LetsBuild5e:Rumours
The Word on the Street[edit]
The following rumours are current (Decision: [1]):
- According to street gossip just before the revolution, the mages were planning to raid the city's cemeteries to turn the bodies into undead labourers.
- According to the popular interpretation of a recent gnomish apocalypse, the sides of the world change places when the gods are sickened by mortal civilisation, and let chief-fiend wreak chaos.
- According to popular superstition, bodies that are not properly buried in hallowed, marked graves can rise as mindless undead; when the flip approaches, this happens everywhere at once.
- According to the elvish irredentists, the flip is brought about by cultural weakness, which is why it is so urgent to re-establish the elven empire without the flaws it possessed before.
- According to someone in the tavern there are several villas in the city which have not been opened since the mages who owned them died in the revolution; they could be full of treasure, or just magical traps.
- The steppe nomads will not accept silver coinage; according to rumours in countries further north, that's because many of them are lycanthropes.
- According to a half-elven sage, the world flips sides because the gods cannot control it; their pact with chief-fiend prevents them stabilising it properly.
- According to gossip among former mage students, the world flipped because someone spoke its true name in the Divine Language; be careful with your Old Mystic in case you do the same thing by accident.
- According to a bard who left town last week, the half-orc woman who calls herself the heir of the conqueror is only missing one piece of the imperial regalia; she'll pay handsomely if anyone can get it for her.
- According to a drunken elf who had to be prevented from jumping off the wall, the dwarves have already begun abandoning their holdings in order to begin the journey to the far side.
- According to a ragged preacher who wanders the slums, the insect-people have betrayed the warm-blooded races; the earthworks will not stand.
- According to dwarven workers in the marketplace, a major mine of some sort of precious resource (gold, silver, gems, or more magical substances) is somewhere in the mountains to the west, its location lost after its discoverer died without telling anyone where it is.
- It's whispered by priestly novitiates that the gods have once again taken on mortal forms and are wandering the world, most notably the Trickster, the Love deity, and the Scholar deity.
