Forsaken

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The Forsaken are a small group of radical anarchists made up of escaped convicts containing powerful psychopathic murderers, rogue Archmages, and war criminals. The group has an untold number of connections they've seized through fear and murder within the criminal underworld, seats of government, and institutes of scholarly arcane research. Each member possesses the capability to wreak havoc across the realm, together they are the realms first known organized league of chaotic, super-powered entities.

Former, inactive Forsaken members include:

Notable members during the Goliath Uprisings included:


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, VS Croak and Dagger

Post Age of Heroes, the Forsaken have appeared to have resurfaced, though with drastically different goals from when Ygrid and the other Goliath leaders started them. It's been revealed over time that the Forsaken have their hands in every facet of life with ties to organized crime syndicates and seats of power. This was brought to light after the events of Cataclysm, when then small-time adventuring party Croak and Dagger discovered that Caelrogh Soledad only obtained the Black Dragon Mask thanks to the efforts of the Forsaken. In the following days, Croak and Dagger discovered that many of the tumultuous events plaguing the realm during their adventures, were tied to the Forsaken, whether it was part of a larger plot, or simply letting anarchy reign. The Forsaken responded to Croak and Dagger's continued interruptions, by attacking Clymene and Craig, seen as a declarative act of war. Since then, the Forsaken's allies have been sent to deal with Croak and Dagger on a number of occasions, but to no avail. It was only when the Forsaken and its members openly laid siege to Meadowcraft, that they made themselves and their strength public for all to see. Their primary goal appears to be the collection of the wondrous Dragon Masks of Power to form the Mask of the Dragon Queen, which would summon none other than Tiamat. Whether Tiamat's summoning is their ultimate goal, or a cover for something even more terrifying, remains to be seen.

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