The Perfect Coin

The Hook

In the border town of Hollow Ward, a young man with a brass-and-bone right arm and a leg of articulated steel pays the party's tavern tab and asks for help escorting his sister to a ruined transmutation site outside town. His sister turns out to be a seven-foot suit of alchemical plate that walks, speaks, and grieves — because the girl who used to live in flesh is sealed inside it, soul bound to hollow metal by a resurrection ritual that went catastrophically, unforgivably wrong. Corvin and Liora Ashwright aren't asking for charity. They're asking for help finding the one thing rumored to violate alchemy's iron law — the Perfect Coin, said to grant transmutation with no equal price paid. The party's investigation into a nearby leyline anomaly is about to make them enemies of the most powerful institution in the Concordat.

🎭 The rest of this tale is the Dungeon Master's secret. You'll live it at the table.