Sorry this took forever to finish. Running and writing a game make for great distractions from promised tasks. I look forward to talking about more of my homebrew's world building as I move to complete the second act of my campaign in the coming weeks before having a two month pause to write more.

Their children would suffer extreme loss and intense grief during this time. Until the penance was complete, Their lineage would be cursed, their imperial blood bringing on a war that would bring the society they strove to advance into ignorance, fear, and prejudice. A civil war, a Red Succession.

The worst, though, was to the twins. They both were denied their afterlife unless they made a pilgrimage in the realm of the Grey Queen to gain access to her judgment through penance. Once carrying each other through their challenges and struggles, being allowed to rest. Although their descendants..

The married warriors would lose their lives, home, and the privilege to raise their daughter. One becoming a revenant of loss and the other a tempest of rage. The peaceful druid would lose themselves to the beast within and the wilds they once guarded. The champion would lose her memory and time...

The curse had set each member on a path where an aspect that was important to them was taken. The famous Thief lost his identity by becoming his very shadow. The dwarf lord gained and lost his wealth and influence of his own accord. The gnome alchemist lost himself in study and research...

I had figured out that the leaders of this older adventuring group were twins. When one was slain, the other took their twin's soul to preserve them. which, in turn, damned the rest of their party. Denying the soul to the Grey Queen, a goddess of oaths and the soul cycle. This created the curse...

Unbeknownst to the members of the Ferro Band, each was cursed by this creature. These curses informed how each member of the party was raised, interacted with, or lacked the presence of their member of the Band. Last night though, I was working with a friend on the root cause of the curse...

The Ferro Band had entered a temple a long time ago where Emerald Dragons with their Wyrmling were attacked by a creature never seen before. They lost one of their number, and suffered a trauma together in sealing away the mortally wounded wyrmling magically and defeating the creature.

So, I have been tangling with the ideas/themes of Fate, Legacy, and the Consequences of having or losing one or both. The Party of the Alloyed Company has inherited the legacy, consequences, and mistakes of their predecessors called the Ferro Band. The PCs have family or relations who were members..

Absolutely perfect 😍🔥