A shudder, through midnight is the deity for those devoted to the primal cycle of prey and predator and all that that encompasses.
Those who pray to "the shudder" do so when they feel life at its most perilous— with the fear of mortality singing in their veins, on the precipice awaiting the drop. To pray to "a shudder, through midnight" is to ask for the insight granted by a mind free from the fog of humanity, to access the innate instinct hidden deep in our bones in the hopes it leads to a surer outcome. Prayers for a cleaner kill or, a swift escape.
Those who devote their lives to “A shudder, through midnight” ****are thrill-seekers, adrenaline junkies; they worship the patron of fear in hopes of absolution, of gaining a drop of its quicksilver fearlessness in their veins. They fear no night sky for they wear “the shudder” like armor— assured in the protection that a terror sharpened instinct will bring.
“The shudder” stands as one of the Major Arcana on the Coil due to it’s reign over what that every creature feels- fear, instinct and the protection that it brings, and the starlit, watching, canvas above that blankets us all.
As a follower of the shudder, consider the ideals on the A shudder, through midnight's Ideals table as alternatives to those suggested for your background.
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Devotion. My devotion to my god is more important to me than what they stand for. |
| 2 | Nature. The beauty of the natural world fills me with serenity. |
| 3 | Freedom. I yearn to run wild. |
| 4 | Tutelage. The world is a deadly classroom, and students need an expert guide to survive. |
| 5 | Savagery. It's eat or be eaten, and I plan to be the one with the full belly. |
| 6 | Purity. I won't sully my body or my soul with the taint of civilization. |