Once, a king of Carcosa lost everything in his grief. His son parted from the life due to an illness. In a desperate attempt to absolve his own emotion, he sought to bring life back itself. Driven to madness by the concept, his research — while foolish — worked. The consequence of the undead brought one fatal truth: to bring back the dead is to also open the door for something else. What came through that door was an unspeakable horror. An entity older than the world itself. A Nightmare. In the coming months, old magic bled through the lands, inciting a blight that tore through the Blunders. Whether this is recorded history or a cautionary tale is unclear. Most would prefer these stories to remain the myths they are. To the lineages following the four crowns, it is very, very real.
blades in the dark is a high fantasy roleplay with inspiration taken from rachel gillig's one dark window (2022); robert w. chamber's short story, "an inhabitant of carcosa" (1886) and the ttrpg from the same name.
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