The Followers of the Falling Fire

"The Flame refines us."

The Followers of the Falling Fire are a strange religious movement drawn to the ruins of Drakkenheim.

Their members travel as pilgrims, often wearing simple ash-stained robes and iron pendants shaped like a falling star engulfed in flame. They move steadily toward the ruined city, seemingly unconcerned with the dangers that await them there.

The party first encountered these pilgrims in the Outer City, where a small group was being harassed by members of the Queen's Men. The pilgrims spoke reverently of a mysterious faith centered around the meteor that destroyed Drakkenheim.

What Is Known

• Their followers call themselves pilgrims.
• They travel into the ruins willingly.
• They appear to treat delerium as something sacred.
• They wear symbols depicting a falling star surrounded by flame.
• They speak of purification through something they simply call "The Flame."

Despite the horrors of Drakkenheim, they do not seem afraid.

Some even appear eager to enter the city.

Reputation

Among the people of Emberwood Village, opinions about the pilgrims vary widely.

Some see them as:

• Fanatics
• Doom-seekers
• Madmen drawn to the crater

Others believe they may possess insight into the strange forces that now permeate the city.

What is certain is that they walk into the ruins with a calm conviction that unsettles even hardened adventurers.

Whatever unease the party carried into their first meeting, it didn't survive a visit to Hendrix Farm. The Falling Fire's face in Emberwood is warm, unhurried, and genuinely difficult to dislike — which may be exactly what makes them effective.

Methods

• Pilgrimage into the ruins of Drakkenheim
• Quiet preaching of their beliefs
• Reverence toward delerium crystals
• Traveling in small devotional groups

They rarely appear aggressive, but their dedication to their faith seems absolute.

Hendrix Farm

Inside Emberwood Village itself, the Falling Fire keeps a staging ground at Hendrix Farm — no pilgrimage required to find them. It's the movement's public face: an open door, no sermon unless one's asked for, and a standing offer to escort future pilgrims out toward Champion's Gate.

Nathaniel Flint is the one who greets visitors there. Carefree, warm, and relentlessly upbeat, he speaks about the Falling Fire less like doctrine and more like testimony — what the faith did for him personally, offered without pressure or a hard sell. He's currently asking after a pilgrim who went missing on the road near the Black Ivory Inn, ash-robed and carrying a small iron sunburst, last seen before the Inn's curse broke.

Leadership

The name Lucretia Mathias was spoken by the pilgrims with great reverence.

Whether she is a prophet, priest, or simply the founder of their movement remains unclear. She has not yet taken personal notice of the party.

The Sacrament

Something the Falling Fire calls the Sacrament grants those who take it — by their own account — immunity to the Haze, and what believers describe as a newfound clarity of purpose. Nathaniel Flint credits it with real, felt changes in himself. What it actually costs, or how it works, has never been explained by anyone the party has spoken to. It may be that the pilgrims themselves don't fully know either.

Their Goal

Unknown.

The pilgrims claim the meteor that destroyed Drakkenheim was not merely a catastrophe.

To them, it was revelation.

First appearance in campaign: Session 03 - Delerium Hunt
Hendrix Farm and Nathaniel Flint introduced: Session 16 - Old Debts, Old Doors