Betwixt: Revenants of the Forgotten | A Dark Fantasy Campaign

About the adventure

You awaken in the void. You are dead… but Death offers you a bargain. An endless, shadowed expanse stretches before you; cold, unfeeling, and silent. At its center stands a figure whose presence bends the very fabric of reality. Kelemvor, the Lord of the Dead, gazes upon you with solemn judgment, his eyes filled with the weight of eternity. Long ago, he was deceived. Mask, the Lord of Shadows and Deceit, wove a scheme so intricate that even Death himself was ensnared. In that moment of trickery, six souls of immense power and darkness escaped their eternal fate in the Fugue Plane. They have returned to the mortal realm, spreading corruption and chaos, their very existence tied to the Seven Deadly Sins. Kelemvor offers you a choice: - Wander the Fugue Plane for eternity, lost among the restless dead, your soul forever denied peace. - Return to life as Death’s revenants, bound to a grim purpose: hunt down the escaped souls, unravel Mask’s deception, and restore balance to the cycle of life and death. If you accept, Kelemvor grants you unnatural resurrection, but at a terrible cost. You are no longer mortal. The world will not welcome you. You are not truly living, nor truly dead, wielding spectral abilities that mark you as something otherworldly. To some, you are a herald of divine judgment. To others, an undead abomination. Your journey begins at the Frozen Reaches, an isolated expanse at the very edge of Faerûn, the last place where Kelemvor’s influence touches the living world. From here, you must track down the Six Escaped Souls, each tied to a sin, each hiding among the mortals they once ruled, served, or destroyed.