A length of prayer beads
Minor arcanum #38
A cord almost 10 feet long, strung with bronze beads. Each bead is carved with a different glyph and a figure in a unique meditative pose. If you run your fingers along the beads, you feel a sense of stillness—but also a merciless weight of judgement.
To unlock the secrets of the prayer beads, you must...
Requirements
- ☐ …decipher the Rime Lord glyphs embossed upon many of the beads.
- ☐ …learn the meditative chants that accompany the beads (from a trove of knowledge or someone who knows).
- ☐ …spend a season in isolation, naked and fasting, meditating with the prayer beads, risking illness, accident, and misadventure.
The rest is discovered in play. Every arcanum has a hidden back — what it becomes, what it wants, what it costs. That’s for your table to find out, so it isn’t published here.
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Put it in a player’s hands
The app deals arcana face-down; the GM flips them when the fiction says so.