Welcome to the Forest

In 57YE, a group of Highborn set out from the forests of Reikos, further into the Great Forest and the Barrens, to investigate its secrets and bring the light of Virtue to its darkness. The Lost Company, as they came to be called, were never seen again.
After the Imperial conquest of the Barrens in 385YE, the Empire receives a message from the small settlement of Ebon’s Rest, who claim to be descended from some of the Lost Company. Deep within the Forest, they have invited the Imperials to visit their settlement in the hope they can be reunited with their Highborn siblings.
Exactly how this group have survived both the Forest’s Curse of Weakness and the Druji, and not fallen victim to either, is not immediately clear, but a group of heroes set forth into the forest hoping to find out.