Invisible Omens: A Narrative Analysis

Some spells do more than hide. This one leaves a space where something once stood.

Invisible Omens: A Narrative Analysis is a system-agnostic tool for fantasy roleplaying. It treats invisibility not as a trick to exploit, but as a decision with weight. When the spell is cast, something important steps beyond sight. Trust shifts. The story holds the absence.

This book equips you to treat invisibility as a narrative event. Use it in any setting where the spell exists, whether as concealment, misdirection, or a means of escape. The focus is on revelation, consequence, and unseen choice.

This Book Contains:

Each section serves a different purpose. Together, they offer a modular approach to storytelling that treats invisibility as a transformation, not a disappearance.

Narrative Framing: A series of tools to help you understand what invisibility means in the context of your story. It explores why the spell is used, what vanishes with it, and how the world feels the absence. This framing gives invisibility emotional gravity and makes its presence known even in its absence.

Scene Tools: Practical methods for describing invisibility as more than a condition. These tools help you build tension, focus on what remains, and show how the unseen shapes the visible. You can use them to make every vanishing a decision the world remembers.

Character Archetypes: Ten detailed examples of characters whose connection to invisibility defines their path, reputation, and what others expect of them. These can serve as player inspiration, story catalysts, or supporting figures who cast long shadows even when unseen.

Story Complications: A collection of narrative consequences that emerge after invisibility is used. Each one adds depth to the aftermath, shaping the next steps, the silent witnesses, and the growing suspicion that nothing remains hidden forever.

Worldbuilding Prompts: A set of questions designed to explore how invisibility fits into your setting. These prompts help define cultural memory, ethical boundaries, and the stories people tell about what they could not see.

Adventure Hooks: Ten scenarios that begin with the consequences of invisibility. Each one opens a door into uncertainty, misinterpretation, or revelation. They can start campaigns, complicate alliances, or remind characters that absence leaves marks of its own.

The spell erases the shape. The world still reaches for what is missing.