diff --git a/questions.md b/questions.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..184385c --- /dev/null +++ b/questions.md @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +# Questions + +3 The landscape across the Haeth has many vibrant places. +What kind of place do you come from? + +- Comfortable places that provide shelter and food, like farms, gardens, or markets +- Verdant places that are lush and inviting, like fields, glens, or lagoons +- Liminal places that are the way between other places, like bridges, ports, or taverns +- Sprawling places that inspire wonder, like carnivals, castles, or metropolises +- Lonely places where the rest of the world does not intrude, like caves, graveyards, or moors + +4 Travellers in the Haeth find themselves journeying together even if their reasons for travelling are vastly different. +What was the reason that made you embark on your journey? + +- A past that I want to leave behind +- A future I want to go towards +- A desire to learn more and see the world +- A want for the riches and bounties of the Haeth +- A need to be with the people on the trail + +5 Along our travels, we must be prepared for whatever the road has in store for us. +What thing do you carry spares of should your companions not have it already? + +- Blankets for when it is chilly +- Torches to light dark tunnels +- Snacks for when we are peckish +- A song for when it is too quiet +- Incense for when we need to show respect + +6 Our journey will take us through the sweeping arc of the seasons. +Which season do you look forward to the most? + +- Leap: a time of melting frost and great rain +- Bright: when flowers bloom and the sun blazes +- Breathe: a season of swarming bugs and fleeting days +- Silt: when the leaves turn red and fall as the days get colder +- Chill: a season hushed in deep snow and thick frost + +7 When travelling with companions, it may be difficult to find time alone. +What do you do to get those precious moments of solitude along the way? + +- Wake up early before everyone else +- Stay up late after everyone else has gone to bed +- Excuse myself and retire to some place quiet +- Lose myself for a moment in vigorous exercise +- Withdraw silently into my own mind, even around other people + +8 The Haeth is full of small gods, many forgotten, scattered amongst its many settlements and sprawling wilderness. +Which of these gods are you least likely to forget? + +- The god of a warm, comforting bath who smells like citrus +- The god of overflowing tankards who will obligingly buy you a round if you ask nicely +- The god of dense forest canopies who will shelter you from inclement weather +- The god of bioluminescent mushrooms who will light your way in the dark +- The god of childish wonder who changes form for each new phenomenon you encounter + +9 Everyone in the Haeth is be fundamentally good, except the mighty whose souls may be weighed down by power or poisoned by the struggle. +Of all these people whose goodness may be in conflict, for whom do you have the greatest understanding? + +- The monarch who ushered in great change +- The lord who tried to make the land prosper +- The general who protected his people +- The hero who sought power to protect his kin +- The soldier who did his duty + +10 There was once a great war that tore the Haeth asunder. +But where were you during it? + +- In the midst of it, doing my duty +- On the sidelines, looking after the lost and wounded +- Far away, holding on to the peace + +11 The war has left its many scars along the Haeth and its people. +What shadow of the war are you trying to escape? + +- Guilt for my part in it +- Shame for not taking a stand +- Pain from its many losses + +12 The time for violence has long ended, and the Haeth is now a place of peace. +Why do you believe violence is wrong? + +- Because of who we become when we resort to violence +- Because of the pain it causes to those around us +- Because all gods, big and small, have warned us against it +- Because peaceful solutions to conflict are just more effective +- Because the ends do not justify the means + +13 Journeys through the Heath involve incidental companions: people who are coincidentally going the same way for now, who may part ways or end their travels should their paths diverge from their companions’. +What would mark the end of your journey? + +- Arriving at the place I am seeking +- Finding the person I am looking for +- Completing a great task I set myself +- Becoming the person I want to be +- Acquiring what I need + +14 When we first set out on our journey, we did so in search of some place to call home. +What would it take for you to call a place your home? + +- Familiar comforts of the place I come from +- Shrines and knicknacks reminding me of my time on the road +- A picturesque landscape with majestic sunsets +- A charming workshop where I can keep myself busy +- People with whom I belong + +15 Journeys through the Haeth have a way of continuing even after they end. +After your travels have ended, how will you keep the journey alive? + +- In the stories I tell or the songs I sing +- With the trinkets with which I will furnish my home +- By always leaving my door open for my companions +- By visiting old friends regularly +- By embarking on another journey once again