Being the testament of desperate souls who dare venture beyond the dying light
From the shadow-stained journals of Captain Howling Banjo, chronicler of the damned
In this forsaken realm where the gods have turned their faces away, where corruption seeps through the very stones and the dead refuse their eternal rest, we few survivors cling to fragments of hope and shards of knowledge. These archives serve as both beacon and warning—a testament to those who would dare walk the umbral paths.
Choose your manner of communion with these accursed records:
- Navigate by the pale glow of corrupted screens
- Search through our collected nightmares with ease
- Witness the web of connections that bind our fates
- Reference our chronicles during moments of respite
- Open the vault of forbidden knowledge:
ggfevans/daggerheart-campaign-vault - Peer into the graph of our intertwined destinies
- Delve deep into the labyrinthine connections of doom
- Carry these dark secrets on devices that know not of light
These pages contain the accumulated wisdom of the desperate—knowledge bought with blood, tears, and the sanity of those who came before:
- 💀 The Condemned - Profiles of souls still clinging to existence, their skills honed by necessity and terror
- 🕯️ Vigils of Memory - Records of our desperate struggles against the encroaching void, each session a potential last stand
- 🏚️ Cartography of Ruin - Maps of corrupted lands, catalogued horrors, and the few flickering bastions of hope
- ⚔️ Codex of Survival - Hard-won tactical knowledge for those who would live another day
- 🗡️ Arts of War - Combat wisdom forged in desperation, techniques born of necessity
- 🕸️ Threads of Fate - The story-webs that bind us together in this nightmare realm
The archive grows stronger with each survivor's testimony
Even in these dark times, knowledge shared is power multiplied. Those who would add to our grim records may:
- 🚨 Report Corrupted Entries: Submit corrections when falsehoods creep into our records
- 📜 Chronicle Vigils: Share your memories of our struggles to expand the record of each desperate session
- ⚡ Update the Living: Inform the chronicler when the condemned advance in their dark arts
- 🗺️ Map the Shadows: Share discoveries of new horrors or forgotten sanctuaries
See CONTRIBUTING.md for the proper rituals of contribution.
- ✅ Reference freely during our desperate vigils against the void
- ✅ Enhance the chronicle through issues and testimonies
- ✅ Share with other survivors (with proper attribution to the source)
- ✅ Adopt our methods for organizing your own records of despair
- ✅ Adapt our templates to catalog different forms of suffering
- ✅ Build upon our foundation and share your improvements with the damned
⚠️ Honor thy sources: "Archive methods drawn from the Umbral Chronicles of Captain Howling Banjo"
This testament is bound by the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International covenant.
What this covenant demands: You may use, alter, and spread this dark knowledge freely, provided you give proper attribution and share any improvements under the same cursed terms.
- 💀 The Condemned - Those who yet breathe
- 🕯️ Latest Vigil - Our most recent brush with oblivion
- 🏚️ Corrupted Realms - Maps of ruin and shadow
- ⚔️ Survival Codex - Knowledge that keeps us alive
- 🗡️ Combat Mastery - Arts of war learned in desperation
📚 Chief Chronicler: Captain Howling Banjo (Shadow-touched keeper of forbidden knowledge)
⚔️ Fellow Survivors: Andi (Vaerenth), Luie (Aster Luferi), Mark (Augustus Penhallow), [Other souls yet breathing]
🎭 The Weaver of Fates: Geoff (He who shapes our destinies from shadow)
These records are maintained by shadow-touched hands and sealed with the blood of the desperate. May they serve as warning to some, and salvation to others.
"In the depths of despair, knowledge becomes our only light. In the face of oblivion, we chronicle our defiance."
—Captain Howling Banjo, from the Undergarden Chronicles
Last updated by trembling hands in the wan light of a dying Sacred Pyre
May the gods forgive us for what we must become to survive