Half-Buried Plaque (Thunderous Bellow Discovery)
Maker-runes pressed into bent bronze, far from any Maker's hand — someone brought this here.
- Category
- Arcanum Ref
- Form
- Bronze plate poking out of the blasted rubble, dented and warped
A bronze plate poking out of the blasted rubble around the Ruined Tower. Dented, slightly warped, etched with Maker-runes and esoteric diagrams. How the heck did it end up here?
The placement-of-an-arcanum example in the Discoveries chapter. The plaque is the discovered form of the Thunderous Bellow minor arcanum — its full mechanical text lives there.
How the PCs find it
From the something valuable discovery table for the Ruined Tower outer ruins. Picked deliberately because it's an arcanum the PCs can act on now — unlike the still-locked ones each PC is sitting on.
What's required to unlock it
(See the arcanum card for the canonical text.)
- Dig up and clean the plate
- Decipher the Maker-runes
- A few weeks of study
- Risk harm to voice, hearing, or neighbors as you practice
What this models
Walks through the GM's decision to introduce a new arcanum at all — they paused, weighed the PCs' open arcana, decided this one was actionable, then dropped it in. A worked example of don't hand them out like candy, but don't be stingy either.
Category Arcanum Ref · Intensity High
Revelation: A Tempest Lord arcanum (Thunderous Bellow) waiting to be unlocked
Effect: Once unlocked, gives a Tempest Lord-themed scream attack — see arcana:Thunderous Bellow