Mourning Sigil
The Iron Hoard @ Nash Community College (Friday)·Competition group Apex Equity·
All-In · only the number moves
Henry Forrester
RPA
Gold
Season Arc · The Iron Hoard @ Nash Community College (Friday)
3
#18Now
#9Best
#17Started
25Weeks
All-In league: Mourning Sigil stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptGrief Fueled And Hunting
TroubleSorrow Is A Currency
Tears Pool And Evaporate
Loss Fuels The Climb
Rivals Underestimate Sorrow
The first bearer was a raider named Vela whose entire party was consumed by the dragon in a single catastrophic raid. In her grief, she carved her sorrow into her very soul, creating a sigil that absorbs loss and transforms it into competitive fire. The Mourning Sigil was born from the moment she chose to return to the vault not for treasure, but for vengeance.
A circular disc of dark iron, roughly the size of a disc golf marker, with a stylized weeping eye engraved on its surface. The eye appears to cry actual tears that never fall, pooling in the engraved channels before evaporating. The sigil is cold to the touch and absorbs emotional pain from its bearer, redirecting that sorrow into focused competitive drive. When the bearer approaches the vault's entrance, the sigil glows with a faint, mournful light.
The Mourning Sigil marks those who have faced the Iron Hoard's true cost and chosen to continue. Bearers compete with the weight of loss fueling their determination, representing the transformation from victim to survivor to predator. In the arena, they embody the choice to Claim the Hoard rather than feed the Wyrm.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyHenry Forrester walked into The Iron Hoard carrying the Mourning Sigil—a 971-rated pro facing a 880 round that screamed -91 below his ceiling. That's not a performance; that's a structural collapse. Yet somehow, in this corporate dystopia of dragons and quarterly cullings, the cold iron found new hands anyway. The Sigil climbs from #17 to #9, eight positions of upward mobility earned on a scorecard that reads like a corporate severance notice. The irony writes itself: a tag born from Vela's vengeance, carried into a league where vengeance is just another line item in the budget. Forrester shot 59 against a 53.6 field average—five strokes soft—and still claimed territory. Survival of the fittest, or at least the ones who can read the wind. The next raid awaits.
The Mourning Sigil initiates a side quest protocol. Henry Forrester carries the cold iron to The Iron Hoard @ Nash Community College this Friday. A local league spinoff where the weeping eye seeks fresh sorrow to burn into competitive fire. Same saga, smaller stakes. Roll the teaser.
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