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  • Māori 412 of the Revelers Insight Chalice

    Māori 412 of the Revelers Insight Chalice

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    Lore In the bustling taverns, dockside dens, and festival squares of Saṃsāra, high-stakes carousing is both an art form and a battlefield of wit, diplomacy, and rumor-mongering. Canny socialites, tavern bards, and wandering scoundrels commissioned tools blending matakite prophecy with makutu bewitchment to out-drink, out-gamble, and out-talk their drinking companions without succumbing to poison or…

  • Tunguska 777 of the Seven Sky Casting Stones

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    Lore The Tunguska 777 consists of a set of seven smooth, sky-blue pebbles recovered from the belly of a Great Northern Salmon—a fish believed by the Nenets to swim between the rivers of earth and the rivers of the stars. Shamanic gamblers of the high tundra use these stones to commune with Lotto-Vark, the “Spirit…

  • Tupilak 819 of the Gilded Grin

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    Lore In the smog-filled gambling dens of the floating metropolis of Neo-Aurelia, luck is often considered a tangible resource to be harvested. The Tupilak 819 was crafted by a disgraced priest of the God of Chance who sought to trap the “residue” of winning streaks left behind on discarded dice and card tables. Encased in…