The Tiefling's Lie

The Ragnarok Dynasty reigned over the Kingdom of Rhule for five hundred years, until an army of devils claimed the souls of all within the castle walls. Legends claim that only a lone knight escaped the tragedy, with two infants cradled in his arms. A young girl whose golden hair shimmered in the moonlight and a young boy with red skin and demonic horns couldn't look more different, and yet, these were the survivors of the Ragnarok line.

While Moonlight Ragnarok naturally fell into the role of the heroine of Rhule and savior of the people, her twin brother Brimstone had trouble finding his place in the world. While the citizens of Rhule had condemned Brimstone as a monster, the young tiefling found his best hiding place was in plain sight. Living in secret as an actor who portrayed the fearsome Brimstone Ragnarok upon the stage, he finally found the role he was born to play.

That is until the necklace appeared. A dark influence pressured Brimstone into the life everyone feared he was born for. As if his life wasn't complicated enough, a mysterious gunslinger fleeing from his past and an oracle escaping the cataclysm of a lost civilization found their fates inextricably intertwined with his own.

This book initially started as an in-character journal for a pathfinder campaign I'm in as a player and grew into its own retelling of events with liberties taken to help it flow better as an independent story. The setting is largely original with a few references to some of the GM's favorite fictions and the plot unfolds organically in our regular tabletop sessions.