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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackdaw" data-source="post: 6724842" data-attributes="member: 6789113">If the PC comes from an established and unbroken noble line then there are a few questions that need answers for this scenario to make sense. Right now is sounds a tad video gamey.Why did the descendants of the Stormwinds allow the axe to be entombed with the last user? It’s a powerful weapon and an emblem of the family, so why did great-great-grandma Stormwind go to lengths to deny it to her children? Why would they willingly decline their birthright? Who built this tomb to keep out all the looters (and other Stormwinds) until the PC could finally claim it? Was great-great-grandma Stormwind certain her soul would be bound to the tomb as a guardian for the axe? Why would she damn herself to protect it?A brainstorm: Unbeknownst the PC the Stormwinds were ennobled by serving as sacred executioners for the crown. They had a different surname name back then, more in line with their duties. The axe was a gift from the king for playing a crucial role in the routing of a coup and performing the spiritually draining executions of the conspirators. The kingdom was tyrannical and the Stormwinds were loyal and righteous.When the king’s even crueler godson assumed the throne the land descended into insurrection and the Stormwinds found themselves questioning their role as merchants of justice. They refused to raise the sacred axe against the new dissidents, so they were themselves executed, all except two sisters and their children, who managed to escape with the axe. They were given sanctuary in the Stormwind monastery, high in the remote peaks, where they assumed their new surname.One sister became a penitent, obsessed with the axe, the nature of mercy and her family’s historical role in denying it.  She rose to the head of the order and enshrined herself and the axe with a promise it would only be used as a weapon against tyranny. The other sister and all the children eventually fled to a neighboring kingdom where they used the brewing skills the monks had taught them to rekindle the family fortune. She only spoke of her family’s dark past when she was blotto drunk.The Stormwind monastery is now unnamed and in ruins, having suffered a man-made rockslide decades ago. The monks crushed themselves and a contingent of king's men who came seeking the axe rather than let it fall into unworthy hands. The tomb at its heart is wreathed in tapestries that depict a multitude of executions, all originally witnessed by the first sister when she was a girl. The undead monks still guard the axe and will only relent when someone of the Stormwind bloodline answers the question: “Who is thine enemy?”The replica axe was forged by a grandson of the first sister who researched the family line and (wrongly) deduced that the Stormwinds were originally freedom fighters. It looks nothing like the real axe. Brainstorm over, just tossing out ideas!</blockquote>

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