Dread Shrines

Hail, Faireblood of Karg-Untief!

Eternal. Cursed. Unforgiving.

DREAD SHRINES is a solo journaling, pen-and-paper, roguelike dungeon crawler inspired by games like Pelle Nilsson's DARK FORT, FromSoft's Dark Souls, ChAIR Entertainment's Infinity Blade, among others.

Delve inside six unique DREAD SHRINES, foul dens hosting decay, forgotten truths, and inescapable doom. Burn them to ash, or be consumed by the curse they guard.

Again THEY bleed. Again THEY rise.

As the Faireblood scion of Karg-Untief, you inherit:

• A Cursed Journal: It's whispering promises endlessly echoing of both glory and demise.
• Six Dungeons to BURN: From the venomous Viper’s Pit to the temporal labyrinth of the Prophet’s Mausoleum.
• Various Instruments of Ruin: Magick relics, vials of elixir and tincture, and weapons that remember ancestral bloodshed.
• An Oath Written in Blood: Fail, and your next of kin inherits your quest. Die, and your corpse fuels the curse.

The rogue-king’s Throne awaits those strong enough to break the cycle... or perpetuate it.

Venture. Record. Plunder. DIE!

Inside the pages of the Cursed Journal you'll find:

• A Simple Roll and Journal Based Delve: D4, D6 and D8 rolls uniquely shape each playthrough (with weapons dealing up to D12 points of DMG)! Map shrines, record boons, and inscribe your demise in soul-staining ink.
• Generational Tragedy: Your progress echoes through your heirs. Items collected and DREAD SHRINES burned (but never your silver, vials, or hard-won respite) shape the fate of those who follow.
• Philosophical Gloom: Confront themes of inescapable legacy, the weight of inherited sin, and the futility of glory in a world rotting from within.
• Multiple Ends to Experience and Find: Several "BAD" ones, a few "NORMAL" ones, not enough "GOOD?" ones... and perhaps even a "TRUE" one.

The PAGE fuels FLAMES. And BLOOD the QUILL.

If you seek:

• A solo RPG where hope curdles like old blood...
• The weight of generational failure sharpened into a dagger...
• A dungeon crawler that mirrors the suffocating grasp of destiny...
• The cursed allure of objects imbued with secret dark magicks...

...ALL DREAD SHRINES PATIENTLY AWAITS.

MORK BORG THIRD PARTY LICENSE

DREAD SHRINES is an independent production by El Chupalabras, Midosensha Studios & Folhas da Yggdrasil and is not affiliated with Ockult Örtmästare Games or Stockholm Kartell. It is published under the MÖRK BORG Third Party License.

MÖRK BORG is copyright Ockult Örtmästare Games and Stockholm Kartell.