The Story Thus Far
What’s Past Is Prologue
Six men and women serving as the undercover agents of the Lady Martella Lotheed, the illegitimate daughter of the prestigious Lotheed noble family conduct missions in lone cells before the Fates intervene.
Crownfall
Crownfall
As Taldor’s entire capital city gathers to celebrate, few realize that conspiracy and royal rivalries are about to shake the empire to its core! When a high-minded cabal of senators and nobles tries to steer the nation away from disaster, Emperor Stavian III orders a bloodbath in the senate halls, trapping neophyte spies inside layer upon layer of magical security. As tensions rise and the emperor falls, can the heroes escape the forgotten halls beneath the senate and save the heir to Taldor from an assassin’s blade? And even then, can anyone prevent a civil war that will tear one of the Inner Sea’s oldest nations apart at its rotting seams?
Book the First
All the King’s Men
The heroes hobnob nobles and senators—completing several secretive missions on behalf of their benefactor, Martella Lotheed—while the Taldan senate votes to abolish the ancient law of primogeniture. Things take a drastic turn when Grand Prince Stavian arrives and makes a move that could unravel the empire!
Crownfall
Lost in History
Magically whisked away at the onset of Stavian’s bloodbath, the heroes must explore a forgotten sublevel of the senate building. With only brief surface updates from their benefactor, the heroes discover that very few secrets buried in Taldor remain hidden forever.
Crownfall
The Silent Blade
The heroes escape to the surface only to discover their benefactor, Martella Lotheed, has disappeared at the hands of assassins. They must find Martella’s safe house, now held by death cultists seeking to ply secrets from Martella before executing her!
Crownfall
Songbird, Scion, Saboteur
The county of Meratt is Taldor in a microcosm: a once-glorious land left to decay by negligent nobles. But to help secure Princess Eutropia’s bid for the throne, bold adventurers must now infiltrate her ancestral homeland and overthrow the corrupt Count Lotheed from within, gaining allies and solving problems left to fester far too long.
Book the Second
Songbird
The heroes pose as members of Taldan nobility and attend the Tanager Jubilee, which host to a jousting tournament, a grand hunt, and a masked ball, hoping to win over local aristocrats as they seek to bring the revolution to the county of Meratt.
Songbird, Scion, Saboteur
Scion
The heroes move in to the Betony estate overlooking the nearby hamlet of Stachys. Here they employ their skills to undo the harm caused by apathetic nobility and show what the nation of Taldor could be like, attempting to earn the loyalty of the region’s residents.
Songbird, Scion, Saboteur
Saboteur
The heroes besiege the Palace of Birdsong in the attempt to remove Lady Lotheed’s squatting kin from the imperial estate and perhaps, by their courageous actions, win over the populace of the county of Meratt to the cause of Princess Eutropia.
They arrive to find most have abandoned Bartleby, apparently their efforts have borne fruit.
The assault ends in blood, with Bartleby’s body on the floor of the Palace of Birdsong
Songbird, Scion, Saboteur
Course of the War - First Two Months
Songbird, Scion, Saboteur
The Twilight Child
Dark shadows haunt the trade city of Yanmass, spreading chaos even as the city’s leaders debate which royal heir to support in the growing civil war. Their soldiers are vanishing, bandits attack without fear, and a mysterious plague of nightmares rattles the populace—are these troubles random, or part of a larger conspiracy? And what role do the mysterious Twilight Child and the cultlike following he has attracted play in the chaos?
Book the First