Weather Events

These tables exist to give you some fun or interesting weather effects to enrich your journeys and challenges. To use them, just go to the table for the biome your characters are traveling through and roll a ten-sided die. You can also use the tables as pick lists, selecting weather that matches the mood and tone of the scene. You can also use these lists whenever you Change the Weather. You, of course, don’t have to use these if you don’t want to. The tables lean very hard on the weird and strange magical weather rather than more mundane things like rain, so if you’d rather portray a more grounded Ald-Amura, maybe stay clear of the Mirage Waves.

These describe the sort of basic, moderate version of the weather effect. If you want to imagine what the torrential equivalent of False-Night is, please feel free. Several of these effects have the same name; this is intentional, people name distinct things similarly in the real world all the time.

Desert (Sandy)

Memory Sandstorm - Crystalized memories rip through the area, speaking secrets into a blistering wind.
Lavasand Flooding - Smoldering orange-red-brown sandflow moves unexpectedly around the area.
Mirage Waves - A low-reality front sweeps through the dunes, creating dozens of illusionary oases, dwellings, forgotten friends, loved ones, etc.
Hot Rains - Warm, calming rain falls from the misty clouds above.
Migration - Thousands of animals make their way to their way home, kicking up enormous sand clouds as they move.
Heat Wave - The sun bears down like a ten-ton weight. You watch the sand turn to glass under your boots.
Electric Storm - Red streaks of lightning blanket the sky in a grid, crackling in the ears of anyone nearby.
False-Night - The sun darkens and droops lazily on the horizon, casting a kaleidoscopic dazzle of colors across the sky.
The Hum - A low vibration rumbles through the area, making sand jump and bounce to a barely audible beat.
Mega Sandstorm - A wall of sand and dust a thousand feet tall, laced with fire and lightning, tears through the area.

Desert (Rocky)

Fruiting - Thousands of vines and plants spring forth from the cracked earth to drink in the sun and moisture in the air for a few hours.
Boulder Migration - Thousands of orange-red rocks roll their way around the plains ahead of you. Be careful.
Dazzle Clouds - A thick layer of pearlescent clouds reflects the dreams and thoughts of those below, lit by a low, heavy moon.
Call Winds - High speed winds converge at a central point, creating a massive column of dust and hot air rising up above the clouds.
Gemfall - Tiny jewels fall from the sky, melting into multi-colored vitreous pools and rivers.
Singing Winds - A dry wind carries eerie music through the area.
Freestep - A quiver in the local gravity makes it hard to keep your feet on the ground.
Orb Lights - Dozens of strange balls of light weave through the area, leaving a smell of ozone in their wake.
Prickle Fog - A thick haze of microfibres slowly blows through the area. Any exposed skin will feel itchy and irritated, and the fibers will catch on cacti, attracting insects and birds.
Earthquakes - Every few seconds, the world shakes itself violently.

Desert (Ash)

Ash storm - A low cloud of fine multicolored ash lazily howls through the area.
Magma Swamping - Fresh lava swells out of the cracked ground.
Spire Buildup - Ash falls into a forest of tapering obelisks, sharp enough to cut iron. They will dissolve in the next rain.
Living Dust - Clouds of ash spark with green lightning as they gain temporary sentience, live their lives, and die, hundreds of times an hour above and around the area.
Crackle - Inches below the surface, the ground has hardened into a thin sheet of obsidian stretching through the area, which cracks and snaps underfoot.
Leafwind - A powerful storm blows millions of leaves, petals, and flowers through the ashen desert, scattering them amongst the grey dust.
Flooding - Uncommon torrential rain mixes the ash with mud and creates a hyper-viscous mudslide flood.
Stutter - Time flows strangely in the area; people may see themselves from moments ago, or from hours in the future roaming the land.
Fake-Night - Ash covers the sky so thick the sun appears as a moon, and the glitter of ash-diamonds in the dust clouds like stars.
Amnestic-Sludge - Thick, dark puddles of a viscous sludge pool sporadically. Anyone who sets foot in one forgets almost every detail of their life for about three hours.

Crystal Grove

Disco Mode - The crystals begin pulsing violently in a variety of confounding and perplexing colors.
Invigoration - Crystals crumble to a fine silica dust, returning their nutrients to the dirt. This can cause rockslides and avalanches.
Secret Bloom - The very ground speaks the inner thoughts of anyone walking through the area.
Gelfall - Great sheets of viscous gel fall from the sky. The gel itself is similar to aloe and is great for burns. It dries after a few hours and leaves a pleasant smell in the air.
Caging - The crystals spark with strange magical energies, capturing inattentive wanderers between fences and arcs of strange magical power.
Stalk Haze - The area dons a cold, sinister vibe. It feels as if someone, or something, watches your every move. This phenomenon is caused by crystals vibrating at certain frequencies.
Gem-Geysers - Shattered crystals below the ground build pressure before exploding into columns of glittering jewels.
Shredded Ways - The wind tears microholes in time around the crystals, showing glimpses of universes sitting beside this one, choices never made, loves never felt.
Crystal Peaks - The crystals grow rapidly, spearing the sky and creating impassable barriers for a few hours.
Blaze-Clouds - The silica rich clouds above burst into flames as the sun sets, burning beautifully and littering the ground below with smoldering embers.

Fjord

The Ghost-Sky - Ancestors descend on the world from the Moon, sweeping over the mountains and fields in a thick purple-green cloud that covers the sky.
Sharp-Rivers - The water in the valley fractalizes, curling and curving out of the river into dizzying shapes across the sky, splashing against the hills and cliffs surrounding it.
Clattering - Lost objects of all shapes and sizes roll down the fjord into the lake.
Rainbow Mists - a thick mist rolls through the fjord, filling the area with bright, vibrant rainbow colors.
Pareidolia - The rocky cliff faces to either side of the fjord grow soft and shift into face-like arrangements. Some say they can speak to you, if you know how.
Hearth’s Warmth - The smell of fresh bread and the sensation of hugs rolls through the fjord.
Urthur’s Flame - Dark red, pink, and golden fires dance up the walls of the fjords, playing Ald-Amura’s dreams on the pale chalk.
Fools Rain - An invisible rain falls, soaking the area to the bone. Animals can sense this rain long before it arrives.
Monster’s Clap - Incredibly loud booming sounds high above the world echo ethereally off of the fjord’s walls, sometimes shaking loose some rocks.
Cliffstorm - The lake forces itself up the sides of the fjord, creating a deep halfpipe between the two sides of the waterbody.

Mountains

New Growth - A mountain forms around you, pulling itself out of the ground at a few feet per minute.
Sunfall - Liquid sunlight dribbles in thick, gooey globs from the mountain peaks, flowing like golden rivers between the crags of the stoney mountain.
Migration - Millions of birds sweep past the mountain over a day or so, ruining visibility and leaving a shawl of iridescent multi-colored feathers and eggs over it.
Joyfall - A deluge drops on the region all at once, a pale bluish fluid which emits a calming smell of lavender and imparts a soft euphoria.
Glass Chords - Hair-fine strands of sugar glass connect the heavy clouds above with the rocky ground, creating webs of fragile strings which ring out chords when they snap.
Bugslide - Millions of bugs migrate down the mountain from the peak in a single collective mass, leaving a trail of husks in their wake.
Tidestone - The ground becomes fluid and swirls beneath your feet, flowing like a river below a thin, flexible stone membrane.
Static Mist - Mana from the mountain infuses this mist with sparks of lightning and electricity as it rolls down the rocky mountainside.
Maple Flakes - Palm-sized crystal flakes of maple-flavored snow blanket the area.
Drying - Droplets of moisture drip upward, forming lazy clouds above the mountain’s peaks.

Hill & Dale

Rummage - The hills rearrange themselves around you, shifting underfoot to create a whole new landscape before your eyes.
Golda’s Loss - The flowers and leaves and grass become strangely prismatic. A sweet tasting dew hovers around six inches above the ground, humming quietly in place.
Ringing - A low-reality front gives sound and music physical form. Waves of shimmering light with a silk-like texture swirl around any and all noise.
Attracting - Spires of hyper-magnetic beams of energy spear the land, pulling on any metal objects in the area and holding them in place until the storm passes.
Low Clouds - Clouds grown heavy descend to the ground and roll slowly over the landscape. They have a texture like frozen candy floss, and they can be harvested for water.
Dream Bolting - A shimmering gas coalesces around intelligent beings before a bolt of lightning strikes them, granting them memories of another life for a short time.
Speaking Winds - These howling winds don’t blow people or buildings around, only their thoughts. These winds can carry ideas and messages for miles around.
Rolling Sea - Long tubes of incandescent plasma roll across the landscape, lightly singeing organic matter that comes into contact with it.
Buoyancy - The air becomes thick enough to stand and swim through, causing animals to float gently through the area.
Bushwagon - Brambles, lavender bushes, and other hedges are migrating to a design only they seem to know. Be careful.

Forests

Sunash - Snow-like ash falls from the stars, burned material from within the sun.
Doorfog - A thick fog obscures all but doors and entryways.
Embracing - Branches and twigs from each tree pull together to share resources. This makes navigation very difficult.
Roaming Fog - A thick cloud of fog envelops anyone inside in a fantasy partially based on their dreams and goals. It passes within an hour.
Flash-Autumn - Every leaf from every tree falls all at once, causing an avalanche of leaves and mulch sweeping through the area.
Bark Migration - The trees begin their annual march. The ground is left loose and shifting without the tree’s roots.
Dreamfire - The forest’s dreams turn dark and phantom flames lash the bark of the wood. The ground shifts violently underfoot, and the forest takes on the vibe of a nightmare.
Groundshine - The dirt grows warm to the foot and a very soft glow hums through the forest, lighting the way from below.
Amber-Rain - Thick, gloopy droplets of a sticky golden sap drip from shimmering metallic clouds high above the treetops, creating webs of nectar in the canopy.
Dappleday- The way the lights glimmer through the leaves is just right. It lights a path for you if you know where to look.

Ocean

High Waves - The ocean takes on a mountainous form, with great flowing peaks and rolling foothills of waves.
Transparensea - The water below becomes as transparent as glass, letting light pour down into the darkest depths of the ocean.
Shellbergs - Massive and beautiful collections of shells bound together by hard sediment float through the area.
Burn Fog - A thick, acrid-smelling fog rolls atop the ocean. The fog is highly acidic and can eat through the hull of a small ship if left unattended.
Nightbow - A hazey arch curves across the world, pointing from north to south. Many of the colors lack names, and the memory of them leaves you come morning.
Drooping Bursts - Pouches of heavy rain droop from larger clouds, occasionally bursting, releasing enormous floods of water on anyone below.
Lazy Thunder - Incredibly thick and slow-moving lightning snakes its way across the sky, bursting clouds with a boom as it goes.
Foamside - Great columns of bubbly foam swell up from the ocean’s surface. The bubbles blow in the wind, covering an area in charming pink-purple bubbles.
Steel Rain - A shimmering metallic liquid falls slowly across the area, enriching any metal or wood it touches with supernatural hardiness.
Oceanfire - Infernos rage in the waters below, causing superheated water to burst in geysers across the area.

Peculiar

Sun Memories - An octarine aurora blankets the night sky, as bright as the daylight sun.
Gloryfall - Shards of crystalline luck fall across the land.
Turning - Ald-Amura’s dreams become restless, and the planet shifts a little, advancing the day or night by a few hours.
Fruiting - A forest of mushrooms of all sizes springs up following a heavy rain.
Ghostwaves - A thin haze ripples through the land, leaving memory shades stuck to thorns and tree branches.
Idea Clouds - Purple cuboid clouds slowly descend on the world; those caught inside are sent into a creative trance and filled with boundless passion and ideas.
Skykiss - The sky comes close to the ground, clouds roll over hills and through forests, the sun or moon are huge on the horizon, and the stars twinkle all around you.
Stumbling - A miasma of poor luck and clumsiness rolls through the area, causing extensive low-level calamity.
Featherstorm - Local birds migrate in an enormous tornado of wings, stripping every tree or bush as they move past.
Dancing Weather - A jingle on the air causes any sentient beings to tap their feet and dance. Dancing weather helps keep the soil loose and nutrient-rich. Excessive dancing weather can lead to erosion.