Erda: Origins
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Set in a mystical world known as Erda, the story follows the journey of Vallen, a crude mercenary fighting for gold and his fellow comrades. He has spent his life fighting bandits, thugs and armies troubling the various towns and cities of the kingdom of Alhyciar. The kingdom itself is shaped by two thousand years of peace and conflict.
A mysterious force, an outsider and a threat to the world of Erda, prepares to consume the world in eternal death and darkness, and it strikes Alhyciar first.
Can Vallen and his fellow mercenary comrades overcome this invasion, or will they be consumed by its cold and dark jaws?
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