Fate Casters: Shadows of Stravia
A dark and immersive actual play experience where fate is as merciless as the night.
Episodes
56 episodes
Tear the Heart | Shadows of Stravia: Episode 55
Borislav's been gone a while. You might've wondered where he wandered off to.Turns out the answer is: somewhere cold, somewhere quiet, and somewhere with unfinished business.This episode opens on him — alone, on the road, carryi...
Strange Fruit, Part II | Shadows of Stravia: Episode 54
Back in the Grey Plane, beneath the impossible boughs of the exiled Gulthias tree, the party finally stands before the source of the soul plague.But the horror of what they find is far worse than the tree itself.From its vast, t...
Strange Fruit, Part I | Shadows of Stravia: Episode 54
Back in the waking world of the Shadows of Stravia, the party follows the thread of the soul plague to the place where the nightmare first took root.The old temple site.In this plane, the Gulthias tree is gone—banished from the ...
The Waking Nightmare | Shadows of Stravia | Episode 53
After the horrors of Light of Doruusk, the party briefly returns to the waking world—but not everyone wakes easily.Nyx lies unconscious after the impossible glimpse of Odin’s Eye, touched by something ancient, divine, and far beyond mor...
The Ghosts Beneath the Tree | Shadows of Stravia | Episode 52
After waking in the twisted parallel reality known as Light of Doruusk, the party quickly discovers that something is terribly wrong.People are collapsing without wounds.Entire districts are falling sick overnight.And wo...
When Souls Go Quiet | Shadows of Stravia | Episode 51
Nyx has always known his father was not like other fathers.Mostly because most fathers do not arrive as undead ravens offering impossible power in the voice of a god.On the long road back to Slavoka, the party’s fragile peace is...
Soup, Silver, and Shadows | Shadows of Stravia | Episode 50
Leaving the Black City is, in theory, the easy part.In practice, this party has never met an “easy part” they couldn’t make emotionally complicated.After the chaos of the Crimson Court, the party prepares to depart Drogmalhar wi...
Cloves and Consequences | Shadows of Stravia | Episode 49
You would think the most dangerous moment of the night would be the one where blades were nearly drawn in the Crimson Court.You would be wrong.Because the real damage begins after the spectacle ends.After the votes.A...
Last Will and Testament | Shadows of Stravia | Episode 48
You ever get the feeling someone is acting just sentimental enough that you should immediately start checking for hidden motives, sealed letters, and possible last words?Because this episode begins with Nyx doing something deeply unsett...
The Things We Try to Bind | Shadows of Stravia | Episode 47
You ever watch someone attempt the magical equivalent of “this has definitely never worked before, but tonight feels lucky”?Because this episode begins with the party doing the one thing no one in Stravia should ever do lightly:...
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Shadows of Stravia | Episode 46
You smell that smell? That smelly smell? That smelly, smelly, smell?Because this episode opens not in a dungeon, not in a council chamber, and not in anything resembling reality—but in a dream.Or a vision.Or a trial....
Blood, Silk, and Bad Ideas | Shadows of Stravia | Episode 45
Nyx receives the kind of message that never leads anywhere healthy: a discreet request from Karina to acquire a sample of Selene Blackheart’s blood.Because in Stravia, apparently, “small favors” now include light espionage, potential tr...
The Crimson Court | Shadows of Stravia | Episode 44
The party barely has time to recover before the scent of cloves leads them straight back into danger.After the chaos in Drogmalhar’s streets, they pursue Sevran in a desperate attempt to catch him before he vanishes once again — and bef...
Beer and Cloves | Shadows of Stravia | Episode 43
The party has arrived in Drogmalhar, the Black City… and after strategy meetings in a bubble bath, naturally, there is only one logical next step:drinks.With the Crimson Court looming and political disaster brewing by the hour, ...
Meeting in the Bath | Shadows of Stravia | Episode 42
The party finally reaches Drogmalhar, the Black City — and for the first time in days, they get a moment to breathe.After bloodshed on the road and the political shockwaves of Prince Reginold Fullstone’s arrival, the group settles into ...
Short King Prince | Shadows of Stravia | Episode 41
We return from dreams of wraith and memory… to iron, blood, and politics.On the road to the Black City, the party meets Reginold Fullstone, crown prince of the dwarven kingdom of Doruusk — a man with a mysterious blade, an ancient tomb ...
A Shark's Hunger | Light of Doruusk | Episode 40
At the rotting edge of the sea, something ancient stirs.They walk like men.They speak like men.But beneath their skin…They are sharks.Drawn to the Rotter Docks by a single prize — a powerful orb said to grant imm...
A Captain's Ransom | Light of Doruusk | Episode 39
In the depths of his treasury, surrounded by gold and ghosts, Captain James Mephisto does the unthinkable.He sleeps.And in sleep… he dreams.Dreams of salt air and cannon fire.Of a life before chains and curses.Of...
When Sins Come Due | Shadows of Stravia | Episode 38
The party races against time to save Ysolde from a self-inflicted end—his darkest secrets finally laid bare, his fate hanging by a thread. Redemption is possible… but only if they reach him before it’s too late.As Greydale mourns, Karin...
Dreams, Deception, and a Final Confession | Shadows of Stravia | Episode 37
Greydale survives the goblin assault—but the danger is far from over.In the aftermath of the raid, the party finally begins to understand Ptitty and Tugg, and why Boris has been hunting them so relentlessly. As they give chase, a deadly...
Loot Goblins | Fate Casters: Shadows of Stravia | Episode 36
Greydale is no longer safe.A goblin horde descends on the town, drawn by rumors of stolen treasure—and by Ptitty and Tugg, whose ill-gotten loot has finally come back to haunt them. As chaos erupts and civilians scatter, the party is fo...
The Weight of What Lingers | Fate Casters: Shadows of Stravia | Episode 35
Greydale is finally reached.But arrival does not bring relief.As the party steps out of the storm and into the battered town, the echoes of divine intervention still cling to them — unanswered questions, unspoken bargains, and t...
What the Gods Demand | Fate Casters: Shadows of Stravia | Episode 34
Day Three of travel was supposed to be difficult.It becomes punishing.The blizzard worsens, the road vanishes, and survival itself becomes a question as the party pushes toward Greydale through whiteout conditions that seem almo...
Blizzards & Emotional Damage | Fate Casters: Shadows of Stravia | Episode 33
We begin Day Two of travel the same way all good journeys do:With a blizzard.And unresolved emotional baggage.As snow howls across the road, Zelphira finally has that conversation with her father — the one that’s been postpo...
A Very Polite Attempted Murder | Fate Casters: Shadows of Stravia | Episode 32
We pick up at camp, where Zelphira is very busy having important conversations and definitely not sharing a bed with Prince Lariel II. Politics are navigated. Charm is deployed. Boundaries are enforced.Then the past arrives—cold, armed,...