The Circle of Thirteen
A gothic-fantasy campaign carried by the Lantern Circus through thirteen villages, beginning with a home that welcomes everyone.
Module One
The Village That Welcomed Everyone is a folk-horror adventure for characters of Levels 1–3. Hearthmere does not imprison visitors. It gives them such convincing places to belong that leaving begins to feel like an act of self-harm.
The Village That Welcomed Everyone
Publication Edition v13. Four to six sessions, theatre-of-the-mind encounters, DM-reference maps, relationship tracking, and the Lantern Circus as the campaign's continuing home.
The campaign
Each module follows the Lantern Circus into another village shaped by a different pressure on identity, belonging, fear, or transformation. The circus develops across the series as a practical community and a home that can move without ceasing to be a home.
Listen to the source album
The Black Eagle: A Gothic Musical
Andrew's digitized YouTube upload of the Rod McKuen album that inspired the wider project.
Project correspondence: queen@tiamat.au.