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Ravenwood Forest 2020

CHAPTER 1
Ravenwood Forest • 2020

Outside Ravenwood forest, a town warned residents against entering, as few who did ever returned. Young lovers Hanna and Jacob ignored the warnings, got attacked by ravens, and separated. Hanna, lost and weary, met a woman who transformed her into a raven to find her way out. Hanna succeeded but realized too late that the woman, a mysterious figure known as the Raven Queen had tricked her. The woman claimed her as another pet. Jacob, worried, left the forest with an injury. He returns to the Ravenwood each night and calls out to his lover. Most nights his calls fall on a silent forest, but occasionally, on the blackest nights, a harrowing caw from a raven answers back.

CHAPTER 2
Spider Cavern • 2021

The Raven Queen has returned and this time, she’s trying to keep her ravens safe from the jaws of Iktomi, the arachnid of the Ravenwood Forest, by sending hapless souls into its cavern instead. While Iktomi shares her name with the spider-trickster spirit, and culture hero for the Lakota people, she is nothing like the Native American Legend. 

She is a giant spider queen with an insatiable appetite. At her command are thousands of spiders and not even the Raven Queen herself wishes to cross her.

CHAPTER 3
Carnival of Souls • 2022

The development of downtown Panama City had encroached on the Raven Queen’s domain, the Ravenwood Forest. So she stormed into town with her minions to gather the souls of the citizens as restitution for the transgression.

 

Only the brave could weave their way through Iktomi’s spider cavern, avoid the Queen’s hidden henchmen, and survive Ravenwood’s Carnival of Souls in order to help break the Raven Queen’s hold on Panama City.

CHAPTER 4

Ravenwood Asylum • 2023

 The origin of the Raven Queen is uncovered as we go back in time to when the queen was just an innocent child with the ability to speak to birds. Her mother, thinking the child was losing touch with reality, sent her to the Ravenwood Asylum where she was tortured through electroshock therapy and other experimental treatments that eventually led to her power being amplified and causing a rip in our reality to open up and allow seven spectres into our world. These spectres tortured the young girl who would eventually become the Raven Queen, causing her mental anguish and great pain.

But true Queens turn pain into power, and she used that experience to become the dominant force she is today.

CHAPTER 5

The Gatekeepers • 2024

The Faceless, driven by madness, have performed dozens of profane rituals. Their sacrifices have been countless, but none as significant as their most recent: the Raven Queen's treasured protégé. The air grows colder, and the darkness thickens as the Raven Queen, vengeful and unyielding, descends upon the cult and the corruption they are summoning. Her wrath is a storm, but even she cannot stop this evil alone.
She needs an ally—She needs you.


This is no ordinary mission. These evils must be locked away once more, each behind a magical gate. To seal these gates, three ancient keys are required. The Key of Sands, the Key of Stars, and the Key of Depths. Each key lies within the very realms of the atrocities being summoned, guarded by a darkness older than time itself.

But beware—the ancient evils are not idle. They stir, and their eyes are upon you. One wrong step or moment of hesitation, and you will be devoured. Your screams will echo in the void, and the last hope for our world will perish with you.

CHAPTER 6

Dreamwalkers • 2026

She asked for your help. She was lying.

The Raven Queen is haunted — not by ghosts, but by consequence. Years of dark magic, taken freely and never repaid, have drawn the attention of something ancient and impartial. The Collector does not negotiate. He does not forgive. He has been living inside her ever since, a darkness you may have already encountered without knowing what it truly was.

Now she comes to you. Desperate. Humble, even. She needs dreamwalkers to enter her subconscious, travel through the wreckage of her memories, and uncover the full measure of her debt — so she can pay it, and be free.

You agree. Of course you agree.

You move through the rooms of her mind: the warmth of her grandmother's house gone wrong at the edges, the asylum still echoing with the cruelty of the Seven Spectres, the carnival that doesn't quite let you look away, the silk-threaded dark of Iktomi's lair. Each space holds a memory. Each memory holds a cost. You are doing good work. You are helping her.

You are also exactly where she needs you to be.

At the end of the dream, the Collector is waiting — and he isn't waiting for her. The debt has already been paid. It was paid the moment you stepped inside. Your soul was the currency she chose. She chose it before she ever asked for your help.

Now you know. Now you run.

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