In the early days of your adventuring career, you swore an oath of loyalty to a patron. It was only much later you discovered you served a monster. When you were ordered to slaughter a political rival’s children, you refused. Despite your good intentions, you broke your solemn vow to serve, condemning your soul to the Nine Hells on a technicality when the patron’s hired assassins killed you.
Punishment. Every night, you're
haunted by a recurring nightmare in which you're
trapped in a room with strange, feral children.
They cry and beg for mercy, even as they attack
you over and over.