A complete standalone science-fantasy RPG based on Shadow of the Demon Lord, When The Wolf Comes is a game of storytelling, heroism, and epic struggle set in a parallel timeline where the Vikings never lost a battle, yet Ragnarök, the doom of the gods, has brought the Norse Empire to its knees. After discovering Yggdrasil, a vast intelligence that seeded life throughout the cosmos, the kingdoms of menn migrated to far-flung exoplanets, connected by the Great Ash and her greenways. These so-called realms of the gods bring new materials and deadly perils.
Across the Nine Homeworlds, modern menn with restless fleets wield technology indistinguishable from magic. Where once they bowed to the Æsir, now they worship money and fame. New sciences bring immortality within tantalizing reach. The Æsir and Vanir have escaped all searches, though their mysteries are still found everywhere. The elites of menn have stolen the fruit of Yggdrasil and changed their very nature, birthing nightmares. Meanwhile, the unfathomable Norns twist mortal lives to their intricate designs, as they try to rethread the timelines from echoes of pasts that never existed.
When The Wolf Comes features rules to help you build futuristic Norse characters from Berserker to Wolfshead, as well as living legends like dvergar, the monstrous jötnar, and the Álfar, the true scions of Yggdrasil. Lead warbands in pursuit of fame and plunder, and tell new sagas of secrets, sacrifice, ritual, and war. Master spell-song and seiðr – or learn to harness your hamr, hugr, and other Gifts of Nature. The When The Wolf Comes corebook also gives Game Masters tools to create adventures, a bestiary of deadly creatures, a detailed history of the Níu Heimar, and extensive advice to run the game.
Let your enemies fear your weapons, and your allies be heartened by your courage – and should you fall, be sure it is a glorious end, worthy of song and the pride of future generations.
- New rules for fate, technology, honor and shame, shell shock, and lineages
- 100+ Spells and Gifts
- Each path, spell, and weapon has an authentic (but optional) Norse name – play as a Varangian or a Væringi, an Outlaw or an Utlagi, a Thread Rider or a þráðriða
- Grab your battle rifle and venture across the World's End in the first chapter of Thought & Memory Saga
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