Rune-etched pillars

Shattering Words of Aalz Childric

Tags: magical

Deep under a giant, ruined fort is a vaulted chamber, once a storeroom but looted long, long ago. A giant skeleton lies just inside, face-down, its skull and ribs staved in.

Four pillars support the roof, carved with a series of huge runes that thrum with power.

To unlock it, you must:

• spend a few days studying the runes and memorizing their sequence;
• meditate for a few weeks on the magic that infuses them;
• risk triggering the spell contained in the runes, and collapsing the entire structure.

Shattering Words of Aalz Childric

When you carve the shattering words of Aalz Childric into stone or rock, designate a key word or phrase.

When you or another speaks the key word or phrase and wills the spell to trigger, roll.

• On a success with a 6, the rune-carved stone shatters and is immediately reduced to rubble.
• On a success with no six, the stone cracks and buckles, slowly breaking apart into a number of pieces.