In this dispatch of Jackalope Mail, I'm talking about some fun and weird folklore elements and how you can use them in your TTRPGs! Including trees fueled by blood and the ultimate dark academia setting! Check it out!
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this whole ttpd library genuinely feels like an escape room i have to solve over facetime
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George Hoppers Tomb- Barnard Castle, UK
An inscription reads; 'Here stands my statue carved in stone/to mind ye living I am gone' and 'he cometh like a flower...'
Folklore surrounds Hopper's tomb, particularly that if you see Death's scythe move it means your demise is imminent.
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Most seem in agreement that Fae Dick will kill the Joker - or anyone who hurts his family.
But the thing is... Well, Lore differs, of course, and I don't know what your lore says about the Afterlife, but in ours Rebirth is taken for granted.
If Fae Dick is aware of the concept of Rebirth... Maybe his casual take on killing is related to that - they will come back anyway, maybe as a different species, but they'll come back. It's just another version of putting them in Arkham.
He is willing to indulge Bruce, of course, but he doesn't get why there's so much fuss about killing. It isn't like they're really gone.
But when it comes to the Joker... The Joker who killed his little brother... Dick may well feel that death - and escape into another life - maybe too kind a fate. He won't leave the Joker to be reborn and wreck havoc elsewhere - or maybe even get reborn back in Gotham.
Much better to leave him alive and Wandering - throw him into the depths of the Otherworld. He will be alive. Forbidden the escape that is death...
Reincarnation actually never came up in the lore I grew up with! At least not in the traditional sense.
It’s more of an…. “Assimilating back into nature” thing.
What dies will return to the soil. Still existing, always existing, just changed. Gone back into the ecosystem as the thing that nurtures earth. Consciousness kind of drifting and merging with nature. (Hence the explanation to child-me why some flowers/mushrooms suddenly start growing in a specific area. “A greeting from an old friend”)
So back with the post about Fae Dick murdering Joker… it’s actually a way to cleanse the world of that concentrated evil. To have nature balance itself back out. (While simultaneously giving Dick the satisfaction of feeling that clown decompose)
Think of it as an example for “the dosage determines if it’s poison” kind of thing.
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