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Wolden SRD

The Nomistic Onomasticon

Beta Issue 2

Heavy, ancient looking tome, bound in prediluvian leather, wrapped in aged, iron bands. Will function as a heavy club in a pinch.

Ritual

To Wear the Mantle of the Bibliophagist. Write down on paper the full names of all those that are dear to thee, and whom though would not wish harm upon. Now eat the paper so that they might become part of thee and be blessed. Never leave anyone without learning their name, for harm will surely come to them, should thou fail to include them in this ritual. The duration of this ceremony depends heavily on how many thou carest about. And thy memory.

Cantrip

Lethonomia Novis. For any given person—alive or dead—that thou meets, thou hast a 90% chance of knowing their full name, or history or names.

Spells

Raise the Buried Dead One Last Time. Given an area with shallow to regular graves, thou drawest a circle in the ground, and by repeatedly calling the deceased by their full names, as read out from the Onomasticon, thou imbuest them with animus, fractionally stolen from millions of souls, to claw themselves out, and perform one task for thee. The task must be accomplishable given the state of their bodies, and cannot last longer than 1 day. After that time, or once the task is done, they return to corpses.

Theophorous Decree. You take upon thyself the name of a god, part the earth ad interim to reveal a nocuous passage to hell, and with suitable gravitas and presence, command the demons to come to thee, and wreak havoc in thy name. Whether lowly lemure or horned cornugon answer thy summons, thou cannot say. Nor can thee or thine send them back afterwards, so use this incantation with care.

Viatical Socius. The book lists the gyrovagues, the nuns and monks who travel far and fast via the hidden viaducts and the orphic lanes, hidden from prying mortal eyes. You call their truenames and one must answer, let thee and thine enter the liminal spaces, and guide thee rapidly to destinations known or unknown, even if such clandestine travel is not without hazards.

Onomancy. The truth is in the names, for those who can read it. This invocation lets thee divine a future about a given person. Make a proclamation about a future of that person with a location and a time. For example, “they will be at the northern pier at sundown”. You may additionally add an action for a +10% miscast chance, and a detail for another +10%. For example, “they will be at the northern pier at sundown, waiting for their contact, wearing the stolen necklace”. The casting roll will then be at an additional +20% miscast chance. If the roll succeeds, the fates will look kindly upon actions to make this future happen (rolls will be easier), whereas opposing the future will be costly (rolls will be much harder).

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