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By day the English. By night the eaters of the dead.

Ahmed ibn Fahdlan went north as an emissary and came home a warrior. Bound by a seeress's prophecy to a band of thirteen - the thirteenth of whom could not be a Northman - he followed Buliwyf's heroes to a dying king's hall and a war fought against men by day and monsters by night. This is the account he wrote, that no one in Baghdad believed.

The Campaign - six chapters

• The Thirteenth Man - The Volga runs grey past a Norse trading camp. Ahmed's caravan is gone to Tatar arrows, and only the Northmen stand between him and the steppe.
  
• The Longhouse in Darkness - The scratching above the roof beams is not the wind. Bones fall through the thatch into the fire, and the first night becomes the first battle.
  
• Fire Vorm Attack - The burning shapes are not dragons. That is worse. They come down the hillside in a line of fire, and the cattle pens go up.
  
• Trail of Bones - They do not wander. They have a kingdom. Ambush at the stone circle, ambush at the river crossing, all the way to the cave mouth.
  
• The Cave of the Eaters - Deeper. Always deeper. Bone chambers, slave pens and a ritual hall where the drums never stop.
  
• Death of a King - The drums stop. The sun rises. The king does not.

A full Nordic nation

• Hirdmen, berserkers, skalds and shieldmaidens, drafted into any battle in any mode.
  
• Longship crews and Norse siege engines.
  
• The wendol as an enemy faction - men in bear skins and skull masks, and the Mother in her deep temple.
  
• Authored maps for every chapter, from the Volga camp to the bone cave.

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Some of the artwork in this DLC was produced with generative AI image tools and then cropped, composited, retouched and finished by the developer. This includes unit and character portraits, faction crests, campaign banners and key art, and some environment and prop art. Parts of the in-game lore and flavour text were drafted with AI assistance and then edited by the developer. Nothing is generated by AI while you play: all content ships with the DLC as fixed, pre-made assets.