Welcome to Norhrost!

A Magical Girl's Guide to Norhrost is a campaign setting for Warded Wishes, a Hex-based tactical dark Magical Girl TTRPG made for Countdown to Walpurgisnacht 2024. It also contains the framework for the campaign "The Center Cannot Hold"

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The Center Cannot Hold

Norhrost’s strongest Magical Girl has vanished, and her territory stands undefended.

As tensions flare and peace look ever more uncertain, new Magical Girls must find their place in a Ward as their values and assumptions get challenged. Will they find a way to maintain a fragile peace, wrestle control for themselves, or uncover truths buried beneath the very soil itself?

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What's Included:

• A detailed premade Ward with maps, regional lore, and landmarks across six distinct districts

• 19 NPC Magical Girls, each with unique personalities and agendas

• A One-Shot Framework and a suite of modular Encounters

• "The Center Cannot Hold" – a full three-arc campaign of diplomatic entanglements and horrific revelations

• VTT-Ready Assets, including region maps and status effect indicators

• Three Advanced Specialties to expand your character options

• Polaroids and Bird references

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What You’ll Need:

This is a setting book, not a standalone game. You’ll need a copy of Warded Wishes to use this material.

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Notes for Contractors:

This book assumes you’re running the game as a Contractor (GM). If you’re playing as a Magical Girl in someone else's game, consider holding off. This PDF contains major spoilers!

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Norhrost is your Ward now. Every character, region, and plot hook is here to inspire your own stories. Whether you use the city as-is or modify it to fit your group’s narrative, the Ward is waiting for your girls to fight, fall, and find out the truth!

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A Magical Girl's Guide to Norhrost was originally developed between March 16th and April 30th 2025 in honor of the determination of Homura Akemi, and was made without any involvement or input from generative AI. It's a submission for the second Countdown to Walpurgisnacht Game Jam!

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