I'm trying to help my cousin out with his game. He is needing help coming up for a riddle that will help the players to solve a puzzle box. The answer of the riddle will be sunset, but he is having trouble coming up with the actual riddle.
I usually don't use riddles often in my games because they challenge the players instead of their characters. When I do use them, I usually just try to find some online because I am terrible at coming up with them. I've tried looking around and I can't find any riddles with the answer being sunset.
Does anyone have any ideas? Any help is appreciated.
Came up with that off that relatively quickly, so it is not the most complex of riddles. The lines hint as follows: (1) Sunset kills the sun, but you can never catch it, no matter how much you chase the horizon; (2) The red of sunset spills across the entire land, i.e. the horizon; (3) it occurs "for" each day, (4) the sun will always rise again the next morning.
I'm trying to help my cousin out with his game. He is needing help coming up for a riddle that will help the players to solve a puzzle box. The answer of the riddle will be sunset, but he is having trouble coming up with the actual riddle.
I usually don't use riddles often in my games because they challenge the players instead of their characters. When I do use them, I usually just try to find some online because I am terrible at coming up with them. I've tried looking around and I can't find any riddles with the answer being sunset.
Does anyone have any ideas? Any help is appreciated.
A killer who you cannot catch;
Across the land red blood I spill;
And for each day, a life I snatch;
But rise again my victim will.
Who am I?
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Came up with that off that relatively quickly, so it is not the most complex of riddles. The lines hint as follows: (1) Sunset kills the sun, but you can never catch it, no matter how much you chase the horizon; (2) The red of sunset spills across the entire land, i.e. the horizon; (3) it occurs "for" each day, (4) the sun will always rise again the next morning.
When I am red I herald peace
When I am gold I herald the end
When I am orange I herald the darkness
When I am dark I am gone
(clues: Red sky at night, shephards delight - a red sunset means good weather tomorrow. Then the sunset goes gold, then orange, then dark.)
I am the harbinger of night
Borne aloft at the end of days
bringing peace to some and death to others
and spreading darkness in my wake
(they will likely think that this is figurative for ragnarok or the end times, when really it is just a description of the sunset!)
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I vote for that one!
The best I could come up with on my own was, "what can you only see as it flees into the horizon?"