History TabletopGame / Felwinter

* {{Archer Archetype}}: Tamlyn, more or less.

* {{Animalistic Abomination}}: Much of the wildlife encountered throughout Felwinter is a twisted, malevolent version of an otherwise harmless creature, and many abominations encountered take the recognizable form of an animal.
** [[spoiler: The Speaker of the Hunt is a crowning example of this, with the entity's evil so ancient and primordial that it assumes the form of a hideously malformed crow.]]

* {{Back from the Dead}}: [[spoiler: Alistair is resurrected by a friendly barbarian tribe after a lethal encounter with a frost giant.]]

* {{Big Bad}}: The Speaker of the Hunt, to a point.
** [[spoiler: Though the true antagonist turns out to be a physical incarnation of the Felwinter itself, represented as three demons who stand as a manifestation of hunger, hatred, and frost respectively.]]

* {{Boisterous Bruiser}}: Rolf is remarkably jovial when not in the midst of chopping enemies to bits.

* {{Fantastic Racism}}: Vadric gets no end of grief for being a dwarf.
** Played straightforward and in a pretty horrific way for [[spoiler:the frost gnomes, who were the targets of pogroms and enslavement by human predecessors.]]

* {{Good Is Not Nice}}: Gabriel is quite abrasive despite a notably virtuous and... rigid moral code.

A custom campaign setting for {{Dungeons and Dragons}}, Felwinter opens with the heroes finding themselves stranded in the {{Grim Up North}}. What appears to be an inexplicably {{Crapsack World}} slowly reveals itself to be overrun with an {{Ancient Evil}} that was a result of {{Abusive Precursors}} seriously offending the {{Powers That Be}}. It falls upon the adventurers to find a way to lift the curse before an apocalyptic weather event known as the Felwinter brings about {{The End of the World as We Know It}}.

* {{Boisterous Bruiser}}: Rolf, who is remarkably jovial when not in the midst of chopping enemies to bits.

* {{Apocalypse Cult}}: The party eventually encounters one of these under the sway of a lich-cleric who believes he has found a way of expediting the Felwinter.

* {{Gentle Giant}}: Gabriel is 6'5 and unsparing in his pursuit of justice, though also shows himself to be quite doting with children.

* {{You Need to Get Laid}}: Gabriel, who is more or less a walking metaphor for repressed sexual frustration.

* {{Forest Ranger}}: Tamlyn is an experienced woodsman and tracker who is so bonded to the land that he cannot sleep unless nestled within a tree.

* {{Horror Hunger}}: [[spoiler: The adventurers are ambushed by a hunting party that intended to make them dinner, so to speak. It is later revealed that the attackers belonged to a degenerate tribe of pale-skinned humanoids that the Speaker of the Hunt compelled to cannibalism.]]

* {{Black Sheep}}: Vadric is considered the designated screwup of the Battlesunder Clan [[spoiler: though he eventually dies a revered hero.]]

* {{Creepy Crows}}: The Speaker of the Hunt is malevolent, strange, and highly intelligent all at once.
* {{Died Happily Ever After}}: [[spoiler: Both Vadric and Rolf ascend to the heaven after death, honored by the celestials for sacrificing their lives while fighting the Manifestation of Felwinter.]]
* {{Drunken Master}}: Vadric is an oddly competent fighter for being near-constantly intoxicated.

* {{Fantastic Racism}}: Vadric gets no end of grief for being a dwarf

** Played straightforward and in a pretty horrific way for [[spoiler:the frost gnomes, who were the targets of pogroms and enslavement by human predecessors.]]

* {{Blood Knight}}: Rolf is a classic example of this - an oddly cheerful [[{{The Berserker}} berserker]] who takes a simultaneously deranged and childlike joy in brutal combat.
* {{Blue and Orange Morality}}: The Speaker of the Hunt is either a vicar of extreme evil, or obeys some primordial logic so alien as to be effectively inscrutable.

** Samson is also a rather cuddly sort when he's not ripping the faces off assorted evil.

* {{Apocalypse Cult}}: The party eventually encounters one of these under the sway of a lich-cleric who believes he's found a way of expediting the Felwinter.

* {{Advanced Ancient Acropolis}}: [[spoiler: The gnomish ruins, which have fell long ago into abandonment and overtaken by various eldritch creatures drawn from a portal in the heart of the ancient city.]]

* {{Finagles Law}}: The campaign setting is rife with atrocities, and events often culminating in something horrifying/unsettling.

* {{Finagle's Law}}: The campaign setting is rife with atrocities, with events events often culminating in something horrifying/unsettling.

* {{Big Bad}}: The Speaker of the Hunt, to a point

* {{Horror Hunger}}: [[spoiler: The party is ambushed by a hunting party that intends to make them dinner, so to speak. It is later revealed that the attackers belonged to a degenerate tribe of pale-skinned humanoids that the Speaker of the Hunt compels to cannibalism.]]