Age of Ash and Chitin

The year is 1289 AD. Europe has fallen into darkness. A horrifying new species of massive subterranean insects — led by the titanic, blind, burrowing queens known as the Deep Kings — has erupted from the Harz Mountains of central Germany. Triggered by reckless mining and ancient fault lines, these insects have tunneled beneath the land, collapsing cities and consuming all in their path. From the Alps to the Carpathians, kingdom after kingdom has fallen. Trade has collapsed, cities lie in ruin, and the Church has launched a desperate crusade against the invaders. Survivors huddle in fortified ruins, mountaintop strongholds, and forgotten monasteries. The old order is shattered. The world is no longer ruled by kings or popes — but by chitin and claw. You are one of the few who dare to venture beyond the firelit walls. Whether knight, peasant, scholar, or heretic, your path winds through a dying world... where the earth itself hungers.