THE NEW BEGINNING

After the secrets of the Path, the heroes find a rare stretch of calm—but experience has taught them not to trust peaceful water for long.

At the Great Lake, a woman who looks alive draws the heroes toward corruption, old markers and an island hiding something that has not yet fully answered.

The heroes cross the Great Lake toward the marked island and discover that the danger beneath the clear water is far larger than anyone warned them.

The heroes reach Aalune, where people have already begun disappearing and the first scream proves the settlement's night is only beginning.

Aalune comes under relentless attack as the heroes race from one crisis to the next and discover that something beyond the world keeps sending monsters through.

The heroes fight to silence the gate inside a ruined house and give Aalune something it has not had all night: a moment to breathe.

Aalune's next scream leads the heroes into supernatural darkness, where poisoned hunters turn a rescue into a fight they cannot see.

The center of Aalune erupts again as a shapeless horror swallows the village elder and turns the heroes' own strengths against them.

The ground beneath Aalune rises into a colossal living form made from the village itself, forcing the heroes to fight a monster measured in streets.

Aalune survives, but strange pilgrims moving toward an abandoned mountain settlement pull the heroes toward the next mystery.

A runic sword forces an impossible name through Fendor's mouth, summoning a many-bladed demon and revealing that the weapon is far from ordinary.

The heroes test Kaylor's mysterious blade again and learn that the names hidden in its steel can call more than one horror into the world.

A hidden passage beneath the farmhouse leads to ancient tunnels, enormous worms and a deeper mystery tied to places beyond their world.

A star-speckled cavern turns hostile as hidden eye-creatures and a beholder attack, leading the heroes to a sealed chamber and a long-buried journal.

The buried journal reveals the dead farmer's ancient duty, powerful relics and a warning that becomes urgent when the Gathering begins.

Celestial defenders and layered magical barriers protect the Gathering as the heroes force their way through the fortress toward the glowing temple.

Hexen's dragon forms and a brutal fight with celestial defenders carry the heroes to the sanctuary's final barrier and an impossible moral choice.

Inside the chanting sanctuary, the heroes uncover an ancient mosaic revealing the shattered weapon needed against the Naked Goddess and the road to the Void.