I.📜 WHAT ARE “THREAD CARDS”?

They are:

• Pre-etched, unstable cards that cycle across possible futures.
• Bound to Sliver/Void, sometimes Light if the user is a Seer-type.
• Cards with blurred orientation — they may trigger both upright and reversed effects.
• Designed to not be permanent — drawn from a central Thread Deck, not the user’s own soulbound deck.

🎴 VISUAL IDENTITY vs. FATEFORGED CARDS

II.🔧 HOW DO YOU MAKE THREAD CARDS?

Thread Cards are created by:

1. Breaking fate — surviving paradox, time travel, or planar ruptures.
2. Weaving memory echoes from others (especially from dying seers, broken timelines, void entities).
3. Using Sliver-casting rituals to trap future probabilities into fixed forms.

Players might:

• Perform a Thread Rite during a lunar convergence
• Steal fate-thread from a prophecy daemon
• Sacrifice one memory to stabilize a single card

Each thread card is unstable, and too many in your deck risks a glitch cascade (fate events unraveling, cards swapping effects, or permanent status corruption).

* 📌 HOW DO YOU USE THREAD CARDS?*

In Combat:

• You draw from the Deck of Threads like a separate library (5–7 cards max).

• Cards have high power but unstable casting:

  • Roll or coin flip might determine which effect triggers.
  • Some cards activate on delay — resolving in a future turn.
  • Others echo (i.e., trigger twice, in two different ways).
• Thread Sync: If your mask matches the deck (e.g. Oracle, Hollow), you get a brief synchronization bonus (e.g., select outcome instead of random).

Cards have high power but unstable casting:

• Roll or coin flip might determine which effect triggers.
• Some cards activate on delay — resolving in a future turn.
• Others echo (i.e., trigger twice, in two different ways).

Outside Combat:

• Can be used as:

  • Scry tools (foresee events)
  • Ritual triggers (unlock fate-sealed doors)
  • Memory anchors (retrace a broken soul path)

Can be used as:

• Scry tools (foresee events)
• Ritual triggers (unlock fate-sealed doors)
• Memory anchors (retrace a broken soul path)

III.🪐 MECHANICAL DISTINCTION

* 💡 Optional Gameplay Hook*

🎲 At the start of combat, you may declare a Thread Reading. Draw 3 Thread Cards. Only 1 can be used this battle — but its effect occurs twice, one turn apart. If both trigger as Reversed, your fate fractures, triggering a “Glitch Pulse” (chaotic backlash event). Deck of Threads: For those who bend the weave, break the spiral, and walk untethered.

🎲 At the start of combat, you may declare a Thread Reading. Draw 3 Thread Cards. Only 1 can be used this battle — but its effect occurs twice, one turn apart. If both trigger as Reversed, your fate fractures, triggering a “Glitch Pulse” (chaotic backlash event). Deck of Threads: For those who bend the weave, break the spiral, and walk untethered.

IV. 🪡 THREAD RITE — Sub-Rules Expansion for the Deck of Threads

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“What you almost were. What you nearly did. That is what the Thread remembers.”

A Thread Rite is the ritual required to create Thread Cards — unstable echoes of futures unlived and timelines fractured. Unlike Fateforged cards, Thread Cards are not made through trauma, but through paradox, memory disruption, and fate collapse.

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MATERIALS & CONDITIONS

Required: • Thread Blank — stitched ghostpaper, dreamparchment, or glimmer-ink vellum • Catalyst — Sliver tear, forgotten name, broken chronoglyph, or orphaned memory

Rite Environments: • Glitched leyfield • Dream caverns or vaults of lost prophecy • During collapse events or timequakes

Optional Assist: • Oracle, Seer, Echo-singer, or Hollow Masked one

CREATION EFFECT

Each Thread Card gains: • One Upright Echo (stabilized potential) • One Reversed Glitch (twisted potential)

Stability Types: • Stable — Rite completed with anchor glyph • Flickering — Incomplete or chaotic Rite • Corrupted — Created during Mask Sync disruption

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