The Shivers

Prelude orgin story for the terrifying magic called "The Shivers." Experience how it started and the chaos is created in the world before finally being tamed.

It started in the Forest. It left a wake of gore and horror; not a typical slaughter like a roving band of maurauders, but villages with all adult bodies left in tatters. Corpses littered streets and homes with spines severed, skin shredded, and inky blood dripping off walls and sliding down rooves. It left wailing children. It left chidren alone, until finally it began to consume them too. 

The Shivers terrorized all and no magic, mechanics, or warding could protect against it.

Terra is alive with magic and mystery where diverse races struggle for independence against a worldwide human hegemony in decline. Magic provides both prosperity and devastation spreading like plagues or blessings across oceans and continents. 

Parents teach their children their letters and the Shiver's rhyme,  a nursery song with a deeper purpose to protect them, and everyone they love.

Feared by all but tamed centuries ago The Shivers spread like Blight, like Ruin leaving slaughter, pain, and death splattered black tar. The ubiquitous "Shivers Lamps" are used throughout the world coupled with whispered prayers by families and the sensible keep this forgotten malevolence at bay.

""Tallow, Tallow,
sunlight warm,
light the hearth
and fear no harm." 

"Fat and splat,
sputtering flame,
sit in sunlight
and don't fear it's name,
shivers
shivers
fade away." 

Explore the origins of this violent magic that started in the feared Forest and spread across the globe consuming entire villages and leaving only traumatized children in its wake.