Lost Star
Value: 8
Notions • Cats • Clocks • Wind
Meanings: Good or bad luck, great distance, great age, great value
We gaze into the night sky and we see the stars shining back down on us. We wonder what they really are (but that’s a secret for another time). Stars represent a higher world, where everything is magnified. Everything having to do with the stars is far greater than it would be in our world. Love burns brighter, gems sparkle more beautifully, and children sing more sweetly. At the same time, disasters are more calamitous, anger seethes more deeply, and armies wage wars far longer.
Divination: The Lost Star offers good or bad fortune determined by the card turned after it on the Path. Whatever this card suggests, it is epic in scale. Something important to the person in question is a very long way away, very old, or very valuable. The Lost Star amplifies any other results determined by other cards.
Game Narrative: Something needed is a very long distance away. An important NPC is very old. A treasure or work of art is very valuable. Something that was going to happen anyway happens in a much larger way—a rain shower becomes a torrential downpour, a raid by enemies is an invasion, a bit of success in gambling turns into a huge windfall.
Joy: The PC’s success is magnified greatly—an attack is a killing blow, an attempt to charm results in romance, and so on. The range or duration of a spell cast by the PC is doubled.
Despair: The PC’s failure has far greater implications than they realized initially. A minor injury turns into a terrible affliction. Something the PC needs is much farther away than they thought.
Stars fall. It happens. But what happens next depends on who finds it.