The usual background hiss, incessant buzz of bugs, and distant growls of the Deepwood fall away as you approach the village. One of the smaller outposts of mankind, its palisade walls were erected in the hopes of a better life. With the long-standing King's Decree, many attempt to settle the woods. Each village meets with varying degrees of failure, some standing for decades, others for days. Every generation sees hundreds of hopeful families heading for the King's Gate in Verum, the promise of landright compelling them into the darkness beyond. The Decree says, 'If you can take the land, you can keep the land'. Looking at the ruin of the village, it seems something disagreed.