The Hero's Lament

Our hero, Adonis, wakes up in a dimly lit, dripping cave with no recollection of anything from the past. All he knows is that his chainmail and armor are soaked with blood. As he awakens and steps into the light, it's bright and beautiful outside, a mountainside looking over a homely village with great green pastures. Wanting to know how he had gotten there and who he is, he travels down to the village. When people start to spot him they are overcome with joy. They begin cheering and clapping, saluting and waving, congratulating and hugging. Adonis is absolutely lost as to why this heroic treatment. He begins to ask around only to hear one solid answer to sum up, "You defeated them!" He goes from town to town to pick up the pieces as to what he defeated and why. Along the way, a brave adventurer, a little orphaned 8 year old named Louie, asks Adonis to aid him in his search. As the puzzle falls more into place, and as Adonis keeping up with his exuberant sidekick, the war wasn't won, only postponed. Adonis begins to face off with people who claimed he stole everything from, to which Adonis has no recollection. As the battles rage on, and further confuse our main character, the leader of the pack who Adonis believes he defeated, takes away the child only to leave a ransom note behind, claiming that Adonis was not meant to remember, that he will pay. Our story is action packed, comedy filled, dramatic, twisting, and of course, tear-jerking as Adonis is now on a quest to help save the child and reclaim the memories that the unknown group don't want him to have, only to find out that as he was a hero in some eyes, he was in enemy in the right ones. Our hero slowly becomes the villain of the story as the puzzle comes together. Oh, and there's a love-interest, per usual.

This is actually the premise of my DnD campaign and I've had a lot of people compliment me on it saying it's a really neat idea. It probably sounds cooler playing it than explaining it. You're welcome to join if you want, just have a character sheet ready, haha!