The people and land of Painyme roil in fear and resentment as the Last Day draws near. Already, the first and youngest of the lascivious and unruly Lamentides, Pestilence, has escaped his imprisonment at the hands of his parents Life and Death’ leaving many of his siblings to only reach out to the real world when he can instead touch it and breath pox and disease upon the land and the living. Already Death has closed the First Gate to Heall and turned the dead away, leaving the unquiet dead to wander forcing the Gravediggers’ Guild to not just inter the dead in the ground, but also to prevent them from rising again. As the peasantry wail and a crusade has been declared by the Templars upon the Traitor Gods, those that killed Immortal, their father and grandfather and revelled in his death, and their worshippers, the Gravediggers’ Guild has turned to those heretics who have abjured their dissenting faith and are willing to serve instead of being thrown on the pyre. Already, the Templars’ crusade has killed its first god, but not Pestilence. Pestilence still stalks the land and worse, may be responsible for one of the greatest losses that the Ecclesiarch, His Excellency Boniface Pontfex IV, has faced to date. The border kingdom, Lethe, vanished fifty years ago in yet to be explained circumstances, consumed by the Weald surrounding the Petty Baronies before the great city of Assartum. Yet whilst Lethe is thought long lost, there is a chance that it can be saved and restored to the kingdom in a great defeat to Pestilence. Can the Heretics seeking absolution in the Gravediggers’ Guild find its first Guildhouse and from there search Lethe far and wide and below for the clues as to what caused its disappearance and it to be bound to Pestilence, and also find the means to undo his unholy work?
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