| Text | Sinister deeds and festering evils take many forms, sometimes as stories and sometimes as physical scars. All manner of talismans, mementos, criminal evidence, mysterious devices, cursed relics, and physical impossibilities might embody just such scars - summaries of terrors in material form.
Before you finish making a character, roll once on the Horror Trinkets table for a unique object your character has with them at the start of their adventuring career. These trinkets hint toward various horrific tales and might lead to dreadful revelations or be nothing more than grim keepsakes. At the DM's discretion any of these trinkets might also be a Mist talisman (detailed in chapter 3), a focal item that can lead the bearer through the Mists to a particular Domain of Dread.
Horror Trinkets:
d100 | Trinket
01 | A picture you drew as a child of your imaginary friend
02 | A lock that opens when blood is dripped in its keyhole
03 | Clothes stolen from a scarecrow
04 | A spinning top carved with four faces: happy, sad, wrathful, and dead
05 | The necklace of a sibling who died on the day you were born
06 | A wig from someone executed by beheading
07 | The unopened letter to you from your dying father
08 | A pocket watch that runs backward for an hour every midnight
09 | A winter coat stolen from a dying soldier
10 | A bottle of invisible ink that can only be read at sunset
11 | A wineskin that refills when interred with a dead person for a night
12 | A set of silverware used by a king for his last meal
13 | A spyglass that always shows the world suffering a terrible storm
14 | A cameo with the profile's face scratched away
15 | A lantern with a black candle that never runs out and that burns with green flame
16 | A teacup from a child's tea set, stained with blood
17 | A little black book that records your dreams, and yours alone, when you sleep
18 | A necklace formed of the interlinked holy symbols of a dozen deities
19 | A noose that feels heavier than it should
20 | A birdcage into which small birds fly but once inside never eat or leave
21 | A lepidopterist's box filled with dead moths with skull-like patterns on their wings
22 | A jar of pickled ghouls' tongues
23 | The wooden hand of a notorious pirate
24 | A urn with the ashes of a dead relative
25 | A hand mirror backed with a bronze depiction of a medusa
26 | Pallid leather gloves crafted with ivory fingernails
27 | Dice made from the knuckles of a notorious charlatan
28 | A ring of keys for forgotten locks
29 | Nails from the coffin of a murderer
30 | A key to the family crypt
31 | A bouquet of funerary flowers that always looks and smells fresh
32 | A switch used to discipline you as a child
33 | A music box that plays by itself whenever someone holding it dances
34 | A walking cane with an iron ferrule that strikes sparks on stone
35 | A flag from a ship lost at sea
36 | A porcelain doll's head that always seems to be looking at you
37 | A wolf's head wrought in silver that is also a whistle
38 | A small mirror that shows a much older version of the viewer
39 | A small, worn book of children's nursery rhymes
40 | A mummified raven claw
41 | A broken pendant of a silver dragon that's always cold to the touch
42 | A small locked box that quietly hums a lovely melody at night, but you always forget it in the morning
43 | An inkwell that makes one a little nauseous when staring at it
44 | An old doll made from a dark, dense wood and missing a hand and a foot
45 | A black executioner's hood
46 | A pouch made of flesh, with a sinew drawstring
47 | A tiny spool of black thread that never runs out
48 | A tiny clockwork figurine of a dancer that's missing a gear and doesn't work
49 | A black wooden pipe that creates puffs of smoke that look like skulls
50 | A vial of perfume, the scent of which only certain creatures can detect
51 | A stone that emits a single endless sigh
52 | A rag doll with two red dots on its neck
53 | A spring-loaded toy with a missing crank
54 | A mason jar containing a harmless but agitated, animate ooze
55 | A black wooden die with 1's on all the faces
56 | A child's portrait with "born" written on the back, along with next year's date
57 | A dagger-sized shark tooth
58 | A finger that's taken root in a small pot
59 | A toolbox containing the remains of a dangerous but broken clockwork arachnid
60 | A pitcher-sized, opalescent snail shell that occasionally, inexplicably shudders or tips over
61 | The logbook of an ice-breaking ship called The Haifisch
62 | A small portrait of you as a child, alongside your identically dressed twin
63 | A silver pocket watch with thirteen hours marked on the face
64 | A woodcut of a wolf devouring its own hind leg
65 | A planchette etched with raven skulls
66 | A moist coral figurine of a lamprey with arms, legs, and a bipedal stance
67 | A bronze fingertrap sculpted with roaring tigers
68 | A pearl necklace that turns red under the full moon
69 | A fossil of a fish with humanoid features
70 | A plague doctor's mask
71 | A paper talisman with smudged ink
72 | A locket containing the smeared image of an eyeless figure
73 | A canopic jar with a lid sculpted like a goat
74 | A jack-o'-lantern made from a small, pale gourd
75 | A single high-heeled, iron shoe
76 | A candle made from a severed hand
77 | A clockwork device that beats like a heart
78 | A blank masquerade mask
79 | A glass eye with a live worm inside
80 | A sheet with two eyeholes cut in it
81 | The deed to someplace called Tergeron Manor
82 | An ornate, wax-sealed crimson envelope that resists all attempts to open it
83 | A mourning veil trimmed in black lace
84 | A straitjacket covered in charcoal runes
85 | A tattered, burlap mask with a crooked smile painted on it
86 | A green ribbon designed to be worn as a choker
87 | Dentures with mismatched, sharpened teeth
88 | A warm, fist-sized egg case
89 | A copper ring with "mine" engraved on the inside
90 | A glass ampoule containing a neon green fluid
91 | An eye patch embroidered with a holy symbol
92 | A severed big toe with a nail that continues to grow
93 | A journal that has been heavily redacted
94 | A glove with a mouth-like design stitched on the palm
95 | An ornate but empty reliquary made of silver and fractured glass
96 | A ceramic figure of a cat with too many eyes
97 | A crumpled paper ticket bearing the words "admit none"
98 | An electrum coin with your face on one side
99 | A shrunken gremishka head that twitches when anyone casts magic nearby
100 | A sunburst amulet with a red stone at the center
Source: Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft p. 36 |