Children of the Horn | The Glass Cannon Podcast Shadowdark E21 | Shadowdark RPG

In 'Children of the Horn,' the Glass Cannon Podcast delivers a haunting and emotionally charged episode of Shadowdark RPG, where the surviving party—Warwick, Mr. February, Pharaoh, and the newly rescued Clemric—navigate the wreckage of their companions' deaths and the lingering trauma of a brutal encounter with a black dragon and a cult of orcs. Clemric, a six-fingered orphan with a cursed lineage tied to a sacred green stone from a sea beast, undergoes a pivotal transformation when he touches a mystical unicorn’s horn, seemingly curing his curse—only for his extra fingers to wither away. This act of sacrifice brings both liberation and vulnerability, as Clemric’s psychic insight remains, but his physical mark of difference vanishes. The group flees into the night, only to arrive at Maren's Hold, where they learn the town is still reeling from an orc raid orchestrated not by the orcs themselves, but by shadowy cultists who summoned the dragon. The episode reaches its chilling climax when the townspeople, mistaking a silvery horse with a horn for a unicorn, kill it—unwittingly fulfilling an ancient prophecy and cursing the settlement. The narrative masterfully weaves personal loss with apocalyptic stakes, questioning the cost of power, the weight of legacy, and the moral ambiguity of survival in a world where myth and reality are dangerously entwined.