Corpse Candle

The Corpse Candle was born from the first culling in the Deadlands. When the frontier claimed its first victims, their collective dying breath coalesced into a spectral flame that now marks each survivor as having walked through death's shadow and emerged into memory.

The candle burns with a cold, blue-white flame that casts no warmth but illuminates hidden truths. It leaves no wax residue but instead deposits fine dust - the ground remains unmarked. The flame responds to nearby death, burning brighter when culling occurs. It cannot be extinguished by wind or water, only by the bearer's surrender.

The Corpse Candle serves as a protective ward. Its bearer is granted fleeting glimpses of upcoming eliminations - shadows of the culling to come - allowing those who carry this flame to strategically position themselves against the frontier's inevitable judgments.