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But the city is guarded by the : ghosts of dead explorers, each one convinced they are the real north.
The needle is pointing to a sunken city that doesn't exist on any map. Because it exists between maps. The city is the corpse of the First Navigator, a giant whose bones are lodestone. Whoever reaches the heart of the city can recalibrate one compass in the world—just one—to always point true. broken compass rpg pdf
The compass is back to pointing at my heart. But the city is guarded by the :
A Supplement for Nautical & Post-Calamity Campaigns Version 1.0 | Required: Broken Compass Core Rulebook CHAPTER 1: THE CALAMITY "The needle doesn't spin anymore. It just hangs there, limp, like a hanged man's tongue. Points to what it wants. Sometimes north. Sometimes your heart. Sometimes the grave." — Captain Sorensen, Last of the Compass Guild Fifty years ago, the Magnetic Alignment shattered. No one knows why. The old gods? A weapon from the Drowned War? A sneeze from a sleeping leviathan? It doesn't matter. The city is the corpse of the First
We opened the crates. Inside: nothing but mirrors. Each one showed a different version of us. In one, I was king. In another, I was drowning. In the third, I was smiling.
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