Heavy, cinematic combat
Light and heavy strikes, dodges, lock-on targeting and executions with the Mourning Axe, a massive cursed blade that speaks to you.
The Story
In the Kingdom of Veyrath, weapons are not forged. They grow on the iron-barked trees of the Ironbloom Grove, and the people celebrate every harvest as a blessing. No one asks where the blades come from.
Eryndor Vale has served twelve years as the king's executioner. At the ninth bell of the harvest he raises the Mourning Axe over an orphan accused by the crown, and the axe speaks with the voice of a child. Its name is Lio, and he was planted in the steel when he was ten years old.
Eryndor cuts the chains instead of the child. Hunted by the royal guard, he follows the trail of missing children from the execution yard through the Grove, a cathedral that prepares orphans for “ascension into steel”, mines where the roots are dug like ore and gardens where knights are grown, to the throne of King Odran and the tree at the heart of the crown.
“Are you going to kill the king?”
“No. First, I cut down the forest that made him.”
