Alma Mortis

Dicey Dangers, Core Rule

Game by Joel Hills

Alma Mortis

The Alma Mortis is Demetra's personal record of every soul she has ever received. It has existed since the first death the world ever produced. The cover has no title. The pages are written in Demetra's own hand in an ink that does not fade, on paper that does not burn or decay. Every name is there. Every date. Every cause.

The book is not carried. It does not leave Demetra's possession. Those who have glimpsed it describe a volume of impossible thickness that nonetheless opens to exactly the right page without being searched.

Scholars who know of both the Alma Mortis and the Alma Primis have noted that between them the two books account for nearly everything: one records what has ended, the other records what was shaped. The question of what falls outside both records has not been answered. Some believe there is a third book. No one knows who keeps it.

What the Alma Mortis Contains

Every soul Demetra has received is recorded here with three pieces of information: name, date of death, and cause. The record is complete. There are no gaps except one category: souls erased by Koyous's possession arrive in Demetra's garden with a gap in their memory but otherwise intact, and she records them as received. She notes the gap. She does not note what caused it. She does not need to.

The entry for Raiden, Deity of Reflex, does not exist. Demetra has left a blank page where it will go.

The Alma Mortis in Play

A page torn from the Alma Mortis is the Page from the Alma Mortis Artifact Item. It carries a name and a death date -- and the person named is alive. See Page from the Alma Mortis for full rules.

The book itself cannot be taken, borrowed, or found. It is with Demetra. It will always be with Demetra.

Heroes whose names are written in the Alma Mortis through the Raise Dead power carry the Disfavored Chronicle keyword until the debt is settled.