Sea Omens: A Narrative Analysis

The sea isn’t a place. It’s a pressure.

Sea Omens: A Narrative Analysis is a system-agnostic tool for fantasy roleplaying. It helps you treat seas not as terrain to cross, but as presences that change everything they touch. When the sea speaks, it does so through memory, tide, and the deep tension between stillness and change.
This book equips you to treat seas as narrative events. Use it in any setting where the sea might remember, reach, or reclaim. The focus is on consequence, atmosphere, and unspoken memory.

This Book Contains:

Each section plays a different role. Together, they offer a modular approach to storytelling that treats seas as moments of pressure, presence, and submerged consequence.

Narrative Framing: A collection of tools to help you understand what a sea means in the context of your story. It explores what the sea carries, how it answers, and when it chooses to return. This framing treats the sea as something ancient, watchful, and always listening.

Scene Tools: Practical methods for showing the sea as more than background. These tools help you emphasize silence, drift, and return. You can use them to pull memory to the surface or to signal what never stopped waiting.

Character Archetypes: Ten detailed examples of people shaped by the sea. Use them as player inspiration, story complications, or supporting characters who carry the shape of something the sea once held.

Story Complications: A set of narrative events that ripple outward from the sea. Each one introduces a moment where something long buried makes itself known. They leave shifts in time, salt on the air, and truths no longer willing to stay beneath the surface.

Worldbuilding Prompts: A guide to what the sea means across belief, survival, and place. These prompts help define how people live alongside tides, what they remember, and what they refuse to acknowledge.

Adventure Hooks: Ten scenarios that begin where the sea has already spoken. These open paths to resurfacing memory, tidal return, or quiet unravelings. They can begin a voyage, interrupt a crossing, or mark the moment a story turns back toward the water.

The sea doesn’t explain. It returns.