67 ways people might meet their ends:
1. Turned to glass by a jealous sorcerer and shattered in a storm.
2. Drank a chronomancer’s vintage and aged into dust in one breath.
3. Consumed by a library’s living shadow when they read the wrong sentence.
4. Melted away inside a dream that refused to let them wake.
5. Swallowed by a hungry map that folds people into forgotten places.
6. Struck by lightning made of music — the last chord.
7. Vanished into a painting that kept wanting more lives.
8. Crushed under a mountain of unspoken apologies.
9. Transformed into a tree and rooted until the world forgot their name.
10. Collapsed after stepping through a mirror that returned them as an echo.
11. Eaten by winter when the sun forgot how to wake.
12. Dissolved by a potion that promised to erase pain — but erased existence instead.
13. Sucked into a clocktower where every tick stole a heartbeat.
14. Lured into the sea by a lighthouse that wanted company.
15. Lost in an infinite staircase that loops people into nothing.
16. Traded their shadow for immortality and the shadow took them back.
17. Frozen mid-sentence by the king of silence.
18. Consumed by a book of endings that writes its readers out.
19. Crushed by a falling constellation.
20. Turned into stardust by a jealous comet passing too close.
21. Folded into origami by a paper sprite that mistakes them for a crane.
22. Buried in memories — literally swallowed by recollections.
23. Eaten by a gossip that grows teeth with every rumor.
24. Drowned in ink after stepping into a spilled story.
25. Shrunk by a jealous inventor and used as a clock’s tiny cog until it wore out.
26. Vanished into static during a broadcast from another world.
27. Erased when a city’s language changes and their name no longer exists.
28. Absorbed into a mirror-world to fill a vacancy.
29. Befriended by a shadow that slowly learned to live without them.
30. Turned to salt by a sorrowful sea witch.
31. Poured into a teacup by a mischevious house-elf and served at midnight.
32. Invaded by a swarm of tiny, polite bugs that politely dismantle people.
33. Burned by a sun that only rises for stories.
34. Swallowed by a friendly mountain that wanted to keep the person warm forever.
35. Caught in a snowflake and carried to the edge of the world.
36. Stolen by a city that collects unusual souls as exhibits.
37. Absorbed into an antique watch that needs a pulse to tick.
38. Turned into a constellation — visible, distant, and no longer breathing.
39. Trapped inside a music box, wound down until the song ends.
40. Lost after following a will-o’-the-wisp to the map’s margin.
41. Crushed under the guilt of a thousand untaken chances (manifested physically).
42. Traded places with their younger self and never returned.
43. Grown into a hill by a fertility spell with poor timing.
44. Swallowed by a doorway that only opens to the afterlife.
45. Turned into fog and scattered across the moor.
46. Absorbed by a moth-eaten coat that feeds on presence.
47. Put to rest when a tired god finally closes their ledger.
48. Lost their reflection and walked into the wrong river.
49. Consumed by an argument that became a living thing.
50. Vanished when the last copy of their favorite lullaby was burned.
51. Carried off by a migratory city that fronts for a hungry deity.
52. Folded into a lullaby and sung away to a place that never answers.
53. Turned to porcelain by an artisan who used forbidden glaze.
54. Drowned in warmth — embraced by a hearth that never lets go.
55. Erased by a null-scribe hired to tidy history’s messy parts.
56. Torn apart by day and night in a realm where time fights itself.
57. Grown small and placed in a cabinet of curiosities for future study.
58. Slipped into the margin of a map and carried off by ink.
59. Turned into a whisper that lingers where voices go to die.
60. Consumed by a harvest moon that only wanted one more meal.
61. Bled into the soil after drinking a plant’s thirst.
62. Carried away by a parade of lost gods who needed a new member.
63. Eaten by a door that devours thresholds.
64. Turned to smoke and used to light the lanterns in the undercity.
65. Absorbed into an impossible garden where every visitor becomes a plant.
66. Folded into an umbrella to shelter a future villain.
67. Finally allowed to sleep when the world’s last story is told — and the storyteller closes the book.