Deadlands
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A knight falls under a dangerous task that leads him to uncovering a whole new 'world' 'just around the corner'; forcing him on an adventure to not only find his love, but his courage to move on to help those he has found along the way.
Ferrin Anton, from Ferihale, falls unconscious during battle. But when he wakes up he realizes he's alone now.
With the recent loss of his wife in the Lonely Woods, he doubts she is actually gone and leaves his putrid life of a knight and goes into certain death to save her, leaving his children behind.
Things don't go well for him and he's on his last threads. Then from a glow a man in a leathery and clothy crow suit(along with a nice big flat hat) helps him out. After they go through the Bromiel Plains and through a forest to a city named Derraith, complications brew in a pot that dwells in a deeper darker place, ready for any lonesome weak knight to consume...
How will Ferrin pair to his burdens.. and return back home...
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