Aries: The first pilgrims to cross the great sea, lost under the light of unfamiliar stars. A song to the churning waves. The first and only of the leviathans to speak to mankind. A glowing lure in the dark, guiding the caravan of ships to their new home.
Taurus: A white mare, standing taller than any war-horse. A shepherd to the dead, hooves falling on the sodden earth like thunderclaps, war drums across the void to the ghosts of ancestral warrior khans. Unshakable steeds that fear neither death nor pain.
Gemini: A captured girl in the court of a warrior king. A shattered elbow. A vengeful spirit, marred by pollution and war. Living armor made from the bones of a god.
Cancer: Settlers and exiles driven to the south. Exposure and starvation, lost in the mountains. Refuge from the summer storms found in a cave. Something ancient and forgotten and hungry, eight legs and eight eyes, invisible in the dark. A mother in mourning finds a new brood and teaches them to weave as generations of her mothers did.
Leo: An evil sorcerer king, and the nine queens that rose to overthrow him. A javelin enchanted with sealing curse piercing an evil heart. A capital city built at the center of a lake where nine rivers converge, impossible to besiege. Unholy remains guarded by the mummies of the old warrior queens.
Virgo: A crumbling temple at the heart of the jungle. A lone adventurer who met the slumbering feathered serpent at its heart. A game of riddles, an offering of blood, ancient secrets revealed.
Libra: An empire built in concord with an old goddess of the sea. Treachery. Heartbreak. Entire cities swallowed by the waves, save for a single young boy, bestowed with gills.
Scorpio: A well dug too deep. Voices from the dark, offers of power to an orphan prince. A treacherous bargain struck. A sacrifice made. Fertile valleys rent by frigid winds into lifeless tundra. Warnings from mournful spirits in the endless blizzard to stay away.
Ophiuchus: Dreams of flight. An old monk that lives in an inaccessible monastery atop a mountain shrouded in fog. Dreams of flight. Release from the cycle of frailty and death. Dreams of flight.
Sagittarius: A masterless knight from across the sea. Imitations of foreign armor and weapons. A kingdom built on the works of a land none of them had ever seen. A strange familiarity, when travelers met centuries later. Tales of crimes and a single exile.
Capricorn: A primitive land ripe for conquer. A colony fort, stocked full of soldiers. Insult, atrocity, rivers running red. There shouldn’t be storms this time of year. There can’t be storms this time of year. Something perched on the watchtower blotting out the light of the moon, feathers large as swords.
Aquarius: A grove of old oak trees. Fresh, clear water flows from knots in the trunks, pooling in the center of the clearing. Naturally occurring holy water not tied to any divine power.
Pisces: The palace on the hill, now empty. The mad sister of the king, living in seclusion. Secret vaults full of cruel experiments. Iron gates sealed shut by fire. A vengeful monster that still roams the halls.