Alma Heroica

Dicey Dangers, Core Rule

Game by Joel Hills

Alma Heroica

The Alma Heroica is the third book. It records what was lived.

The Alma Mortis records what has ended. The Alma Primis records what was shaped. Between them they account for nearly everything that has ever happened -- the dead, and the events that led to the dead. Scholars who have studied both books have noted that one category falls outside either record: the choices made freely, by people no one was watching, in moments that were not shaped by anyone and did not end in death. The ordinary extraordinary acts. The risks taken for no reason anyone could measure. The things done simply because a person decided to do them.

No one knows who keeps the Alma Heroica. No one is certain it exists. The evidence is circumstantial: that two such books exist at all implies a pattern, and patterns of two imply three. Demetra has never mentioned it. The Invisible Ones have not confirmed or denied it. Koyous has filed it as an open variable in its scenario modelling and moved on.

The Alma Heroica has no keeper because it does not need one. It is being written right now. Every hero who enters a dungeon and decides what to do next is an author. Every choice that was not made for them is an entry. The book does not require a god to maintain it because it is not a god's record. It is the record of everyone else.

No one has ever seen it. There is no page to tear from it, no fragment to carry, no encounter where it appears. It is the only one of the three that cannot be interacted with directly.

This is, depending on your perspective, either its greatest limitation or the thing that makes it the most significant of the three.