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Lucena in the House of Madgrin by Goldeen Ogawa

Sometimes the only way to become yourself is to go through the door everyone else warned you about.
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Meet The Mortician Maestro

Race: Kenku
Bardic College: Spirits

The Mortician Maestro performs eulogies and funeral rites, channeling the voices of the dead via his Kenku mimicry. He uses tales from the grave to empower allies or curse enemies. His spellbook is a ledger of obituaries. His "performances" are unspoken, conveyed through unsettling soundscapes and pantomimes.

The Tales from Beyond feature allows him to roll a Bardic Inspiration die and pull a spectral tale to use in combat. Each tale is linked to an entry in the bard’s obituary ledger, a spellbook bound in pressed lilies and ash-treated vellum, wrapped in leather and secured in bone.

Each Tale from Beyond is a story pulled from a collected obituary in the spellbook:

Tale of the Beloved Friend (Temp HP): This is an obituary belonging to Mira the Seamstress, who died shielding her grandchild from a collapsing building.

Tale of the Avenger (Bonus Weapon Attack): From the obituary of Balik Thornblade, executed for revenge killings against corrupt magistrates.

With a DM's permission, the Maestro interacts with corpses after battle to gain new tales for the ledger.

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RELEASE DAY! Gothic Fantasy 'tour de force' that blends Beauty & the Beast with Gothic Horror - out in eBook and paperback now! Audio release 19 Feb on Eldritch Girl Podcast. #GothicHorror #GothicFantasy #NewBooks #BookLaunch

https://cmrosens.com/2025/02/14/release-day/

First thing going live today - revamping a previously released novella into ongoing serial form: aiming for an update or two a week. Please pester me to update further.

If you like #DungeonsAndDragons, #werewolves, and #gothicFantasy you will probably enjoy this: https://www.wattpad.com/1480630158-fang-of-triseria-fang-bone-1-necromancer

I review A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher. A wonderfully gothic fairytale that wasn't too scary for me. Out today.
https://susannashore.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-sorceress-comes-to-call-by-t.html

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Cozy horror, mystery, a bit of romance and found family. All that and more is #StarlingHouse https://tuuliareads.wordpress.com/2024/03/20/starling-house/?preview=true

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31) THE GHOST CLUB: AN UNFORTUNATE EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF NO.5010, John Kendrick Bangs (1894)
"I looked at him a minute, and then I said, 'But, Hawley, I thought you were dead.'
'I am,' he answered. 'But why should a little thing like that stand between friends?'" #GothicAdvent

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30) THE GIANT WISTARIA, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1891)
"He strode heavily across the porch, till the loose planks creaked...his brows fiercely knit above his iron mouth. Overhead the shadows flickered mockingly across a white face among the leaves, with eyes of fire"#GothicAdvent

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29) WARNED BY THE WIRE, Louis Glass (1895)
"Could it be possible be that I was asleep? I got up and walked over...Everything was too clear to me and the ominous click typed out the following sentence: Spike-driver Catton will be killed in the new cut tomorrow" #GothicAdvent

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28) YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835)
The cry of grief, rage, and terror, was yet piercing the night…There was a scream, drowned immediately in a louder murmur of voices, fading into far-off laughter, as the dark cloud swept away" #GothicAdvent

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27) THE BLIZZARD, Luke Sharp (1888)
"An astonishing sight met his eyes...A skeleton sat on a stump looking at him, if the eyeless sockets can be said to look, and on the fallen log beside the stump sat a second skeleton with its skull resting in its bony hands" #GothicAdvent

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26) AN UNSCIENTIFIC STORY, Louise J Strong (1903)
"The creature - it was plainly a living creature - had grown, and taken shape, even in those few moments. It lived! It breathed! It moved! And his the power that had given it life!" #GothicAdvent

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