Pilgrimage of the Penitent

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A Mörk Borg Module

Illustration, writing, and Design by Nick Ribera

When I first read the Mörk Borg campaign book, what stuck with me most was the portents of the end of days as your players traverse a dying world. This is what I chose to explore in my storyline. Yes- random beasts are emerging from the depth, a bastardization of the world that once showed us love, but do these bastards not also need love? Is their evil inherent or is it projected- a symptom of their ugliness? And if they are Evil, is it a permanent, unshakable state or can it be excised?

Pilgrimage of the Penitent is both a zine and a compendium that can be inserted into any campaign. Inspired by the Camino de Santiago, I began by designing a plethora of different NPCs, locations, treasures, creatures, and diseases your players might meet along the way. I then tied all of these elements together into a storyline that explores the lengths to which one might go to seek absolution during the impending apocalypse. The storyline is extremely combat-light and introduces a new “affliction” system wherein magical diseases can develop over time, granting boons or banes to your players.

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Pilgrimage of the Penitent RPG Bundle – Hardcover Book, Reference Card Deck & Enamel Pin

$39.99

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A journey of sin, suffering, and strange relics — now collected in one offering.

The Pilgrimage of the Penitent RPG Bundle brings together the full experience of this bleak, narrative-driven Mörk Borg module with physical artifacts pulled straight from its world.

At its core is the 82-page hardcover campaign book, a combat-light, fully illustrated descent into guilt, absolution, and bodily corruption at the end of days. Players traverse a dying landscape inspired by the Camino de Santiago, encountering cults, aberrations, and a Deacon who consumes sin through ritual.

Accompanying the book is a deck of 26 oracle-sized reference cards, featuring the full-page illustrations from the module. Printed without text, they can be used as immersive player aids or repurposed into your own campaigns and interpretations.

Completing the bundle is a hard enamel pin, originally created as a campaign add-on — a physical emblem of devotion, suffering, or survival, depending on who wears it.

This bundle is designed for players and collectors who want more than just a book — it’s a tactile extension of the world itself.