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<blockquote data-quote="grimslade" data-source="post: 8216764" data-attributes="member: 6061"><p>I like the bones of Forlorn, but you're right it really needs a bit of focus. I love the haunted land of loss and degradation. It needs the fey to be played up. The Dark Lord doesn't fit. Half vampire? I would love to see them play up the descent of Forfarian from rigid social norms to social chaotic Goblyn. Remove the vampire/ghost origin of Tristan. Make it a curse. Flora made a deal with the Ban Sidhe to bring her dead husband Rivalin back from the Underworld so they could have one last night together. Tristan is conceived on this delayed honeymoon. The Druids see the child as taboo. Unnatural. They say he must be sacrificed to protect the Barony and maintain the separation of life and death. Flora runs to her hill clan relatives for protection. Her kin betray her to the Druids and proclaim her a witch. She is burned at the stake by her own family. Tristan is stolen away by the Sidhe, who raise him. He is nursed on resentment and revenge. </p><p> The first Goblyn are Flora's oathbreaker kin. Those that abandoned their bonds to family and protecting a guest. They stay in their hilltop villages and begin their descent into depravity. Other clans become fearful of 'changelings' in their midst. They become increasingly more rigid in their taboo and geis restrictions. This causes more folk to break a taboo and begin the slide to Goblyn.</p><p> Tristan comes of age and returns to claim the throne of the Barony. The Druids confirm he is the heir, but reaffirm he is an abomination. Tristan appeals to the folk and warns them not to abandon their oaths to his family. Tristan offers that Flora was already sacrificed for the crime of loving her husband. The folk are trapped between oaths to lord and Druid. They acknowledge Tristan as a rightful ruler. </p><p> The land becomes darker. Fae roam the woods and moors. The veil between this world and the underworld thins and ghosts cry out for justice from slights real and imagined. Tristan tries to live up to his father's legacy but his time among the fae has left him twisted. He is fair and just during the day but at night he exacts terrible revenge on any who slight him, starting with the Druids. He leads a Wild Hunt of wolf-riding Goblyn through the swamps and forests hunting the Druids wherever he can find them. He also repays the debt owed to the Ban Sidhe by hunting the Fair fae in the woods. His attacks grow more widespread and soon claim anyone caught out of the villages and clanholds. The folk are paranoid and suspicious of anyone not of their clan. More clans fall to the Goblyn curse as their layers of geis and oath make them contort into impossible conflicts. Now it's a party.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grimslade, post: 8216764, member: 6061"] I like the bones of Forlorn, but you're right it really needs a bit of focus. I love the haunted land of loss and degradation. It needs the fey to be played up. The Dark Lord doesn't fit. Half vampire? I would love to see them play up the descent of Forfarian from rigid social norms to social chaotic Goblyn. Remove the vampire/ghost origin of Tristan. Make it a curse. Flora made a deal with the Ban Sidhe to bring her dead husband Rivalin back from the Underworld so they could have one last night together. Tristan is conceived on this delayed honeymoon. The Druids see the child as taboo. Unnatural. They say he must be sacrificed to protect the Barony and maintain the separation of life and death. Flora runs to her hill clan relatives for protection. Her kin betray her to the Druids and proclaim her a witch. She is burned at the stake by her own family. Tristan is stolen away by the Sidhe, who raise him. He is nursed on resentment and revenge. The first Goblyn are Flora's oathbreaker kin. Those that abandoned their bonds to family and protecting a guest. They stay in their hilltop villages and begin their descent into depravity. Other clans become fearful of 'changelings' in their midst. They become increasingly more rigid in their taboo and geis restrictions. This causes more folk to break a taboo and begin the slide to Goblyn. Tristan comes of age and returns to claim the throne of the Barony. The Druids confirm he is the heir, but reaffirm he is an abomination. Tristan appeals to the folk and warns them not to abandon their oaths to his family. Tristan offers that Flora was already sacrificed for the crime of loving her husband. The folk are trapped between oaths to lord and Druid. They acknowledge Tristan as a rightful ruler. The land becomes darker. Fae roam the woods and moors. The veil between this world and the underworld thins and ghosts cry out for justice from slights real and imagined. Tristan tries to live up to his father's legacy but his time among the fae has left him twisted. He is fair and just during the day but at night he exacts terrible revenge on any who slight him, starting with the Druids. He leads a Wild Hunt of wolf-riding Goblyn through the swamps and forests hunting the Druids wherever he can find them. He also repays the debt owed to the Ban Sidhe by hunting the Fair fae in the woods. His attacks grow more widespread and soon claim anyone caught out of the villages and clanholds. The folk are paranoid and suspicious of anyone not of their clan. More clans fall to the Goblyn curse as their layers of geis and oath make them contort into impossible conflicts. Now it's a party. [/QUOTE]
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