Artaxios

Real legends. Real places. Real fear.
D&D 5e adventures + podcast + book.
The old stories were warnings.

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The midwife performed the rites. Glass beads. Needles. Eggs. Three hours later, they were on the floor. The husband said he wanted private time to grieve. The dead woman's mother found bruises on her daughter's throat.

New podcast episode. Link in bio.

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The Pontianak's cry follows an inverted distance rule: loud means far away. Soft means she is behind you. A nail in her neck transforms her into a docile wife. The "cure" replicates the violence that created the ghost.

Research dossier is free on our Patreon.

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The flowers smell sweet. That means she is far. When the scent turns to rot, she is behind you. A dead mother walks a river kampung, and she is not hunting randomly. She has a list.

Folklore Reborn: The Soft Cry. A 5e adventure. Link in bio.

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His daughter's sacrifice dress is on the chest. White cloth. Gold bracelets. She practices the melody she will sing on the walk to the well. He says: "I would end the sky." His voice is flat and steady.

New podcast episode. Link in bio.

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A warrior killed the serpent to save the girl he loved. The serpent provided the rain. The rain stopped. The empire fell. The Soninke legend does not condemn him. It does not vindicate him. It records what happened next.

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A father hires you to kill a seven-headed serpent. The serpent provides the rain. The rain feeds an empire. His daughter is next. There is no twist. There is a father and a girl and a god. The rest is arithmetic.

The Severed Bargain. A 5e adventure. Link in bio.

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She tested him with salt at the door. He palmed it. A gesture so smooth that everyone at the fire nodded and looked away. Everyone except her. She has been watching strangers for fifty years.

New podcast episode. Link in bio.

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The Kishi has two faces on the same skull. Both are always there. It passes every courtship test because it has been studying humans longer than humans have existed. In the original tales, it is women who outwit the Kishi.
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The suitor arrived three weeks ago. He is handsome, generous, beloved. His hair falls past his shoulders. He never turns his back. The kimbanda went to evaluate him. The kimbanda is dead.
Folklore Reborn: The Beautiful Mouth. 5e adventure. Link in bio.
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He sits on the porch at 3 AM. Opens the sack. Counts the bones one by one. If someone in the house hears the counting and stays awake, they live. The bones demand a witness.

New podcast episode. Link in bio.

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The protections against El Silbon are dogs, whips, and chili peppers. Not prayers. Not holy water.

Each one works because it echoes how the grandfather killed the boy. The community survives by re-traumatizing a ghost.

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The whistle starts loud. That means he is far. When it fades to a thread, when the dogs stop barking and start whining: he is on the porch. He is counting bones.

Folklore Reborn: The Whistling Dark. A 5e adventure. Link in bio.

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The flattest land in England. Five churches on an old road. A spectral dog that has walked these paths for eight centuries. Three nights ago, it started running. No one has ever seen it run.
Folklore Reborn: The Shuck Road. A 5e adventure. Link in bio.
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Four children sick. One dead. The diviner cast the signs and named two women. At night, the fireflies fill the sky above the compound. One does not blink.

Folklore Reborn: The Firefly Verdict. A 5e adventure. Link in bio.

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Three hundred soldiers starved in the basin. No one buried them. No one said their names.

At midnight, you hear what they became. Teeth the size of millstones. Grinding in the dark.

Folklore Reborn: The Bone Harvest. A 5e adventure. Link in bio.

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Three fishermen vanished off Chiloé. One came back. Standing on the mudflat at midnight, feet wrong, face blank. His wife recognized him. He did not recognize her. Folklore Reborn: The Changed Ones. A 5e adventure. Link in bio. #FolkloreReborn #TTRPG #DnD5e

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Every culture has a thing in the dark that you were told never to follow.

We turned them into cartoons. The originals were warnings.

Folklore Reborn. D&D 5e adventures built on real legends. More soon.

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