Curseborne

The Hungry are undead creatures cursed to feed on living beings for survival and to be able to control their powers and their own bodies. They are master manipulators, pulling on mortals’ strings to make them sway in their direction. They all drink blood, but each family also hungers for something else, something different and … Read more

This is the last of the Sorcerer previews, so I wanted to share with you one of the Families I spent a long time thinking about and trying to wrap my head around it. Some backstory on this family is that the original pitch for them was as a biker gang who bloodied other people … Read more

We return to those oddities in the world of Curseborne: liminalities. Many of your Curseborne stories will be set in and around liminal spaces, because they’re where weird things concentrate. Perhaps there’s been a spate of disappearances and they all centre on one sewer entrance. Maybe there’s been an uptick in violence, and everyone charged … Read more

In our first look at Sorcerers, we learned what makes a Sorcerer, and what kind of power they have. We took a look at the irreverent Unburdened through the lens of our narrator, Kai. Kai told you all about sacrifice, and how magic is part of a larger web of curses that take and take … Read more

Sorcerers are the result of someone answering the question, “What would you give up to have all the power in the world?” with “anything” and finding out that this was the wrong answer. Every Sorcerer is cursed to not just be able to cast magic, but to need to cast magic in a way that … Read more

In last week’s blog entry on the Outcasts of Curseborne, we covered the most militant and ferocious of the families: The Battleground Angels. This week we’ll cover a third family, one that many people think of when they consider demons and tempters of popular culture and ancient myth. They are mistaken as the hedonists, the … Read more

Shivers, Frights, Terrors, Nightmares… and Red Riding Hood What’s life without a little challenge? Relaxing, that’s what. Relaxation is, sadly, not something the Accursed often get to enjoy. Challenges rear their heads in all manner of ways – curses, tricks, interstitial prisons, adversaries wanting to chew their faces off… It’s not always easy bearing a … Read more

In our previous blog entry on the Outcasts of Curseborne, we explored what the Outcasts are and one of the most secretive families: the Nephilim. Now, we go to the other extreme, a family devoted to openly combatting the archons wherever they can be found. These soldiers train all their lives to fight against the … Read more