Yggdrasil Burns corebook

O Allfather, where art thou?
Tyr, why is the song of Tyrfing silenced?
What god is mighty enough to stop Mjolnir?
O Frigg, though Ragnarök has come,
Why has thine son not resurrected?
Is the carpenter god mightier than all the Aesir together,
that they are now all fettered in Hel,
while Fenrir and the Jörmungandr roam free?
He has made rains of blood and fire fall upon us,
and covered our land in ash and disease.
For us now, there is no life, only death…

In this game, the player characters are cursed skalds in a cursed world. They travel through Scandinavia, where everything is dead or dying, searching for news about the fettered Aesir and Vanir by investigating rumors about old sagas and myths. Did Sigurd really slay Fafnir? Did Thor really try to catch Jörmungandr with a bull's head? 
In exchange for the tales they tell, they get food and shelter in the few places they pass where people still live. 

But they must be wary, many monsters roam this cursed world. But ashen storms, disease, poisoned water or raining fire will kill them just as easily. Survival in these burned lands requires not only strength, but also stealth and wits.

But worst of all, the bishop Ansgar and his priests also travel the land baptizing those few who have survived, and killing those who refuse. If you are baptized, the game is over for you.

Walk a razor thin line to survive while finding out more about the Nordic myths and sagas of the viking age. Will you succeed, or will you die...?
(You'll die, probably more than once...)

 Book overview

• Texts to set the mood for the game and give some background to the setting.
• Character creation. All player characters are skalds, but have different backgrounds. Each of these give you a bonus to an ability, a Skald Talent, and an Iconic Item.
• 6 Abilities, Strength, Agility, Health, Spirit, Knowledge, and Perception
• Physical and mental curses to give the character fun stuff to roleplay around. 
• Runic Spells (similar to Scrolls in MÖRK BORG), carved on the ribs of the fallen hero Sigurd Fafnirsbane. 
• Omens (similar to Omens in MÖRK BORG).
• Inventory - you own almost nothing
• Rules for improving between scenarios.
• Combat and Poison rules.
• A map of burning Scandinavia with many locations that the skalds will visit. 
  
• Campaign rules, including rumors to investigate, a countdown to Christianity (similar to the Calendar of Nechrubel in MÖRK BORG), Christian spells for Ansgar and his priests to use against the skalds, tables for threats, and an optional meta plot which can be used if you wish for a more epic way of playing Yggdrasil Burns.  
  

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Yggdrasil Burns is an independent production by Nordic Skalds and is not affiliated with Ockult Örtmästare Games or Stockholm Kartell. It is published under the MÖRK BORG Third Party License.