RPG) using our Gaming Calendar (https://app.playabl.io/communities/th...).Come join us (https://www.patreon.com/openhearthgam...) ...We meet Ceri, the playful, rhyming Loon who has constructed a warm pastoral history from the fragments of memory that are all that remain to her; Black Cenred, a man hung for a crime he was manipulated into, but somehow saved by Woden the Allfather in the shape of an owl; Gwylog the Celtic Mystic convinced that the Old Gods of Britain want him to join the other Heroes rather than follow his mentor; and Branwen, the Spirit of a monk denied their afterlife, whose mortal seeming echoes the robes they wore in life, several generations ago.They arrive at Gundholm just as an exhausted rider brings a message that is not welcomed by the Lady Barnotha's 'heir' Moddred. The atmosphere in the village is strangely cold and oppressive and only the Hawthorn blooms this Summer ...Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SDt6swl_Y0 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★