This month's carnival host +Phil Nicholls suggested I post a list of potential omens suitable for Numenera as a follow up to my post last week, which I thought was a really weird and interesting idea. Ergo, I set myself to 1d20 worth of Numenera omens!
The basic format here will be number, omen sign, omen meaning. If I need to deviate from this I'll make note of that somehow.
- A wild Seskii is following you. Danger from wild predators.
- Seskii are drawn to humans enough that they may even intervene if they have been treated well.
- A Philethis sighting. A common omen, such as it is. Most people assume rightly that it means something important is about to happen; the tricky part is figuring out what thing is actually important.
- Red lightning on the horizon. This is commonly held to indicate when the datasphere will go mysteriously silent for a day or three.
- The green band of the moon being absent during the night of the midsummer full moon. A poor harvest season is coming.
- A child born with gills in the Beyond. If the child lives it means great fortune for them, if it dies it means flooding rains are coming.
- Purple light at dawn. You will encounter an ultraterrestrial that day.
- An intact dessicated amphibian in the road. The Iron Wind is coming.
- Oily black rain. Good fortune for craftspeople.
- Biting ones tongue. You will find shins today.
- A dud cypher during a new moon. You will lose a limb soon.
- Finding a shin in your meat. Disease or other illness within the next month.
- Seeing a cloud shaped like a creature. A warning from the datasphere to beware of said creature.
- One of your oddities cease to function.
- In Ghan this means stormy weather is coming
- In the Beyond this indicates that you will learn something significant soon.
- One of your shins begins to blink. The datasphere has an answer for you, though you may not yet know the question.
- An all white Shanu crossing your path. Bad luck for the rest of the month (lunar cycle).
- A falling star (meteor) in blue. Fair weather.
- An all red bird in winter. Death.
- Your drink loses it bubbles/head/aroma quickly. You will meet a new freind soon.
- Breaking mirror by accident. You will discover a lie or secret soon.
- A sweet taste in your mouth after using the datasphere. The knowledge you gained will come to bad ends.
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