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credits Writing
Bradley Robins
Lm A. Nidwk
Joshua Bishop-Rob
Copy Editing
Editorial Direction
Hilary ouda
Hilary u&, Line Editor
tdarc-Alexandre VCZ~M, silhouette System ocvelopcr
Silhouette Design
a v e r and Interior Art
Gene tdarcil, Stkphane I. tdatis
Ghishin Barbe, Marc Ouehtte, Kieran J. Yanner
Layout
Art Direction
Jan-Franfuis Fortier, Pierre Ouellette
Pierre Ouellette
Marketing and Adrninistra- tion
Robert ouboir
Tribe
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StCphane BrochuJoshua Mosquiera hheim, phillippe R &r&
special Thanks
From the Pod: To Steph, Josh and Phil for Letting us play in your universe!
Writers’ thanks:
From B r a d To mom and dad, everyone on the Tribe 8 mailing list, and most esp&Uy to Mu, Josh, Lisa, and Laura. i love you alL
From LiU: To Wicked Ink for their wntinuing support andgeneral mayhem and to Hilary for her patience. Thanks h o to the Honhera and Johnson f a d i e s (Jason, Oawn,)wtin, Alex, Heidi, andJoshua) for inspiration, laughter, and
lots ufgreat stories.
)osh Roby would like to thank Brad, for k i n g him work on Adrift; his o-authors, hr their cdib and input; his parents, who were involved in some w”y in bringing him into this w o a Apple Computer, for the bluebury w n h n he wrote on; and always and forever Laura, for being my strength and support and the bst part of me.
From Hilary: Tu Richard Morris for being my light and myjoy, toJon ocda for bringing M backdown to earth and to my mother for doing
what she does best Sham tova.
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Prelude: Stories in Skin
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4A Prayer for the Dying
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5Cast Out of the Water
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5What the Flesh Can Tell
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6Disrespect thy Elders
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6Sit Right Back
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7Chapter One: Drift We to the Dark
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8So It Began
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9Initiation
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10Secrets Between Covers
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10Committed to the Scroll
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12Meetings of Fortune and Chance
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13From the Wet Earth
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13Saplings’ Roots
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14The Beating Heart
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15A Solemn Pact
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16A Worried Heart
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17A Teeming Brain
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17A Burning Spirit
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22What Dreams May Come
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24Dreamcaught
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25In Us Dreams Do Live
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23Drcamchasers
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24Witch Trial
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27No Other Goddess Before Me
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27I Know Not, Save I Was Commanded
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28Chapter Two: Wyrd, Unshriven
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30Rite of Passage
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31Denning the Mother
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31House of Pain
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32Epiphany
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33The Blind Lead the Blind
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34Tales of the Past
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34Many arc One
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35Regeneration
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37Vision of Terror and Hope
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38The Wrctched
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36A pact Resealed
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38What Fallen Spirits Sing
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39The Blood of Outcasts
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39Dreams and Omens
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40Division
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41Song of War
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42Unity
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42Guides to the Lost
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43Chapter Three: Out of the Cradle
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Ghosts of Days Past...
Once More Into the Breach...
A Whisper from the Sea...
Come Closer...
4Awaking
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On the Trail...
49Omens
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Bloodhound...
57Savages
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Honored Dead...
What’s in My Pocket?...
Eternally Waiting...
54Through Me the Dead Speak
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55Necromancy
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Towards the Away...
Chapter Four: The Dread Voyage....
58You Take the High Road
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59The Past in Shadows
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The Banging ofa Gun...
Slave to the Grind...
How Like an Angel...
When Will You Learn?...
61A Friend of a Friend
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61On the Back of the Wind
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Friend, Hear Me...
63Dreams of the Land
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64The Stone that Speak
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Calling to Mountain...
65The Mountain Speaks
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The Flying Dutchman...
Stone’s Price...
67The Call
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The Answer...
Into the Melting Realm...
7The Second Beside Me
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Chapter Five: Dreams of Fire
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For Thy Heart
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Voice of Reason
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Dark Walker
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Divided We Fall
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Words ofwarning
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83r Not
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78Peace This Side of Heaven
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78ost of a Chance
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80tng the Sundered
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82sing the War
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82ight
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83Plight of Mountain's Daughter
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84er Six: Starlight, Starbright
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86the Moonlight Path
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87e Sky is Full of Stars
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88ing on Muses
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88Spirits Pass Over
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89card the Owl Call My Name
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90ging Star
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91What the Sun Has Seen
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92Bless. Curse Me Now
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92Chapter Seven: Around the Fire
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94The Final Blow
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95This Tale Told
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96Up This Cross
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96pter Eight: The Substance of Spirit. 98 Spirituality in a Broken Universe
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99Playing with Spirituality
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99New Technosmithing Formulas
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124Keeper Religion
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125Sundering
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126Sundering and the River of Dream
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126Sundering and Spirits
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126Humanity and Sundering
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126Theme and Mood
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127Heamtones
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128New Aspects and Atmosphen rules
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129Ritual
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130Ritual Synthesis
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131Minor Rituals
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131Tribal Ritual
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131Serf Ritual
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132Squat Rituals
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133Spirits
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134Numinology
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134Themes and Moods
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135Systems
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136Attributes
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137Skills
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137Special Abilities
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137Sample Spirits
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138Perspectives
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134Appendix
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140Optional Perks and flaws
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140Aspects. Reprint
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141index
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144Dualism
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100Tribal Views
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102Fallen Views
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102The Guides
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102r of Dream
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103mes and Moods
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103mography of the River of Dream
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104reaming
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106Beyond the River of Dream
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108thesis
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110Themes and Moods
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111Synthesis by Tribe and Outlook
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111Playing with Synthesis
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116Aspeas
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120N w Tribal Aspects
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120New Fallen Aspects
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l2l Lost Aspects...
122Technosmithing
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122Learning Technosmithing
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123Themes and Moods
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123Syncretism
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Words &Thomas, Knight
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S r r :dbye my friend. Your sacrifice will not be in vain. Even now I have seen your skin
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down the waters towards the world that we have left behind.I
can feel theof its intent, the need to find a heart to touch with the stories that we have left your skin. Our faces we now turn t o the stars, the sun and the moon, and we nto
light
that knows no shade, into darkness that knows no illumination.the stories on your skin find a receptive ear; may the stories ofyour soul find a ve heart. May your sacrifice be not in vain, but bring new knowledge and tanding to
the
world. By your blood and sacrifice may those we left behind more ofthe River of Dream-
which is, in the end, learning more aboutm the Stories ofJanus, Jacker:
he
River never gives you what you expect, though sometimes it gives you more than you wanted. While the dawn wasstill
slowly creeping over the horizon to the east something set Fredrick's nose to twitching, some smell that made him pull us all out of bed and into the chill of early spring. With steel in our hands and angry hope in our hearts we followed his sense to the banks ofthe Great River where she washed aroundredrick is our great secret
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he has a nose that can smell when things go wrong. In the year since he joined our cellhe
had sniffed out Z'bri no one else could find. So when heled
us to the shore, we gripped our weapons tight with chills o f anger and dread, hoping and fearing what we might find.ravaging Lord awaited us, though what we found changed our course in ways per than any Z'bri ever could. Snagged against a bare tree root that stood out into current ofthe River was a skin. Fredrick fished it out with his spear, and spread it
on the ground. It was a whole human skin
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the face and scalp, fingers, toes, and itals still intact. Now a skin is not odd, as Yagans keep such skins as a matter of rse. What was strange about this skin is that it had no marks, no signs of being cut r opened-
it was whole and united in a single piece as though still on a humandy. No mark o f death, much less o f skinning, touched the hide.
s the pale skin started to dry in the morning light, we looked over the numerous tattoos and markings that covered every inch. Those swirling pictograms, pictures, and fragments of words spoke of something rich and strange, something that made my stomach knot from mere proximity. None of us could read it, despite the sweaty-
oothed feeling seeping into our bellies, so we took it to the old crone to read, to find what dread voyage had brought us this skin. To this day
I
wonder if it would not have5
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the River o fDream
Adrift on the River of Dream is the spiritual sourcebook for Tribe 8.
Covering synthesis, Dreaming, rituals, spirits, Sundering and Technosmithing ingreater and more comprehensive detail than previous books, it shows how these forces work in the eyes of various factions o f the Tribe 8 world. This book is everything needed tu expand the role o f synthesis and spirituality in any Tribe 8game. up
tu and including running entire campaip in the River of Dream.
The book is split into two main sections. The first section is narrative which follows the epic quest o f agroup o f powerful Dreamers searching for meaning in a wnfused and possibly broken world. This section illustrates spirituality and Dream as seen from the inside of the world of Tribe 8.
The second section is a rules section whichgivesgreater detailand new guidelines for using spirituality in game.
