A rustic fantasy tabletop RPG based on the acclaimed City of Mist. Spin a tale of journey and peril where choices transform gameplay.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
HoR Theme Kits, Specials, and Oldways Magic!
3 months ago
– Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 10:00:07 AM
A Dalish Road. Journey art by Alejandra PInal
Hello there companions,
We're excited to share with you the complete Chapter 1 of Hearts of Ravensdale !
New Drop: Dalish Character Creation Supreme!
Today we're sending out version 0.4 of the Hearts of Ravensdale playtesting copy for backers with the complete first chapter via DriveThruRPG. As always, if you did not receive it by tomorrow, please reach out to us at [email protected] .
What's Inside?
Make your Dalish Hero and learn about Oldways magic!
24 Dalish Tropes
Nearly 90 (!!!) theme kits including Dale-specific People theme kits (added to the Valley by Valley section), a host of Origin theme kits fit for a variety of rustic fantasy Heroes, and lots of Oldways Magic theme kits.
A Special Improvement for each theme kit!
Crafting and Cooking rules and recipes
The complete (player-facing) Oldways Magic guide, with honorable mentions for other types of magic that can be seen in the Dales
(There will be additional character creation content for Uncanny Heroes in Chapter 2.)
Feedback
Tell us what you thought of this treasure trove of player content! If you want to share feedback on Dalish character creation, or if you find any mistakes, please visit the Discord server threads for errata, setting information, and character creation.
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Print Continues
While we're laying out the book, our production team continues to prepare the final products for print. Recently, we received samples of the Acorn Dice and Leather Satchel box as well as the Cloth Map of the Dales:
What's Next?
Our deadline of January 31st is fast approaching. We already have all the content for Chapter 2 (Challenges) and Chapter 3 (Campaign), so it's now a question of whether we can refine and lay it out within those two weeks. We won't know until we try, but even in the worse case scenario, we are looking at no more than a week or two delay before the book is finished.
In other words, we're extremely close to finishing the digital side of the project!
Stay tuned for more - our next update will be January 30th.
The Challenges are coming. Hexia art by Mark Hretskyi
Until then, brew your favorite recipes and craft your lucky charms!
-Amit and the Son of Oak team
We're in love! The Character Pack is here
3 months ago
– Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 03:06:05 PM
Hello there companions and Happy New Year! How fares the trail for you?
We're here with another update and content drop!
The Character Pack - Print Preview
Today we're sending out via DriveThruRPG the Legend In The Mist Character Pack - Print Preview which contains 20 vertical premade characters sheets. If you did not receive it by tomorrow, please reach out to [email protected] .
What's in it? The 20 official pregens for Legend In The Mist (more on that below).
Twenty? Yes! We've added 4 of your favorite characters to the 16 promised: The Red Marshal, The Apple Picker, The Wise One, and Gerrin, the Deer Stalker! They will also be included in the printed Character Pack.
Vertical? Yes. Since we are prioritizing print right now, we're sharing a preview of the print product, which is vertical for better handling at the table (it can be folded in half so only the character information is visible and others looking at you see the character art on the poster side). The final digital product will be horizontal, for easier use online, like the demo game pregens.
Preview? Yes, it's just a preview of the printed product, so you can dive into the content sooner. This PDF has no selectable text or other features that the final digital product will have.
We're In Love With These Characters!!!
And we hope you'll be too!
Most of these were concepted by dev Kend'or Wilson and yours truly, and worked on by pretty much the entire dev team. The gorgeous art is by Alejandra Pinal and the immaculate graphic design by Manuel Serra Saez.
All characters are set in the Hearts of Ravensadale setting. Here's who you're about to meet:
🌿Origin Characters
These are made of 4 Origin themes, making them perfect starting points for your rustic fantasy adventure. They range from complete bumpkins like Bumbler and Kelvis, to Oldways practitioners who are a little more aware of the dangers of the Unseen, like Siondelle and Mistle.
"Bumbler" (Bumblebee Meadows): An incompetent beekeeper and meadery owner, hanging on by sheer luck
Finn, the Red Marshal: A strapping young constable protecting a sleepy village and dreaming of glory
Gerrin The Deerstalker: A spirited woodland huntsman dedicated above all to his family
Gorna and Truffles: A gregarious cook and his porcine pal, out to taste every dish in the Dales
Higgins Two-Shells: A stalwart yet battle-weary bard, in search for peace that would bring back his love
Jayne Tinkerplate: A fledgling sellsword set on changing her stars - and to hell with the naysayers!
Kelvis: A simple farmer and farrier searching for his missing wife and daughter
Koto Pondskimmer: A river-faring fisherman and local brigand, sailing through life without a care
Mistle of Salthill: A morose vagabond, bound to wander among graves and keep the dead asleep
Old Man Carlo: A kindly old cobbler who thought of peaceful retirement until he met a pixie
Rags: A curious puppeteer whose street shows foretell unexpected fates
Rosamund, the Wise One: An aging recluse versed in the Oldways, a sage and apothecary for her dale
Seede, the Apple Picker: A rascally orphan working as a farmhand, pranking the people of Ravenhome
Siondelle the Cairnmaker: A wild-at-heart pilgrim, fleeing a nefarious past life to search for the Unseen
Koto Pondskimmer, a fisherman and brigand!
⚔️Adventure Characters - ⚠️Spoiler Alert!
These characters originate by and large from outside the Dales, and have at least two Adventure themes each, reflecting their power level and ability to cope with the dangerous world beyond.
⚠️Spoiler Alert: While these sheets don't contain blatant spoilers, they do speak more freely about supernatural beings, which may reveal more than you wish if you're going to be a player playing an Origin level character - please pass this on to your players.
Bogomil: A magician of considerable power plotting a quest that will change the world
Daunt of House Mattina: A gallant mystery knight seeking to uphold the motto of his fallen noble house
Gaelle: A highland hunter who made a pact for a sword that can slay monsters
GlintFallow: A grumpy and greedy creature, remnant of bygone times, looking for a new home
Kinsi: A peculiar peddler in the market for old trinkets, baubles, and heirlooms
Kinsi - they're a peddler, just a peddler, honest!
👑Greatness Characters
Hearts of Ravensdale isn't really designed for Greatness characters, but since Legend In The Mist supports it, we wanted to put the possibility in your hands. Gullencry is a fun and powerful character that is interested in the little humans' affairs, which could be a great comical way to approach the campaign!
Gullencry: A magnificent dragon fascinated by the little lives of human critters
Feedback!
As print deadlines are closing in, we really need your help, backers, in ironing out any last kinks that remain in these character sheets. We are also very excited to learn what you think about these characters, and who your absolute favorites are!
We will continue to lay out and release parts of the Hearts of Ravensdale book, with the next update dropping on Friday, January 16th. We have some character creation sections coming out next, as well as Chapter 2 which holds many of the setting's secrets...
Until then, Happy New Year and enjoy the game! 🎉🎉🎉
- Amit and the Son of Oak team
New Drop + Winter Creature Pack + Season of Giving Sale!
4 months ago
– Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 02:11:37 PM
Alejandra's art for a Crow-Sister ritual honoring Grandfather Crow, cover for Chapter 2: Past The Bounds
❄️❄️❄️ Happy Yuletide companions! ❄️❄️❄️
We continue our quest to traverse the Dales and complete the Hearts of Ravensdale book, alongside all the accessories.
New Drop: Complete Setting Information For The Dales!
Today we sent out to you via DriveThruRPG the latest update to the Hearts of Ravensdale Setting Book, version 0.25, which contains all the Dales, valley by valley, from Underbough to Lastford, from South Crossing to the Dolmen Knolls. (Actually, one Dale still remains to be added, being so insignificant and all-important as it is. Can you guess which one?)
If you didn't get the files or if you encountered other issues, please reach us at [email protected] .
A Rich Rustic Setting To Get Lost In
Each Dale write up contains its gist, outstanding features, notable residents, but most importantly a handful of rumors and tales which could spark adventures and mysteries when your Heroes visit the Dales. If you ever dreamed of getting lost in the Dales for several years, you now have a bushel of story seeds to keep you going!
This information is player-facing, available to Heroes who live there or are passing through. In Chapter 2, Past The Bounds, we will include Narrator information that will reveal the hidden elements in each Dale.
Call for Feedback!
Which is your favorite Dale - have you been enchanted by the haunted Dolmen Knolls or do you like better the broody, over-critical people of Fairpoint? Who is your favorite Dalesperson? Please share it with us in the comments!
This is a great time to say thank you to Jason Fryer, who wrote many of the setting's tiny details. While the team revised, refined, edited, and added, Jason was the one to do the initial heavy-lifting of worldbuilding the entire region earlier this year and he created many of the rustic characters and places the Dalish people now call home. Thank you, Jason!
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Next, we will continue as planned to Making A Dalish Hero, with its much-anticipated Tropes, Theme Kits, Special Improvements, and suggested backpack tags.
Alejandra's art for the Blood & Water Feud Journey, following a time of internal strife at your Dalish village
New Winter Creature Pack!
We also sent you today (sorry for the double email) a short PDF with 5 Challenges you could throw into a wintery session:
Ice Crossing
Mylings
Wintershade
The Gift of Painted Boulders
The Visit Of The Merry Magician
Each Challenge tackles a different aspect of your Heroes' lives, from a village Yuletide prank to unnatural ravenous winter spirits. Enjoy!
This Mark Hertzkyi art for a Stormhelm Knight will also feature in the Hearts of Ravensdale book
Season of Giving Sale
Until January 5th, we're donating 15% of all orders on sonofoak.com to charity. The funds raised will be distributed to charities you vote on when you make a purchase. Here are the few charities we put forward, but you also have the option to suggest your own charity of choice:
Extra Life
World Central Kitchen
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
If you considered picking a digital or physical copy of City of Mist or :Otherscape, or if you want to gift Legend In The Mist to someone else, please consider doing so during this time and contributing to a charity you believe in.
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That's all for today. Our next update will be on January 2nd.
May you have a beautiful and heartwarming holiday season, and an amazing start to 2026!
-Amit and the Son of Oak team
New Setting Book Drop + Update Delivery Date + Upcoming Irish-Inspired Setting!
4 months ago
– Fri, Dec 05, 2025 at 09:05:32 AM
Latest chapter cover art by Alejandra Pinal!
Hello there companions,
We have some great news today to share with you, sit around the campfire and lets start!
Updated Delivery Date!
Looking at the current production times, our new and final estimate is that the setting book and all remaining digital rewards will be completed by January 31st, 2026. Based on that, and our discussions with the printer, we can expect backers to hold books in hands around May 31st, 2026, assuming no major tariff-related delays (none are expected at present).
This would put the project at about one year delay, but we hope you'd agree that -- at least with the materials released so far -- it was worth the wait. As I explained in previous updates, we take great pains to craft the content for Legend In The Mist and its Hearts of Ravensdale setting, as well as the physical products, so that they really carry something special. We think you'll really enjoy them when they arrive!
The 3-panel Narrator Screen (one side folded) is going to print!
New Setting Book Drop!
The world of Hearts and Ravensdale and specifically the remote mountain region of the Dales continue to grow by the day, as we release new playtesting version of the setting book into your hands. Yesterday and today we are sending v0.2 to backers -- if you didn't get the new drop by this evening, reach out to [email protected] .
What's Included?
This particular drop involves the subchapters Dalish Life, revolving around the way of life in the Dales, from peacekeeping to rituals to folk songs; Bands and Brotherhood, depicting the groups Red Marshals, Oldway Practitioners, Bone Tenders, Peddler's Path, Firewatch, Woodwards, Curse Eaters, and Cult of the Crow; and Valley by Valley with details on the first six Dales: Ashstone, Barleytown, Cedargate, Dolmen Knolls, Hartland, and Highglade -- each its own little setting with places to explore, individuals to interact with, and rumors and tales to spark your Fellowship on a local adventure.
Next Drop
For the next drops, we'll complete Valley by Valley and then focus on Making A Dalish Hero, the subchapter with all the Tropes, Theme Kits and Special Improvements that your players will devour and use to make their own Dalish Heroes. (Chapter 2 will contain Making An Uncanny Hero, for those who want to play supernatural beings.) Later in Chapter 1 we will cover Cooking & Crafting and Oldways Magic.
Beyond The Woods (LitM Edition) Coming To Kickstarter February 17th!
Old Oak Games -- yes, we're oaken siblings but we're not the same one -- has licensed Legend In The Mist to release Beyond The Woods, their Irish-inspired dark fantasy setting, originally made for 5e, in a dedicated Legend In The Mist setting book!
This original new content universe for LitM will go on Kickstarter this February 17th!
Beyond The Woods takes a more heroic spin on the rustic fantasy of Legend In The Mist, sending the Heroes to battle dark fairies and the armies of the dead besieging a city whose protective golden oak is withering.
In addition to a complete setting, with over 50 theme kits, Ways of Magic, 6 adventures, Challenges and Journeys, Beyond The Woods will also boast specialized rules to bring hexcrawl and West Marches style campaigns to Legend In The Mist.
Our next update will come out Friday Dec 19th, but you can expect more Hearts of Ravensdale drops as we complete the book section by section.
Until then, bundle up and don't let Thrad Pine-Splitter's freezing rain get you!
- Amit and the Son of Oak team
First Print Samples! + More on Hearts of Ravensdale
4 months ago
– Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 02:23:00 PM
Hello there companions!
Here is a quick update on the progress o the Legend In The Mist project!
Hearts of Ravensdale v0.15 - And Counting!
We continue to work and release segments of the Hearts of Ravensdale book, which is the last major piece of this campaign, along with some smaller accessories such as pregen character folios, the Twilight deck, etc.
The lastest playtesting version released was v0.15, which contained the opening for the book, and the sections Familiar Places and Familiar Faces.
As we mentioned in the previous update, to keep things moving, we won't be synching each drop with an update. Instead, you will get new drops sent to your inbox via DriveThruRPG as we complete them. Next week we should have v0.2 done with more Dalish delights, as we polish off Chapter 1 with sections Dalish Life, Bands & Brotherhoods, Making A Dalish Hero, Cooking & Crafting, and Oldways Magic.
The latest version contains an introduction to the types of characters you might meet in the Dales.
First Shots Of Printed Items!
As we reported, we are in the process of printing finished items to reduce delays with print. Here are a flick through video of the two volumes of the Core Book and the Action Grimoire, and some shots of items that are ready to go!
River Pebble Dice box, Theme Cards box, Tracking Cards, and the Core Book back cover
All the Theme Cards!
Chapter 2 Is Coming!
Concurrently with working on polishing off and releasing Chapter 1, the player facing chapter, we are working on Chapter 2 - the Narrator's chapter, and Chapter 3, the Wake Of The Oldways campaign.
In addition to hidden setting information, Chapter 2 will contain a ton of Challenges from the Dales and nearby regions for you to use in your game.
Here is the complete and almost final Challenge list from the book with over 60 Challenges (not including the Wake Of The Oldways Campaign Challenges), 7 Journeys, 9 Add-Ons, and ~12 vignettes.
Dalish Village: Close-Knit Circle, Curdle Curse, Flooded Cellar, Inviolable Place, Local Disaster, Masked Rascals, GritSmelter, Mrowkin Infestation, Neighbor With A Secret, Ostracism. Journeys: Blood & Water Feud (Occasion), Common Weal (Undertaking).
Across The Dale: Canny Murder, Chained Hound, Dire Skunk, Exasperated Farmer, Lacksadaisical Shepherd, Puvca, Red Crop, Reeling Harvester, Unseasonable Hail, Well Toads.
Paths & Crossroads: Thamaturge Mentor, Caravan of the Lost, Curse Eater, Mossback Underbough, Red Marshal, Sidurg The Crafty, Stormhelm Knight, Unsettling Drifter. Journey: Travel on Dalish Roads (Landscape).
Dalish Hills & Woodlands: Boar of the Thicket, Crowling / Crow Sister, Gloamwolf, Mother of Mandragora, Patch of Poison Vine, Shrine, Squeal, Tall Tale Game. Journey: Rambling (Landscape).
The Close-Knit circle is any group of insular villagers who are protecting their own agenda, be they a bunch of mean teens or, as in this art by Mark Hretskyi, a shifty-looking group of weavers and dyers...
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What's Next?
Our next update will be on December 5th. Until then, as said, we will continue to share the Hearts of Ravensdale drops. In that next update, we will also share our re-evaluation of the print timelines given the delays with Hearts of Ravensdale.
