1

a blood-soaked arena where men and women fight to the death (Loathing)

2

raiding a town, putting every inhabitant to the sword (Loathing)

3

coming back to your village to find everyone slaughtered (Loathing)

4

the gruesome smells and sounds of the slave market (Loathing)

5

hatred for the enemies of your clan (Loathing)

6

a torture chamber; the screams of men as they split on the rack (Loathing)

7

the other children beating you because you are different (Loathing)

8

a crowd stoning a heretic to death (Loathing)

9

killing someone in the war (Loathing)

10

the king’s men stripping your family of everything you had (Loathing)

11

feelings of inherited superiority; contempt for those you consider your social inferiors (Loathing)

12

slaving all day building a great monument to the king (Loathing)

13

a city struck by plague, piles of bloated corpses (Loathing)

14

a terrible fire burning down your house and killing your family (Loathing)

15

begging for coins in the streets; shame for being poor (Loathing)

16

an angry mob shattering your family’s window with stones (Loathing)

17

a filthy place of blood and offal; killing and butchering animals (Loathing)

18

desire for alcohol (Loathing)

19

a dungeon where you are imprisoned; the clank of chains (Loathing)

20

a famine; thin, starved bodies, people eating anything they can (Loathing)

21

going on a holy pilgrimage to the distant mountains (Mystery)

22

knowledge of herbalism, of the properties of minerals and plants (Mystery)

23

the rites of a secret cult which left a scar; to tell outsiders means death (Mystery)

24

knowledge of architecture, masonry and geometry (Mystery)

25

a holy idol speaking to you, staring at you with enormous eyes (Mystery)

26

a cave filled with ancient paintings of men and beasts (Mystery)

27

clay tablets with ancient script which only you can read (Mystery)

28

telling fortunes; confidence that you have mystic powers (Mystery)

29

your faith in a religion which others call a heresy (Mystery)

30

knowledge of calligraphy and bookmaking, of the art of writing (Mystery)

31

smoking hashish, feeling your mind travel to distant realms (Mystery)

32

knowledge of spinning and weaving thread, the thousand patterns (Mystery)

33

the Library of Alexandria; knowledge of its thousands of scrolls (Mystery)

34

your faith in the glorious goddess (Mystery)

35

your faith in the many gods, knowledge of the proper sacrifices (Mystery)

36

your faith in the one true god (Mystery)

37

knowledge of mathematics; papers scrawled with strange formulae which you wrote (Mystery)

38

knowledge of alchemy; a room full of bubbling beakers, flasks and alembics (Mystery)

39

lashing yourself as part of a religious ceremony; the feeling that pain can bring transcendence (Mystery)

40

knowledge of history, of the wise ancients who came before (Mystery)

41

love of meeting new people, of foreigners and strangers (Passion)

42

desire to convert others to your faith (Passion)

43

love for your lord, faith that they know what is right (Passion)

44

desire to be chaste and pure (Passion)

45

desire to have higher status, to be respected (Passion)

46

love for your clan and family, desire to impress them (Passion)

47

love for a secret lover whom you cannot marry (Passion)

48

love for your spouse, though it was an arranged marriage (Passion)

49

love for your brother/sister/sibling (player chooses) (Passion)

50

love for your child or children (player chooses) (Passion)

51

love for your mother/father/parent (player chooses) (Passion)

52

desire to feed the poor and comfort the afflicted (Passion)

53

the sweet music of the khalam, balafon and goje (Passion)

54

love of singing and poetry (Passion)

55

drinking absinthe with your friends at the cabaret (Passion)

56

smooking hookah in a café in Damascus, your best friends (Passion)

57

the huge family celebration after you passed your exams (Passion)

58

washing clothes with women at the well, your best friends (Passion)

59

fighting alongside your comrades in arms, your best friends (Passion)

60

love of music and dancing (Passion)

61

desire to travel, to see the greatest city in the world (Faraway)

62

riding in a spice caravan across mountains and desert (Faraway)

63

love of ships and sailing, knowledge of ships (Faraway)

64

stories of strangers at the inn on the way to Canterbury (Faraway)

65

knowledge of cartography and mapmaking, love of maps (Faraway)

66

all the caravan routes along the Silk Road, like the back of your hand (Faraway)

67

your superior officer assigning you to a distant post; knowledge of the local customs (Faraway)

68

desire to be alone, to find quiet contentment (Faraway)

69

love of horses and horseriding, that sense of freedom and speed (Faraway)

70

stories of the old country told by your grandfather/grandmother/elders (player chooses) (Faraway)

71

a stone castle on a hill, a walled town of wooden buildings beneath it (Faraway or Wonder; player chooses)

72

San Francisco, a port city of stone and brick and wood, with the whaling ships coming into port (Faraway or Wonder; player chooses)

73

a village of ricefields beside a great river, a green landscape of hills and canals (Faraway or Wonder; player chooses)

74

a great city of marble temples and domes on seven hillls (Rome) (Faraway or Wonder; player chooses)

75

a circle of mossy stones within a green glade (Faraway or Wonder; player chooses)

76

a port city of tiled roofs and markets and wineshops, with a great hill rising above it, crowned with a temple (Athens) (Faraway or Wonder; player chooses)

77

a great ziggurat rising above green fields, canals and mud-brick buildings (Sumer or Assyria) (Faraway or Wonder; player chooses)

78

a lagoon with boats and houses on stilts, people fishing in the shade of palm trees (Faraway or Wonder; player chooses)

79

a great pilgrimage city in the desert, minarets in the rosy light of dawn (Mecca) (Faraway or Wonder; player chooses)

80

a sprawling city of palaces and gardens, rising above it is a great porcelain tower with a golden roof (Nanjing) (Faraway or Wonder; player chooses)

81

a sprawling city of rivers and bridges, palm trees rising above brick buildings, minarets and domes (Baghdad) (Faraway or Wonder; player chooses)

82

a port city with enormous walls like a castle, a harbor of ships shielded by a giant chain with links as big as a human being (Constantinople) (Faraway or Wonder; player chooses)

83

the pyramids rising above the banks of the Nile, and a city of temples and palaces beyond (Cairo or Memphis) (Faraway or Wonder; player chooses)

84

a great dark manor house upon the bleak moors (Yorkshire) (Faraway or Wonder; player chooses)

85

a city like a beehive built in a cliff, houses like caves (Cappadocia) (Faraway or Wonder; player chooses)

86

love of your favorite pet (Wonder)

87

love of plants and agriculture, of nature’s cycle, watching things grow (Wonder)

88

love of painting; the smell of oils, beautiful landscapes and portraits (Wonder)

89

beautiful silks and fabrics, printed with figures of people and animals (Wonder)

90

love of pottery; making beautiful shapes and colors, firing the clay (Wonder)

91

sumptuous meals; a 100 course dinner in the emperor’s palace (Wonder)

92

love of sculpture; carving marble sculptures that look as real as life (Wonder)

93

love of the forest; the sounds of birds, the tracks of the animals (Wonder)

94

love of the sea; watching crabs and anemones in a tide pool (Wonder)

95

love of woodcarving, making little dolls and toys to amuse the children (Wonder)

96

beautiful gems and jewels, sifting them in your hands (Wonder)

97

childhood memories, a sunset too big to be real (Wonder)

98

the wind in the grass (Wonder)

99

your beloved hometown (Wonder)

100

the taste of mother’s fresh-cooked bread (Wonder)