Companions of Limitas: Ruin Guide

The Fall, by Limitas: Nothing lasts forever. Every life ends. Every dynasty falls. And every empire crumbles. Just as the dust of our bodies returns to the soil upon death, nature reclaims the city’s stones and wood as its own. Vines tangle the walls and shroud the door ways. Trees spring up between cobbles, splitting the ground. The rains smooth the edifice and icon. Ploughed fields and canals bloom with wild flowers. Wild beasts make dens in the dwellings of kings, and long lines of knowledge and tradition end in quiet darkness. People fall to disaster, or flee to another way of life. Thus is the fate of all civilisations.

However, in this world, not all civilisations fall so simply or gracefully. For this world has given birth to vast and terrible empires of magic and mystery; and every grand climb demands a grand fall. These fallen cities are not simply reclaimed by nature, but consumed by it, like a leech drinking ill blood. The very stones of the world seem to pull these cities down into the darkness. Whole neighbourhoods are consumed; left as the scant chambers of great underground labyrinths. In place of beasts and scavengers, the twisted war machines and monsters of ages past stalk these sinking halls. No wolves or jackals here, instead the bones of fallen warriors rise again to continue their endless conquest of nothing. No vulture or hyena, instead the slain of this world are picked clean by chimeric beasts forged of blood and of magic. No owls can be heard crying here, instead ancient guardians of stone keep silent vigil over the tomb of their lost world.

This process of ruin is like a force of the world. Pulling the great and terrible works of the world within itself and decomposing them. Great palaces are turned into spiralling halls to nowhere. Great pits open up, places of rest and work fill with molten stone, and temples are crushed by the weight of the world.

It is not only the physical which gets consumed the forces of ruin, but knowledge as well. As the aeons pass, lost texts and dead languages sink into the dark earth; decomposed into one lost ruinous tongue. Just as all layers of aeons pile on top of each other, lost secrets and techniques accumulate in the dark. Awaiting the light of knowledge.

However, some secrets may be best left in the dark. Consider the magic which warps beasts and humans alike against their will. Consider the great weapons of conquest left in the darkness of ruin. Shall they be brandished again? And against who? These questions can only be answered by those who brave the ruins of the lost worlds, and come back with treasures terrific and terrible indeed. Like I once did, when I was a child standing before the dark cave’s mouth.

A Ruin generation supplement for Companion's of Limitas. This book expands on the rules given in the original Basic Guide, adding:

• Five new layers of ancient ruins to explore, each stranger than the last
• A new society native to the lost ruins, with alien powers and a dark god to please
• Over 100 powerful one of a kind relics to place across the world
• Expanded ruin treasure and monster charts, that go all the way up to 150
• Expanded options for base building, gained from harvesting lost ruins
• A new background based around anticipating the twists and turns of ruins
• Over 30 new creatures to populate this fantasy world, from classics like the Gorgon, and far odder creatures, like the exploding potion dispenser
• Rules for generating new monsters to populate lost ruins
• A new Magic System based around harvesting monsters to eat for powerful effects
• A new background for the above Magic System, which specializes in dicing foes in and off the battlefield
• Expanded options for previous book's backgrounds
• 10 early examples of Weird Locations, such as the the Inn at the center of the world and the lost valley of reptilian giants (because every TTRPG needs Dinosaurs at some point)
• and finally, four sample ruins to run for your players

The basic guide for this game system can be found at https://sotreknomad.itch.io/companions-of-limitas. The guide for magic can be found at https://sotreknomad.itch.io/companions-of-limitas-magic-guide. Stay tuned for the last book in this series, which will expand on the weird locations beyond imagining, giving you 80 to choose from!