deer country | prophecies

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DEER COUNTRY: BLOOD POWER — PROPHECY

MANIFESTATION

When naturally occurring, Prophecies have little to no warning as will come on suddenly, out of nowhere. However whether naturally occurring or induced via blood ritual, physical manifestation appears the same — appearing much like how Seers have Prophecies within the Harry Potter Universe, albeit with some bonus spooky body horror.

Luna would go stiff as a board and fall from wherever she stands, she will exhibit seizure-like symptoms for a short period, her eyes clouding over with white. Prophecies will be spoken in vague or cryptic descriptions, that have varying degrees of difficulty in terms of understanding. She speaks in a voice not her own, but a cacophonous chorus. She will be completely unresponsive during this time.

The whole ordeal would be over in a matter of moments and she'll slowly come around, having thought she'd fallen asleep.

CONTROL

Prophecies would be very uncommon in occurrence, and incredibly random. ICly, they won't be something she'll be able to really control, nor will she be to able willingly to focus on what the prophecy will be about. Luna won't remember her prophecies. She will fall into a trance-like state while she speaks the prophecy, and unless she has someone with her — the prophecy would be otherwise lost.

Naturally occurring Prophecies happen during times of 'Natural Bleeding', or if Luna's Paleblood effect of a particular month mean an increased occurrence of Prophecies. In the future, when Luna works out what causes her Prophecies, she will induce one by spilling blood in a ritual — with one blood ritual per Prophecy.

USE IN GAME

Have a player plot coming up? Want to give your character a head's up on something happening in their life in Trench, or someone they know? Or perhaps give them knowledge about their canon futures? Maybe create an accidental self-fulfilling prophecy for them? I'm here for shenanigans. Let's talk.

Essentially, how this could go about is with OOC plotting for details on what you want your character to find out, it could then be implemented ICly simply by their character being around Luna and it 'happening randomly'. Threads can be played out or handwaved.

In the future, when Luna learns how to induce a Prophecy, it's possible for her to try and offer these to other characters since she'll be able to have them in a more controlled manner and organise to have someone around to record them. That way she can later contact people to tell them to Prophecies she's had.

Simply fill out the form with details and then we can plot something out!

FORM
<b>Character Name:</b> Your character's name. <b>Who is the Prophecy about?:</b> Your character? A friend? Their mom? <b>How might the character be referred to in a ~vague way?:</b> Do they have any code names or titles they might be referred to? Likely in ways that might be secret or unknown to Luna ordinarily? Or maybe just some cool vague descriptor of them? (ie. 'The Self-Made God' = John Gauis. Or 'Moon Witch' = Luna Lovegood.) <b>Details of Prophecy:</b> What's going down, y'all. Brief details are only needed here, really. Feel free to list in bullet points, or highlight they key moments. <b>Thread this out?:</b> Y/N. <b>If not threading out, brief summary for handwaving purposes:</b>

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KNOWN PROPHECIES

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As the year falls, tension runs deep; fuels bitterness and discord. The Dark Huntress seeks vengeance against the blood of the rabbit god. She sings to the dark and cold ones, calls for violence, to splinter bonds old and new. Beware her song, or face the curse of the hunt.

WITNESS: Peter Graham.

CONTEXT: December 2021 Event. In the tale: The Huntress and the Hare, a bitter rivalry is born between the Patron Dorothea and a Darkblood Huntress. When the Huntress died, having never caught Dorothea, her vengeful spirit comes each winter — calling to Darkbloods and Coldbloods to hunt the favoured blood types of Dorothea: Warmbloods and Vilebloods, despite friendships and bonds between them.

The Black Eyed Thing makes his move upon the waters of the Waking World this day. He and his misled children will strike against the God of the Unknown. The Self-Made God claims to seek his Ruined River, but he guards his true intent. She stands in his way and he will harm her greatly with his trespass. Appease her for his wrong-doing, or else all be lost in flood and storm and beasts.

WITNESS: Illarion Albireo.

CONTEXT: In July 2022, The Emperor led an expedition far out onto the Pthumerian Ocean, into Mariana's Domain. His private plan is that wants Mariana out of the way because she keeps blocking him from interacting with the soul of the planet itself. He pressures his CR to enact ritualistic murder of some NPC pirates, which seriously pisses off / harms Mariana. Absolute chaos ensues, with the ocean literally kicking off, plus some Sleeper-powers in regards to life/death/souls getting messed up, and doesn't stop until a group of Sleepers go to try and appease Mariana mid-month.