Path: Chapter Six

So this is it, the final session! Bootcamp cut things short.

GM's Goals
-Defeat Golau
-Rescue the town of Aelia

Eva's Beliefs (I'm only writing in the changed ones)
2. My father and Golau's schemes are the only things keeping me here. Let's end this.

Augustes's Beliefs (again, only the changed ones)
1. I just want this to end. I wanna go home and get some sleep.

- As Kincaid, Eva, and Augustes go down the tunnels they hear a rumble behind them. The spiders are not pleased, and they're coming up in force..

-Kincaid gives Eva an empty glass vial, telling her to not drop it at all costs. Kenodoxius, also known as The One in the Deep, is coming for them. Kincaid will hold off the spiders while they run.

-And so they do. But a cloud of black smoke catches up with them and surrounds them, screaming loudly in their minds. Both players barely manage to pass their Steel tests, and Eva not only doesn't drop the vial but Augustes doesn't run away screeching in fright (all three Persona burnt on that one!)

-The One in the Deep demands that the vial be dropped. Augustes, who was leaning on Eva due to his wounds, raises himself up and tells Kenodoxius tha tthey'll do no such thing. Kenodoxius begins to destroy the tunnel...

-...and time freezes.A being, who is surrounded by a soft blue glow, walks up behind them. Each step he changes another race- spider, troll, orc, roden, elf, dwarf, wolf, and human. He introduces Himself as Avgud, and that He's proud  of them both. He explains that The One in the Deep is on his way to kill Golau, since Inimicai are cursed to hate each other so that way they don't band together to rule the world, but that he needs a body to do it. Considering that Kincaid is a Siunattu Soturi, a Blessed Warrior long dead, the only body he can possess is Eva's, since Kenodoxius was an elf himself... once.  Eva always has the option of letting Kenodoxius possess her if she wishes, but Avgud promises victory if only Eva and Augustes obey Him. No strings attached beyond that.

- Eva and Augustes say that what they've been doing hasn't worked out, and considering that all that Avgud asks for is obedience they agree to it. Avgud tells them that they'll be put to the and, once they succeed, He'll tell them what to do next. Off they go!

- Time resumes, and Eva holds up the vial, which is now brightly shining.  They walk through Kenodoxius, who's been thrown back by the vial. They round the corner and Golau with Kai, Eva's father, and Austin, Augustes's brother! They both look a bit wobbly (and are, they're enchanted!); Golau commands them to kil their kin.

- Kai spits out vile hatred for Eva that she's never heard  before. Apparently Eva's mother died giving birth to her, and Kai's always held it against her. Austin also swears vengeance on Augustes for thinking that he's really better than everyone back in Golau.  A Fight! is begun. Kai and Austin have a +2 Ob for being imperfectly mind-controlled, since Golau's attention is focused on holding back Kenodoxius)

Fight!
- Positioning is rolled between Augustes and Austin (hands vs. sword) and Augustes wins. No positioning roll necessary for the elves, since they're both wielding swords.
-Austin charges Austin, ducking under his strike and staggering him back.
-Kai winds up for a Great Strike and Eva flinches (Block)
-Kai moves in for the kill, but trips (Ob 3's hard to crack when your dice hate you!) and Eva slashes into the offending leg, causing him to stumble (+3 Ob from here on out!)
- Crying out in pain, Kai swings a hasty strike (and I roll CRAP yet again!) but Eva blocks so ferociously that Kai stumbles back, guard open.

-After briefly falling back and trying to gain advantage over each other

-This time Augustes actually knocks Austin over even as Austin tries to jump clear. They're on the ground now.
-Kai still hasn't gotten his bearings (Eva hasn't let up), and so Eva cuts his leg tendon, causing him to fall over
Fight over

-As Eva and Augustes stand over their kin, Golau commands them to kill their kin. Eva and Augustes look up and ask why they'd do such a thing. Golau, distracted by Kenodoxius, spits back that they're family, that's why! Eva strides toward Golau, and begins telling her off epically, ending with "...even though we're both not normal, we're not sick in the head like you!"

-With that Eva hears in her mind Avgud telling her to throw the vial at Golau. She does so and everything goes white. They're back in Aelia, the town that was being attacked by trolls, Augustes is healed and holding The Wheel of Fire!

- Obviously, the trolls are taken care of. A Wheel of Fire wielding Augustes, a restored Kai and what's left of Aelia's townsfolk take care of that.

-As Augustes finishes using The Wheel, he looks down at his bare chest (from his piece of chest armor being burned up and thus discarded earlier) and realizes that he's covered in flame tattoos. The Wheel's now gone. The town is saved .

Epilogue: both Eva and Augustes traveled together until Augustes was forced to retire due to age. He settled down in Ortes, a kingdom in The Dragontooth Isles far to the west, happy and content. Eva's Grief (which was a B6 at the beginning of this whole thing was the focus of one of her Beliefs) was reduced to B0 for using the vial. She went on to travel the world in a flying ship named Painoton ("Weightless in Elvish). Their actions pushed back the Goleuni, and Golau didn't reappear immediately after these events, the entire continent nation of Golau began to collapse...

Path: Chapter Five

With this session things get a little complicated. My fiance Maria was visiting for two weeks, and wished to play. I asked the players if this was OK and they jumped at the chance to play with her (Naomi's my youngest sister and Mitch is a coworker who'd been wanting to meet Maria anyway), and so I thought of a way to include Maria. 

In the previous game the major villain was Marian, the Countess of Fire. When she was a little girl she had lost both her parents. Her mother had died because of a plague. Her father had become The Eaten One, a dictator appointed at the behest of an evil spirit named The One in the Deep to overcome a major threat to civilization named The Vermin Lord. The cost for such power was that The Eaten One be thrown into a dark well of The One in the Deep's choosing. Standing above that well, Marian swore revenge against all of civilization for sacrificing her beloved father. In the following events that took place over 50 years Marian found the Fountain of Youth and drank from it in order to have the longevity necessary to find and defeat The One in the Deep.

As detailed in Revenge of the Countess of Fire Marian's attempt to destroy The One in the Deep backfired, and she wound up accidentally giving the evil spirit a body to command instead. She and the player characters Kincaid, Lenore, The Hungry One, and Claire Romar went to the center of the planet with The One in the Deep, who planned to overthrow the Eternal Flame that was the light of all goodness and supplant it with his own. Touching The Eternal Flame, The One in the Deep was burned by it instead and his enemies shoved him in, destroying his body. Marian, driven to the point of suicide, was convinced by the players that the only worthy thing she could do with her immortality was to make the world a better place for as long as she could. 

So that's Marian. For whatever reason things clicked with me, and I asked Maria if she wanted to play Marian as she looked for Insel des Todes, the Fountain of Youth. The original idea was for her to play two sessions with us and set up some crucial information about Golau, who Marian had interacted with. We had decided that, in order to find out about Insel des Todes, Marian had seduced Bonaparte, a fellow mage, into letting her into a secret society that was all about the island. After finding out what she could Marian faked her death by setting their library on fire. 

Oh, and the standard magic for this setting is Art Magic, with the optional rule that you can't cast outside your schools of magic in effect.

OK, enough yakking. You know enough, I think.

Beliefs for the Naomi and Mitch were infuriating to get through this time. It was like pulling teeth to get them to write Beliefs and not Instincts!At some point I gave up and let them have their crappy Beliefs. My blood pressure can only go so high.

Augustes's Beliefs
1. I am going to investigate this elf.
2. I'm going to get the artifact before Golau gets to use it. 
3. To make this dark world a better place I'll save it from Golau.

Eva's Beliefs
1. I really want to trust this elf-something feels good about him.
2. Golau is working with my father. I will stop them both by guiding my companions to Golau.
3. I will not set sail before my father is stopped.

Marian, the Countess of Fire's Beliefs
1. Power is efficiency; I will drink from the Fountain of Youth.
2. I live for revenge: it is the point of my existence.
3. People are a means to my end. Bonaparte's usefulness is ended so I will ignore him.

Marian, the Countess of Fire's Insticts
1. Always remember my goal: revenge.
2. Never let others gain the upper hand. 
3. Never trust a stranger (roll Observation)

Also, it should be noted that Marian started off with a G6(!!!) Sorcery skill, as well as a B4 Astrology skill. To say that she is a powerful sorceress at 5 lifepaths is a bit of an understatement. We asked Naomi and Mitch if it was OK that Marian be that powerful, and they not only approved but they begged for Marian to be MORE powerful. This request was not granted :P

Marian's schools at the time of the campaign are weather, plants, and fire.

-150 Years Ago... Marian set sail for Insel des Todes, The Fountain of Youth. She makes an untrained sailing test to get to the island safely after making sure the weather's favorable via a weather control spell. She fails the sailing test and crashes her ship, winding up on the beaches of Insel des Todes. The time for the test was three years.

-Present Day... After a brief introduction (Kincaid is the new elf's name) the three set out. After being told in a vague way how to get to the center of the planet Eva sings The Song of Paths and Ways... and fails. They wind up in an underground spider outpost and are captured.

-147 Years Ago... Marian slowly picks herself up and examines the island. There's cliffs to her right and left, with plains in front and dense woods farther away. Before she can decide which way to go the clouds scar the sky and an eerie green light starts to shine behind her. Looking behind her Marian sees a ship way off in the distance, surrounded by green light and clouds. It's sailing this way.

-Present Day... Augustes and Eva awaken, hanging upside down from the ceiling in the pitch black tunnels. Mattias is still unconscious, and one else seems to be around. The spiders didn't bind them up very tightly (STUPID SNARES ROLL OF 1 SUCCESS!) so Eva breaks free and lands quietly, more or less.

-The same can't be said of Augustes, who, even with a great amount of effort, lands wrong and pops a suture in his stomach, causing him to scream out in pain. This attracts a spider, of course...

-Fortunately Eva has lit a torch and has her sword out (when surprised draw your sword!), so a Fight! starts. Positioning did not go well for Eva, as the much nimbler Hunter Spider got up inside her reach and charged her, intending to bowl her over. Eva jumped out of the way however (Avoid), cause the spider to sail right past her. The spider tried to change direction (giving up a future action so she could script Avoid) but Eva lopped her head off in one blow (Strike at 5[!!!!!] successes over Obstacle 0, stupid dice...)

-With that out of the way Eva and Augustes cut down Mattias and take a look around. There's a lot of webbing that goes down one particular passageway, so Eva sets it on fire in an attempt to distract the rest of the spiders while she and the others get away. She then sings The Song of Paths and Ways, successfully this time, and leads them away down another tunnel, further into the darkness...

-147 Years Ago... After seeking shelther in the cliffs Marian consults with the sun, Amaunator, using Astrology, trying to find out more about the ship. The ship belongs to Golau, the most powerful sorceress ever, and she's on her way to Insel des Todes to destroy The Fountain of Youth. 

-With that, Marian follows the now disembarked crew (who are composed of a lot of slaves!) at a great distance. They enter the woods, and she follows behind them, looking through plants so she can maintain her distance. Unfortunately Golau looks right back through the plants at her too!

-At the moment Marian feels a presence behind her, and hears her dead mother's voice. Marian makes the Steel test with flying colors and pays it no mind.

-That's when Bonaparte, her old flame, comes up from behind Golau, and chomps down on a slave's neck, revealing a set of vampire fangs. Turns out that Golau is a vampire as well, and is actually Bonaparte's sire. 

-Bonaparte grabs a wicked-looking lance and turns to walk towards a clearing with a small cave that produces a spring...

-... and that's when Marian strides out and sets fire to Bonaparte and Golau with a stunning 12 successes on her Kill It With Sorcerous Fire! roll, a B12! Bonaparte is completely incinerated and Golau falls over from the sheer ferocity of the attack, screaming in pain. Golau's servants drag her off, leaving the spear behind. 

-Marian examines the spear and consults with the sun, Amaunator, and finds out that this is the great evil spear, Schander der Guten. Golau was going to use it to defile and thus destroy the Fountain.

-Still holding Schander der Guten, Marian goes into the small cave and climbs down a modestly-sized cliff. There's a light at the bottom, which turns out to be in a pool of warm water. As Marian wades into the pool she feels the urge to walk in so far as to submerge herself. Once she's done so Marian realizes that the water is breathable and so she takes a deep breath. Life courses through her, and Marian realizes that now she will never get sick again, nor can she ever die. 

-Coming up out of the water Marian grabs hold of Schander der Guten and calls upon Amaunator again, asking how she can get home with her boat smashed...

Unfortunately after this point Maria and I got really sick, and we were unable to hold the next session while she was around. The rest of what happened to Marian will have to wait for another game. I'd mostly switched to Maria at the end because Naomi was getting ready to pass out, and Mitch was interested in finding out about the setting, so he was more than happy to sit back and get an info-dump. And what a useful info dump it'll be...

Note: I accidentally put in Chapter Four as Chapter Three, and the numbering got screwed up. This was originally Chapter Four

Path: Chapter Four

Here's the GM's Goals I gave everyone for the session

1. Infiltrate Itawarete Ira Hu, the Temple of the Wheel of Fire
2. Find the elf
3. Scare/defeat the Roden
4. Get the Wheel of Fire

Fulfilling any of these goals nets a Persona Point in addition to whatever they get for Beliefs. I list them for dark hilarity's sake. You'll see what I mean.

Eva's Beliefs
1. My life is more important than the Wheel of Fire because my father must be stopped.
2. I will not sail before my father is stopped.
3. I brought Augustes here, I will get him out.

Eva's Instincts
1. Whenever I enter a new area I search for hiding spots.
2. When surprised I draw my sword.
3. Always assume the worst about elves

Augustes's Beliefs
1. Another elf is around, cool! It must be my lucky day. I'll find him.
2. I'm going to find whatever this Wheel is in this God-forsaken well
3. I will save the town, even though I'm worthless.

Augustes's Instincts
1. I refuse to speak to new people.
2. If someone scares me I do what they ask.
3. Whenever I fail a Steel test I use Soothing Platitudes (which, at the moment, is untrained)

- Eva and Augustes size up the cavern. There's blue fluorescent mushrooms everywhere, dimly lighting up the cavern, which is roughly hewn. Eva starts to look around for places to hide and fails. As she was looking around Augustes chucked a rock idly and hit a nearby unseen Roden inbetween the eyes, knocking him out cold. This alerts his nearby compatriots to their presence. 

-The pair attempt to knock out the remaining two roden before the alarm can be sounded, but they don't move fast enough to stop the roden from shrieking out an alarm call.

-Eva and Augustes try and get away, but are backed into a corner briefly by the roden. They manage to bowl past the roden who are cornering them and make their escape. With their newfound freedom, the dynamic duo decide they're gonna escape... right into the temple, where the roden are thickest. No, I did not advise this. I refrained from facepalming, but you better believe I held back.

-Now that they're in the temple and being chased from all sides, Eva and Augustes have to try and make a break for it again. Eva gets away, but Augustes is captured and cowed. After running for a minute, Eva curses, turns around, and runs back after Augustes to save him, her own hide be damned. Unfortunately she sees...

- Augustes, captured and having failed a Steel test, begins to plead for his life with his untrained Soothing Platitudes and fails. When told that he must help capture his elvish friend Augustes breaks down in tears, offering to help capture the other elf that he's heard rumors of. He offers everything he owns, his own freedom and eternal slavery even, but he won't betray Eva. He gets an axe to the gut for his troubles....

-...yeah... that's a B9 to the stomach...Traumatic Wound...Augustes's intestines are all over the floor... Eva fails her Steel test and passes out from sheer despair. 

-Both wake up inside the temple. Augustes's stomach has been bound up and he's on the mend. Standing above them is the elf everyone's been talking about.

- He explains to them that he was trying to stop Golau from getting the Wheel of Fire but failed. Golau is, even now, heading to the center of the earth to put out the Eternal Flame, the source of all life and goodness in the world. He asks for the dynamic duo's help in getting there. Eva begrudgingly accepts, but Augustes refuses: he's only worth something with Golau and so he won't fight her.

-Eva challenges Augustes to a Duel of Wits, Augustes accepts.

Augustes: I am worthless and must go back to Golau. Let me be.

Eva: Slavery isn't good enough for you, so you better help me stop Golau.

I didn't record all the stuff for the Duel of Wits (I'll start to next time!), but Eva TROUNCED Augustes (he does have a Traumatic Wound and isn't trained in any social skills whatsoever...), and he agrees to help the unnamed elf and Eva.

Overall that was the most disastrous session of Burning Wheel I've ever seen dice-wise. Even when the players did roll well their decisions were horrific and led to more pain and death for them. But it led to a really good story!

Path: Chapter Three

-Eva and Augustes get to the bottom of the well and... nothing happens.

-After a quick check of the bottom, Eva starts jumping up and down to loosen the pressure plate they're standing on. Augustes joins in, and a door opens in front of them, spilling the water out . They look down a well-crafted stone hallway, with torches lit every 50 feet

-Eva scouts out ahead, and finds that there are a group of evil dwarves from Itan Horu also undergound. She guides Augustes away from them by softly humming The Song of Paths and Ways, staying just one step ahead of the dwarves.

-They come to a fork in the road, and they pick the right passage because it's warmer. 

-Augustes and Eva hear singing and see a soft glow behind them and flee, trying to get away and arrive upon a spiral staircase. They bolt down it, but all of a sudden the lights go out. The lights turn back on with a horrific scream AND..

-Augustes finds himself in a magnificent golden palace with relief carvings in the wall, showing scenes of sadism and torture beyond imagination. Golau, the eternal Queen of the Continent Golau walks up to him and asks why he has these illusions of grandeur. Becoming a hero! Bah! A Duel of Wits ensues:

Augustes (3 disposition): I wanna be a hero!

Golau (8 Disposition) you're worthless, accept it and come back home.

It doesn't take look for Golau to verbally browbeat Augustes into submission. But he does get a minor compromise: he wants to save Aelia before going back to Golau to beg forgiveness for thinking he could do anything apart from her.

-Eva also comes to the same room, but is face to face with her father instead. A Duel of Wits also ensues.

Eva (4 Disposition): Never talk to me again, get away from me!

"Kai" (8 Disposition): Running away from me and my plans is pointless, you know I'm right.

It's only one action longer and Eva still loses, but she does get a major compromise out of it. Eva may be wrong about running away from her father and his ideals (elves suck and should be destroyed, humans are awesome and everything should be done to help them!), but she isn't wrong about her father. And she's determined to stop him before she sets sail.

-Eva comes to, only to find that Augustes is standing next to her on the staircase, still in a trance. She then hears the dwarves coming in their direction, complaining that they of all people are lost in their ancestral home!

-Eva hides under the spiral staircase, the unconscious Augustes  limp over her back, and watches as the dwarves walk past into the unfurnished caves... she then drags Augustes back up the stairs and slaps him into wakefulness. Together they make their way down the hall, and choose the other way in the fork in the road.

-As they traverse the labyrinth the two hear roden off in the distance, looking for "some damn elf". using the Song of Paths and Ways Eva keeps her and Augustes clear of the roden. They stumble upon a massive underground dwarven temple, manned by roden...

Path: Chapter Two

-Eva is wandering the shores of Lake Vtia, looking for a place to sleep, when the forest flares up like a giant bonfire. She runs toward the fort and happens upon a troll who's trying to have his way with a very young human girl. She strikes at the troll from behind. I rolled a Die of Fate to see if Naomi's strike would cause the troll to trip into a nearby burning tree and kill himself. It was just an act of fun, and well... I rolled a one. Figures. Well, the troll's dead with a burning branch through his eye now! Naomi's feeling good...

-Eva attempts to bandage up the little girl who, as it turns out, has her intestines spilled out across the ground. She rolls Field Dressing and fails. Eva stitches her stomach together, but she probably won't last...Eva hears more screams and heads off to do what she can for the non-injured.

-Meanwhile Augustes is trying to get out of the burning forest with his unconscious brother. He thinks there's a town through the woods and sets off, dragging his brother with him. Mitch fails the Orienteering roll and finds himself back at Lake Vita, with three trolls staring at him, the fallen girl that Eva had found earlier.

-Eva makes her way into Vitae Custos and attempts to take on another troll, but doesn't get nearly as lucky since this time the troll's armor dice protect him from her blow. The troll turns to kill her, and Eva spends the next twenty minutes evading trolls and making her way back to the girl, where she finds three trolls and two young men, cornered...

-The trolls lunge at Augustes and Austin, grabbing them with a truly horrendous failed roll. Eva then tries to cut their tendons against, bu the troll's skins once again make the armor roll.

-Just when things look hopeless The Elf appears and single-handedly DESTROYS the three trolls. He tortures the last one for fun as Augustes and Eva stare in astonishment. The Elf stands up and runs to Eva excitedly, trying to hug her as he calls out to her. Eva pushes him back, yelling at him to leave her alone. Turns out The Elf's Eva's father! She spits in his face and tells him to screw off. Her father shakes his head sadly and walks off, warning them to get to the next town before his trolls find them.

-Augustes and Eva carry Austin through the burning forest to the nearby town of Aelia, using Eva's Song of Paths and Ways to show them the way. Yeah, Naomi failed this roll too, so their armor catches fire. Eva loses her left leg and Augustes his chest. Having stripped those things off the two get to Aelia.

-At the town gates they meet Otho, captain of the guard of Aelia. They inform him of Vitae Custos's fall, and Otho orders an immediate evacuation of Aelia

-As Augustes sees to Austine getting medical attention Eva hears a familiar bird-call and goes outside Aelia to meet with her father. He informs her that, while the trolls are delayed by the forest fire, they won't be safe for too much longer. He tells her about The Wheel of Fire, an artifact that is somewhere beneath Aelia. It's the real reason the trolls have been sent to Aelia in the first place, to provide a distraction while the Wheel is found. He tells Eva that the only way to get to the Wheel is through Aelia's town well.

-Eva goes back and finds Augustes. She informs him of her plans to save the town and Augustes gets up immediately and walks out with her. The two, using the rope, climb into the Well of Aelia...

Path: Chapter One

-BOOM! The front gate of Vitae Custos, the Argentum army base on Lake Vita, is knocked in by a group of 30 trolls. No alarm was sounded, and panic quickly ensues with the advent of the trolls. 

-Augustes, who's a common footsoldier (spear and shield...) on guard duty, sees the trolls and turns to run! He successfully evades a troll (Speed vs. Speed) and is just running out the back gate when...

-He turns around to fight the troll because a young woman happens to be attacked by said troll. He tries to drive off the Trolls (Spear vs. Speed), but fails: the troll bites her head off. Augustes flees the doomed fort. 

-At this point I asked Mitch to make an Orienteering check so he didn't get lost in the woods that surround Lake Vita. Unfamiliar territory at night and Augustes being untrained means that Augustes accidentally runs into the last person he expected to see: his brother Austin! Austin has clearly seen better days. He's dressed in rags, has chains around his ankles, and holds a rusty old sword. 

-Augustes steps forward to attack Austin, but Austin falls down, begging for mercy. After Augustes escaped Austin was forced into the newly occupied slave position in punishment for losing Augustes. He begs for mercy over and over as Augustes steps forward with his spear, intent on killing the man who had so badly scarred him. At this point I asked Mitch to make a Perception test, which he horrifically failed (Ob vs. Stealth G. The whole world goes black.

- Augustes wakes up in a dirty room with his brother tied and gagged to a bed. An elf approaches Augustes and offers him a cruel torture knife. The elf explains that he was happening through the forest when he spied the two brothers. He decided that Augustes was right and wished to make it easier to torture Austin. The elf steps outside, telling Augustes he'll be waiting. 

- After ten MINUTES of mostly-silent out-of-game thinking (stopping only to tell me that I was being a jerk  ) Augustes finally steps forward and cuts Austin's bonds. He then tells Austin the he'd better have learned his lesson, because Augustes may not be so merciful the next time. 

-The elf comes back in and asks for his knife back, which after a short few minutes of banter Augustes does so. The Elf tells Augustes that he's free to go, but Austin isn't. Augustes is show out with his equipment, into the forest. The door slams shut and Augustes finds that he was never in a house at all, but a giant tree! That's when the screaming starts. 

-After listening and pondering for another five minutes out-of-game Augustes does the only thing he knows how to do: build a gigantic bonfire. I laughed at Mitch when he took Firebuilding as a skill, and man did that get turned back on me! Augustes makes an enormous bonfire that sets the whole forest ablaze. The elf throws Austin sans-ear out of the tree and asks Augustes if this is really how he wants to play it. Augustes responds that he can't turn his back on a helpless being, even if that being is his asshole of a brother. Augustes picks up Austin and cauterizes his wound shut (failed Field Dressing). The elf bids him adieu and walks off into the burning forest as Augustes lugs his unconscious brother through the burning forest...

-Yes, Mitch got Right Skill Right Time. I've never seen Firebuilding be useful before, looks like he showed me!

Path: Introduction

There are two players, my youngest sister Naomi and my coworker Mitch. I did The Sword with them and they were hooked, so I decided to do a short campaign with them. Here's the back history I gave them, and here are the characters' descriptions. These are three lifepath characters in Burning Wheel

The shrinking Argentum Empire and the Colonies of Goleuni have been at an uneasy peace for 50 years after an unexpected withdrawal of the Goleuni military. The two sides stare at each other across Lake Vita, waiting for someone to break wind in the wrong direction...

Eva: a 100 year old elf, and the last good elf from the fallen dark elf city Keijukainen Aes, up north in Rauta Mesta, the Iron Woods. She's wandered about 1,000 plus miles in 50 years, trying to find a new home away from her evil father and uncle. She's wound up on the extreme end of the continent, at Lake Vita.

Augustes: 19 years old, Augustes was a former unnamed slave from Goleuni, an invasive colony from an isle-continent named Golau. He escaped slavery and joined the Argentum Empire's military so he could fight back against Goleuni and his brother Austin, who was his slave-driver.

For those who care, the name of the game is indeed inspired by the this song: