The abyss gazes also into you
The skies hold not their secrets back from you. Forgo a night's sleep and learn...
- (1 Secret) ...the weather for the next d6 days
- (2 Secrets) ...of any impending local disaster
- (4 Secrets) ...the most portentous event of the past day in all the world
- (8 Secrets) ...the looming fate of kings and nations
Secrets of the Heavens
- The vault of heaven becomes your eye. Until you take [DICE] breaths, you see as if looking down form above, from horizon to horizon. At such scale it takes time to pick out anything specific.
- Your voice booms like thunder for the next [SUM] words you say. Eardrums burst and noses bleed. You cannot speak until [DICE] sunrises have passed.
- Whisper in someone's ear. They have a [HIGHEST]-in-6 chance of being afflicted with lunacy. Each dawn, you must roll again, subtracting 1 or every dawn that has elapsed.
- Strange things (frogs, worms, snails) rain from the sky for [SUM] minutes in a radius of [DICE] miles.
- For as long as you hold your breath, your weight is reduced [SUM]-fold.
- You bring the spheres where'er you walk. Any surface above you (ceiling, tree canopy, etc.) becomes as the sky for [SUM] paces around. The effect moves with you, and lasts...
- (1 die) ...until you take a breath
- (2 dice) ...a minute
- (3 dice) ...an hour
- As long as you stand still and chant, a being you indicate is favored or disfavored by the Stars. Any time they fail (succeed) at an action that they might reasonably have succeeded (failed) at, they have a ([HIGHEST-minus-1])-in-6 chance of succeeding (failing) instead.
- Peer through a ring of meteoric iron. Sunlight hitting what you see is magnified [SUM]-fold. If you so much as blink, the effect ends.
- Speak a message of up to [SUM] words to the Moon, visualizing a single recipient. If they are also looking at the Moon, they hear your message spoken from above.
- Until you take a breath, your vision has...
- (1 die) ...the clarity of the Stars. Darkness is to you as a bright cloudless night.
- (2 dice) ...the radiance of the Moon. You see the unseen.
- (3 dice) ...the fury of the Sun. Your gaze scorches like midsummer noon.
- During a storm, roll [SUM] dice. Otherwise, roll [DICE] dice. For every result of 6, lightning strikes a point of your indication that you can see.
- Advance or reverse the course of the spheres by [SUM] hours. This is not time travel; you are "merely" moving the Sun, Moon, and Stars.
Marks of the Heavens
- Your eyes are orbs of starry night.
- The weather within a few paces changes to match your mood.
- You glow faintly in darkness, and shadows pool around you in the light.
- Your shadow points in the wrong direction.
- Within a few paces, all sounds not made by you are muffled.
- Your hair follows the lunar cycle: thick and luscious at the full Moon, bald as an egg at the new.
Dooms of the Heavens
- You are weightless while you sleep. If not held down, you will float away.
- A baleful star appears above. Those who gaze too long upon it are haunted by twisted visions of your face. Some will hunt you.
- A meteor holds your death. The next time you show your face to the open sky, it strikes you with unerring accuracy. This doom can be averted through a favor from a ruler of the upper air. Afterwards, you can fly.
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