About This Adventure

You are a dwarven born small one, whose mother was a gobliniod that fell inlove with a mountain dwarf male. Your mother left soon after you were born, whether to protect her family or because her nature no one can be certain. Only your father knows the truth. Worrying still the threat of the void seems to be growing, an abyss and a warning to all the nations. What will you do.

Opening Scene

Haldenreach keeps its gates open because the Compact of the Nine Holds says a sealed city dies faster than a watched one. The Wardens of the Rim chalk the void's advance on the black slate above the market stairs every dusk: another league of stone gone grey, another shaft bricked, another warning the nations will file and not answer. You are still on the lower terrace when the chalk is wet. Your father stands with his back to the forge-wind, smaller in the shoulders than the men who will not meet his eye, and he has not looked at you since the runner came down from the Rim. The north vent of Hold Kar is gone. They want every bloodline that has walked both sides of the dark named, measured, and sent up before night. He knows what your mother was. He has never said why she left. He turns the slate-chip in his soot-black fingers and does not offer it. "They'll ask you what you are," he says. "What do you tell them?"

Play This Adventure

Experience this interactive adventure powered by AI. Choose your path and see where the story takes you.

Start Adventure

Tags

adventure, custom, target-audience:male, lang:en