Forsaken
The Forsaken have no clear goals, only that their members bring death and dismay wherever they go. It's also unknown how organized they are, only that they do indeed exist thanks to Croak and Daggers few encounters with them. They are barely a blip on the radar for world leaders and boogeymen in the night for their enemies.
The Forsaken's current known members include:
Former, inactive Forsaken members include:
- Hildr Firebrand
- Ygrid Ironborn (Founder)
History
Early-Era
Formed during the Goliath Uprisings. The Forsaken started out as an armed-group of Goliaths recruiting society's rejects. Drow, Orcs, Tieflings...if you ever lived with a boot on your throat or knew what it meant to be persecuted because of the way you looked, you had a home with the Forsaken. Ygrid Ironborn had started the coalition of outsiders while in captivity at Kartenheim. She wanted to form a group that could exist outside Goliaths, one that would look out for each other and those who lived in fear under the realm's Global Superpowers. What started out as slaves tattooing themselves under the cover of night in their cells, turned into a movement. Across the Alliance, servants and slaves alike fled to join Ygrid's cause. When Ygrid and her Goliaths began ransacking the eastern territories of the Alliance, they did so under a red banner painted with their insignia. The outcasts that the Alliance had abused, enslaved, and tossed around for years would be forsaken by their masters and oppressors no longer.
The Bloody Seven
During the events of the Seven Year War, the Forsaken were broken up among the common ranks. They were tenacious and fiercely loyal to Ygrid who eventually built her own company made entirely of Forsaken members which she named the Damned 99th. Towards the end of the war, when the Goliaths were desperate for numbers, they began reaching into settlements of exiles and ex-prisoners who were promised reduced sentences or to have their exile overturned completely. This brought merciless warriors into the ranks of the Forsaken that fought for their own accord, not that of any loyalty to Ygrid or her cause. Whoever was going to pay or free them, was who they would fight for. If not for the Forsaken, the Seven Year war would have ended much differently. At the end of seven long, bloody years, Ygrid kept her promise to the Forsaken. Hundreds of appeals had been approved for exiles and ex-prisoners. Families were reunited, and some unsavory individuals slipped through unnoticed. But for the most part, the Forsaken had fulfilled their duty. Those that stayed would go on to serve as Ygrid's personal death squad, putting down any pockets of rebellion or objectors to the newly formed Triumvirate. This lasted for at least another year before Ygrid's Forsaken formally dissolved.
New-Era
Post Age of Heroes, where Croak and Dagger begin their journey. The Forsaken have appeared to resurfaced, though with drastically different goals from when Ygrid started them. It's unknown who leads them currently and what they plan to accomplish. Traces of their influence have been found in Croak and Dagger's adventures. It seems inevitable, that these two forces will clash.