#RPGaDay2024 Day 12 – Parallel Worlds

Day 12 of #RPGaDay2024, continuing with the alternative prompt challenge list by Skala Wyzwania. For more information on RPG a Day, see David Chapman’s Autocratik blog post for 2024.

The RPG challenge theme for today is Parallel Worlds. Another theme that challenges me creatively. Let’s see what comes out of this—rolling a 1d10 for the quest. The result is 4: Invent and item.

The Mirror of the Worlds Beyond

Legends say that when Xanon forged the world in the Anvil of Dreams, Jeinir the Deceiver distracted the High God. The hammer struck the sky vault imprecisely and cracked it, creating infinite reflections of the world in realms beyond. This act of trickery by this Lower God inevitably led to the Higher Gods traveling to the sky and protecting the sky vault from the cracks, themselves becoming the Constellations of the High.

What these stories don’t tell, and only the most learned sages and wizards know, is that when the sky vault cracked, pieces of it fell to the earth, and the Wizard Malaki the Turncoat used one such piece to create the Mirror of the Worlds Beyond.

Those who know the rituals can part the mists in the mirror’s surface and look into the worlds beyond the sky vault. The realms of gods and demons, the world of shadows and spirit, the fey realms, and even elsewhere. To the reflections of the cracks beyond the sky vault, to the words that never were and are someplace else.

With the ways to the worlds beyond lost and all magic that allows travel or communication with them powerless, the power of the Mirror of the Worlds Beyond is sought after by all who know about it. However, the mirror remains lost, protected by the ensorcellment of its creator.

Those who find the Mirror of the Worlds Beyond and decipher its secrets and rituals may use the mirror for scrying into the other realms and realities, communicate with beings in this world and beyond, and see what they might have become in one of the reflections if the worlds that never were, It is whispered that Malaki figured out a way to switch places with this reflection that never was, taking their place there and the reflection traveling to our world.

Today was another challenge that went into unexpected places. I thought I’d go in a different direction when I first read it, but inspiration took me somewhere else. There are many magic mirrors in literature. I hope this doesn’t seem too repetitive or derivative. The writing ties it to the mythology of my other posts this month. As always, I hope you find it useful or at least entertaining.

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