Soulblight - The First Cycle

Before the time of iron and steel
There was an age of stone and clay
Where the nights were long
And the flame a second sun
In the hands of mortal man.

SOULBLIGHT - THE FIRST CYCLE is a new expansion for  the Soulblight-Setting, written and designed for Shadowdark RPG that hurls your players through time and history, back to the very beginning, when mortals but first learned to fashion bronze from tin and copper, and stone was more widely known a tool and resource. 

Inspired by the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age, SOULBLIGHT - THE FIRST CYCLE introduces you to the Nameless Valleys, set between snow-capped mountains to the north and carved by rushing rivers, a land filled with wandering and settling tribes, carrying ideas of fire against the wilderness, constructing first ideas of civilization.

But while mortals rise, giants stir in the cold mountains, ancient viperians dream in their amber tombs, and star-fallen beasts wander the heavens to descend upon the primal earth. And to the west, there grows an age of metal, smelting tin and copper together to forge tools and weapons of bronze...

Designed around a hexcrawl map, SOULBLIGHT - THE FIRST CYCLE adds the following to your Shadowdark table, spread across over 240 pages:

• The Amber Hold. A 3rd to 4th-level adventure into a viperian tomb, filled with demons and serpent-men.
• 100+ new monsters. From burgeoning tribals to eldritch horrors fallen from the stars.
• Treasures and Tools of an Age of Stone and Bronze! Stone, Obsidian, Bronze and Silver blade, fire baskets, stranger idols and star-fallen gems!
• Rituals. Powerful magical rites, requiring precise ingredients and channellers of greater power that may alter the world around you.
• The Seasons and the Below. Additional rules for overland travel, to survive the harshest weathers and seek the dark underground
• A new Soulblight that makes savage monster of fire-wielding man.
• And much, much more...
  
  

A PoD version is available on Amazon Kindle!

Special Thanks To:

Ole Bunte & Yara Zousa, and the Archaeological Open-Air Museum Oerlinghausen  for providing historical background and aiding in research.

Soublight - The First Cycle copyright 2025 by Laurin-David Weggen. All rights reserved. Permission given to copy for personal use.

Shadowdark License. Soulblight is an independent product published under the Shadowdark RPG Third-Party License and is not affiliated with The Arcane Library, LLC. Shadowdark RPG © The Arcane Library, LLC.