Scribd
Upload
403 views

MÖRK BORG Lore Primer

This document provides lore about characters, locations, and mythology for the MÖRK BORG roleplaying game. It introduces several characters of note including the Blood Countess Anthelia, the Shadow King, King Sigfúm the Kind, and King Fathmu IX. It also describes several ominous locations in the world like the Palace of the Shadow King, the city of Galgenbeck, and the Valley of the Unfortunate Undead. Finally, it mentions several mythical figures that play a role in the game's mythology such as Anuk Schleger, Lusi, Arkh, Gorgh, Verhu, Nechrubel, and Yetsabu-Nech.

Uploaded by

Caio Augusto Santos Castro
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
403 views

MÖRK BORG Lore Primer

This document provides lore about characters, locations, and mythology for the MÖRK BORG roleplaying game. It introduces several characters of note including the Blood Countess Anthelia, the Shadow King, King Sigfúm the Kind, and King Fathmu IX. It also describes several ominous locations in the world like the Palace of the Shadow King, the city of Galgenbeck, and the Valley of the Unfortunate Undead. Finally, it mentions several mythical figures that play a role in the game's mythology such as Anuk Schleger, Lusi, Arkh, Gorgh, Verhu, Nechrubel, and Yetsabu-Nech.

Uploaded by

Caio Augusto Santos Castro
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 5

MÖRK BORG LORE PRIMER

CHARACTERS OF NOTE

Blood-countess Anthelia
Role Blood-countess of Kergüs.
Location White stone castle in Alliáns, Kergüs
Themes Suitors, cold, lack of color, ambivalence, vampirism
Notes Possibly a vampire.
Hooks Seeks colour and warmth. Promises rewards for it. / Foolish vampire
hunters want to try to assassinate her; stop them before they get
themselves killed.

The Shadow King


Role Legend-shrouded king of rubble.
Location The Palace of the Shadow King, Graven-Tosk
Themes Servants, agents, ruins, mystery
Notes His courtiers have servants with slaves
Hooks Princes of his line disguise themselves as ordinary men, tricking
travelers

King Sigfúm the Kind

Role Mocked king of a doomed city.


Location City state Grift, on the eastern peninsula of the Endless Sea.
Themes Disrepair, doom, acceptance of fate
Notes Sigfum wants everyone in Grift to commit suicide when the time comes.
Hooks Inquisition of the Two-Headed Basilisks thinks that Sigfum’s mass suicide
scheme is heretical

King Fathmu IX

Role Paranoid ruler riddled with psychosis.


Location Secret citadel in the city of Schleswig.
Themes Insanity, paranoia, greed, survival, fear, tyranny, taxes, fascism
Notes City of Schleswig is gaudy but very sad and depressing. Statues and
monuments but poverty and disrepair. Vaults of the King are filled
with gold taken away from his subjects.
Hooks Fathmu’s men take everything from villagers /New laws, new taxes.
Executions.
Arch-Priestess Josilfa Migol

Role Immortal leader of the Two-Headed Basilisks


Location Black Chamber underneath the Cathedral in Galgenbeck, greatest city that
ever was.
Themes Religious fear, inquisition, corruption, seduction by evil
Notes Josilfa probably colludes with Nechrubel
Hooks Inquisition of Two-Headed Basilisks hunts down every sinner preparing to
escape from the apocalypse early /

LOCATIONS

Tveland

Look
Themes
Notes
Hooks

Galgenbeck, Tveland

Look
Themes Greatest city that ever was, Cathedral of the Two-Headed Basilisks,
Notes Ruled by Arch-Priestess Josilfa Migol
Hooks Commoners gossip that the Arch-Priestess colludes with Nechrubel, who gave
her eternal life, Heretics and apostates are hunted down by the
Inquisition, slave revolt

Sarkash, Tveland

Look Overgrown gloom, paths tangle and wind


Themes Cold, darkness, dead trees, bramble, danger, growth
Notes Grows far too quickly, brimming with deadly creatures
Hooks Something strange and warm, birthed from the burgeoning apocalypse, has
begun to force dangerous wildlife out of the woods and towards Galgenbeck,
fires,

Graven-Tosk, Tveland

Look Surrounded by halo of dying trees, ancient cemetery with mausoleums,


cherubs, fountains, heavy air, hard to breathe
Themes Undead
Notes Lies in Sarkash, Palace of the Shadow King rises above it.
Hooks Getting warmer, frantic scratchings

Palace of the Shadow King

Look Gothic black castle, mirror of the Cathedral of the Two-Headed Basilisk.
Most of it lies in crumbling ruins. Rubble covered catacombs and cellars.
Tunnels sprawl beneath.
Themes
Notes
Hooks Princes of the Shadow King’s line wander the ruins disguised as ordinary
men, tricking travelers

Wästland

Look
Themes
Notes
Hooks

Schleswig, Wästland

Look sad but gaudy


Themes
Notes
Hooks

Kergüs

Look Ice-wracked expanse, plains, cracked earth.


Themes
Notes
Hooks

Alliáns, Kergüs

Look Spire-city of black glass.


Themes
Notes
Hooks
Grift

Look
Themes
Notes
Hooks Suicide cults, enormous cave system nearby,

Múr, Grift

Look
Themes
Notes
Hooks

Valley of the Unfortunate Undead

Look
Themes
Notes
Hooks

The Endless Sea

Look
Themes
Notes
Hooks

Lake Onda, Wästland

Look
Themes
Notes
Hooks Children missing

Bergen Chrypt

Look Mountains of Madness


Themes
Notes
Hooks
Cube Violet

Look Walls are smooth, iridescent and cold. Above, an endless inferno.
Themes Esoteric dimension of mythical obscurity
Notes Getting here or back again is usually not voluntarily done
Hooks Get out.

MYTHOLOGY

Anuk Schleger
Monk of the Creton order. Wrote down the prophecies of Verhu in the Nameless
Scriptures.

SHE
Lusi - Head of Denial
Arkh - Head of Deception

HE
Gorgh - bitter, rank with envy
Verhu - damned truth

Nechrubel
The Shadow that covers all. Melancholy, crop failure, conflict and war. Said to have
whispered the apocalyptic prophecies in Verhu’s ear.

Yetsabu-Nech
The underworld’s nightmare, the black disks which stands before the sun.

COMMUNITY CREATED LORE


CHARACTERS OF NOTE

LOCATIONS

● MYTHOLOGY

You might also like