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  • 5/15/2025
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00:00Aeron and Adso have set out on a quest as bold as it is doomed.
00:13On their journey, they'll cross the scorched remains of Bessicar Hamlet.
00:21Its streets are stocked by the Queen's hunters and cursed souls,
00:27doomed to roam and spread only death in their wing.
00:32But something worse nimmers here.
00:36An ancient hunger, thirsting for blood.
00:45To face the Crimson Fort is madness,
00:49but it blocks the only path to Duria,
00:52the ancient city where fate pulls Aeron and Adso closer to the palace.
00:59Cursed long ago, its inhabitants endure a living death.
01:04Their bodies decayed, their minds broken.
01:10There's nothing left in them but pain and violence.
01:16And yet, deep within the ruins, someone may still live.
01:26Someone who hasn't given up.
01:29The Doyen graves rise untouched by time.
01:38Solemn monuments carved by the first hands of humankind.
01:48For centuries, their towering tombs have held the silence of the dead.
01:54But now, that silence is broken.
02:01A necromancer's call has roused the graves.
02:05The dead walk once more.
02:10They hunt one who has also awakened,
02:13and runs from eyes no longer blind.
02:17Forged in blood and sand,
02:21the citadel of Varasmunda still stands,
02:25a war-scarred monument to a forgotten age.
02:30Here, the ancient forgers once defeated the tyrant Thalmudak
02:35and his monstrous Athanatoi,
02:38ending an era of darkness beneath storm-split skies.
02:42They buried their enemies beneath the citadel.
02:46A warning, a boast.
02:49But they didn't bury them deep enough.
02:53Now, Queen Nerea has stirred the sands and called the Athanatoi back to life,
02:59and they will be her sword against Arran.
03:03On the icy shores of an ancient fjord,
03:10carved by the tides of the Forger's Sea,
03:13stands Winter's Wall.
03:15A fortress of frost and stone,
03:18silent beneath a sky of falling snow.
03:22Once it welcomed travelers on the path to the royal palace.
03:26Now it stands cold and abandoned.
03:31Long ago, royal caravans passed this way,
03:36through the dryad forest and up the cliffs where the palace rests.
03:41Here, Arran was born and knew warmth, love, and princess Nerea.
03:49And here, under a sky heavy with sorrow,
03:54his world shattered.
04:00This is where his exile began.