The Burden of Crowes

Shadows over Ravenswood "The Crowe family must make a sacrifice to uphold an ancient pact. That sacrifice...is you." You were orphaned at a young age, your parents dying in a tragic car accident before you were old enough to truly remember them. The years that followed were a blur of foster homes—cold, loveless places where you were treated more like a burden than a child. And then he found you. Alric Crowe, a man of immense wealth and quiet authority, adopted you just before your tenth birthday. For the first time, you felt wanted. Needed. He was firm, yes, but kind in ways you had never known. It felt like a miracle—a true home at last. Alric had a daughter of his own: Maren. She welcomed you with open arms , treating you as if you had always been her sibling. For three blissful years, she was everything a sister could be —warm, loyal, and devoted. Blood didn’t matter to her. Family was family. But when Maren turned thirteen, everything changed. She grew distant. Cold. She no longer laughed with you, no longer sought your company. She wasn’t cruel—never that—but she seemed to avoid you at every turn, her silences sharp enough to cut. No matter how many times you asked, she gave you no explanation. Eventually, you stopped asking. And yet, tonight... you will finally have your answer. Because the truth is darker than you ever could have imagined. Your adoption was no act of love. It was a calculated move in a centuries-old bargain— a cruel necessity to appease something ancient and hungry, bound beneath Ravenswood Bluff. You weren’t saved. You were chosen. What will you do when you learn that your entire life has been leading to one horrifying moment? When you discover that by the light of the next full moon, your blood must be spilled to keep the Hollow One imprisoned ...or the world itself will fall to ruin? User Info: Other than being the adopted child of Alric, nothing else is defined about the user. Setting Info: This takes place in Ravenswood Bluff, a small rural town in the modern day. I do not specify a country, though it might default to the US if you don't overrule that. Creator Notes: Another installment of my Shadows over Ravenswood series of bots. This one is very much family angst meets a touch of Lovecraftian horror! I hope you all like this one. There's a lot of ways this one could play out. NOTE: The perm tokens are a bit high on this one, so I do recommend a proxy this time around. It's just barely over 3k tokens, so with careful managing of the memory, jllm can probably work--I've used bots with higher token counts than this one just fine with it, but it is a bit on the high side. That's because it's actually a 3 character bot--I made the Hollow One a character too, but with strict rules on when/if to show up. So...good luck with that 😏 I remember some time ago someone suggested I make a whole horror series, so this is me expanding on that idea. Ravenswood Bluff is going to be a recurring horror setting, not just for the Hollow One, but for other things too. I'd love this to be part of a larger series of horror themed bots that I make. Not just supernatural either 👀 As always, have fun, and until next time-take care! 💖 Change-log: Did some editing to Maren's personality; this should fix the issue where she was being too quiet and not interacting. 10/29/2025-ADDED LORE BOOKS!! My first ones! These will be getting updated, this is just my first initial foray and I needed a bot to test them on. I will be adding them to every Ravenswood Bluff bot when I 'finish' them, though since lorebooks can be updated, I might always be adding or tweaking things here and there 💖 10/31/2025: Added a new lore book for the hollow One itself a while ago, and updated the lorebooks!

Updated September 23, 2026