Rusałka
Assent Sacrifice
You will give the petitioner
what they want, but they
must sacrifice something
they hold dear.
Flashback: What caused you
to abandon your hopes and
dreams?
Gift Sacrifice
You will give the petitioner
the ability to harm their
enemies however they so
choose, but the petitioner
will suffer the same harm
as well.
Flashback: How did you
sacrifice your own happiness
to spite those you hated?
Gift Sacrifice
You will make the
petitioner young again, so
that they remain youthful
for all eternity.
Flashback: How old were
you when you drowned?
Gift Sacrifice
You will create a drought
and blight the crops.
Flashback: Why do you wish
to see the fields devoured and
the village destroyed?
Gift Sacrifice
You will make plants grow,
impossibly fast, beyond
what any farmer can
control.
Flashback: When the fields
failed to yield fruit, why did
the people of the village
blame you?
Price Sacrifice
At the end of a year, the
petitioner will have to
drown themself, or find
someone to take their
place.
Flashback: What did the
village priest pray for as he
held you beneath the water
until you drowned?
Price Sacrifice
You will give the petitioner
what they want, but only if
they forsake forever the
person or thing that they
most love.
Flashback: Who did you
love? How did you lose them?
Refusal Sacrifice
You give the petitioner
nothing, for they have
failed to make the proper
sacrifices, and you will stop
one other rusalka from
granting the request, as
well.
Flashback: How were you
and that rusalka opposed to
each other in life?
Assent Tides
The ability the petitioner
seeks lies in an item deep
beneath the waves, and it
will require a dangerous
journey into the deep to
get it back.
Flashback: What did you use
the artifact for in your own
life, and why did you cast it
into the sea?
Assent Tides
You will give the petitioner
what they want, and they
will achieve more than they
desired, so much that it
causes problems.
Flashback: What
achievement in your life was
most significant?
Gift Tides
You can create rain,
thunderstorms, hurricanes
and floods, the most
powerful this village has
seen in a hundred years.
Flashback: Why did you take
the boat out alone into the
thunderstorm, on the night
that you died?
Gift Tides
You will teach the
petitioner how to spin
straw into gold, wool into
food and flax into pure
shadow.
Flashback: In what far-off
land did you learn this
magical talent?
Gift Tides
You will change the
petitioner’s aspect, so that
their appearance creates
dread in the hearts of any
who lay eyes upon them.
Flashback: When you sailed
as a pirate, what fearsome
deeds were you renowned for?
Gift Tides
You will control the waters
for the petitioner,
commanding the tides to
stand still, parting the sea,
and making rivers change
their course.
Flashback: Why did you
travel across the ocean to be
among these strangers in life,
and then in death?
Refusal Tides
You cannot give the
petitioner what they want,
but you can tell them how
to find what they seek on
the far side of a vast ocean.
Flashback: How did you
once possess what the mortal
seeks, and how did you lose
it?
Refusal Tides
The petitioner has insulted
you and your fellow
rusalka, and therefore you
will give them nothing.
Flashback: Who here among
the rusalka did you once feel
fierce loyalty toward, and
why?
Gift Mists
You will change the
petitioner’s appearance so
that none will know who
they are.
Flashback: Why did you
disguise yourself to hide your
identity from one of the other
rusalka?
Gift Mists
You will enchant one place
of the petitioner’s choosing,
so that it is forever
shrouded in mists, and
none can find it except for
those that know the secret
charm.
Flashback: When you first
came to the rusalka pool, who
were you trying to hide from?
Assent Mists
You will give the petitioner
what they want, but they
will regret their request.
Flashback: What warning
did you fail to heed?
Gift Mists
You will make it so that the
petitioner can pass through
walls and obstacles, as
silent and insubstantial as
the fog.
Flashback: What terrible
secret did you learn as you
secretly watched the person
you most trusted?
Gift Mists
You will teach the
petitioner a charm that
turns fouls drinking water,
turns food poisonous and
makes the air painful to
breathe.
Flashback: Who poisoned
you? Why did they want you
dead?
Price Mists
You will give the petitioner
the magical talent that they
need, but once they use it
they will fade away into
mist.
Flashback: What optimistic
belief did hold in life and
how was it shown to be
mistaken?
Price Mists
You will give the petitioner
what they want, but they
will be blind for the rest of
their days.
Flashback: What should you
have seen in your life, but
you only recognize now that
you are dead?
Refusal Mists
You will tell the petitioner
“I wish I could help you,
but this situation is beyond
my magical capabilities.”
Flashback: Why are you
lying to this mortal, hiding
the fact that you could help?
Assent Reflection
You will give the petitioner
what they want, and they
will earn a friend, reward
or good reputation in the
process.
Flashback: Who in the
village did you love while you
were alive?
Assent Reflection
You will give the petitioner
what they want, except for
one tiny detail that will not
go as they wish.
Flashback: How did one tiny
mistake lead to your death?
Refusal Reflection
You will not give the
petitioner what they want,
but their life will improve
because they return home
empty-handed.
Flashback: How is their
current plight similar to your
plight when you were alive?
Gift Reflection
You will teach the
petitioner a beguiling song
that makes people love
them.
Flashback: Who beguiled you
with their song, and how did
they betray you?
Gift Reflection
You will show the
petitioner visions of the
future in the pool’s waters,
though they won’t like
what they see.
Flashback: How did your
hatred change to be more like
the person you most hated?
Price Reflection
You will give the petitioner
what they want, but they
must give up their ability
to speak ever again.
Flashback: Who here among
the rusalka was once a great
rival of yours, and in what
endeavor?
Price Reflection
You will give the petitioner
what they want, but only if
they come join the rusalka
for eternity once their
desire has been fulfilled.
Flashback: What draws you
to this petitioner so that you
want them to spend eternity
with you?
Refusal Reflection
The petitioner will not find
what they seek here, but
using illusions you will
draw them into the pool to
drown instead.
Flashback: Why does the
mortal look nearly identical
to you? How are they
connected to you?
Assent Moonlight
The petitioner gets exactly
what they want, but getting
what they want will change
them.
Flashback: What did you
desire most in life? How did
that desire change who you
were?
Gift Moonlight
You will give the petitioner
a cloak made of wolf pelt,
that changes the wearer
into a wolf when worn by
moonlight.
Flashback: Whose blood
dripped from your hands as
you stood in a moonlit forest?
Gift Moonlight
You will change the
petitioner’s eyes so that the
next person who sees their
face uncovered grows
scales and fins, like a fish.
Flashback: How did someone
you once loved change into
someone you hated?
Price Moonlight
The petitioner must live as a
beggar for seven years and
seven days, never bathing,
never wearing any clothes
except this wolf pelt. Then I
will grant your request.
Flashback: How did you lose
your great wealth and forced
into beggardom?
Price Moonlight
You will give the petitioner
what they want, but they
must give up the skill or
trait that most defines their
life.
Flashback: What thing in
this place did you lovingly
craft with your own hands?
Choose from among items
already established, if
possible.
Price Moonlight
You will give the petitioner
what they want, but they
can never see their family
or friends again.
Flashback: Who here among
the rusalka is kin to you, and
what is your relationship?
Refusal Moonlight
You will give the petitioner
what they want, but it will
be nothing but an illusion
that fades away like
moonlight.
Flashback: How did a
mistaken impression or false
belief lead to your death?
Refusal Moonlight
The petitioner will not find
what they seek here, but
their failure will help them
find a new friend or ally.
Flashback: Who in the
village once treated you with
kindness?
Assent Mysteries
You will give the petitioner
what they ask for, but they
will learn something they
would prefer not to know.
Flashback: What question
did you spend your life
seeking an answer to?
Assent Mysteries
You will give the petitioner
what they ask for, but the
consequences of their
success will be completely
different from what they
expected.
Flashback: How did you
attempt to seek the truth, and
why did you fail?
Gift Mysteries
You will teach the
petitioner the secret
language of birds, who
know many things hidden
from humankind.
Flashback: Who in the
village is hiding a terrible
secret? Do you know what the
secret is?
Gift Mysteries
You will teach the
petitioner how to dowse
for water, gold or buried
treasure.
Flashback: What treasured
item did you bury beneath
your home, on the night you
died?
Price Mysteries
You will give the petitioner
what they want, but they
must enter the forbidden
area and bring back the
magical object that lay
there.
Flashback: What area within
this place are you forbidden
to enter? What lies hidden
within?
Price Mysteries
You will give the petitioner
what they want, but only
after they identify your
murderer and bring them
to justice.
Flashback: What single
detail do you remember about
the person who drowned you
in the rusalka pool?
Refusal Mysteries
The petitioner will not find
what they seek here, but
their failure will help
someone else succeed.
Flashback: Which other
rusalka betrayed you in life,
and how did you discover
their treachery?
Refusal Mysteries
The petitioner will not find
what they seek here, but
you will tell them a secret
that will change their life.
Flashback: How did curiosity
lead to your death?
Assent Sorrow
You will give the petitioner
what they want, but their
request will bring them
great harm.
Flashback: When were you
punished for a misdeed
someone else committed?
Assent Sorrow
You will give the petitioner
what they want, but their
success will harm a friend,
ally or loved one.
Flashback: Why do you
blame yourself for the harm
suffered by the people you
loved?
Gift Sorrow
If the petitioner brings a
dead body to the pool, I
will restore them not to
life, but to a semblance of
life.
Flashback: Which other
rusalka watched as you
drowned, but didn’t act to
save you?
Gift Sorrow
I will turn your heart into
ice, so that every thing you
touch turns into ice.
Flashback: Who did you love
whose heart was as cold as
ice?
Price Sorrow
I will give you what you
want, but only if you give
us your firstborn child.
Flashback: What became of
your only child after your
death?
Price Sorrow
I will give you what you
want, but you must bring
my lost love to this pond,
so that they will drown
here as I did.
Flashback: Who was the
reluctant object of your
unwavering devotion? Why
do you wish them dead now?
Assent Sorrow
I will give you what you
want, but you will earn a
new enemy when you get
your wish.
Flashback: Who in the
village caused you great
suffering to you in life?
Refusal Sorrow
I will give you nothing, for
you richly deserve no
better than the terrible life
you have now.
Flashback: Who here among
the rusalka richly deserves
this fate, and why?
Assent Ghosts
I will give you what you
want, but your success will
have dangerous unintended
consequences.
Flashback: Why are you
haunted by regret?
Gift Ghosts
I will cause sickness and
disease to befall the person
of your choosing.
Flashback: What horrors did
you witness when the plague
overtook the village?
Gift Ghosts
I will teach you the charm
that lets you speak to the
dead and learn their
secrets.
Flashback: What went wrong
when you tried to summon
the dead spirit of your loved
one?
Gift Ghosts
I will enchant you so that
you can see the dead that
walk among the living and
those malevolent spirits
that haunt you.
Flashback: Whose death cast
a pall over your life long
after they were gone?
Gift Ghosts
I will trap your soul inside
a silver box. You cannot
die nor know joy while I
keep the box hidden.
Flashback: What item in the
pool entraps your soul?
Choose from something
already established, if
possible. Mark your answer
on the map.
Gift Ghosts
I will send ghost lights and
will o’wisps to lure in one
person of your choosing,
which they will follow into
the pool and drown.
Flashback: Which rusalka
tried to warn you before your
death, and why didn’t you
listen?
Price Ghosts
I will give you what you
want, but you must
complete my unfinished
business from my life.
Flashback: What dying wish
did you have that went
unfulfilled?
Refusal Ghosts
I will not give you what
you want, and I will haunt
you as a specter until you
die or are driven out of the
village.
Flashback: Why do you
blame this petitioner for your
death?
