ADRIAN ARCOLEO

Beavermancer@duck.com







Random Loot Table for His Majesty the Worm inspired by a trip to the Met’s Cloisters
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HMtW, Random Tables
A friend and I had the opportunity to visit New York City and see the Met’s Cloisters exhibit. We visited in November of 2025 while they had a special exhibit on love, sex, and gender in the middle ages called Spectrum of Desire. The exhibit runs through March 29th 2026. My friend, a medievalist scholar studying exactly that highly recommends the exhibit (and the Cloisters more generally), as do I

We were inspired to create a table of items based on what we saw there specifically for His Majesty the Worm, to reinforce the Cult of Mythrys through artifacts rooted in the real experiences people in the middle ages had surrounding religion and courship. Just as the canon in the core rulebook should be discarded and changed as necessary, so should the “canon” implied by these artifacts be changed to suit your own needs.



  1. A finely carved ivory tablet showing the First Sacrifice of Mythrys but depicted as a woman.

  2. A diminutive prayer book expertly inlaid with intricate designs showing the many faces of the Monad, The One and Many (2"x3", veeery small).

  3. A reliquary shaped in the form of the limb from which the relic is presumed to come have come from (the finger of a saint takes the form of a cast golden hand and forearm, for example).

  4. Tapestry that changes designs every time it is rolled and unrolled. The imagery cycles through the many faces of Monad, The One and Many.

  5. A finely carved chess set, with each piece assuming one face of the Monad. The King is Mythrys and the Queen is his mother, Maiden Wisdom.

  6. A writing tablet meant for lovers exchanging secretive messages. The cover is an ivory carving of lovers promiscuously grabbing each other's belts. The interior tablets themselves are a thin ivory covered in a fine layer of wax which can be written into and erased with ease.

  7. A vessel, such as a pitcher or decanter, made of gold, depicting a... particularly virile beast of the Underworld.

  8. Architectural Frieze carved into a limestone brick showing The City before it assumed its current importantance.

  9. A well preserved set of playing cards. The typical suits are replaced with Dragon Lance (swords), Griffin Saddle (cups), Unicorn Tether (pentacles), Phoenixer's Gauntlet (Wands).

  10. The collar of a captured unicorn.

  11. A courtly belt embroidered with silver thread and golden enamel. These belts were often given to others as symbolic gestures but judging by the design it is unclear if this belt was intended to be given as a sign of loyalty, rank, rivalry, or love.

  12. A lost Bishop's Crozier, a sign of rank amongst the Cult of Mythrys and highly sought after as a symbol of legitimacy.

  13. A sumptuous depiction of Mythrys on wood panel embracing one of His first disciples.

  14. Triptych showing scenes in the life of Mythrys. His Birth, His Conversion, His Assumption.

  15. Strange wooden panel seeming to show Mythrys and the Monad as distinct, but complimentary, entities, heretical to the Single Nature imposed by the Cult of Mythrys.

  16. A well preserved leather bookbox containing a copy of a book in a language unknown to Man. Examining the illuminations makes it obvious these are the teachings of Mythrys.

  17. A pharmacy jar containing a strong, potent, and likely expired medicine. I wonder if it still works?

  18. A rolled canvas painting showing the XIV Secret Pope (or so the painting implies) kissing and embracing Mythrys long after His Assumption.

  19. A brass statuette of a scantily clad, androgynous Mythrys where their groin, breasts and lips are particularly polished.

  20. A small carved chest showing raunchy scenes not suitable for polite conversation. The contents Include fine examples of a ring, brooch, and comb that would make suitable gifts for courtship.

  21. A shattered stained glass scene that had once shown the 21 Sacrifices of Mythrys during His Conversion. Only three of the struggles remain intact.

    Magic Item addendum.
    - Reliquary limb, as above, but can be used to replace a missing limb, magically animating as a fully usable prosthetic.