A path in the woods

Nerth Serpent's Vigor

Deep in the Great Wood sits a stone, carved with the crude pictograms of the Forest Folk, showing a trail fraught with trials and leading to great power.

If you set forth upon the trail at midsummer, you can unlock its mysteries, but you must:

• follow the twisting paths in silence, until you spy the White Hart;
• chase the Hart for miles and miles, until it leads you to the Tree of Nerth;
• wrestle the strange serpent that lives in the tree, crushing the life from it and eating its still-warm heart.

Should multiple people follow the path on a given midsummer, only one of them can reach the Tree of Nerth.

Nerth Serpent's Vigor

Vitality: ☐ ☐ ☐

When you crush the life from the Nerth Serpent and devour its still-warm heart, hold 3 Vitality. While you hold Vitality, you age very slowly.

Spend Vitality 1-for-1 to:

• Shrug off a poison, sickness, or curse
• Survive a lethal wound or injury
• Recover fully from a permanent injury or impairment (with a few days' rest)
• Perform a feat of extraordinary strength, prowess, or endurance

Each time you spend Vitality, you manifest a permanent mark of the wild (antlers, hide-like skin, animal eyes, etc.) or such a mark becomes more pronounced. Tell us what it is.