Codex

Spriggans

The Day looks up from the rooftops While good people dream or wake up. I ride a gutter,
ghost without law. The hand on a necklace is the most beautiful vermeil.

But I stop at the sound of a round of children. Only a moment looking at these alleysI
smile thinking of the spirit now. Stripped of Perfidy from my city so beautiful.

Ancient poem dating from Flamboyanee, traditionally attributed to Madrin Filerin.

Introduction
The Seasonling Codex has been written
so that players who play Seasonling
Inspirered will better understand their
Decan. Many technical details have been
specified, in the form of new rules.
Additional elements on the cultural
peculiarities of each Decan have been
added - including the magic of the
seasons.
The Eminence Gris are invited to
consult the different volumes of the Codex
of the seasonins. It is indeed a new
Compendium of the Twilight Realms that,
like The Bestiary and Gray Papers, tell
about the Harmonde and its inhabitants.
Despite this introduction, one question
remains: should the players be forbidden
from reading the Codex of the seasons? In
other words, are the EGs the only people
who know what the Inspired of the
Decans look like? The answer is no. Every
player needs to know the role they play
during a role playing game. In order to
respect this spirit, the last paragraphs of
each volume reveals no secrets. However,
they present to the players what they
believe, think, guess... Inspired by each
Decan. But they may be wrong ... or
maybe not. It is up to the Eminence Gris
to unveil these mysteries.
The Codex of the seasons is thus
intended for all the players of AGONE.
All the information in this volume - just
like the first three booklets of AGONE -
are known to all the inspired Spriggans!
All that remains is to wish you a good
reading, and good role play sessions with
Agone of Rochronde in the Twilight
Realms.
May the Ladies of the Seasons preserve
you from the dangers of the Harmonde.
The Harmonde
He who knows a city knows all the
Harmonde
Spriggan Proverb
HISTORY OF THE
DECAN
BIRTH
Our Lady was sad, sitting at the foot of
a tree. She was always so cheerful and
impetuous, but was suffering from a
terrible mourning. No one among us
remembers where her sorrow came from,
but every one of us felt it in our hearts.
Bitter tears formed bodies. Blood from her
scratches made faces. Her desperate sighs
gave them movement. The first Spriggans
rushed to their Lady to comfort her,
showering her with jokes, amusing antics
and charming speeches. At their sight, the
Lady of Spring ceased her tears, for their
great pleasure, then burst out laughing,
she became joyful and carefree as she had
been. But all of us never forget that even
in the heart of the colorful spring, storms
threaten. That all laughter is fleeting, that
all pleasures must be cherished for fear of
disappearing in an instant, and that
remembering fear is wisdom, for pain is
near, even where joy reigns.
THE WAR OF TREATMENT
We are often described as opportunistic
and selfish. It is because our people have
learned from their youth how much we
could only rely on ourselves. At the Zenith
of the Harmonde, there were no peoples
more connected than the Sprites and
Spriggans. At the time, the love of the
nature of the Sprites and our urban
temperament had given rise to splendid
forest cities with buildings carved in
nature, where we lived was known only
one people, in peace and harmony. Satyrs
still traveling were in charge of ensuring
the communication between these cities.
Then the War of the Decans arrived.
burning everything in its path. The forces
of summer and winter assaulted the Ebony
Forest, the birthplace of the Ladies and the
seat of the Primarbre where our Lady was
born. His Elder Roots wore our most
beautiful cities. Taken between the
summer fires and the winter frosts the
cities of the spring were dying. Seeing our
cities destroyed, we entered a mad rage
and decided to stop the ravages at all costs.
One of us, named Sprigga the Wise, had
learned from a dwarf to use iron and
convinced of using metal weapons in
battle. The Sprites and their plant allies
categorically refused, preferring to use
vegetal horrors which were, however, long
and expensive to create. Sprigga showed
her wisdom by pretending to concede,
determined to follow her idea if it could
save her beloved cities.
And, finally, a murderous battle against
the forces of the summer, which reached
the Primarbre, in the heart of the Ebony
Forest. Sprigga gave the sign to take them
out, iron weapons, and thanks to our
courage, we managed to push back the
summer, at the cost of many lives. The
Primarbre was dead, but we had saved
many Elder Roots. However, the Sprites,
treacherous and ungrateful, they took
offense at this initiative, and drove us
away with incredible cruelty, scentencing
us to a death which their limited minds
thought proper. We wandered desperately.
swearing never to forget the felony of the
Sprites. The other seasons have murdered
us, and the Sprites, refusing to recognize
their treachery, we hunted wherever we
went. It was only thanks to the help of the
satyrs that we were able to take refuge in
the only neutral place in existance: the
human cities.
AGONY AND
FLAMBOYANCE
Fleeing the south, where the influence
of the Sprites was prominent, we went to
the city-states of the North and the
kingdoms of Armgard. With the creation
of the Keshite desert and the difficulties it
caused in the north-east, many of us
joined the cities that were erected there,
hoping to form a new state and reconnect
with the roots of our people. However, the
Sprites stayed in the desert by grouping
themselves in the oases, creating the
dichotomy that still exists in the Keshite
Empire between cities and deserts.
Of course, in our homelands of urban
exile, we were not without work. The
human cities were at the time corrupted to
the marrow by the Mask. In fact, of all the
seasons, we were the first to see them and
to worry about them, but no other Decan
accepted to trust us. It was only then that
we had to learn to survive: to be able to
sneak everywhere, to make disappear
what we needed, and to escape where no

The story of shrew

Shrew Filerin was said to be so clever that he gave his name to the adjective
“Shrewd” and is probably the only Spriggan hero who did not survive his escapades.
Yet it is for the purpose of survival that he engaged as a mercenary for the Mask and
for the Muses. The legendary cycles dedicated to him claim that he succeeds in
deceiving the Mask itself, confusing him with Shadow. He also developed the art of
Legerdemane, to appear as a mage to men, to steal real artifacts in exchange for junk.
Among the Inspired Spriggans circulates even the rumor that he would have gone so
far as to steal a flame and that he still exists in the form of a Luminary. The Spriggans
take a tragic tone to tell his end, which would have come through the fault of a
morgana: all cunning is useless in the face of love.
one else could follow us. But while Janus
ended the Wars of the Decans, a new,
more terrible conflict was preparing
between the Eternals. Not being able to
return to the seasons, to protect ourselves,
we decided to play a dangerous game.
Pretending to help turn each of the camps,
walking on a tightrope at the risk of our
lives, we managed to preserve them. Only
we know how these wiles allowed the
world not to be totally destroyed by
Agony.
Then the lights disappeared and the
men were torn from the grip of the mask.
We saw this at first with circumspection,
then we were enthusiastic about the
marvels of Flamboyance. In alliance with
certain members of The Square, we
worked to create locks and other
mechanisms. But as much as the
architectural splendours erected pleased us,
so much did we envy the powers of the
Flames of Humans. It was at this time that
some people became interested in the
inhabitants of the Abyss, who were
looking for a way to intervene again on
the surface, and that was when
Conjuration was created. It was also at
this time that we created the techniques of
Legerdemane, the magic of conjuring. But
it was with the greatest drama of the
Harmonde that we discovered our greatest
legacy.
THE DECAN OF TWILIGHT
Eclipse brought us the two principal
pieces of our identity, at the same time
that it deprived us, or liberated us, of our
Lady. With the Dancers, it was the
marvelous road of Ascendancy that was
open to us, and we then discovered the
phenomenon of the City Souls. The
possibility of having a Flame was finally
the height of our hopes.
Twilight was for us the opposite of
what it was for other people: we
blossomed there, taking more and more
importance in the city, and marveling at
the magical techniques more than the
Flamboyance. It is with the Twilight that
the Courts of Miracles, previously
clandestine. became semi-official and
some welcomed the non-Spriggans. The
life of Spriggans became popular with
humans. We created the profession of
lawyer and his guild to put our eloquence
at the service of all those who needed
defense. We also arrived at the beginning
of reconciliation with the Sprites, thanks
to the satyrs' mediation, in our war to fight
against Obscurantism, then in our fight
against the Liturges. But we have
managed to maintain our individualism,
where groupings are only made for
questions of affinity. Today everyone sees
us as an obligatory part of the urban
landscape and that's how we want things.
THE DANCER
As Spriggans, always furrowing the
urban reliefs, we were the first to realize
the existence of the Dancers, observing
them with a fascination which never
stoped and which quickly became
reciprocal. Many at that time adopted
Dancers as companions or aesthetic
objects, well before realizing their powers.
In the discovery of the sparks and A, we
posed as defenders of the Dancers, and we
discerned the importance of Empathy.
Thanks to this, we categorized the three
types of obedience during the First
Symposium and counted among the
greatest creators of spells of what became
the Impulse.
Parallel to the creation of the
Cypher-Sorcerer - in particular the
creation of Codats 1 and 5 - the first
guilds of Small Hunters were created,
under the aegis of Aleste Hand-vive.
Many Eclipsian historians think that it is
partly because of the degree of importance
of Spriggans in the Cypher-Sorcerer that
the Massacre took place. In wandering we
wanted especially for the Twilight order to
be independent of political power. It is
finally thanks to an eclipsical Fool, named
Loren Volingre, that permission was
granted to open public schools in
Urguemand, provided that the
organization is limited to the country. This
decision had the effect of persuading most
of the other kingdoms, especially the
rivals of Urguemand, to install
Cypher-Sorcerer schools for fear of being
subjected to Ascendancy. Order therefore
had to be divided by country.
In spite of our key role in the
knowledge of Dancers, we do not think it
will be possible to forbid the use of the
Cyoher-Sorcerer's Torture because too
many humans saw Obscurantism as the
most useful and direct way to use
Ascendancy. especially at the time of the
first Cyoher masters. However, many
Mages did not give up the fight against
Obscurantism, and a cabal of them allied
themselves with men, Spriggans, and
Black Fey Jornists in the hope of banning
it.
This cabal still exists today and is
called the League of Tiny. Most of us
were for the open aspect of the Second
Symposium, but the many accidents that
this caused us divided between partisans
of openness and partisans of secrecy. It
was because of this dispute that we lost
the supremacy we had in the order. But if
the partisans of a democratic magic lost
this battle, they did not forget this idea for
they resurged two hundred years later with
Lerschwyn at their head. After the last had
failed his coup to take control of the
Cyoher-Sorcerer, the survivors of his
cabal came together and gathered under
the name of the Bright Share Union.
Many of us consider the obediences as
the reflections of the will of the Eternals.
Thus the White Line would be linked to
Diurne, who wishes to treat his
emanations gently, and the Black Line to
Noxe, manifesting her habitual penchant
for cruelty: the rare obscurantist Spriggans
are henchmen of the shadows. The Gray
Line is a neutral path and the most popular,
but rumors say a new figure is linked to it
today.
The children of aleste
mainvive
Legend has it that Aleste Mainvive
was the first Small Huntress. She saw
from a roof, where she was chimney
sweeping, a falling star, then heading to
the place it fell, she discovered a small
luminescent blue creature trapped by a
cat. Chasing away the animal, she
released the Dancer who fled
immediately. But Aleste could not forget
the creature, and spent her time trying to
find her. After several months of
exclusive hunting, the Dancer agreed to
twirl on the hands of a Aleste in tears of
joy. She later became one of the
"empathetic" founders of the
Cypher-Sorcerer and part of the crusade
to regulate the Small Hunt. Creating the
first guilds of Small Hunters, she soon
made Spriggans and their respect for the
Dancers insepperable. She died in the
first hour of the Massacre by covering
the flight of her students.
THE CITY SOULS
It was in Sasmiyana that this
phenomenon was first noticed during the
Second Age. A humble Spriggan named
Sian Hen said that a beautiful young
woman had appeared to him. She revealed
to him that she was the Soul of his city,
born from the union of the spirit of its
inhabitants and emanations of its
architecture. She then dictated what
became the founding text of the cult of
Urbeat. Through meditation and prayer, he
claimed, a Spriggan can become one with
one's city, its buildings and its inhabitants.
One then reaches a state of blissful ecstasy,
and one ends up disappearing, living
eternally in the love of the city. His story
spread like wildfire across the Harmonde.
attractive curious, skeptical and alluring.
While this new cult made followers
among Spriggans and some humans,
esoteric researchers admire the existence
of City Souls, while refusing most of the
urbeat dogma. Most were of the opinion
that these City Souls were created by
several black fey, others said it was
phenomena caused by Shard. Then Sian
Hen disappeared mysteriously, united with
Sasmiyana according to his followers. The
agitation surrounding this story suddenly
disappeared, along with its initiator. The
Cypher Sorcerer, for many, smothered the
case. Nevertheless, the cult of City Souls
survived among hard core believers, and
the concept pleased the vast majority of
Spriggans enough to incorporate it into
their traditions.
It was in 1203 that the discovery of the
power of the Salamanders was made in
Abyme. Many of the survivors of the sect
of Urbeat rushed to finally experience
union with a city, but after the first deaths,
the cult leaders affirmed the use of
salamandres herisy. This did not prevent
other Spriggans, interested in the City
Souls, from studying the question. A guild
of Alchemists in particular succeeded in
distilling the blood of Salamanders to
obtain the same effect without its fatal
consequences. But these are just baseless
rumors for most of us, as is this
mysterious Brotherhood of Bosses story.
Whatever the night, for many Spriggans,
our strange abilities to be in a city and to
be informed of the latest news would be
linked to a kind of empathy with the City
Souls. Some eclipsical researchers have
even expressed the opinion that the
disease of the Stonepox is linked to the
insertion of this empathy into that already
existing between an elf and his tree, since
the elves are particularly close to
Spriggans. But most of these theorists
have died accidentally during walks in the
forest…
Society
A Spriggan is first defined by its city
and then by its Decan. However it is thus
that we are Spriggans: being ultimate city
dwellers. What is so beautiful, wonder, in
these dirty and sordid cities? But they are
life itself, with their shining facades, their
alleys where the undesirables are lurking,
their lanes where the undesirables are
hiding, their inhabitants grunting, in love,
sleeping or enthusiastic. They are
concentrates of hope and despair, of the
sublime routine far more beautiful than
the Wonders of Harmonde! The cities are,
many are slow to understand, the
greatness of the little ones.
We know it, we love the city, and our
society is the one that insinuates itself in
all the corners of the cities.
City Chess
In every borough, town or city of
Harmonde where gangster lives, we meet
once a month, inviting non-humans and
other seasons, to give rise to what is called
the Court of Miracles. Our goal is to make
our commune live by circulating rumors,
meeting people, giving the opportunity for
sales and purchases, joyful festivals and
other urban events.
The Pieces
The person who presides over the Court
of Miracles is called the King. He is
responsible for the proper conduct of
meetings, exceptional meetings and
judgments. He is elected every ten years
by a series of trials of which the crowd is
the sole judge. Any Spriggan may be a
candidate, but woe to the loser who
exposes himself to jeers! The first test
measures the cunning and ingenuity of
competitors. This is a puzzle game that
allows you to select a dozen winners. The
second trial judges the courage and
prudence of the pretenders: each one bets
a feat he must accomplish, harder than the
others. Those who hold their bets without
giving up or getting caught are qualified
for the third event. This is a test of
charisma and eloquence. Candidates must
ridicule others by criticizing the little
value of their previous exploits. The
length and extent of the applause of each
diatribe, measured carefully, decide the
winner. The King thus elected receives
from the hands of the Fool the wrought
iron staff symbolizing his office.
The Jester is responsible for the history,
traditions and secrets of the city. These are
mostly mysterious and cryptic figures,
often repositories of strange terrifying and
eccentric behavior. He wears a medal on
which is inscribed: "The Past is a joke,
Destiny is a Buffoon." But it also has
another lesser known task; In fact, it is he
who ensures the link between our urban
communities and the Council of Decans,
and is often responsible for identifying
who among the Spriggans deserves a
Flame. Each Fool is chosen and trained by
the previous Fool under the inspiration of
Janus himself. Once a year, they disappear
to meet, and it is said that the Spriggan
sitting in the Council of Decans is elected
among them.
The Queen is the host of the Court of
Miracles. Whether it takes place in a
public or private place, it is she who is in
charge of the inventory, the guests, their
comfort, and of course the layout of the
Chessboard, the room paved with slabs
Black and white, where the place
determines the rank one has. This status is
determined in a strange way: it is a
function of wealth and good taste in the
way it is expressed, cunning, and the
ability to show fair play, various talents,
known information , And on the part of
mystery do not everyone knows how to
surround themselves. Of all this, only the
Queen is judge by designating the places
of each one, that is why she is always
respected for fear of displeasing her. The
pieces, each of which is located at the
Volaterre cosamiele
This young Keshite merchant was
astonishing. Accepting in all naivety the
offer of a merchant guild, he realized too
late that he had caused the loss of his
former patron. Deciding to redeem
himself, he went to see the judge of his
employer, and used his intoxicating
eloquence with biting irony to release
him. After which he founded the Guild
of Lawyers, whose aim is the defense of
all innocents unjustly imprisoned. Too
bad that today most lawyers are doing
more to free their comrades from the
theive’s guild...
Court of Miracles have real implications
on the prestige and power of everyone in
the city. This provision is sometimes
referred to as the White Chessboard in
reference to a mysterious Court of Dark
Miracles. A Queen is chosen by each
candidate for royalty, transferring to her
partner the votes she receives from her
supporters. So it's sort of a duo that's
chosen at the election of the King.
The other important figures of a Court
of Miracles are the Rooks, appointed by
the King for each quarter of the city which
serve him as councilors, and the Knights,
charged with the maintenance of order in
the Court and its law in the city. Finally,
the guild leaders are their pawns.
The Court of Miracles
The occasions for meetings are always
different. It can be a marketplace, a forum
for discussion, an artistic exhibition, or an
endless feast. They are also the place
where everything is bought and sold,
especially the most varied information.
But the Courts of Miracles are sometimes
the place of more serious power struggles:
when a guild’s economic activities are less
than legal, and require a non-urban setting,
or when a cabal monopolizes information.
Often rivals in the Courts of Miracles are
born by challenge the domination of
guilds, successfully or not. We know it
well: information is power.
The real authorities of a city have
mixed opinions of the Courts of Miracles.
Some believe they are clandestine
hideouts for criminals, while for others
they are figures of folklore who
participate in the life of the city. In any
case, the power of the Courts of Miracles,
if it is unofficial, is not important: it links
most of the major groups in the city, the
strange information and even stranger
opportunities.
The Barefoot
This movement was born in the
princely Communes after Carminalda
The black eyes, nicknamed the Princess
with the Naked Feet by the Prince of
Abbadrah, a Spriggan with a dangerous
beauty, seeing her family massacred for
the sole purpose of kidnapping her so
she would participate in an orgy at the
Jade Palace, Carminalda managed to
escape after swearing the loss of the
monarch of Abbadrah. She gathered
around her all the poor and the
deprived, victims of the magnificent
splendor of the city, also allying
according to some with the resistant
Princean Sprites. Their goal is
revolution. In spite of the danger which
it represents for them. The Prince, it is
said, has fallen madly in love with the
dark beauty of the Spriggan.
Guilds
For all that is matter of gain and
interests the Spriggans tend to meet in
groups, sometimes with non-Spriggans,
which are called guilds. Guilds are official
organizations, at least at the Court of
Miracles.
The Rogues
The Theive’s Guild - or Rogues - are
often among the largest and most diverse
of a city. They open willingly to other
seasonlings and humans. It is usually
joined by being recruited by another
member. The hierarchy is usually simple.
Solidarity is required among members,
which does not prevent murderous
intrigues in the spheres of power. The
leader of a thieves' guild is usually called
the Prince of Theives. He reports to the
Emperor of Rogues of the city, although
this may cause a rivalry with the King of
the Court of Miracles, when the if the
Emperor of Rogues is not a Spriggan -
otherwise it is the same person.
Merchant guilds
They are sometimes difficult to
differentiate from the Rogues, with whom
they often have dealings. The difference
obviously being the consideration given to
it by the local authorities. For these two
types of guilds, silver and precious objects
are the goal, and mutual aid their
philosophy. Survival remains a priority for
any Spriggan.
The Machinists Guild
This guild located in the Kingdoms of
Urguemand and Janrenia is important.
Formed during the Flamboyance by
Spriggans interested in locks and other
mechanisms, it carries a philosophy based
on invention and novelty, where the
mechanisms are judged more by the value
of their complexity and originality than
their effectiveness. Although they work
frequently with the Square. dwarves often
remain puzzled by these inventors who
favor aesthetics over results. One of their
greatest successes is the Spriggan
crossbow.
Small Hunters
Obviously, these guilds are of prime
importance in every city. Having no
leaders, at least officialy, it is more
decision-making bodies of the rules of the
Small Hunt. In particular, they set a quota
of Dancers to capture per month. Woe to
those who try to hunt without paying their
license, because the Knights will take care
of them. The reports of the Small Hunters
with the obediences are particularly
ambiguous. Although most of them are
members of an obedience, the guild wants
to maintain its independence. However, it
remains subject to the laws of the Cypher
Sorcerer and its censors, although it
escapes the authority of each High House.
Other guilds
Other types of guilds exist ...
associations of artists and entertainers,
demonologists and conjurers, but also
solidarity and charity. The Guild of
Lawyers, in particular, is known accross
the Harmonde for its admirable pleadings
for the defense of innocent criminals. It
offers investigators and private advocates
who agree to pay them. As for the many
Spriggans who like to be at the center of
the city society by opening taverns, inns
and other ballrooms, they belong to the
famous Hotel Guild.
CABALS
Cabals are more clandestine groups that
bring people together around a common
political goal. The spirit of Spriggans,
devoted to freedom, invention,
individualism and solidarity is often
enthusiastic for ideals and attracts the
most tortuous. The cabals are therefore
these pressure groups or cults with diverse
and varied aims.
Some cabals are famous, like the
League of the Minuscule which opposes
the Supplice, or the Little Brothers,
movement of resistance against the
Liturgies. The Sparklers dream of
bringing Ascendancy into Janrenia, and
the Onyx Gate Brotherhood is a group of
demonologists and Obscurantists wishing
to annihilate the Sprite people for their
betrayal of Spriggans. The Eastern Wind
Cabal would like to liberate the slaves of
the Widow Lands, and the Keshite
Glassmen want to reunite the nomads and
caravans of the Keshite Empire under one
authority. Of course there are a multitude
of these cabals, but most of the time they
have short lives.
THE LIFE OF A SPRIGGAN
Our birth is blessed by the city where
we are born, the first gesture of the
midwife being to show the newborn out a
window viewing the streets of his native
city. Each Spriggan grows up with his
mother, and her current companion, until
he is six, when he is apprenticed to a guild,
often his father's or another family
member's. The next milestone is fifteen:
the young Spriggan is then old enough to
decide his future freely, changing to lead
if he wants. From the age of fifteen to
thirty, most Spriggans have great freedom,
many have the ambition to lead an
adventurous life and accomplish great
things: discover the soul of a city, make
revolution, invent new spells, steal a
famous painting... After this fickle age,
most of us have found their vocation and
settle in a profession, if possible in luxury,
and are interested in responsibilities. The
Spriggans who do not find after forty
years and still run after fantasies are
generally considered as failures.
From the age of sixty, most Spriggans
retire from their guild and indulge in a
passion, often occult. Many prefer to go
up a notch in politics, or enjoy the wealth
amassed during their lifetime. Death
occurs at about a hundred years, the
Spriggans are cremated and their ashes
scattered on the roofs of their city to join
its soul.
We do not make any difference between
men and women, each wearing pretty
much the same clothes, and having the
same career opportunities.
 What we say

THE DECANS
Drakken: When the despotic brutes have such a subtle gift, you'd better be worried.

Black Fey: Ah! Knowing everything they know and talking to the stone! They make
precious allies and very dangerous enemies.

Giant: no interest.

Sprite: The ancients tell us to be wary of them and they are often simple. however, they
sometimes have the same interests as us, so think twice.

Medusa: Yes, their beauty and their science are tempting. Yes we have a lot in common. But
no, I do not want to be a slave.

Minotaur: It's true that you can learn a lot from them about Demons. But when they get
upset, it is better to avoid them because it is impossible to reason with them.

Morgane: You know what happened to Madrin: flee, without turning back!

Dwarf: Those of the Square are very loyal and often friendly when we come to know them.
As for those mountains. let's leave them where they are …

Ogre: They make good bodyguards.

Pixie: What's the point of chasing them? They will always go faster than you.

Satyr: They are very pleasant company, for the time that they stay in town.

THE ETERNAL
Shadow: She made herself, she helps us in exchange for our help. I think it's satisfying,
don’t you?

The Mask: It promises a lot, certainly, but remember the price …

The Muses: they created the Harmonde. now it is we who live there!

Janus: he keeps the balance and I respect that: but he has such a definitive tone!

THE MORTALS
The Cypher-Sorcerer: The big guild. Long learning, but to what end!

The Square: Apart from their corporatist tendencies, they are intelligent people with whom
we can get along.

The Council of Decans: It annoys us all That it is they who decide who will get Flames ...
But we would all like to be part of it!
 The marriages are done on contract, by
agreements over more than five years and
including clauses that surprise many
non-Spriggans: our practical sense allows
us to recognize that romanticism and
marriage do not always go together.
SPRIGGAN VALUES
We value the virtues of intelligence and
cunning, prudence and courage,
inventiveness and efficiency. Speech and
eloquence are talents to develop that can
solve most difficulties. Violence should
only be used as a last resort because it is
the most uncertain route. Humor is a
divine gift. All is excused for the one who
shows spirit. However we prefer the
darkest humor, some will say cynical, but
we are only realistic and do not like to
deceive ourselves. We have a certain
fascination with fear and the art of
terrifying, and that's where our joking
preferences go.
Love is a pleasant recreation, and
games of seduction are among the most
fun. We do not have taboos about sex, as
long as it is between consenting adults.
Friends, on the contrary, those who are
loyal to us, are the people who are closest
to us. And we love to discuss indefinitely
to appreciate their reasoning. All the
pleasures of life are welcome, we are
materialists despite our love of the
mysterious. Is not our only belief coming
from the most material? Artists are among
us the most able to celebrate the delights
of the Harmonde. We love painting, urban
decorations and sketched portraits,
caricatures too, poetry too, among which
we prefer short and caustic verses, haikus
of the Princely Communes or Keshite
rubbayats. To music prefferably, for its
gift of replacing speech, expressing
melancholy and appeasing the spirit. But
dancing is our favorite art since the
Eclipse. To imitate our fellow Dancers, we
dance whole nights at our parties: frenzied
farandoles, waltzes of Janrenia or
buccaneer tangos. Acrobatic dances, too,
have our favor. The occult is the noble art
par excellence: there is no Spriggan more
admired than the clever wizard.
There is nothing we hate like tyranny.
Freedom is a universal right, as long as we
take responsibility for it. We hate closed,
over-organized and military societies to
the detriment of everyone's autonomy and
freedom of thought and speech. But
solidarity is also one of our values,
whatever our enemies say. We are the first
to want to help those who are unable to
survive alone, the elderly, children, the
crippled, because we know what it is to be
abandoned. We just hate to see those who
could get away with it alone, complaining
all the time without lifting a finger. We are
opportunistic only by lucidity. See how
much we are criticized, yet altruism and
great causes are part of our qualities.
THE FARFADET STYLE
The Spriggans usually wear bloomers
or wide pants, topped with shirts and a
jacket or vest. Apart from wearing longer
jackets and many jewels, nothing in the
clothing distinguishes women from men.
No Spriggan furrow his city without the
headdress obliged. Top hat, tricorn hat, or
fez; all on condition that it does not look
like a Spriggan hat. We always hide some
weapons, Dancers or various useful
instruments. Spriggans move in town in
all dimensions, climbing on urban
geographies. They live in attics, offering
voices of easy escape through the roofs, or
in cellars and underground passages
leading to the bowels of cities. On
occasion, they will live in boats or barges
on the rivers and canals of their city. The
richest do not hesitate to afford impressive
mansions with architecture full of secret
passages.
They wear cool colors: gray, blue, green
and mauve, black and white. They
appreciate geometric patterns with
arabesques and convoluted curves. They
love spicy food, strong alcohols,
multi-serve dishes that blend a little of
Inspiration
everything: paella, couscous, and various True heroes are not the ones who die in
stews.
the first fight.

Spriggan Names Spriggan

Spriggan names are, in general, very
typified by their geographical origin,
integrating easily into their native
kingdom. However we can notice in the
first names occurrences of suffixes -in, -en,
-an, consonances of s, r, f, v, l, t and
alliterations in e, u, i and many nasals.
Some examples of typical male first
names are Lorin, Essan, Meryn, Sian,
Destel, Laerre or Eshelan. The usual
female names are Shaelle, Venda, Yguelle,
Gwen, Lorinne, Malenne, Freste, Issya or
Imu.
The names are actually nicknames,
earned by some actions or personal
peculiarities. After he returned to use, the
name is officially recognized by the King
while he addresses the Spriggan and calls
him that name. This nickname can
obviously change in important
circumstances.
Proverb
Advantages and
Disadvantages
Advantages
King of the Court of Miracles
(Charge, 5)
Minimum Requirements: Eloquence,
Intrigue, and Athletics 7, CHA 8
Court Jester (Charge, 5)
Minimum Requirements: Season:
Spring 8, Traditions: Spriggans 8, History
and Legends 6, Concord 6
You must request permission from your
Eminence to assume this Charge. After all,
you were inspired by Janus in person!

Queen of the Court (Charge, 4)

Minimum Requirements:
CHA,
Stewardship, and Etiquette: Court of
Miracles 7

Rook (Charge, 3)
Minimum Requirements: Stewardship
and Diplomacy 7

Knight (Charge, 3)
Minimum Requirements: Weapon and
Laws (Spriggans) 7
Guild Membership (Charge, Intrigue 6, or 8 for the leaders of the
Variable) cabal.

The cost of this Charge varies according Dancer (Ascendancy, 3)

to the rank and strength of the guild, and
the type of guild. There are several guilds
to choose from.
Member of a Cabal (Charge,
Variable)
You are part of one of the many secret
societies that surround the spriggan
community. You have an ideological goal,
and you know that wherever you go where
the cabal will be present, you will have
unconditional support for everything that
concerns the cabal. The cost of this
Charge is 2 if you are a simple member, 4
if you are one of the leading members of
the cabal. Minimum Requirements:
Some guilds
The arts of movement, rhythm and grace
hold no secrets for you. You must have the
skill Athletics: Dance at 6. Thanks to this
knterroristedge, your empathy with the
Dancers is greatly facilitated. You have a
+ 10 Empathy bonus with your Dancer to
cast intuitive spells, as long as you use
your Resonance is limited by your
Athletics skill and you double the casting
time of the spell.
Black Humor (Mind, 3)
You have a particularly caustic mind and
fear is fun for you. Terror struggles to
reach you because it is immediately
lessened by your laughter. You will

Here are some examples of guilds, their cost is next to the title, follow by the
minimum requirements. These costs are for the rank of Companion, a Guildmaster
rank costs one point more and requires Skills one step above those listed.

Small Hunter’s Guild 3

Hunt: (Specialization: Dancers) 8, Dancer Lore 6.

Machinist’s Guild 3
Locksmith 8. Craft 6.

Rogue’s Guild 3
Stealth 7. Ettiquet: Underworld 5, Conceal, Disguise, or Poisons 6.

Lawyer’s Guild 3
Eloquence 6. Laws 7.

Artist’s Guild 3
Art skill 7, Ettiquet: Artists 6.

Merchant’s Guild 3
Stewardship 6. Trade 7.

Hotellier’s Guild 2
Stewardship 7. Craft: hospitality 6.
receive a + 5 bonus to all WIL rolls to
resist Fright.
Disadvantages
Bounty (Social, 3)
The King has put a prize on your head.
All the Knights of the city are looking for
you to meet your punishment. The Kings
of the other cities will be allowed to issue
the same judgment if you exile yourself.
Unless there is a change of King or a
flamboyant exploit, you are condemned.
Exile (Social, 2)
You no longer live in your home city. For
one reason or another you have left the
city that gave birth to you. You will be
pitied and looked down upon by all the
spriggans that you will meet.
The Twilight Kingdoms
THE PRINCELY COMMUNES
The Spriggans are rather common in
this kingdom, where they have a certain
influence. Many old Spriggans get
positions from Chamberlains to palaces,
and their spies are famous. Two important
cabals are present in the Commons: the
barefoot cabal rebelling against the
oppressive decadence of Abbadrah, and
the Minuscule league, struggling against
the obscurantist forces of the region,
especially the Scarlet Circle.
The Courts of Miracles, considered
official, are often frequented by humans,
satyrs and Medusae. The most famous is
that of Tslana, nicknamed the Silver
Chessboard.
LYPHANE AND THE
WILD-REACH
The only Spriggans that you will meet
there will probably be those kidnapped by
Sprites for the purpose of Sap experiments!
More seriously, you will find Brave
Mages investigating the Wonders and
other Enchantments of the region.
THE BUCCANEER ENCLAVE
Many Spriggans saw in this early
kingdom a paradise utopian and went
there with the hope of imposing their
vision of a society. Today Spriggans are
very pre-bred in Families, especially those
of Merchants, Timoniers and Sailors,
where their acrobatic agility makes them
excelent sea farers. The Buccaneer
Enclave is the haunt of many anarchist
and revolutionary cabals, who see it as a
means of enriching themselves without
the danger of being watched over. too
many to be named. The Courts of
Miracles are authorized and cosmopolitan,
but supervised by the Flunette.
THE EMPIRE OF KESHE
For many Spriggans, this kingdom is the
cradle of their people, and they cling to
their establishment in the port cities of the
desert. Their influence is mainly felt as
merchants, especially in caravan trade,
and Cypher-Sorcerer. In addition to
supporting the urban oasise and the
federation of tribes, there are many
Spriggans among the Latifas. An
important Keshite cabal is that of the
glassmakers. The Courts of Miracles are
clandestine and only Spriggan.
THE WIDOW LANDS AND THE
MODÉHENNE MARSHES
Spriggans are wary of the Widow Lands,
not appreciating slavery societies,
nevertheless some renegade Spriggans
work there for medusa, especially in
occult areas. The Eastern Wind Cabal is
made up of infiltrators seeking the
abolition of slavery.
 The Modehen Marshes has a long history
of expulsion of Spriggans, which they
never forgave, only a few Dancer loving
journists live there nowadays.
THE MERCENARY REPUBLIC
Some Spriggans see the mercenaries as
the best way to be free. Nevertheless, few
adept in direct violence, they will be more
Mages of war or peddlers. There is a fairly
good presence of the Guild of Machiners,
but few cabals. The Courts of Miracles are
important and especially the Rogues in the
cities, especially in Darkdream where they
compete with the local powers.
Little Brothers, a group pretending to be
children while they infiltrate the cities and
propose passages in Abyme.
ABYME
For many Spriggans, Abyme is the City
par excellence. The particular atmosphere
of the city, the importance of Conjuration,
its many intrigues are all elements that
make them feel at home. The Court of
Miracles of Abyme, named the Invisible
Chess Board, is especially famous for its
King whose face is never seen. Abyme
would also be the location of the Cabal of
the Onyx Door.

URGUEMAND THE ITINERANTS

Spriggans are quite present in the cities
of the baronies, especially in the occult
and rogue professions. There are also a
number of Spriggans in the roaming.
Guilds such as Lawyers and Machiners
are very present. The Courts of Miracles
are clandestine but open to non-Spriggans.
There are some Spriggans who leave
their sedentary life. These are mainly
caravans and fairground artists. The lewd
circuses are very famous across all
Harmonde. Lastly, political motives often
lead to an unwanted exile.

JANRENIA
Although in large presence in Janrenia
before the war, Spriggans have become
rare with the creation of Lodges. Many
Spriggans see an insidious plot of medusa,
and those who remain try to fight against
the medusa present in Janenia. The Cabal
of Sparklers, in particular, is trying to
bring ascendancy into the area. The
Courts of Miracles are secret and strictly
forbidden to non-Spriggans.

THE LITURGICAL
PROVINCES
Some Spriggans prepare in this kingdom
an attempt of revolution against the
Prefects. With the help of Sprites, in
particular, they created the cabal of the

New Rules
Spriggan Skills
Each seasonling seems to benefit from
very special techniques in his required
skills, provided that he develops them a
little.
Hunt (Spe.: Dancer)
Spriggans have a natural affinity with
Dancers, which is shown by their
knterroristedge of the hunt.
Legerdemain
Legerdemain is the art of magic without
magic. This skill is best summarized as
the mastery of appearance, dexterity and
acuity.
Locksmith
With this skill you learn to create and
use small mechanisms that use springs,
gears, and ball bearings.
Season: Spring
For the spriggan, the knterroristedge of
their season is expressed by a strong link
with a society which is the domain of
spring. They thus have a rather strong
urban empathy.
Season: Spring
6 You never get lost in your city.
On a roll of PER + Season
against a DIFF depending on
the isolation of the spot you are
searching for, you will
inevitably find your way to the
place you are looking for, no
matter how well hidden.
7 You can also find people
living in the city this way.
8 You are always up to date with
the latest news, you know that
there is a rumor about on a roll
of INT + Season vs. DIFF 20.
9 You know your city so well
that no one of its inhabitants is
unknown to you. Every time
you meet someone you can
recognize his name, his
family, his work and his rank
on a roll of INT + Season
against DIFF 20.
10 Your empathy with the city is
very strong. You feel what is
happening to it: any important
event taking place in this city
will be known to you on a roll
of INT + Season against DIFF
25, but in a vague and very
intuitive way.

Spriggan Weapons

INIT. ATT. PAR./Range Damage STR AGI SIZ

Cane- +1 0 0 +2/I 2 2 -1
Sword
Needle +1 +1 0 +2/SI 4 6 -1
Half- 0 0 +1 +3/S 3 5 -1
Sabre
Blowgun +6 -1 30 m +0/P 2 2 -2
Shuriken +3 0 STR x 4m +3/S 4 6 -2
 Hunt: Dancer
6. You are particularly good at
spotting a Dancer. Any difficulty
in finding one is reduced by 5.
7. Your Dancers accept your request
to put themselves in situations
where they are confined and
cannot dance well.
8. You are an expert in predicting the
movements of a Dancer, which
allows you to reduce the difficulty
to catch it by 5.
9. With this knterroristedge you can
guess what move a Dancer will
perform on a roll of PER + Hunt,
specialty Dancer, against the DIFF
of the spell.
10. You have a very strong natural
empathy, even with the Dancers
who are not related to you. The
difficulty of capturing a Dancer is
reduced by 5. In addition you can
try to practice Ascendancy with an
unbound Dancer by doubling the
DIFF of the spell, provided that the
Dancer is not hostile to you.
Legerdemain
6 People only see what you
want them to see. On a roll of
CHA + Legerdemain opposed
with a roll of WIL you can
distract the attention of
someone while you prepare
your maneuver. Very useful
for feints.
7 With good material you can
make anything disappear or
appear.
8 You manipulate objects with
such dexterity that you do not
need any material to make them
disappear, on an AGI +
Legerdemain roll against a
DIFF that depends on the size
of the object.
9 The Magi always ask you
where you’re hiding your
Dancer.
10 no one even notices you acting
any more. You notice the
moments when people are
careful or not, and you know
when to surprise them. On a
roll of PER + Legerdemain
against DIFF 25 you benefit
from a + 3 to your Initiative
for a scene.
 The Small Hunt Locksmith
There are several ways to locate a 6 You understand how machines
Dancer. Most of the Little Hunters work. On a roll of INT +
have their "dancers' corner", a piece of Locksmith you can make,
architecture conducive to dance start, or stop most
thanks to the presence of Shard or mechanisms.
interesting reliefs. One can spot such a
7 You are able to assemble
place by rolling PER + Hunt (spe.
small interesting machines.
Dancers), against DIFF XX (table
You can create small trap
opposite). The SR will indicate the
mechanisms.
quality of the site, increasing the
frequency of Dancers. 8 You create real mechanical
wonders.
Another technique is to use bait to
attract a Dancer: rope, cloth, feather or 9 You can create automata with
sculpture. A roll of INT + Dancer Lore a roll of CRE + Locksmith
against DIFF against DIFF 25. However,
AX (table opposite). Any Shard they can only move for a
contained in the object will also duration equal to SR x 5 + 10
increase this SR. minutes before they need to
Once the Hunting technique is in be rewound.
place, they must wait 20 - SR hours
10 Your automata are so complex
for a Dancer to approach. Obviously if
that they can be confused with
the roll failed, it is only after twenty living beings.
hours that the Small Hunter will
notice. Persuading the Dancer to Dancer Rarity
approach without scaring it requires a
roll of CHA + Hunting, spe. Dancers, Presence DIFF
against DIFF 20. A Dancer who does Very rare 30
not want to be caught is impossible to
Rare 25
grasp.
The Small Hunter then has as many turns Uncommon 20
as his previous SR to try to seize the
Dancer rolling AGI + Hunt, spe. Dancers, Common 15
against DIFF 20. A fumble means the Everywhere 10
dancer leaves immediately. After this time,
the Weary Dancer will go away.
Spriggan Maneuvers and
Weapons
The Machinists have created (or
petitioned from the Square) other weapons
than just the spriggan crossbow.
The cane-sword is particularly famous.
In the form of a simple cane, it can reveal,
by pressing in a precise place, a
murderous blade.
The needle was, it is said, the iron
weapon created by Spriggans to fight
against the summer. It is a straight blade,
sharp and pointed like a rapier, but
adapted to the sizeof a spriggan. No sprite
would ever be allowed to use such a
weapon by the Machinists who make them.
This weapon is primarily used in
Urguemand, Janrenia and the Mercenary
Republic.
The half-sabre is a short saber, especially
used in the Princely Communes, the
Buccaneer Enclaves and the Keshe
Empire.
The blowgun is a ranged weapon that is
sometimes useful in urban areas, provided
the ammunition is coated with some
poisons.
Princean spriggans prefer to throw small
iron stars called Shuriken.
Spriggans have developed some
maneuvers for better use with their
abilities, adapted to urban fighting and
their acrobatic gifts.
Acrobatic Attack (Action)
Conditions: Succeed an AGI + Acrobatics
roll against DIFF 25.
The fighter performs an incredible jump
before attacking his opponent. He has a
bonus equal to his SR on his roll of AGI +
Acrobatics added to his ATT. In case of
failure, it subtracts its negative SR.
Low-Blow (Action)
Conditions: Fight a male opponent of SIZ
+1 or +2 and get an SR of 5.
Damage: +5 Def.: -5
The fighter draws dangerously close to
his opponent to aim for a particularly
sensitive place.
Acrobatic Defense (Reaction)
Conditions: Succeed a roll of AGI +
Acrobatics against DIFF 25.
The fighter performs an awesome
pirouette to dodge the opponent's attack.
He has a bonus equal to his SR on his roll
of AGI + Acrobatics added to his Dodge
roll. He moves MV x 2 meters from his
opponent in the next round. In case of
failure, he subtracts the negative SR.
Magic
Ascendancy
Most spriggans love Dancers, and quite
a few spriggans are respected as being a
powerful Mage. There is no spriggan that
ignores the existence of the Dancers. Here
are typical spriggan spells.
Attracting the Dancer
Obedience: Journist
Threshold: 20
Range: SR x 10m/ one target
Duration: 5 turns
Dance: 2 turns
The Dancer invites another Dancer from
his surroundings to join his Dance, which
ends in the hands of the Mage, who has only
to try to catch it. This Spell, evidently
appreciated by the Small Hunters and the
Censors, is as effective on Free Dancers as
branded ones.
Lackey
Obedience: Journist
Threshold: 20
AoE: One person
Duration: 15 minutes + 5 x SR minutes
Dance: 1 minute
Unlike the Spells "Grand Master" and
"Prince", this Spell seems to make the
Mage a completely negligible person. He
will be taken for a habitual servant of the
place, and his presence will not be
questioned.
Wall pass
Obedience: Eclipsist
Threshold: 20
Range / AoE: Touch / An area of 2 square
meters
Duration: 5 turns
Dance: 5 turns
The sparks projected on a wall draw
any opening through which the Magus and
all that he touches may pass, as long as
they do so before the end of the spell.
The Magical Arts
Though less popular than Ascendancy,
the Arts are quite appreciated by spriggans.
Shape is generally studied only by the
Machinists. The Concordists of Vista are
trompe-l'oeil painters, crunchers or graffiti
lovers. Scansion followers like witticisms,
nursery rhymes and other urban legends. In
Tune, finally, the flute and the cistern are
appreciated first and foremost. It is said that
a spriggan, annoyed by the lack of
enthusiasm of his guests at a party, invented
the Work "Farandole". The drum is
sometimes appreciated and played on small
tambourines. The viola, played on a violin,
is appreciated for the spells related to
animals.
Spring fog
Art: Vista
Threshold: 20
AoE: 10 square meters around the
Concordist
Duration: 5 minutes
Sketch: 1 turn
From the projected pigment a thick fog is
raised. Only the Harmonist sees through it
clear and any other person suffers from a
penalty of -5 to all his rolls of PER and
those requiring the use of the sight.
Spokesperson
Art: Tune
Instrument: Flute
Threshold: 15
Range / AoE: Line of Sight / one target
Duration: 1 hour
Measure: 1 minute
The victim of this spell no longer has
control of his voice. This is under the
influence of the Concordist who decides
what sounds or words will escape from his
lips. This Work is especially appreciated in
coordination with Hypnotism which
allows a great control of a person. It is
said that Scansion Works can be used via
the target of the spell by the Concordist.
The Menace
Humor is the best weapon against the real
enemies, those who gnaw the soul.
Spriggan Proverb
THE DARKNESS
A city shows its true personality only at
night. In the nocturnal darkness, only its
real inhabitants dare to pace the alleys full
of drunkenness, calls, knives and sneering
faces. Only midnight offers so many
opportunities for the mystery, the
grotesque and the delicate art of the
terrorist.
IN THE HEART OF THE
SHADOWS
Interpretation
I like secrets. I like listening, watching
everyone on the lookout for the riddles of
his life, his hidden hounds. Darkness is
like a dark light, revealing the troubled
heart of the city. Thanks to her,
understand, the truth becomes mine and
can then begin the ballet of the terrorist.
We, the Shadows, call the subtle art of
terrifying. Play someone's fears, make him
believe in ghosts, vampires and other
horrors. To show him, more than anything,
that his miserable secrets, which he
thought he was hiding, his clandestine
crimes, will overtake him. For we only use
the Fright on those who deserve it, those
whose wrongs and abuses are hidden in
the darkness of their souls. Only, see, no
one is innocent. No one has the frankness
to have no secrets. So we come, we glide
between his fears, we bring back to life his
nightmares, and we make them dance for
him. We tenderly torture his terrified mind
and force him to confess all his secrets.
Then we decide what his punishment will
be, and maybe we'll incorporate it into
ours, the Terror Guild.
We act in the shadow, reduced to
fleeting and fugitive silhouettes, we watch
and then we strike. We are masters of
mysteries and occult practices. Each is
increased tenfold by our dark bond. We
are without mercy. because suffering and
fear are the most powerful teachers. So
fear us, because we observe you and judge
you.
Extract from a parchment found at the
meeting of Keshite merchants in Qaysaria.
The Temptation
Power and knterroristedge are the two
reasons that will attract a Spriggan to the
Shadow, to which their fascination for fear
is added.
Demonology attracts a large number of
Spriggans, always tempted by the occult.
For many lesser or less fortunate
Spriggans than the Magi, it is even a
golden opportunity to exercise mystical
talents. Conjuration then becomes "the
The underground
Cities are rooted in darkness. There
is a network of undergrounds, cellars
and catacombs that connects all the
cities of the Harmonde. These tunnels
extend, it is said, in the shadow of the
cities. It is a Dark Whore who first
discovered the existence of this crypt.
Since. most Spriggan demonologists
know about it and occasionally use it
to travel unnoticed and fast from one
city to another. But woe to him who
loses his way, because there are many
obscure guts to lead directly to the
Abyss.
In terms of rules. a Dark Spriggan
with at least a Darkness of 5 can find
the Entrance to the Underground on a
roll of PER + Demonology, limited by
Season: Spring against DIFF 25. The
time of his trip will be divided by 5.
but he will have to redo a roll to find
his way inside the underground every
three hundred kilometers. On a failure,
he arrives in the Abyss.
 The black viol
Korev Suremain was the luthier
princean who copied the sprite viol on
behalf of the Spriggans. It is said that,
gone mad for having spent his life only
imitating what others were doing, he
put all his knterroristedge into the
making of a Viol-shaped Artefact.
Alas, his folly had sold him to the
Shadow, and he mixed Darkness with
Shard for the making of the
instrument. At the sight of the black
violin thus created, he committed
suicide. We do not know where the
violin is today, but the effect of its
power is known to all Spriggans: it
allows to transform human or
seasonlings who listen to his song,
giving them attributes of animals or
plants. The hybrids created in this way
often become crazy in the face of their
terrifying metamorphosis. However,
some believe that controlling these
transformations well would give great
abilities.
magic of the poor". The mode of operation
of the Conjuration, based on negotiable
contracts is, for some, more straight-
forward than the strange empathy of the
Dancers. Paradoxically, it makes them less
afraid, seem more affordable, and
possesing of more than satisfactory power.
However, when a Wandering Mage is
interested in Darkness, Witchcraft finds
itself quickly in its preoccupations.
Becoming almost invariably Obscurantist,
he will multiply the power of his
Ascendancy to the sources of Witchcraft.
Few Spriggans resist the desire to know
new arcana.
Knterroristedge is, moreover, what will
make the hesitants fall. Most of the time,
the Dark Spriggan becomes obsessed with
secrets and hidden knterroristedge. He
invariably uses his imp to spy through his
eyes anything that could arouse his
curiosity. It is in an unquenchable thirst
for confidences and mysteries that he lets
himself be gradually contaminated by the
Shadow for the possibilities of learning
that it promises him.
Finally, at all times, Spriggans have felt
sympathy for the Shadow by their
attraction to the horror and the disturbing.
The sarcasm with which they attack their
enemies, the absurd or scary stories they
feast on, their taste for pessimistic
pragmatism make them lovers of the
Shadow and its terror. It is a community
of interest in a way.
The Guild of Terror
This clandestine grouping of Darkness
is dedicated to the art of the Dread, the
mental torture of targets chosen according
to the secrets they hide. On choices for no
other reason than chance, they murder or
spare their victims, reveal or hide their
secrets. All the political leaders of
Harmonde have a true fear, to the great
satisfaction of the frighteners. They act in
all the Twilight Realms where Spriggans
live.
The Silhouassins Guild
This group of murderers and mercenary
spies acts mainly in the princely
Communes and neighboring Twilit
Kingdoms. Expert demonologists, these
hired assassins who are never seen except
in the form of silhouettes dressed in black
praise their craft to those in need of
discrete and effective actions. Some
rumors maintain that they have links to
the Terrors, as informers.
The Cabal of the Onyx Gate
This is one of the groups of Spriggans
with the darkest reputation. They devote
an unparalleled hatred to the sprites and
have sworn to make them pay for their
betrayal. Using torture - and sometimes
witchcraft - they torture every sprite on
whom they put their hand in the belief that
redemption comes from suffering. Their
favorite practice is to bury a sprite in a
block of stone until it is petrified. These
fanatics thus believe they have sent the
sprite through the Onyx Gate, that is to
say, to free the link of the sap and to enter
the city link, as the Spriggans have done.
Although based in Abyme, it is a cabal
already old and quite widespread in the
Twilight Kingdoms.
WHAT I KNOW
To know is the art of the Darkness.
Because of her we have the opportunity to
know more about the occult and the
mysteries of Harmonde.
Circle I
The process begins with the discovery
of Darkness and the intense curiosity it
causes in the dark Spriggan. He
understands that the night is literally
inhabited by a crowd of creatures that feed
on the fear they inspire, his Imp teaches
him the rules of the Conjuration. It's a
whole hidden universe, a new world
opening up to him and for which most
Spriggans feel a powerful desire for
knterroristedge. Most Spriggans have
good relations with their imp, enjoying
their humor, they often make companions
of toil or entertainment. At this point, the
Conquered Demons interest him as much
by what he can learn as by their more
direct utility.
Circle II
Having arrived at this level, the dark
Spriggan initiates a psychological
transformation which makes him
particularly sensitive to the glances placed
on him. He can not bear to feel observed
and always prefers to stay in the shadows.
hidden and discreet. He feels that there is
a link between shadow and darkness,
dread and nightmares. The demons he
invokes begin to have spider-like features:
many paws, eyes with facets ... His
Demons to Spiders
Many wonder why demons
conspired by Spriggans at high
darkness begin to change into spiders.
Is it a kind of particular Demons? Is it
a reverberation of Conjurer's
Darkness? There is no satisfactory
answer at this time. But according to
the most likely hypothesis, it would be
an unconscious request from the
Spriggan during the Conjuration, a
request related to its dark
transformation which in one way or
another would give it an affinity with
the spiders. This hypothesis, however,
is based on the idea that the conjurer
decides the characteristics and
knterroristedge of the Demon when
invoking from a more crude essence of
Darkness, a view that is far from being
shared by all.
nightmares show him invisible, forgotten
by all, or nailed to the pillory. He can not
bear to hear any comment about him. His
joker demon reveals all there is to know
about the families of demons, their
hierarchy and the High Devils, boasting in
passing. The Dark Spriggan then often
makes it as a task for the demons
summoned to take care of his safety and
hide it from the eyes of others.
Circle III
The Spriggan now begins to live mainly
at night, fearing the sun, and to wander in
his city with the desire to insinuate
everywhere. Demonology becomes for
him a passion, and the company of the
Demons appeals to him more than the
celebrity of his fellows. He easily guesses
the desires of the conspiratorial Demons
and prepares them often in advance. Many
Shadowfolk, instead of suffering the usual
55th sorrow, experience an "Obsessive
Curiosity". They become fascinated by
any secret or mystery, ready to do
anything to learn what it really is. This
obsession turns to a real voyeurism. The
Spriggan feels the need to know
everything about the lives of people
around him, investing in their past or
questioning them innocently. He happens
to follow random people on the street and
try to learn everything about them. He
then frequently uses his Demons to spy on
their eyes. Their arachnoid traits are
accentuated: they all become capable of
secreting a Black Thread made of pure
Darkness, which can be used to weave
clothes adding +5 to stealth actions.
Circle IV
The Darken becomes at this stage an
ally of the Shadow. He knows his plans
and designs as well as the Demons and
often helps them. He is very familiar with
demonic society and is able to recognize a
Demon's membership. In every city, he
intuitively knows where to find the
Advocatus Diaboli. For some Spriggans,
the 75th Penalty is replaced by "Obsession
of Fear": the Dark One experiences an
unparalleled pleasure in terrifying people,
if possible, with the most mental cruelty.
He then benefits from the corresponding
Benefit "Art of Dread", which allows him
to contaminate those he torments with the
Dread, thus making new allies of the
Shadow.
He usually chooses a particular type of
target, most of the time representative of
an event from his past that has
Terror
Serving as his likeness for his
terrifying facetiousness, The dark
Spriggans call the technique of
terrifying someone. It is a long process
that begins with the discovery and
slow revelation of its most shameful
secrets. Whether it is to provoke a
quick true fear or to install a throbbing
anguish, the terrorist makes an
opposed roll of CHA or CRE +
Legerdemane against a WIL +
Legerdemane. The SM indicates the
dread that the terrified person is facing.
traumatized him, often linked to his initial
contamination with the Shadow. Then he
undertakes, after having learned
everything from her, to interfere in his life,
without ever showing himself, playing
cruel jokes worthy of a character of a
horror story. He tries to gradually increase
his anguish, making his life a hell, and
sculpting his fears as if it were a work of
art. He then often has a great use of his
Demonic Twin, while the Conquered
Demons continue their arachnid
transformation: he pushes sharp mandibles
at them, and they sometimes ask for blood
as a reward for their efforts. In exchange,
they can provide the dark Spriggan with a
paralyzing blade poison, the Ariadne, of
VIR 27 ... Its effects are an immediate
paralysis and a duration of negative SM x
2 minutes in case of resistance roll failure,
or a penalty of - 5 to all his actions for
three rounds if successful. The victim
remains aware of what happens to him
during the paralysis.
Circle V
At this point, the Dark One believes
that he is becoming a Demon and rejoices.
He regards the night and the Abyss, whose
geography he knows intimately, as his
home and the creatures of Darkness as his
sisters. He knows the origin of the
Darkness, succubes, why the minotaures
are living in the Abyss, etc. The shadows
of the Shadow, in all their duality, is a
knterroristedge that can almost be reached
by grabbing snatches on occasion. Any
magician who has not yet become one is
converted to the practice of Supplice. The
dark Spriggn is wary now of the Mask and
its Perfidy. He can not even stand the light
of Twilight, remaining comfortable only
in true shadow.
He converts the victims of his terrorism
into the shadows and makes them terrified
of the slightest quivering of his toes. He
begins to have ambitions on the Black
Chess Board, of which he is now
considered a piece. He wants to create the
atmosphere of terror of his choice on the
city, sculpting as he pleases. His Demons
now have the integral aspect of spiders of
various shapes and colors that can weave
a web between him and his pawns, sons of
Darkness who have the particularity to
allow him to read their minds and make
them act as he pleases, seeing through
their eyes and acting through their bodies.
It is said that once Fallen - a hundred
points of Darkness -, certain Spriggans
obtain this capacity without the use of the
wire, becoming constantly with their
tokens and those which they themselves
will contaminate, a gestalt entity having a
collective intelligence. But this destiny
can only be that of a single dark Spriggan
per city, since it is to become the Black
King or, some murmur, Black Soul of the
city.
The black chessboard
This name refers to the proper social
organization of dark Spriggans.
Established in a room in the
Underground located under the city.
The Black Chessboard is the setting
for intrigues and exchanges of
information between the various dark
guilds and cabals. If one assumes that
his Black King is a Spriggan with a
Darkness of 10, the mystery remains as
to the choice of the other figures of
this dark court. It is likely that they are
the Spriggans most contaminated by
the Darkness or pawns of the Black
King. It is said that it is on the Black
Chessboard that are decided and
organize the worst attacks and places
of horrors that will mark the spirit of a
city, carving a real atmosphere of
terror among its inhabitants. They are
indirectly opposed to the works of the
White Chess Board. Pleasantly putting
the chaos in the usual hierarchy of the
Court of Miracles.
PERFIDY
THE MASK ?
What is the mask? What are his designs?
These are questions many would like
answered. Listen to me: the mask is
freedom. It does not matter what he is and
what he wants. It offers us the opportunity
to choose another path than that of the
Lady and the Muses. What? That makes
you want to scream at infamy? Well,
exactly! Why should we revere these
ladies, as old as they are? They created
Harmonde, but now it is we who live there,
and it's up to us to choose what we want
to do. Harmonde can not remain a work of
ideal beauty and unchanged. We have the
right to choose our destiny.
If we are smart enough, we can manage
the markets of
expectations
Under this name, with its pretty
consonances, hides one of the most
cruel perfidious phenomena that exists.
This market can open in any city, at the
bend of any lane, as soon as someone
becomes discouraged. If you are
desperate to find the solution to your
problems, you can be sure to see it
open in front of you. And this solution
be offered to you. However the price
of what will be offered to you will be
far from usual. At the Market of
Expectations you sell years of your life
and pieces of your memory, your gift
for languages​ and your unusual
agility, your knowledge of weapons
and your sense of sight. You can sell
feelings, abilities, skills and any of
your own characteristics. In return, we
gain the object of our desire: Dancer
prodigy, a Wonderful artifact, ancient
works gone ... everything we could
dream of. However, what is sold and
what is purchased seems to leave its
mark.
to keep them too busy fighting each other
to care for us. Even so, we can achieve to
give us more power! So tell yourself that
we will win. See what we've achieved
from the beginning. Thanks to Spriggans
like Madrin we continue to become more
independent and powerful. That's why we
Spriggans keep a neutral attitude to the
wars of the Eternals. Because we know
that if one of them wins, it will not benefit
any of us.
You would still like to know, right? I,
too, was curious in my youth. And that's
what I learned: the mask is a jester. He
acts to bring chaos and anarchy into the
Harmonde. He is like those old chess
players who play the game to play and not
to win. Or as a child who does not know
how to play and just plays the parts.
Which does not mean that it must be
underestimated. The mask is the Lord of
madness and extravagance. It is the very
principle of the disturbing element. And
believe me, these things are infiltrating
everywhere and you can never get rid of
them altogether.
ATTRACTIONS
The mask attracts Spriggans in its nets
on a simple promise: to realize their
ideals.
Each Spriggan has his own dreams, his
own ambitions, his own utopian vision.
And the Mask is on his side to encourage
and help him, whispering in his ear how
the end justifies the means. Most
Spriggans are damned by idealism and
opportunism. Their pragmatism pushes
them to acquiesce when it is proposed that
a cause justifies sacrifices. And from
sacrifice to sacrifices, the people lie, steal,
murder, torture ... All this for a perfectly
altruistic purpose.
As they advance in the treacherous
voice, the Spriggans actually defy the
Mask. In reality, they think with their
usual arrogance using it for their own
purposes. Treachery is probably the only
way to defeat the Master of the
Appearance at his own game. But as his
Perfidy develops, the Spriggan becomes
more and more paranoid, more and more
fanatical, and more and more inclined to
believe the accusations that the Mask
utters on his entourage. Becoming
mistrust incarnated, he considers more and
more his knowledge as tools. But perhaps
you will be the one who will beat the
Mask to his favorite game, and use its
benefits to annihilate it?
narcole marquevielle
Formerly a brilliant Inspired,
diplomat by profession, whose fight
against slavery and tyranny was known
throughout the Harmonde. Narcole
quickly gained in Perfidy in the desire
to help her crusade. Although her
flame is now damned, many do not
despair of bringing her back on the
path of Inspiration, because it seems
that indeed she keeps the will to
redeem herself and has already on
occasion helped the Inspired who
crossed her way to free slaves from the
Widow Lands. The most pessimistic
claim that she did it only for the
purpose of playing the Mask’s game,
but the ambiguity remains. Is not
Narcole Marquevieille the very one
who has affirmed that every notion of
good or evil must be submitted to the
interest of the Harmonde?
The Secrets of the
Ladies
No story is wrong,
for even lies contain truths.
Spriggan Proverb
Secrets are numerous among the
Spriggan community. The wildest rumors
run by word of mouth, repeated, deformed
and amplified to infinity. Here are a few.
Who would know where their truth is?
Where is their lie?
URBAN SECRETS
For city dwelling Spriggans, many
questions and mysteries remain
concerning the cities of the Harmonde.
METROPOLA
This legend began to run in the mouths
of the followers of Urbeat, before interest
the other Spriggans. It would be a gigantic
city, in a sense the very essence of
urbanity, painted through one of the
largest existing world-paintings. City of
perfection where all coexist in peace for
some, or cited vices according to others, it
would certainly have the most powerful
soul-city that is. Other stories claim that
on its walls one can spy on anything
happening in a city location across the
world. Finally, some imagine it as a light
equivalent of the Wax of Shadows, Abyme,
portal to the Spirit Center.
JOINING THE CITY-SOUL
It has long been rumored that Spriggans
who become too close to the City Soul
become strange creatures. Many are
certain that one becomes a statue as with
the Stonepox disease or like the kiss of a
Salamander, others are persuaded that one
becomes much more strange a thing.
The urban skin
Revianne Clairvoie was a Spriggan
from Orkhane fascinated by her native
city. She had asked one of her friends,
a concordist satyr of Vista, to tattoo on
her skin the perfect plan of the city.
hoping to get closer to it. She became
crazy but also endowed with a power
of "Second View" allowing her to
know the thoughts of every inhabitant
of Orkhane, whose content she
constantly said in her madness. She
was murdered despite attempts to
protect the satyr, as soon as her gift
was known, and skinned to preserve
his tattoo. It is not known what this
tattooed skin has become, but it is said
that by wearing it, one would have
access to this power. without the
inconvenience of madness.
Some legends mention the Anonymous,
silhouettes drawn in chalk on the walls,
which nevertheless move and observe
while remaining silent. It is also claimed
that these are houses or other buildings
that are born where a Spriggan becomes
too close to his city. As for the believers of
Urbeat, they say that we are one with the
City Soul, quite simply.
MYSTERIOUS DANCERS
Another of the great Spriggans
concerns is the existence of dancers. We
do not know much about these graceful
creatures. Many are the mysteries who
accompany them.
THE POUCETS
This name would designate Dancers
who existed even before the Eclipse.
Endowed with the same empathy, they
expressed it through perfumes similar to
those of flowers. Legends report that they
were friends with Spriggans and Sprites,
explaining the affinity of the two Decans
with Dancers. Although it seems that they
did not allow Ascendancy, they would
have had a power linked to arboreal
Pollen, the secret of its use was stolen by
the Sprites. It is said that they disappeared
at the end of the Wars of the Decans, in a
terrible sacrifice to save their springling
friends.
BALLERINA
It was the work of a Spriggan who was
unfortunately allergic to sparks, yet who
dreamed only of using Ascendancy. He
studied the mechanics of locks and
clockwork of the dwarves to create a
completely mechanical Dancer, built with
Shard. Thanks to what he named Ballerina,
he finally had succeeded in practicing
Ascendancy. Most members of the
Cypher-Sorcerer find this story ridiculous.
not imagining that one can reproduce the
effects of the dancers.
THE CABAL OF THE
EPHEMERA
According to some buccaneer stories.
Spriggans with extreme anarchism would
have been allied with Automnlings freed
from the influence of the Mask. Their aim
would be to cut off all the seasons of the
Harmonde from their privileged ties with
their Lady. They would hope to prevent
any risk of a new drama like the Eclipse
and give the seasonins the same political
freedom as humans. They are said to have
named themselves the Cabal of the
Ephemera to mark their opposition to the
Eternals. One wonders if such a cabal
exists, and if these Automnlings are as
free from the Mask as they think.

SPRING CONFIDENCES
Spriggans are attached, moderately, to
the interests of their Lady and the origins
of their Decan. Yet some puzzles deserve
attention.

THE BROTHER DECAN

One of the least favorite stories
repeated by Spriggans is that they only
began to exist after their diaspora. Indeed
before the war of the Decanates they
would have been Sprites! The Lady of
Spring, seeing the weakness of having
only two Decans, commanded a party of
Sprites, the followers of Sprigga, to exile
in order to form a new people. The
remaining Sprites, in their jealousy of the
elect of the Lady, immediately persecuted
them. This is another rumor that seems
ridiculous to many. Why only the Lady of
Spring have had only two Decans?