Astronomical Events & Portents
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I write random tables as a warm-up every day. You can suggest a prompt here.
What do you see?
- A new constellation appears.
- A comet, bright blue, the biggest star in the sky. It takes a week to pass overhead and is visible even during daylight.
- A week of solar eclipses, lasting for an hour at the same time every day. The moon is in the wrong part of the sky to be responsible.
- Patches of the night sky, normally a tapestry of stars and galaxies, slowly turn black as though they were filled with candles that are being snuffed out one by one.
- The sun begins to change colour, shifting from blazing yellow to cold blue over a month or more.
- A week-long meteor shower, contained to one small area. Buildings are destroyed by meteorites the size of cows, and where they pummel the ground a serious of undiscovered caves and tunnels is revealed.
- Instruments detect a new sound from deep space – a constant wailing, like some kind of extraterrestrial banshee.
- A new moon appears in the sky suddenly, destroying the regular tides and sending animals into a frenzy.
What does it mean?
Roll 3d7 and read the tables in order to create a portent.
d7 | Who? | What? | Where? |
---|---|---|---|
1 | A new monarch | will be born | in the frozen north. |
2 | A sleeping god | will awaken | beneath the sands. |
3 | An orphan child | will begin a reign of terror | in the capital city. |
4 | A dead prophet | will begin to speak prophecy | in the ruins of the old empire. |
5 | The leper queen | will lead an army | across the waves. |
6 | A thousand forgotten daughters | will have their revenge | on the fields of blood. |
7 | The serpent gods | will begin a feast | in the heart of the empire. |
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I write random tables as a warm-up every day. You can suggest a prompt here.