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Expand your journey into an expansive, Nausicaa-inspired fantasy campaign setting ruled by giant magic cicadas, for the Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG 1E. Travel through an immersive world full of complex travelers, ancient relics and giant magical cicadas.

"Cloud Empress is a startling vision bursting with imagination and wonder. watt has pulled off something truly unique - both familiar and unsettling."

• Sean McCoy, creator of Mothership

Cloud Empress is an expansive, Nausicaa-inspired fantasy campaign setting for the Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG. Cloud Empress places you in a world ruled by the patterns of giant magical cicadas. Cloud Empress creates a new Earth, thousands of years in the future inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind, Frank Herbert’s Dune, and Hiromu Arakawa’s Full Metal Alchemist.

Cloud Empress: Land of Cicadas setting book features:

• 4 unique ecologically inspired biomes 
• 137 hexes to explore during the Summer of the Century Brood and the 29th Expedition’s invasion
• 52 random encounters
• 13 animals, friends, and foes
• 16 detailed NPCs
• 5 new crests
• 6 new spells
• 11 Relics and Slip Stuff
• 20 rumors
• 39 illustrations 
• 1 missing Cloud Empress
• And much more!

Specifications

• 58 page, Digest size, full color 
• Fully hyperlinked and bookmarked PDF.
• Compatible with Mothership® 1st Edition.
• Made by humans.

Credits

• Game, graphic design and layout by watt

• Illustrations by pbbeta, watt, Garin, and Daniel Hallinan

• Editing and development by Roz Leahy

• Additional game development by Christian Sorrell

• Sensitivity editing by Monroe Soto

• Playtesting by Mary Helen Inskeep, Erica Young, Patrick Frazier, Noel Miller, Kat Miller-Frazier, Dan Frazier, Ashley Nolan, Anna Frazier, Zobot257, Zoe R., Other Jim, ChrisAir, Terry Herc, and Jet McFin.

• Special thanks to A & D, Sean McCoy and Luke Gearing

Requires Cloud Empress: Rulebook to play.