Welcome to Frothgard and its annual festival, Foam and Fury. This week-long celebration honors the yearly batch of beer from the two local breweries, The Golden Stag and The Black Boar. Many visit the village for excellent food and drink. At week’s end, everyone votes for the best brewery. To bear the title of Grand Brewer. However, this year will be different.

The Forest of Perpetual Sorrow is ancient—older than memory, older perhaps than grief itself. A battle once stained this land with blood. The mourners came, their tears watered the roots, and the forest grew around their pain. Now, it is a living monument to loss. Every branch drips sorrow. The mist is thick with memory. And the forest is divided—not by path or terrain, but by grief itself, manifesting in five regions reflecting the five stages of mourning: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance.