The Forsaken

**The Forsaken** are an adventuring party brought together by the Mysterious Voice, who are currently roaming through the Shadowfell in search of answers, revenge, and other motives.

## The Forsaken

### Goals

* Uncover the truth, deliver vengeance, and unearth secrets
* Return to the Material Plane
* Find out who the Mysterious Voice is and why they were brought together (completed)

## Membership

### Notable Members

* Abigail Verglas
* Amarok
* Lunaris Deathhand
* Marif
* Ophrus
* Rogan Corvia
* Ueli
* Yarnam Villiram

## Relationships

### Enemies

* The Remnants
* Julius Morrow

## Founding

### Arc 1: Crossing Into Darkness

Each member of the party was orignally in the Material Plane, tending to their own business before falling asleep. The members were Abigail Verglas, Rogan Corvia, Lunaris Deathhand, Yarnam Vallirram, Marif, Ueli, Amarok, and Ophrus. These individuals shared the same sinister dream: falling to the floor of a church inside of a dark storm. The soon-to-be party woke up in the back rooms of a church, finding themselves impaled by meathooks and chains to the wall, with a mysterious voice occaisionally plaguing their thoughts. After freeing themselves and offering brief introductions, the party deduced that they were in this place for a reason, and sought answers. After a brief run-in with some cultists, the party slew them and took their map, realizing that they were not in the Material Plane after stepping outside the church. Going to another, they uncovered a book containing documentaries from the cultists, speaking of unimaginable horrors they had done for some ancient entity.

After seeking other locations on the map, the party headed to the *Fallen Seraph's Domain*, where they met the fallen angel Azrael. Corrupted by the dark matter of the Shadowfell, Azrael also revealed bits of lore about the history of Endymia regarding Celestia, about the origins of Asmodeus. After they left Azrael to sleep more, they were ambushed by a small pack of shadow wyverns. With minimal damage taken, the Forsaken headed back to the first church in order to head into the entrance of a crypt Azrael also mentioned. They were forced inside by an ashen tornado, then fell a long way down, taunted by the voice. They land in a large pile of bones, looking at the crypt full of skeletons and viscera.

### Arc 2: The Remnants

Traversing through the crypt, the party found what appeared to be a dungeon. Deformed humans devoid of their sanity and intellect tore each other apart as the party watched, seemingly unfazed. As they progressed through the dungeon, they found a church carved into the mountainside, with three statues depicting undead figures, one mind flayer wizard, one other wizard, and a central ascended wizard. Before the statues were pedestals of gems connected magically to an obsidian portal, which activated once the gems were placed onto their respective colors. The portal took them to an ancient monolith that was the spire in a necromantic storm of sea-green lightning, Neobabel. When they approached the entrance, two raven-clad statues came to life, instantly killing Amarok, as the party watched on in horror. They began to fight, but strange red magic appeared to bring back Amarok from death.

After a violent battle, the Sisters were killed by the party. One was frozen solid and shattered, and the other was maimed and decapitated by Yarnam. When the party entered Neobabel at last, they also saw an alter that declared various sections of the Remnants. After an earthquake shook the tower of blood and bone, Yarnam and Ophrus heard a faint scream below. Investigating but taunted by the Mysterious Voice, they pushed onward to find a large meat grinding machine protected by a sea-green magical barrier, with a conveyor belt housing large piles of gore and viscera, also protected by the barrier. After unsuccessfully trying to destroy and investigate the machine, they started to leave, but heard a voice inside one of the piles, and only watched in horror as the person inside was sliced along with the gore and fed into the machine. Rogan collapsed to his knees on the floor, trying to convince himself that all of this was a dream, but soon realized all of it was real, and began to break down. While Abigail tried to comfort him, Cardinal instead rudely insisted that he fight the forces at work who were doing this to people. After further rude remarks from Cardinal, Rogan punched him in the jaw, dislocating it, and walked off.

The party then traversed to the middle of the tower, finding corpses hung from chains, dressed to look like the party. While Yarnam suggested that it could be a warning, Rogan thought it was instead an invitation. The party kept ascending up the tower, only to find an undead Archmage Arcane Julius Morrow before them, also discovering Morrow was the search of the Mysterious Voice. Before long, Morrow snapped his fingers, and the tower went dark. Next thing the Forsaken knew, they were in a room with no exits, and a red obsidian portal. When the party went through, they found out that it was Winter in the Material Plane, and had a moment of relief that they were home. Rogan said that he needed witnesses to tell the Blood Hunter Orders what happened, and began to head off to sleep. Abigail then immediately noticed the snowfall wasn't actually snow, it was ash. The party insisted they need rest, and began to do so. When they woke up in the forest, there were strangely no sounds. When they exited the forest, they saw a large reactor of some kind, pulsing sea-green energy in the sky, surrounded by scorched earth and digging into the rock of the land. Morrow's voice, now sounding demonic rather than deep, welcomed them to "The Other Side."

### Arc 3: The Other Side

Going inside the reactor, the Forsaken noticed it was powered by an unstable but encased gravity singularity, and had various runes laced across it. Also inside the reactor was a portal to a skylab known as Alexandria. Inside the lab was various alien-like technology beyond the party's comprehending, as well as plans As they uncovered deeper in the laboratory, they were led down by a bloodied spinal staircase, where Abigail had a panic attack. After Rogan helped calm her down, the party proceeded. Entering the heart of the laboratory, the gravity was warped, and there was a curtain blocking a large beast known as WENDIGO-2, as for fusing something called the Dark Spark with the Swords of Power and the Necroswords together to create something called the Deicide. Additionally, there were twelve human-sized capsules containing labels for Project MARIF. Before Marif could explain themselves, they had a seizure on the floor, recalling the finality of the expiriment where Julius Morrow forced Multrum as the final person into the experiment, and their head exploded. During this, fragments of Ueli's past were unearthed, as they started to laugh and claw out their skin, eventually tearing their throat out. At the same time, Rogan, Abigail, and Ophrus all had visions of figures from their past, being tortured by the voices calling them sinners. As Julius' voice joined in the crowd, the three's apparations were killed by different means. For Abigail, being frozen alive and shattered, similar to how she killed one of the Sisters of Babel. For Ophrus, he was pulled apart by vines. For Rogan, lacerations grew across his body and his blood was boiling. As the three of their heads also exploded, the laboratory began to turn and turn, as the rest party was restrained along the equipment in the lab.

After the gravity returned to normal, everyone fell down onto the floor, and the same magic that resurrected Amarok during the fight with the Sisters began to resurrect the five of the party who died. The five didn't remember they died, but had a large headache. Noticing a tome being held aloft in the lab, the party went to investigate. It was a diary penned by Julius Morrow himself, accounting his life before discovering the singularity powering the lab, dubbed the Dark Spark, and his life went downhill from there. In a later account grieving about his family, his once cursive-like handwriting began to become sloppier, as it was revealed that a fragment inside the Spark took over his mind, manipulating his body and actions for the next few years, calling itself Ahgregoil. It began to work on the projects WENDIGO, and then after Ahgregoil's laboratory was broken into and he escaped, Ahgregoil began to work on Projects WENDIGO-2 and MARIF. While Project WENDIGO-2 was a success, Project MARIF escaped, but Ahgregoil kept tabs on it. The final page was Ahgregoil talking to them directly, telling them to return to Neobabel for their final confrontation. A nearby ultraviolet light in the room also was from Julius himself, trying not to be suppressed in his own body. Julius said that he was placing flaws in Ahgregoil's expiriments, and warned whoever was listening to him that he was Ahgregoil's biggest weakness. Just then, the laboratory began to shake again. As everything stabilized in the lab, the sound of glass breaking wrung in the air, and a raspy howl echoed throughout the laboratory. Project WENDIGO-2... was loose.