Modern horror • conspiracy • self-discovery

The monsters are the heroes.

Dark Day lasted twenty-four hours. When the sun returned, the world looked normal—but people were missing, governments had changed, and ordinary men and women began transforming into impossible creatures. They are the Nightbane, and they may be the only thing standing between humanity and the darkness behind the mirror.

From Vince's Table

Nightbane asks one hell of a question: what if the face that frightens everyone else is the truest, strongest part of you? The horror gets you through the door. The fight over identity is what keeps the campaign alive.

— Vince, The Evil Dungeon Master

The night everything changed

Dark Day was only the beginning

The sun never rises

For one full day, darkness covers the planet. People see and hear impossible things. Then daylight returns and the world pretends nothing happened.

The Becoming

Seemingly ordinary people discover a second body—their Morphus—and supernatural Talents they can unleash only when they become something more than human.

The Hidden War

Nightlords and their Doppelganger servants quietly seize institutions and governments. The Nightbane awaken as their natural enemies, hunted from both sides.

One soul, two faces

What makes a Nightbane?

Every character is built around contrast. The person the world sees and the creature in the mirror are both real—and neither tells the whole story.

The human face

Facade

Your ordinary-looking form. It lets you pass through the world, hold onto relationships, and remember who you were before Dark Day.

The impossible self

Morphus

Beautiful, grotesque, mechanical, angelic, alien, or all of them at once. This is where a Nightbane's supernatural nature becomes visible.

The living power

Talents

Supernatural and magical abilities unique to the Nightbane. Learning to master them may be the difference between resistance and ruin.

Enemies behind familiar faces

The darkness has an organization chart

Nightlords & Doppelgangers

Ancient rulers and mirror-born replacements infiltrate power quietly. The conspiracy works because the world still looks normal.

The Nightlands

A hellish mirror dimension where dark magic and twisted reflections of our world wait just beyond the glass.

Hunters, Hounds & Hollow Men

The Nightlords' servants turn the hidden war physical. They track, terrorize, and erase anyone who threatens the new order.

Recovered from the old web

A fan archive worth remembering

In 2001, a Nightbane fan page described these frightening-looking heroes as people who “fight the monsters.” Its surviving netbooks explored the corners official books could never cover. This page carries that same spirit forward.

Origins & the Curse

Fan explorations of where the Nightbane came from, ancient attendants, and the mystery behind their existence.

Revolution

Television, radio, the early Internet, and pirate broadcasts inside a world where the enemy controls the official story.

Shadows of the South

Atlanta, New Orleans, Knoxville, their Nightlands counterparts, local Warlords, and regional campaign material.

Visit the preserved Nightbane netbooks

Build your hidden war

The Nightbane shelf

The core book gives you Dark Day and the Nightbane. The sourcebooks widen the conspiracy, the Nightlands, factions, character creation, and the strange roads beyond the mirror.