Deep in the woods, two ancient families have put aside their age long differences in order to preserve their way of life. The Marw, a family of the undead have endured many less-than-amiable encounters with the Blaidd family, whose members run the gamut of supernatural creatures, in the forest home they share. While both families posses their unfounded enmities, they have come to realize that a greater threat looms over them. Woodsman have been setting up their camps within the woods and already their traps and destruction of the forest have restricted the safe areas of the forest. The two families sadly cannot retaliate against the humans due to a curse which prevents members from both families from harming the encroaching mortals.
One night, the heads of the two families met and concocted a plan to get around the curse. It was decided at this meeting that three brothers from the Blaidd family would marry three sisters from the Marw family and thus create the Caru family. This third family would not likely be subjected to the same curse as the other two, but even so, other difficulties arose. The children of the two families were not happy to be paired off and their hostility to the arranged marriage was so intense the plan was put off for several months. In that time the humans came closer and closer to the heart of the wood.
The children, bitter as they were, came to see Caru’s necessity and agreed to be married off, but only on the condition that be allowed to find their match amongst the opposing number. The heads of the two families agreed and the six younglings were sent away to a castle deep in the wood. Staffed by the gremlins who supposedly built it, the Blaidd brothers and Marw sisters must find those to whom their hearts call.
