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Tales of the Fallen

Bound to Revenge

Drithligh

“Taken down by her soul bound uncle”

Slain by The Unseen Arbiter

Sold into slavery before she was born. Her mother and grandfather manipulated. The family business and their agency lost by betrayal from within. A pact with demons to rest a once lost weapon from th

GarnetRuby
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Tales of the Fallen

Disgruntled Former Employee's revenge does not go as expected.

Tusk

“He just hated Wizards so much!”

Slain by GCotter

Tusk was not with the party long, initially he took a job with the Adventuring Guild on behalf of the local Wizarding College to "liaise" with "less sophisticated" adventuring parties visiting the cit

GCotter
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Tales of the Fallen

A Patron's Oversight

Waiwer Sstasywie

“Wai barely trusted his Patron, turns out, even that was too much.”

Slain by GCotter

After weeks of travel and days of planning, Waiwer and his team were making steady headway into the vaults of the flying mageocracy of Sama Kh'Udha, where painful visions from Levistius, Wai's patron

GCotter
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World Lore

Manathyr: A world Broken, A future unwritten

There are no true histories of Manathyr……only fragments left behind. Songs carved into stone. Ruins swallowed by sea and sand. Whispers carried on storm-winds that no scholar can truly explain.

DEAN RUSSELL
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Tales of the Fallen

What not to do

Icarus

“He died as he lived - enchanted by shiny things”

Slain by James_Harte

Icarus was a curious, eclectic, kleptomaniac aasimar artificer with a penchant for pyromania found as a baby in a patch of cabbages and taken in by a couple in the city of Ignaria. They had a thirst f

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Neasa
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Tales of the Fallen

Dante's Inferno

Dante, Private First Class

“That thing in the chest. It was there all along!”

Slain by Rui

A chestburster came out of him while so close to the medical lab! If only they decided to go there earlier! Well, at least Iona made a few good jokes out of it.

Rui
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Tales of the Fallen

Ariarcus Needed a Hammer

Hammer, Private

“Who would think X-Stims would do this to your body?”

Slain by Rui

Fooled by a Weyland-Yutani agent with some "X-Stims" filled with Draconis Strain, his chest ended up bursting into outward ribcages, a chestburster making its way out of him.

Rui
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Tales of the Fallen

A Butcher At The Abandoned City

Le Bob(-spierre)

“Decapitated at the Abandoned City, after losing the hearts of his skeleton crew”

Slain by ROR

In a swift progression from the guillotine to the gallows to the gatling gun, Le Bob's revolutionary career was often misconstrued as bloodthirsty – now known as the Butcher of the Abandoned City. Aft

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ROR
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Tales of the Fallen

A Soul Wandering The Longmoor

Han Solo (no relation)

“Butchered at The Abandoned City for a dead man's revenge”

Slain by ROR

He traded a gun & an arm for some wine and Brie cheese, but unfortunately his blood bought a better deal. When storming the Abandoned City's fort, he took a shotgun tripwire to the face. But death was

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ROR
8
Tales of the Fallen

Executed At The Abandoned City

Captain Napoleon

“Butchered at The Abandoned City in the midst of surrendering”

Slain by ROR

Some say it was Captain Napoleon's hubris that sank the illustrious ship Paris Is Burning. But those loyal to his leadership know these tactics let him walk right up & retake many a city in his earlie

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ROR
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Tales of the Fallen

A Martyr At The Abandoned City

Marie, child of blasphemy

“Butchered at The Abandoned City in defense of her crew”

Slain by ROR

Marie had a rocket launcher & the acrobatic know-how from a life in the crow's nest. None of this makes you invulnerable to bullets. Credit for the killing: Ada, our butcher.

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ROR
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Tales of the Fallen

Was he even trying?

Bawb Wyld

“The nat 1 was, as it turns out, the highlight of the evening”

Slain by Mike O'Regan

Poor Bawb, so tired from boozing and schmoozing, failed to even climb the 4ft ditch that barred his way at the start of the adventure. A Nat 1 and an audible crack later, his soul left the realm as fa

Joe F
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