Wait.... WAIT....
Your character, has perpetual bad luck and Bad Juju.
Runes tells us that its 1000 years of bad luck to talk about "it".
... is that the explaination. Did we literally get told the grand plot? In some past life or whatever, our chatacter talked about something and earned themselves 1000 years bad luck?
Cause like... that would be hilarious. The entire plot revealed in act one, by the joke character, as part of a joke