Resonance Storms

Resonance Storms (Scorval)
State	Scorval Blight
Region
Feature type	Resonant weather phenomenon
Nearby Settlements	Veilspire
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Resonance storms in Scorval Blight are psychic tempests born where griefglass, memory, and the Aethergrave’s influence intersect. More than mere weather, they are eruptions of weaponized sorrow that hurl shrapnel of remembered shame and regret across the land.

Origins

Scorval was transformed by resonance storms bleeding down from the Aethergrave’s northern bay. As these first storms seared soil into griefglass and twisted rivers into poisoned skeins, they left behind a landscape primed for further eruptions. Every thaw, every Silence Pulse, and every covenant rite risks stirring fresh storms from the fractured bedrock.

Storms often form where:

• Griefglass veins run close to the surface.
• Echo-laden relics have been disturbed.
• Covenants etch competing doctrines into the same shard-fields.

Effects

Within a resonance storm, wind carries more than snow or dust. It carries echoes.

• Whispers of past failures claw at the mind.
• Broken promises replay in vivid detail.
• The weight of others’ regrets presses like physical force.

Shards of griefglass caught up in the gale can cut both flesh and memory. Those exposed may emerge physically unharmed but stripped of specific recollections, or burdened with vivid memories that are not their own.

In the worst storms, sound itself fractures. Words spoken aloud return in other voices; thunder arrives late, repeating accusations no one present ever heard before.

Hazards

Scorval’s people respect resonance storms as much as they fear them.

• Travelers caught in a storm risk panic, collapse, or catatonia under the onslaught of echoed grief.
• Beasts and caravan animals may bolt or turn feral, driven mad by alien memories.
• Structures near storm centers sometimes twist or partially melt, freezing mid-contortion once the resonance passes.

Cults such as the Choir of Glass and the Pale Accord seek out these tempests deliberately, treating them as oracular events or trials of devotion. Others fortify homes with bone-charms, ash-veils, and resonance dampers purchased from Gravenreach.

Navigating Resonance Storms

Survival in a resonance storm is as much spiritual as physical.

Echo-Guides—often Ribbet and Simiah exiles—chant in harmonized duets to anchor caravans, their voices cutting stable channels through the storm’s chaos. Gravenreach devices, imported at great cost, can dampen local resonance, buying precious minutes of clarity.

For those without such tools, the only advice Scorval offers is bitter and simple: speak no lies, hold tight to one true memory, and keep moving until the echoes thin.