Sunmirror: Reflecting U'duasha
A downloadable book
Sunmirror: Reflecting U’duasha is an unofficial, fan-made supplement for the tabletop roleplaying game Blades in the Dark by John Harper and Evil Hat Productions. This book is a compilation of the worldbuilding done for the podcast Desperate Attune and contains that show’s reimagining of the city of U’duasha from the Special Edition of Blades in the Dark.
What this book offers
- Reworked Demon Houses
- Lore that offers an U’duashan perspective on the Demon Princes
- The addition of a fifth Demon Prince and Noble House
- Expanded faction entries for all existing Houses
- An ‘Ascendancy’ mechanic to determine which Noble House rules U’duasha in your campaign
- Reworked U’duasha map
- Full rework of the city map into 13 districts
- District entries that include rollable tables to generate unique features for each district, as well as hooks and local vignettes
- Reworked Factions
- U’duasha is now a sandbox for 31 named factions
- In-depth entries on 24 factions including rollable tables for hooks and vignettes that convey the tone of the faction
- Expanded lore on U’duasha and the Shattered Isles
- U’duasha’s relationship to Forgotten Gods, demons, and magic expanded
- Development of Imperial relationship with U’duasha
- Details on U’duasha’s place in the politics of a wider Iruvia
- Cultural flavour on a range of topics such as languages, food and music in U’duasha
- Development of migrant communities, with a particular focus on Skovlanders
- Updated heritages and backgrounds that focus on what it means to be a foreigner in U’duasha
- Brief outline of other Iruvian cities
- An entry on the Deathlands outside U’duasha
- A nice recipe for Bengali mashed potato
Enjoy your keys to the city.
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I'm excited to dive headfirst into this setting. I heard you talk about this on the "Yes Indie'd" podcast and loved the descriptions. I'm planning on implementing it with my regular DnD group.
This is a wonderful book that makes U'Duasha much less of an afterthought, I've been running through it for a few weeks now with a group and it's been great. We're having great fun so far being bravos in Pasarhantu meddling with the coliseum and Anrakhis. There's enough prompts and characters etc. here to actually get a faction meta-game going here, which I think Blades desperately needs in order to be engaging and U'duasha sorely lacked before.
My only minor criticism would probably be the map itself is not particularly useful for doing things like visibly carving up turf, and is actually smaller than the OG map. In an ideal world I'd have wanted map with as much detail and scale as Duskwall has, but obviously that kind of cartography is rare and it's easier to just abstract it, and I totally get why it's not there. I certainly don't have the skills to do it myself, heheh
What a wonderful opportunity to see the city and its inhabitants, whom I had got to know through the podcast, spread out in all their splendour and horror. Thank you so much for this work of dedication!
Thank you so much, Joe! We're glad you've enjoyed both the pod and the book. :)
Excellent work! Poetry and passion and fun on every page.
Thanks, Thomas! Big appreciated