Contents

The Sixth Seal,
1250: The Fallen Star24
The Burning Town24
The Maga25
The Star25
The Alien Aura25
Resolving the Story25
1263: The Tribunal of 126325
Questions Over the Fallen Star25
A Gathering of Books26
Reports of Odd Behavior26
1265: The Last Wizard War26
1270: The Tribunal of 127026
A Service to the House26
1272: The Retreat to Megiddo26
The Templars of Haifa27
1274: Selene's Lament27
Introducing Selene27
The Grieving Town27
The Visitor27
Talking to Selene28
What Happens Next?28
1276: Divine Intervention28
1277: The Final Tribunal28
Preventing the Apocalypse28
Options28
One Last Chance to Save the World29
Finding Megiddo29
Face the Knights Templar29
Entering the Underground Retreat29
Interrupting the Ritual30
The Aftermath of Success30
The Seventh Seal:
The Becalming of the Heavens31
The End of All Moments31
Wormwood:
The Aftermath of Failure31 The Brightening Star31
Hail and Fire32 The Seas and Oceans32
The Poisoned Waters32
The Apocalypse in Microcosm32
The Extraordinary Tribunals32
The World of the Apocalypse 32
Destruction33
Sickness33
Lunacy33

Famine33
Loss of Rule33
Aetheric Storms33
Rise of The Infernal33
Response of the Divine33
Time34
Denizens of the Lunar Sphere34
Creatures of Lunar Fire34
The Poisoned Waters34
Forests of the Dead35
Impact on the Covenant35
Magic After the Apocalypse 36
The Lunar Aura36
Impact on Hermetic Magic36
Realm Interaction37
Durations37
Parma Magica and
the Aegis of the Hearth37
New Lunar Durations37
Exotic Magic and Supernatural Beasts38
Infernal and Divine Powers38
The End of Everything 38
Strategies for Surviving38
Learn Aetheric Magic38
Learn Other Magics38
Regiones and the Supernatural Realms38
Appendix: Touching the Sky 39
Hermetic Breakthrough:
Aetheric Magic39
Appendix: Aetheric Magic 39
The Aetheric Library39
New Spells39
Laboratory Texts42
Arcane Knowledge42
Fimbulwinter: The Cold Doom	45
To Stand Against Winter 45
The Saga's Scope and Focus45
Introducing the Enemy46
The First Stage, Beginning the Path46
The Second Stage, Emerging Threat46
The Third Stage, Unleashing Winter47
Winter's Heralds47
Kotkill Ulfsbrodir47
Leif Ormsbrodir48
Magnus Norn48

Gunnvara Jarnvidja48	Chimes to Mark the True Time70
Ingvar Suttungja48	Seeking the Warmth70
The Tools At Hand48	A House Already Abandoned70
Seasons of Conflict:	The Return of Spring70
Saga Pacing and Structure49
For Evil to Triumph49
Saga Foundation:	The Great Pestilence 77
Laying the Groundwork49	The Coming Storm 77
The Irminsul50	Fangs in the Night77
First Stage: Beginning the Path 50	The Plague80
Telling Tales52	Storm Crows82
The Price of Ignorance52	Interlude 84
The End State53	A Good Place for a Lab84
Story Seeds for the First	Tending Sick Crops85
Stage: Initial Explorations53	Ward against Natural
Vis Site: Sunstone Quarry53	Imbalances of Nutrition86
Vis Site: Magical Honeycomb53	Ward against Unnatural
Regional Troubles54	Imbalances of Nutrition86
Hermetic Correspondence54	Shade the Scorched Earth86
Second Stage: Enemy Apparent 55	The Accident86
Telling Tales56	Four Months of Contagion 86
The Price of Ignorance56	The Moon of Herbam Rot87
The End State56	The Moon of Herbam Sickness87
Story Seeds56	The Herbam Miasma Moon88
Regional Troubles56	Herbam Blight88
Hermetic Correspondence57	Miasma Sizes88
Corrupting Auras58	Miasmas and Regiones89
Death Which Does Not Die59	We are Doomed!"89
Third Stage: Calling Down the Storm59	The Herbam Death Moon90
Calling Winter60	The Tribunal Response 90
Telling Tales60	Example Tribunal Responses91
The Price of Ignorance60	The Rhine Tribunal91
The End State60	The Normandy Tribunal91
First Phase: Winter Arrives60	The Thebes Tribunal91
Regional Events60	The Transylvania Tribunal91
Hermetic Correspondence62	The Hibernia Tribunal92
A Winter Homecoming62	The Provençal Tribunal92
The Egesterenstein63	Seeking Hellix92
Sunday, Laetare Sunday63	Inside the Fen92
The Heart of Winter64	The Twilight Tear93
Second Phase: False Trails64	Hellix Seeking the Magi93
Telling Tales64	The Cycle Continues 93
The Price of Ignorance64	The Corpus Infection93
The Snake By the Tail65	Corpus Blight94
Shadow War65	The Soothing Balm of Telesphorus95
Regional Troubles65	The Mentem Infection95
Hermetic Correspondence66	Mentem Blight95
In the Storm and Ending It67	The Vim Infection95
The Cost of the Cold67	Vim Blight96
Divine Intervention67	The Aquam Infection96
Make Good Neighbors68	Aquam Blight96
The Source of the Effects68	Embracing the Downy
Chasing the Culprits68	Arms of the Nephelae96
Hunting Aspects68	Wringing Free the Tears of Zeus96
Hunting Irminsul68	The Auram Infection97
Into the Heart of Winter68	Auram Blight97
Hermetic Survival: Winter Has Arrived 68	The Animal Infection97
Riding the Storm69	Animal Blight97
The Hidden Warren69	The Imaginem Infection97
Chime of a Sunken Spring Day70	Imaginem Blight97

The Terram Infection98
Terram Blight98
The Ignem Infection98
Ignem Blight98
Postmortem:
Life after the Great Pestilence98
The Grand Tribunal Response 99
The Magi Gather99
Discussing Solutions99
October's New Moon:
the Corpus Miasma100
Laboratory Solutions 100
Building Protective Barriers100
Affecting the Miasmas101
Viewing the Herbam Miasma101
Moving the Herbam Miasma101
Destroy the Herbam Miasma101
Puzzling Out the
Order of Forms Attacked101
Curing Auras,
Regiones, and Magic Beings101
Suture Gaia's Wound102
Save the Magic Beings102
The Balm of St Francis102
Discovering the Means of Attack102
Seeking the Thread of Power102
Snipping the Thread of Power103
Inventing the Great Barrier103
Magna Claustra103
Adventure Solutions 103
Ministering to the Sick104
Stopping the Accident104
Invading the Arcana Centrum104
Finding the Arcane Doorway105
The Path to the Arcana Centrum105
A Poisoned Realm106
The Beast Within Its Lair107
The Aftermath 107
The Twilight of the Gods	111
The First Titanomachy 111
The Binding of the Jotnar111
The End of This World 112
Ragnarok112
Apokatastasis and
the Criamon Enigma112
Loki 112

Help Saving the World...................... 118

Assistance From the Order of Hermes118

Assistance From the Order of Hermes118
Help From the Gods119
Heimdallur, Watchman of the Gods 119
Thor the Thunderer120
The God at the Ford120
The Hammer God121
Skidbladnir121
Acquiring the Wondrous Ship121
Help From Prophecy121
Prophecies of the End Times122
Gylfaginning123
Völuspá123
Muspilli123
De Principiis123
Titanomachia123
Lore on the Titans124
Letting the World Burn124
Five Acts to Destroy the World 124
Signs of the End125
Winter Without End125
Serpents in the West125
Gods' Halls Reddened with Blood125
Brother Fights With Brother 125
A Chance Meeting126
The Princess in the Tower126
Caught in the Middle126

The Counselor of Evil126
Other Plans: Brother Against Brother127
Giants in the East 127
The Magogoli127
The Invasion of Mythic Europe128
A Spiritual Interloper128
The Eastern Bastion128
Kill the Khan129
Other Plans: Giants in the East129
The Monsters in the Ironwood 129
The Herdsman of Monsters130
The Ironwood Comes to Pomerania130
Quenching the Holy Fire131
Help Against the Ironwood133
Other Plans:
Monsters in the Ironwood133
Swallowing the Moon 133
Moon-Eaters133
Guardians of the Moon134
Investigating in the Dark134
Preserving the Light134
Drawing Down the Moon134
A World Adrift Without a Moon134
Other Plans: Swallowing the Moon135
Three Cockerels Crow 135
The Red Cockerel135

Fjalar Retrieves the Sword135
Silencing the Red Cockerel135
The Dead Return136
The White Cockerel136
The Army of the Faerie Gods136
The Black Cockerel137
The Seven Sleepers137
Other Plans: Three Cockerels Crow138
The Second Titanomachy 138
Loki Fails138
Loki Succeeds139
A New Dawn 139
The Magic Realm139
Wild Magic139
The Golden Chain140
All Bonds Break141
The Faerie Realm142
Deicide142
No Faerie Auras142
Vitality Is No Longer Enough142
The Divine and Infernal Realms143
Society After Ragnarok143
The Order of Hermes143

Daimons and Aspects 7
The Book of Revelation 9
Criamon Player Characters 10
Divine and Infernal Player Characters 10
Everything is a Lie 10
Brighde Bronach 12
Anaximander of House Verditius 14
Quaesitor Beatritz 15
Andreva of House Criamon 16
Options for the Axis Mundi 17
A Timeline 18
Stopping House Criamon 19
The Spirit of Bitter Loneliness 20
Lena Kessler of House Criamon 24
The Fallen Star 25
Who is Affected by Selene's Grief 27
Designing the Ritual 31
The Falling of the World into Ruin 32
Vignettes of the Apocalypse 34
New Animal Quality: Lunar 34
Lunar Spore 35
Example Lunar Plant: Lost Robert 35
New Realm Interaction Table 37
Summary of Durations 37
Initiation Script: Aetheric Magic 38
Sample Aetheric Magic Projects 40
The Form of Aether (Ae) 42
What You Need To Run This Saga 45
Wolf Statistics 48
Sidebar: "How did
the Irminsul get There?" 50
Why All The Plans? 51
Saga Consideration:
One of a Thousand Gates51
Saga Consideration: The Call of Winter51

What is Insight? ...................................... 54

When Do Other Muspelli Find Irminsul?55
Slidr, the Merciless Blizzard 61
Right Here, Right Now 63
My Enemy Is My Friend 65
Winter's Bite 66
Story Seed: A Lordly Tribute 66
Story Seed: Plowing Through 66
Story Seed: In the Act 67
Story Seed: A Fistful of Vis 67
Story Seed: The Old Grey Mare 67
Story Seed: Hunger of Desperation 70
Story Seed: The Case
for Fight or Flight 70
Penetrating Cold 70
Leif Ormsbrodir:
Young Muspelli of Nidhogg 71
Muspelli Details 71
Magnus Norn:
Median Muspelli of Urdur 72
Gandar and Utiseta 74
Ingvar Suttungja:
Experienced Muspelli of Fire 74
The Geography of the Magic Realm 77
Précis 79
Shade of Saint Anthony 79
Black Wolf 80
Dealing with Disease 81
The Tytalus and The Redcap 82
Plant Diseases in the 13th Century 84
New Guidelines: Rego Herbam 85
New Guidelines: Creo Herbam 85
Not Hellix, but
One of the Covenant's Magi 85
What about Magic Resistance? 86
Handling Multiple Miasmas 89

The Rate of Infection
and a Slower World End 90
Animated Tree 92
Marking Time: New Moons and Seasons94
Divine, Infernal, and Faerie Vis 95
Hedge Wizards, Witches,
Elementalists, and Supernatural Abilities96
Bookkeeping 98
Changing the Order of Plagues 101
New Guidelines: Creo Animal 102
New Guideline: Perdo Vim 106
Air Elemental 107
The Great Pestilence 108
Loki's Family 112
Loftur, An Aspect of Loki 114
Bekki, an Aspect of Loki 116
The Emissary of Fire, an Aspect of Loki 117
Gifts of the Gods 118
Heimdallur 119
Story Seeds: Thor the Thunderer 120
Skidbladnir 122
Prophetic Utterances 122
Story Seeds: Finding Prophecies 123
Son of the Eagle 127
Ironwood Wolf 129
Eggther, A Frost Giant 130
Gambanteinn, the Wand of Woe 131
The Snatcher of the Moon 133
Lunar Eclipses 134
Story Seeds: Days of the Dead 136
Vidofnir 137
New Virtue: Folk Magic 140
Pacts with Daimon Magi 141
Impacts on Non-Hermetic Magicians 141
Story Seeds 141
Realm Interaction Table 142