The Weight upon the Chain
Hook
After Rage added a wererat’s severed foot to the trophies hanging at his neck, a raven-haunted crone delivered a prophecy that the slain would burden his chain until he granted them final rest.
Evidence
- Rage’s necklace already held a human foot taken from a traveler killed on the marsh road and a fragment of the Richten House chair mimic.
- He severed the captured wererat’s foot and added it to the necklace before killing the prisoner.
- The crone’s eyes changed before she spoke, then returned to normal with no apparent understanding beyond a sense of dread.
- Her prophecy said Rage had taken what did not belong and that the slain would haunt the chain until granted final rest.
- In Martira Bay, one toe of the severed human foot twitched after Rage demonstrated his strength.
- Rage responded by eating the entire human foot. The wererat foot and mimic fragment remain on the chain.
- Rage added one ear each from Vermoth and his two pale thralls after their deaths.
- Rage ate the three ears from Vermoth and his thralls, destroying those trophies. He felt a magical tingle afterward.
- Rage later added a severed paw from a werebear to the chain.
- Sister Elda’s offer of fellowship ended in immediate hostility when Rage displayed the chain in the Eternal Order chapel.
- In the cave of a wounded unicorn, Rage’s entire cursed trophy necklace disappeared. It reappeared the following morning; the unicorn’s innate magic had concealed it, not broken the curse.
- Aboard the River Dancer, Rage and Snowmane performed funeral rites at sea for the souls he had maimed. The curse was finally resolved.
Resolution
The unicorn’s magic provided only a temporary disappearance. Rage ended the curse by granting proper funeral rites to the souls bound to his trophies.