Minor Beats
□ Following a long ritual, name The Heart. Only refer to it by this name from now on.
□ Take Minor Echo fallout.
□ See something from your dreams in the real world.
□ Consume something of the Heart (eat the flesh of a heartsblood beast, etc).
□ Be rendered helpless in the Heart for an hour or more.
□ Perform a rite at a place of power (Tier 2 or deeper).
□ Damage or sabotage a haven, letting the Heart in.
□ Sacrifice something you love to the Heart.
□ Allow something dangerous of the Heart to live when you could have killed it.
□ Let your curiosity lead you into danger.
□ Undergo a trance-like vision that lasts for hours.
□ Communicate with something of the Heart.
□ Witness an emissary of the Heart Itself.
□ Experience a pulse – the changing of the Heart from one state to another – first-hand.
□ Receive insight from a witch, a heartsblooded person or something stranger still.
□ Gain information on why you have been chosen by the Heart.
□ Receive a strange surgical implant or heartsblood transfusion.
□ Build a shrine to the Heart somewhere important.
□ Terrify or intrigue an NPC with your obsession.
□ Perform an act of service to an NPC witch.
□ Shelter someone touched by the Heart from persecution.
□ Find a heart-touched sapling on a delve and bring it back to a haven for plantingץ
□ Convince the party to collect Cursed resources on a delve, adding D6 to the delve’s resistance.
Major Beats
□ Take Major Echo fallout.
□ Perform a rite at a place of power (Tier 3 or deeper).
□ Sacrifice someone important to the Heart.
□ Establish a bond with a hearts-blood beast (Tier 2 or deeper).
□ Show the truth of the Heart’s majesty to an outsider (Tier 2 or deeper).
□ Meet and learn from an emissary of the Heart.
□ Destroy a haven, returning the land to the Heart.
□ One of your bonds takes Critical fallout thanks to your actions.
□ Deliver a crucial message on behalf of the Heart.
□ Visit three Vermissian Stations.
Zenith Beats
□ Become one with the Heart, and bind your essence to it.
□ Break the hold that the Heart has over you, ripping it from your body and spirit.