Gears that are removed from such devices impart a curious effect. Their most famous treasures are gold bars and intricate magical devices that they use to produce the golden thread to cut fates short. Norns care little about material wealth, but understand economics and keep coins and jewels as incentives or payment for other creatures. Being private creatures, they usually hide their abodes with powerful magic or put them in places conventionally inaccessible, and keep them safe with traps. Norns usually do not bother to adorn their lairs on the Material Plane, since they are only there when waiting for companions or working long-term plans. Norns are ageless on their native First World but slowly age on the Material Plane scholars agree that norns who spend more than 300 years on the Material begin to grow weak and confused, and believe that they can die of old age, but no one knows their exact lifespan. 3ĭue to their size, norns are voracious, prefer raw meat, and always strike their quarry at the right place and time when hunting with their shears. 5 For some reason, travelling in triumvirates prevents this from happening and allows norns to keep their powers. Their ability to interpret fate becomes warped, and they stop serving fate, instead pursuing their own goals, in the process turning either good or evil. On the Material Plane, norns grow confused and weak. Reborn norns can recognise their companions and keep some memories but often forget the circumstances of their death or the details of old missions.
If a norn dies on the Material Plane, she is reborn on the First World and seeks out her companions after growing. Norns in a single triumvirate are bound across all their lives. In a time beyond history, all norns were born in threes, in a process that no longer happens anymore.
Although a triumvirate is often considered to be a single soul split into three bodies, this is incorrect: each member is an individual person. 4 A triumvirate appears to act with a singular mind and all three norns speak in perfect unison the strength of all three seems dependent on the other two. In each triumvirate, there always appear to be one young adult (a Maiden), a middle-aged (Mother) and an old crone (Matriarch), regardless of the norns' actual appearance. On the Material Plane, norns usually travel in groups of three, known as triumvirates. Their hair is tied in braids that approach their feet, and they usually wear luxurious, flowing furs. Young norns have black hair and eyes as they age, the former gradually turns blonde and the latter become azure, amber, or violet. 1 2 AppearanceĪ norn resembles an austere woman standing more than 14 feet tall and weighing 800 pounds. These tests are mysterious, and those who survive sometimes do not realize that they have been tested. These prophecies are often contingent on an inscrutable and subtle test of wisdom and determination imposed by the fey. Norns are hooded fey women who deliver cryptic prophecies to lost travelers and questing heroes who encounter them along their journeys.
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