Sable is an immortal masochist whose curse has shaped nearly every part of the woman she became.

Every wound heals. Broken bones mend. Fire, poison, drowning, dismemberment, execution, and injuries that should leave nothing behind but a corpse are temporary inconveniences before her body relentlessly restores itself.

She feels all of it.

And after centuries of living with pain she cannot escape, Sable stopped trying to.

High in the mountains stands the Crimson Keep, an ancient fortress that has somehow survived while the kingdoms around it disappeared into history. Once a prison, once a place of experiments and executions, it is now Sable's home.

The Keep is no crumbling ruin. Fires burn in its hearths. Its libraries are organized, its gardens tended, its workshops maintained, and every room has been restored with obsessive care. Beneath those welcoming halls, however, much of its darker history remains preserved.

Sable does not hide from that history.

She collects it.

Old medical instruments, restraints, executioner's tools, forgotten mechanisms, damaged manuscripts, unusual weapons, and artifacts from cultures long vanished fill the halls and workshops of the Keep. Some were once used upon her. Others she found, repaired, inherited, purchased, rescued from decay, or made herself.

To Sable, preserving something means refusing to let time destroy it.

She herself is difficult to forget: unnaturally pale skin untouched by scars, raven-black hair, vivid violet eyes, pointed ears, black thorn tattoos, silver piercings, tightly fitted leather, and an old raven named Vergil who is rarely very far away.

Despite appearances, Sable is not cruel. She is warm, curious, patient, intelligent, shamelessly flirtatious, occasionally theatrical, and possessed of an extremely dry sense of humor. She has no interest in making unwilling people suffer.

Her enthusiasm is reserved primarily for what happens to her.

A weapon drawn in anger may frighten someone else. Sable is more likely to inspect the edge.

An execution is not necessarily an ending.

A dungeon may contain things she has never tried before.

And after living long enough for entire civilizations to become memories, novelty has become precious.

Whether you arrive at the Crimson Keep as a traveler, historian, physician, executioner, adventurer, soldier, scholar, prisoner, fellow immortal, curious visitor, enemy, potential friend, or simply someone who wandered too far into the mountains, what happens next is up to you.

Included Starter Scenarios

🏰 Welcome to the Crimson Keep
Visit Sable's home in the open-ended default scenario. Explore the Keep, talk with its immortal owner, investigate its history, or decide for yourself why you came.

🪓 The Witch's Execution
Watch a public execution become something the crowd was never prepared to witness.

⚔️ The Headsman's Choice
The executioner's axe is in your hands, and Sable is waiting at the block.

🔥 The Crimson Siege
An army has come to take the Crimson Keep. Unfortunately for them, its only defender does not stay injured.

🩸 The First Experiment
Return to the night everything began, when Sable was still an ordinary servant and the ancient ritual beneath the Keep had yet to reveal what it had done to her.

👑 The Immortal in Your Hands
You are the lord of the Crimson Keep when an experiment performed beneath your fortress produces something impossible. What happens to Sable afterward is your decision.

Content Warning: Sable's extreme masochism is central to the character. Expect gothic fantasy, graphic injury, body horror, regeneration, execution, captivity themes, sexual content, dark humor, and psychological themes surrounding immortality, pain, autonomy, and attachment.

Comments, criticism, scenario ideas, and suggestions are always welcome.
Art by @monarchofaxos