Draconic Radiance is Cancer-Prophecy-Power Inducing Light Produced by Dragon Breath

Dragons brought with them a poisonous lume that has irradiated the world. It bleeds from their wounds and burns alongside their breath and flies beneath the shadow of their wings. It is what turned the Hunter's Heaven into the Heavens Bless'd & Burned and how the Goddess of Birth became the Goddess of Armageddon.

It was beautiful; and then, it was sickening.

Take the sum total of all your attribute modifiers. If you have negatives, treat them as 0. Add this number to your total number of hit dice. This is your Radiance Threshold. Should you ever suffer more radiance then what your threshold allows, you roll on the Death by Radiance Table. Roll again for every 2 points beyond that. Despite its name, it is not pure death, but in many ways it might as well be--for you, an ally, or even a dream.

You recieve and lose points of Draconic Radiance through the following methods:

• You gain 1 point for each week you spend outside of the City of the Dragon Wives.
• You gain 1 point after combat with a dragon.
• You gain 5 points when drinking from liquid radiance.
• You gain 1 point per hour when standing directly underneath Aurora Radiance.

• You lose 1 point per day you spend inside the City of the Dragon Wives.
• You lose 1 point per day when you sow at least 10 tree seeds directly into your stomach, up to 10 points.
• You lose 1 point for every 5 hit points you sacrifice during a bloodletting ceremony.
• You lose 5 points when a god kisses you on the forehead, over the heart, or on the groin.

Dragon Wives have a radiance threshold equal to their normal threshold x 2.

Draconic Radiance manifests in the wild as rivers of liquid green-white light that are unbound by gravity. They will flow through dunes and then waterfall in reverse into the heavens and then spread outwards as an irradiated aurora before dipping below the sands again. These rivers move and shift with time; they cannot be mapped, they cannot be tracked, and they have all the deadliness of a flash flood filled with razor blades. Touching a Radiance River instantly increases your radiance to its threshold.

Death by Radiance Table

d10	Radiance Death
1	You begin to hallucinate and dream strange dreams. Roll on the Radiance Visions table.
2	Wounds open across your body, ancient and old. Roll another 1d10. You suffer a number of past injuries equal to the number rolled.
3	A stigma in the shape of an ouroboros bleeds radiance from your forehead. You can now speak with things of draconic ancestry--even if all they speak is madness.
4	Imagine all the goals, dreams, desires, and wants you've ever had. Now imagine them destroyed, one by one, by your allies. This hatred becomes real for you, and you must respond to it.
5	You remember the memories of the First Dragons to hatch from the Bless'd Moon. You know their locations, and they know yours, and they want their memories back.
6	Your body shifts in a strange, draconic way. Roll on the Radiance Mutations table.
7	The radiance stains you in a way unseen. Dragon Wives fly into a rage around you, and have the benefits of facing a dragon when fighting you.
8	Radiance replaces the blood in your body. Anything within 10 feet of you must save vs Magic or gain +1 point of radiance for every minute they remain there.
9	The radiance possesses you utterly. Your character becomes an NPC in the service of Tiamat and flees into the ashpits, seeking her consorts in order to join them.
10	The outline of your body blurs. You can see your flesh, and your bone, and something else too. You feel warm. Then, like morning mist caught in the wind, you scatter to ash.

Radiance Vision Table

d12	Radiance Vision
1	An ape is hunting. The ape has no arms and no face. As it leaps branch to branch, it loses it fur and grows scales. The monkey jumps from the trees and lands on a woman. The two fornicate.
2	There is blackness. From it comes a hand holding a bow. It fires an arrow. A man screams for the loss of his wife. His screams are stopped short by a loud, wet crunch.
3	A wolf is moving a pear through the ash with its snout. It looks up at you. It moves the pear closer. The pear hatches like an egg and from it crawls a fetus made of flame. The wolf howls and the sky turns the color of blood.
4	You are standing ontop of a great plateau. The mountain is made out of opal but is covered in ash. You bend over and remove some of the ash with your hand. Trapped in the opal are thousands of people, silently screaming for help. One mouths your mother's name.
5	As you walk down a of cobblestones lined by palm trees, 17 moons break apart and begin to rain from the sky. Their burning light reveals a dragon swirling about the rubble.
6	You vomit up a pearl into your hands. You look up and staring at you is a woman with a dragon's head. She throws up an identical pearl and replaces the on in your hands with her own.
7	Four burning wraiths of fire surround you. One lies you down, and another begins to fasten your legs and hands together with intestines. The remaining two lift up burning swords and hack off your limbs and replace them with a dragon's own.
8	You are a dragon wife falling through the sky. You can see beyond the mountains and the poisoned sea are castles of glass and gold. Suddenly you give birth to your normal self, who combusts into flames and turns into jade.
9	You are watching a heliographer burn an image into the wall. After hours pass and a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th sun rise up to aid him, the image is done. It is a picture of you fornicating with someone of your own sex under the gaze of a naked woman. The heliographer turns around and has the head of a hyena.
10	You cut your hands off and wrap them around your neck. Then you lie down in an open grave. Scribes write in tablets and then piss inside of the grave. They crush up the tablets and bury you beneath their dust.
11	Ruins are uncovered by wind. The ash blown away from them builds up other ruins, until you stand inside of a demolished city. A man with scales painted over his arms walks down the street and holds a crown out for you to take. The crown is made of bone, the gems of dragon eyes.
12	40 children are playing the Ball Game. One kicks the ball and it unfolds into a dragon with eight legs and no head nor neck. It lands on the ground and another child lays on top of it. That child sprouts wings and begins to cannabalize the other now-singing children.