Yage

What players would know #

Illustration (player-safe) #

Yage is a controlled intoxicant made from dried, powdered black centipedes and stabilizing binders. In small doses it loosens thought patterns; in heavy doses it can scramble speech into fluent but unstable glossolalia.

It appears in three social lanes:

• shamanic circles (ritualized, supervised),
• orc research contexts (instrumental, measured),
• undercity dens (recreational and often unsafe).

Common rumors #

• “Yage does not give prophecy; it strips the lies you tell yourself.”
• “The first dose gives clarity. The third dose gives certainty. Certainty gets people killed.”
• “Bad batches make spell phrases drift just enough to fail at the worst moment.”