Red Omens: A Narrative Analysis

Red Omens: A Narrative Analysis is a system-agnostic tool for fantasy roleplaying. It helps you treat red dragons not as enemies to defeat but as forces that demand recognition. When a red dragon arrives, something is claimed. Territory, memory, desire. The story does not bend around it. It burns away what stood before.

This book equips you to treat red dragons as narrative ruptures. Use it in any setting where they exist, whether as tyrants, symbols, or temptations that survived their own destruction. The focus is on hunger, sovereignty, and aftermath.

This Book Contains:

Each section serves a different purpose. Together, they offer a modular approach to storytelling that treats red dragons as forces of hunger, fury, and dominance. These are not isolated encounters. They are turning points that consume what came before.

Narrative Framing: A series of tools to help you understand what a red dragon means in the context of your story. It explores what their arrival demands, what changes in their wake, and how the world reshapes itself under threat of memory. This framing gives the dragon weight as a story event and makes its presence impossible to forget.

Scene Tools: Practical methods for describing red dragons as more than beasts. These tools help you capture menace, tension, and fallout. You can use them to mark the moment when fear enters the story and nothing holds still.

Character Archetypes: Ten examples of characters whose lives have been scorched, shaped, or tempted by a red dragon. These can inspire players, complicate arcs, or serve as echoes of a flame that never went out.

Story Complications: A collection of narrative shifts that erupt from a red dragon’s presence. Each one burns through what was steady. They introduce danger, obsession, or legacy that refuses to die.

Worldbuilding Prompts: A set of questions designed to explore how red dragons are feared, worshipped, or mythologized in your setting. These prompts help define power, control, devotion, and the meaning of destruction.

Adventure Hooks: Ten scenarios that begin when the fire is already burning. Each one opens a path to vengeance, survival, or surrender. They can ignite campaigns, collapse empires, or mark the moment someone chose fury.

The dragon may sleep. The land still smolders.