Autumn Omens: A Narrative Analysis

Some seasons gather more than leaves. This one gathers consequence.

Autumn Omens: A Narrative Analysis is a system-agnostic tool for fantasy roleplaying. It treats autumn not as an ending, but as a reckoning. When the season turns, what’s been carried begins to settle. The world remembers its weight. People begin to release what they once held tight. The story turns toward what must be acknowledged.

This book helps you recognize autumn as a narrative event. Use it in any setting where the season carries meaning, whether it signals return, retreat, harvest, or reckoning. The focus is on memory, consequence, and the moment before things fall silent.

This Book Contains:

Each section serves a different purpose. Together, they offer a modular approach to storytelling that treats autumn as a presence that lingers, not a transition to be passed through.

Narrative Framing: A series of tools to help you understand what autumn means in your story. It explores what settles, what fades, and what can't be carried forward. This framing gives autumn emotional resonance and makes space for necessary endings.

Scene Tools: Practical methods for showing autumn as more than backdrop. These tools help you focus on detail, ritual, and what remains when things are no longer new. You can use them to highlight what the world is learning to let go of.

Character Archetypes: Ten examples of characters whose lives are shaped by autumn. These might be reckonings, rituals, farewells, or final chances. Each one offers a way to bring the season into the story through memory and release.

Story Complications: A collection of narrative shifts that emerge in autumn. Each one carries a weight that the world must adjust to. They settle the story into its next shape.

Worldbuilding Prompts: A set of questions designed to explore what autumn means in your setting. These prompts help define how people reckon with change, honor loss, and prepare for what must be faced before the quiet comes.

Adventure Hooks: Ten scenarios that begin in autumn. Each one offers a reason to reflect, conclude, or speak something before the silence. They can reveal what was hidden, invite a reckoning, or carry something through the fall.

The leaves turn. The air thickens. Autumn arrives.