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The Ashen Court

A kingdom that remembers what you did.

Forty days without rain. The capital's god has fallen silent and the great church is fracturing into warring factions. Ash drifts from censers no living hand still tends. Old debts are coming due — and something patient stirs beneath the grey.

House rules

Characters5

Bram the Tapster

The Cinderhall's barkeep, who hears everything and forgets nothing.

Captain Yara

Hard-eyed warden-captain of the Ember Covenant.

Kael

A hooded keeper of old debts.

Old Mura

A blind cinder-reader in the lower market.

Sister Veil

A masked inquisitor of the fracturing church.

Locations4

The Ash Cathedral

A vaulted ruin choked with falling ash.

The Broken North Bridge

A severed span over a dry river.

The Cinderhall Tavern

A smoky roadside tavern off the Lower Market, lit by ember-lamps.

The Lower Market

A maze of stalls under tarp and ash.

Factions1

The Ember Covenant

Ash-priests who ration the city's last clean fire.

Monsters1

Cinder Wraith

Ash given hunger and a hollow, crackling voice.

Races1

The Ashborn

Folk remade by generations under the ashfall.