Doomslayers: Into the Labyrinth is a supplement for Wraith: The Oblivion that details a special group of wraiths that travel into the Labyrinth and Tempest, and what they might find there.
Summary[]
From the White Wolf catalog:
- We Go Places That No One Else Dares
- Saddle up, kid, we're going down. That's right, all the way down — into the Labyrinth. Strap on your armor and get your soulsteel ready, because if we're lucky we're going to hit Spectres the second we walk in there.
- If we're not, we'll hit them right about now.
- Here's What's Waiting
- Take a trip into every wraith's worst nightmare with Doomslayers: Into the Labyrinth. With fiction from noted authors Matthew Costello and Lucy Taylor, Doomslayers is the complete guide to the Labyrinth, its denizens, and those wraiths brave – or foolish – enough to hunt them.
Ghost Story: Enthralled[]
A Helldiver reunites with an old lover turned Spectre.
Ghost Story: Expedition[]
A team of Antarctic explorers encounters a team of Doomslayers.
Ghost Story: The Supplicant[]
Coldheart seeks out the self-styled Malfean known as the Hungry Maw.
Still Life with Impending Doom[]
The last survivor of a team of Doomslayers reflects on the mission that led to his final fate.
Introduction: The First Step[]
This sections summarizes the purpose of the book, as well as recommending several books and websites on exploration and caving.
Doomslaying: The Basic Dossier[]
The history, purpose, organizations, and tools (including artifacts and relics) most commonly used by Doomslayers are packed into this chapter.
Doomslaying: One Step Beyond[]
Along with details on how to create a Doomslayer character, this section also notes how Doomslayers can use Dark Arcanoi in their work.
Doomslaying: Tactics[]
The armies of Oblivion are here, as well as how Doomslayers attempt to fight them and redeem the occasional Spectre.
Life in the Labyrinth: The Society of Shadows[]
The pecking order of Spectres is revealed, as well as details on the rarely seen Pasiphae and once-rare Haint.
Life in the Labyrinth: The Oblivion War and the Malfeans[]
The most famous of the Malfeans are noted in this chapter, as well as the cults of the living and dead that worship them.
Life in the Labyrinth: Living Cycle to Cycle[]
The life of a Spectre is revealed, from creation to warfare to leisure to death.
Life in the Labyrinth: The Arts of the Dead[]
Information on how Spectres use Arcanoi is the focus of the section, as well as alternate abilities for the Dark Arcanoi, and Artifacts used by Spectres.
The Great Maze: The Labyrinth Beneath Stygia[]
The Labyrinth that exists beneath the civilizations of the dead is revealed, as is everything from the Veinous Stair to the secret of Swar.
The Great Maze: Traveling the Labyrinth[]
This chapter sets up details on what the typical Labrynth experience is like for a Doomslayer, and can be used to build campaigns.
Appendices[]
Alternate Plasmic types and famous Doomslayers and Labyrinth Spectres are detailed.
Background Information[]
Doomslayers provides the first bits of information on several Malfeans that will later go on to play much bigger roles post-Sixth Great Maelstrom in Orpheus.
It also adds further details to the fate of Charon's Shadow, as originally outlined in Guildbook: Pardoners and Puppeteers, explaining how it became Gorool's animating force; the Neverborn devoured it, absorbing all of its knowledge.
Characters[]
- Xerxes Jones (cameo): A Void Engineer who wants a relic nuclear weapon. What trouble could that cause?
Terminology[]
Dark Arcanos, Doomslayer, Helldiver, Malfean (WTO), Spectre (WTO)
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