The Heroes Awaken
Six strangers awaken before a monument to forgotten heroes. With no memories and no past, they must confront the dead, break the chains of slavery, and face a power ancient and cold. Their journey begins here.
The Monument
at the Summit
Six strangers awaken before an ancient monument high above a world they cannot remember.
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The Dead
Below
Undead rise from the mountain cave as the first fragments of their forgotten past begin to surface.
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The Chains Beneath
the Mountain
The heroes discover Wallowdale and the cruel truth behind Gorvath's mines.
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The Breaking
of the Mines
The prisoners rise. The mines are freed. But something far more powerful has noticed their arrival.
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The Queen
of Winter
The liberation of Wallowdale has drawn the attention of powers far greater than Gorvath. An unnatural winter descends upon the valley, driving the returned heroes beneath the mountain toward Grom's bargain, the Labyrinth of Wicked Souls, the Shard of Everlasting Life, and a battle between fire and winter.
Wallowdale
The heroes return to Wallowdale as unnatural winter descends and the Queen of Winter makes her presence known.
Read Chapter → Chapter 6The Kingdom Beneath the Ice
Driven beneath the mountain, the heroes enter a frozen kingdom filled with ancient roads, enslaved beasts, and old enemies.
Read Chapter → Chapter 7The Labyrinth of Wicked Souls
Grom demands the impossible: enter the Labyrinth of Wicked Souls and recover the Shard of Everlasting Life.
Read Chapter → Chapter 8The Heart of the Labyrinth
Deeper inside the shifting labyrinth, the heroes fight toward the chamber containing the shard.
Read Chapter → Chapter 9The Herald of Fire
The guardian of the shard reveals its true danger and forces the heroes to reconsider Grom's bargain.
Read Chapter → Chapter 10Fire Against Winter
The frozen court erupts into war as Grom, Lady Frost, Dark Voice, the Herald, and the returned heroes collide.
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The Broken
City
Beyond the frozen kingdom, the heroes enter a ruined city where the dead refuse to remain still. Beneath shattered streets and forgotten temples wait burrowing horrors, walking corpses, a strangely untouched house, and a hidden book that places Craven at the center of the next great mystery.
The Maw of the Dead
The ruined city awakens as the heroes confront a corpse-behemoth and the horrors of its unnatural dead.
Read Chapter → Chapter 12The Worms Beneath the Butte
Burrowing monsters erupt beneath the ruins as the heroes race to rescue the surviving temple guards.
Read Chapter → Chapter 13The Bodies That Walked Empty
More of the city's unnatural dead emerge as the heroes push deeper into the abandoned ruins.
Read Chapter → Chapter 14The Salt Devils
A mysterious mound of salt leads to a vicious battle with salt devils and a valuable hidden cache.
Read Chapter → Chapter 15The House That Waited
Amid the devastation stands one strangely intact magical house—and the defenses still guarding it.
Read Chapter → Chapter 16The Book of Craven
A hidden book is finally translated, revealing Craven as the next major thread in the heroes' journey.
Read Chapter → Chapter 17Closing the Portal
A deadly butterfly swarm, Grazim's Toll the Dead, Fang's death and revival, and the final collapse of the portal.
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The Vault
of Craven
The trail left by the Book of Craven leads beneath the ruined city and into a vault built to conceal centuries of secrets. What begins as an expedition into the stronghold of a dead wizard becomes something far more dangerous when the heroes are cast backward into their own forgotten age and discover that Craven is still alive.
The Vault of Craven
The heroes push deeper into the ruined city, destroy the crystal corruption, and finally enter Craven's hidden vault.
Read Chapter → Chapter 19Doors of the Dead Wizard
A deadly false feast, clockwork hounds, and an unnatural incubator lead the heroes toward Craven's inner chambers.
Read Chapter → Chapter 20The Madness of Craven
Craven's laboratory reveals preserved horrors before the dead rise from a chamber filled with bones.
Read Chapter → Chapter 21The Battle for the Vault
The undead battle reaches its climax as the Shard turns on the party, Leonidas makes a terrible wish, and time itself breaks.
Read Chapter → Chapter 22When Craven Lived
Thrown into the past, the heroes rescue Isamu, revive one of Craven's victims, and discover the wizard is still alive.
Read Chapter → Chapter 23Escape from the Vault
Craven's defenses awaken, the Vault floods, and the heroes escape into the living city of their forgotten past.
Read Chapter → Chapter 24The Face of Craven
Kaylor returns to the Sanctum of Serenity and discovers that its trusted leader, Ishgar, is the man they know as Craven.
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