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Requires the use of the Dungeons & Dragons®
Player’s Handbook, ird Edition,
published by Wizards of the Coast®
Games
Contents
contents:
C 1:
T L P
C 4:
T P
DEATh:
guardian
of the
gate
4
22
How Pale came to be
5
On Classes
e Lady Pale
8
On Sects and Orders
On the Harrowed
22
C 2:
T P
On the Accounters
24
10
On Masters (or Mistresses)
of the Eternal Flame
Lady Pale (greater goddess)
10
25
On Age
On the Melancholy
27
On Dress Colors
On the more Martial Orders
29
On Physical Looks
On the Guardians
29
On Family and Family
lifewithin Pale’s Church
On the Mysteries
31
On the Seals
33
On Sustenance within the Church
On the Shields
34
On the Preparation of Food
within the Church
On the Sisterhood
36
On the subject of Gender
C 5:
O
On the subject of Government
within the Churches of Pale
38
On Jewels and Jewellery
38
On the Breath of Pale
Communication Pendants
On the Shadows of Pale
e Bond of Soul
On the Sorrows
e Raven’s Eye
On the Ravens
Heartstone Necklace
On the Hands of Pale
Heron’s Veil
On the Eyes of Pale
Raven Eigies
On Homes and Housing
Staf of the Raven
On Names and Naming
Raven Staf
On Physical Markings
On our Holy Symbol
40
On Caste and Marriage
On Jewellery and Rank
41
On the efects of our
Lady’s Will against the Foe
Items used in Rituals
e Bell of Melancholy
On Holy Powers and who has them
e Dagger of Corvus
e Lady’s Chosen
15
Lost Relics
42
Shade Warden
17
Ravensword
Glass Axe of the Feather
C 3:
M A
Flute of Last Rest
19
Mace of Night
On Drugs
19
Amulet of Echoes
On Art
19
On Healing Herbs and Medicinal
ways to easethe pain of Death
On Language
19
44
On Music
19
On Entertainment
20
C 6:
R, M, L
On Communication
20
45
On Education
20
On Time and Calendar
45
Shadow’s Forest
On Festivals and Feasts
45
e Ivory Tower
On Sacred Animalsand Sacriice
45
2
Sorrow’s Reach
On Birth
45
Birth Protection
Credits
credits:
On Plants
46
On Time and Prayer
46
On Weddings and the Bond of Marriage
47
Written by
Darren Pearce
Additional Authors
Michael Hammes • Patrick Lawinger
Neal Levin • David Woodrum
Editors
Deanna Link • Duncan Fielden
Art Director, Cover and Interior Artist
Gillian Pearce
Graphic Design and Typesetting
Duncan Fielden
Company Information
Dark Quest, LLC • 23 Alec Drive
Howell, New Jersey 07731
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DEATh:
guardian
of the
gate
Marriage Bond of Mutual Life
On the Ritual for Death
48
Funeral Call To e Lady
On Ritual Clothing
49
On Myths and Legends
49
Gathering the Dust:
e Myth of Darius the Swordsman
50
e Breath of Pale
53
Heroes to the Religion
53
C 7:
P M
53
On the Subject of that which is
Magical in the Church
55
On the Book of Days
55
On Spells and Magic
55
F
: I was handed this project one day by
Tensen and I was pretty much at a loss of what to do
or write, I mean how does one handle such a subject
in a fantasy game without resorting to the old clichés –
Cowls, Skulls, Hourglasses and Timers of some kind,
one can’t. It’s part of our being; forever ingrained in our
society … indelible like the passage of time itself or an
ink stain on an old oak table. e answer is that one
delves deep into the myths and fantasies surrounding
this inevitable force and comes up with tangents from
which to draw new directions. It’s my hope that in
doing so I’ve actually brought to life one of my concepts
from my own roleplaying world and given it to you for
your worlds. What follows is the deepest look inside
the ictional priesthood and religion of the Goddess of
Death – known as the Pale Lady. I’d like to think that
come my time to pass on, she would be there waiting for
me … instead of a cold embrace of the clod.
D. P.
Cutting the Cord
Greater Venerability
Greater Vision of the Grave
Headache of the Foe
Healing Breath
Know Lineage
e Lady’s Gift (Extended Purpose)
Raven’s Arrow
Raven’s Solace
Requiem
Sundering Fury
Venerability
Vision of the Grave
On how the various Blessing
and Spiritual Spells might appear
60
On Armor, Spiritual Vestments
and the Like
60
On the Manifestations of Damage-inlicting
Spells or Spiritually-created Weapons
Development by Dark Quest Games. Published by
Natural Press. All text within this product is Open
Gaming Content.
60
Other Spells and manifestations
60
On the Blessing of Holy Water
60
C 8: S
61
C 9: H
62
Games
C 10: G L
64
Solomon Ishay of the Wayfarers
64
e Book of Days
65
C 11: A F R
67
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Natural 20 Press is an imprint of EN World. Please
visit
http://www.enworld.org
for more information.
A T
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Chapter 1: The Lady Pale herself
Travels and Nightmares
I’m dead? I mu be dead … it’s so peaceful here and
I fel as though my body eighs nothing, my orld
sems such a cold and har place, full of bright lights
and clamouring sounds … I mu be dead …?
“Rise my iend and come with me.” This was no
order, this was no command it was a simple atement
of oken with the gentle tones of melancholic
regret. I was forcd by er curiosi to look upon
the eaker with a ank and searching gaze.
What met my eyes then was a vision of beau so
tnscendent that if I had not already ben dead, I
think my hea ould hae oppd there and then
and only beat if e had smild at me. For I saw no
smile or no emotion sae that of a painful look of
sorrow. How can such a pale skinnd, en-haird
beau look so … sad? I rose om the ground
determind to ind out why and ind out the anser
to this queion.
“Who are you?” I askd, fearing already I knew the
anser dep in my soul.
“I am the Lady Pale,” e replid, my hea
luerd or so it felt as if it did, my eyes ere
downca and I trid now not to look upon her,
until a whier of black elet brought me back to
my d senses. In a hea’s slow tremor beat e
lid my ce to hers and smild sadly. “You are
here bcause you did not survie the war in your
homeland.”
“Death?” I chod fearing for my ery sani and
soul. “I hae neer met death in person.” Now I mu
hae soundd like a Jeer or Fool.
“One tends to only met death at the end, Sir,” e
said with a vibnt dark cryalline laugh. “But is
it truly the end for the or ju another doorway to
journey through?” Another queion drippd om
her lips and I felt as though I was once more ted,
once more perhaps een found wanting … yet oddly
enough at ease.
I took the time once more to look at this oman
with a ank and curious gaze; e returnd the
same leel of intere in me, with dark blue eyes. She
appeard before me as I ould hae not pd
death to do so, pale skinnd, beautiful and dark
haird, as I said before – her eyes ere like blue
sapphires, full of pain, angui, hope and sorrow.
Her dress was of the darke hue and clung to her
form, as no other oman I had met, e capturd my
hea and my soul in that moment … if only e ere
moal. But puing aside such fooli thoughts I
managd to eak again.
“You said e mu make a journey?”
“Yes, e are going to my gnd libry, where
e all sit and lk … I am going to tell you about
myself, my priehood and then you will be sent back
to the moal orld to lie again, my price for this is
that you all carry with you in your hea, mind and
soul my priehood … and this you will teach others.”
Stunnd? You could hae slain me again and I
ould hae ben unable to defend myself. “I am to rise
again?” Fear crept into that oice of mine and I could
not help but ake.
“You will learn and you will underand.” Ofering
me her hand this Lady Pale simply took my ingers in
hers, I was too numb to resi. “Come.”
The orld – what was le of it that is, an out of
vision and quickly in. Had I of ben in a moal body
I ould hae periencd a feling of poerful nausea
so great it ould hae causd me to retch there and
then – inead I beheld this new place with eyes full of
onder. My ho ld me to the depe corner of her
sanuary, amid the eles of books and candles.
“Sit,” e said, and I obdiently placd myself
upon the chair that was under me in a moment. “Sir
Lucien,” began that oice again, so, yearning with
undeones of that sorrow I felt before. “Such a
Knight as the, who has serd thy country for a long
time, who’s blade has brought many a soul to my
door … thou a elcome here.”
“I … I …,” I ammerd, and managd to ill my
trembling hand with another. “Am honord, and yet
confusd m’lady.” I hopd that I did not sound like a
young squire queioning his commander, but I was
like a i out of water and with such a maiden before
me – Goddess of Death or no, my ords did not so
easily come.
“All you hae to do is lien, Sir Lucien, and all will
come as clear as cryal,” replid the pale oman with
the hint of her ir true smile.
“I am aentie and ready to learn,” was all I could
anser.
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Chapter 1:
“I am the goddess of Death, the Pale Lady, the Lady
of Shades and the Sorrow Raven, but I am not the irst
or will I be the last.”
e Lady Pale
child, tend the sick and weary for days upon days
making her sick and feeble. Yet she carried on with
this calling without complaint or misery, only her sad
smile was any kind of indication how she wished that
those who did not survive their sickness, found peace
in another life.
Often this child known as Gilyaine would travel
for miles to fetch the needed herbs and lowers from
the local Forests. Braving many of the dangers that
lurked in the surrounding lands, bandits, brigands
and harsh weather – she was only ten at the time
she made these much needed pilgrimages and often
caught infections and colds, but it seems that the
gods or higher powers always brought her back from
the edge of death’s cold grip.
e current incarnation of death was impressed
with this young girl, so much that he watched her life
from afar in his white tower and looked at his many
books, each one held the life of a single person on the
Sphere, hers was no exception, how it began and how
it would end … and then nothing … his world was
one of oblivion and endless void. His own belief as
a child and man had colored the perceptions of the
plane around him so that all souls who came there
ceased to be, they simply died. His was an empty
realm of no hope and spiritual despair. It was no
wonder that he sought an end to his guardianship
over the realms of death; he needed to ind a suc-
cessor, so that he might inally ind respite. But for
now he watched the child become a girl, who in turn
blossomed into a lower of womanhood and eventu-
ally took a man to be her mate. But life is often cruel
and fate deals the cards from the bottom of the pack
with a callous disregard for any who he might hurt in
the process. Gilyaine’s life was to be no diferent, she
was made barren by the illnesses she fought and the
many she sufered. e poor woman was robbed of
her husband when a drunken sot crippled him in a
Tavern brawl and he turned to drink and later suicide.
So now she was a pale and broken doll who would
still tend her sick patients at the healer’s halls and
then go and spend hours in a cloistered garden.
Her life ended when she was brutally beaten and
left to die in an alley after the money she was going
to use to heal the sick was taken from her, by a local
gang of thieves. is was the inal nail in the coin for
her sad existence, the watch found her and threw her
in a communal gravesite, while the locals picked apart
The
Lady
Pale
Herself
e goddess of Death, the Lady Pale is an enigma to
most in the higher places of the world, for she is most
unlike any goddess who has been before her or any of
the established pantheons. She is quite unique and
has a deep, almost philosophical view on the nature
of the world as a whole. As her quote demonstrates
she is not the irst goddess of Death yet she is the
most personable of all the previous incarnations.
is guide to herself and her religion is meant to
provide you with the kinds of information you might
wish to have as histories and myths in your world
but also to give you a deeper insight into this unusual
Death goddess. It is presented in part in text such as
this with personal information and thoughts from
some of the key people in her religion throughout.
Even the goddess has had a hand in this supplement,
putting her own words and history forwards for the
irst time. DarkQuest games and myself sincerely
hope you enjoy it as much as we’ve had fun making it.
A lot of the book will be explanations by the various
characters and almost like a narrative style, with Pale
telling a lot of her own story. So I thought we’d start
it of with how the current Death Goddess became
who she was.
How Pale came to be
ere are many stories in any city or village across a
dozen worlds or a hundred Spheres that might have
the interest of the listener but this is a story that has
never before seen the light of day, part of the Lucien
Texts which were lain down by the Knight of Pale
himself before his eventual death of old age some
time ago. It tells of a time in the world’s past where
life was simpler and there was no organised Lordly
inluence, of when the people lived as farmers in
close-knit communities. Death was a very frequent
thing and diseases were almost impossible to ight
without the use of magic, most healing was done
naturally and with the ancient ways. e story tells
of one woman and her desire to see the healer’s ways
followed unto the end, and it was this tireless quest to
cure all ills that gained the attention of the previous
Incarnation of Death – a male force who was tired
of his weary task. She would often, even as a young
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