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A far-off time in
Antiquity. The Hoplite - Death - awakes from his long sleep, as a great
battle is being prepared, a terrible and intense battle in which the
greatest Heroes will participate, a battle so momentous as to be watched
the Gods, a battle for which the presence of Death himself is required.
On the steppes of the Great
Dry, Jarl, son of Arkhaï the Burned, the Nomad Clans' Khan of Khans must
take the place of his father as ruler of the Bitter Empire, reunite the
Clans and form the Horde of Hordes, a role for which he has not been
prepared. Opposed by the Khans, who refuse to recognise the authority of
this “no name” from the Grand Cities, and despite his personal aversion
to war, the young Jarl manages to establish himself as leader and stop
the Clans from destroying themselves in a hopeless vendetta against the
Empire.
Supported by two
legendary figures that the poets call the Solitary King and the Virgin
Queen, he is reluctantly drawn towards a sombre and violent destiny, a
road paved with rage and blood, along which myths are reality.
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