Crowded Tomb
Value: 1
Secrets • Ravens • Books • Flame
Meanings: Endings, despair, completion
The tomb lies at the end of all stories, the reward for the greatest monarch and the lowliest beggar. Of course the tomb is crowded. It grows more crowded each day. Mourners crowd around the tomb, but it is even more crowded within. So many deaths. So many endings.
Crowded Tomb is the location card of the Secrets family, and thus represents a permanence or is related to a physical place. This means that the finality that it represents probably occurs in a specific and significant location.
Divination: The Crowded Tomb is an ending. Not necessarily a sudden ending—an ending that you know full well is coming, whether you acknowledge it or not. It might just mean that a task is finished. It doesn’t always need to be sad—everything needs to end sometime. But there is an air of despair to this card. Not outright misery, perhaps, but a lingering sadness. A mourning.
Game Narrative: Someone dies. Something ends. An NPC is filled with sadness.
Joy: Something harmful to the PC comes to an end. An opponent or obstacle for the PC dies or is gripped with debilitating despair.
Despair: Someone significant to the PC dies. Something created by the PC is destroyed or otherwise comes to an end.
The silence grows more crowded. And yet remains silent.