The two arrive at a vast crater, where they encounter Zetterburn, who averts his eyes from Forsburn as the group is soon joined by Kragg, Orcane, and Wrastor. The two conclude this danger to Aether lies to the West, leading to them setting off together. The two stop fighting as Forsburn explains his own encounter with the purple shadows and the disappearance of his brother. However, when Maypul demands to know what Forsburn's role with the purple shadows is, he's taken aback. Forsburn instantly heads back to help his allies, without finding his real brother or confronting the Fire Council.įorsburn returns to the clan's hideout, coming across Maypul as he does so, believing her to be one of the attackers, while Maypul herself believes him to be involved with the purple shadows that infected her forest, both attack each other. Forsburn returns to the Fire Capital, only to find a strange purple version of his brother, who attacks him, however using his new smoke abilities, Forsburn defeats the imposter.Īs the shadow disappears, Forsburn notices a blaze in the distance: the Fire Army attacked the Smoke Clan's hideout while he was fighting.

Despite his new loyalty to the Smoke Clan, Forsburn is unable to abandon his brother, leaving to seek him out. However, Forsburn eventually hears how Zetterburn has disappeared from the Fire Capital. Once there, the clan's chief, Claiyen, learns of Forsburn's betrayal and skill in espionage, leading to her offering him a new home with the clan in exchange for his allegiance Forsburn agrees. However, Zetterburn, loyal to the point of blindness, doubts his brother's claims, instead flying into a rage and attacking Forsburn, the latter barely escaping with his life.įorsburn escapes to the outskirts of the Fire Empire where he wandered for many months, until one night, he's awoken by sentries of the Smoke Clan, who seize Forsburn and take him to their settlement. Now suspected of murdering his father, Forsburn flees and hides in the aqueducts underneath the Fire Capital he hopes to warn his brother, Zetterburn, of the Fire Council's corruption and ploys. After returning from a diplomatic mission his suspicions were confirmed, as he found his father dead, slain by the Fire Council with a knife identical to one of Forsburn's own. While Forsburn was loyal, after many years, he began to suspect the Fire Council, believing them to be corrupted. The illegitimate son of Emperor Renburn, Forsburn was a dedicated diplomat and spy of the Firelands, one who could be relied to make treaties and quietly take care of threats. He plots to reclaim the Fire Capital from the Fire Council and their unsuspecting pawn, Zetterburn.' Forsburn joined the smoke tribe, soon becoming their leader. These outsiders of the kingdom had rejected flame and mastered the way of smoke, a philosophy of truthful deception. Left wounded and nationless, he wandered for months before meeting a groups of rebels on the outskirts of the Firelands. Assumed to be the assassin, Forsburn was condemned by his brother and barely escaped the Capital with his life. Before Forsburn could expose the conspiracy, his father was discovered slain with Forsburn's own dagger protruding from his heart. However, after years of unquestioning service, Forsburn began to smell corruption simmering beneath the surface of the Fire Council. Forsburn was the right hand of the Fire King, and he could be relied upon both to broker treaties and to quietly take care of threats to the kingdom. While his brother Zetterburn served the kingdom through leadership on the battlefield, Forsburn was the Firelands' chief diplomat. 'Forsburn is the disgraced, eldest son of the Firelands' ruling family.

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