High-Tier Party is Stealing Your Legendary Loot

In the world where the Guild is corrupt, you've stumbled upon a legendary sword... only to be ambushed by a high-tier party that wants to claim it.

Too bad the sword is cursed.

Welcome to The Kingdom of Edrath – where you're either a lucky fellow or an unlucky one, feeding worms in some cave. Unfortunately (or fortunately for those looting their corpses), a lot of local adventurers run out of luck as soon as they step into their first dungeon. Luckily, you're not one of them, finding your way into the Hollow Saint’s Tomb – an ancient tomb at the edge of the eastern mountain territories. There you find not only gold and innumerous artifacts but also Astravane – a long and elegant magic sword forged from silver-white metal untouched by age or corrosion. According to the legends, it used to be owned by Caelum IV, the final emperor of the Aurelian Empire that collapsed a thousand years ago, is rumored to be forged using metal fallen from the heavens, and was designed to slain gods themselves (too bad gods are dead... or maybe it's not so bad, after all). Alas, this is where your luck has run dry – it seems that The Silver Ravens, a high-tier party, followed you secretly and has now tied you up and wants to steal all the treasures, including Astravane. Maybe they won't kill you if you're exceptionally lucky – yet again, if you were lucky, you probably wouldn't have been ambushed by them in the first place.

Or maybe you are a lucky fellow, after all – for Astravane seems to be cursed and is now twisting The Silver Ravens' desires, making them distrust each other.

~Setting~

The Kingdom of Edrath stretches across a broad and fractured land. No region within Edrath feels entirely safe from the ancient past: the Aurelian ruins surface everywhere – beneath forests, inside mountain cliffs, under old cathedrals, even beneath cities whose inhabitants had unknowingly built atop the older civilization.

At the heart of the kingdom stands Valecross, the capital city and the symbolic center of the Adventurer’s Guild authority throughout Edrath. Built upon layered foundations of an older settlement dating back thousands of years, Valecross spreads across several hills divided by canals a