Since the dawn of memory, humanity has measured its years in Ages—Ages of Glory, Ages of Dreams, and Ages of great and bitter Sorrow. These turning points give shape to history and meaning to the centuries. Yet one Age has long remained only a whispered threat: an age of darkness, decay, and writhing doom.

Witty bards jest about it. Wrathful preachers warn of it. They call it the Age of Worms, a mythic era of destruction said to begin without warning. But astrologers, diviners, and the servants of Fate know better. The wisest among them fear that the Age of Worms has already begun.

The year opens in Diamond Lake, a sullen mining town where desperate folk toil in the lightless depths for scraps while corrupt mine managers grow fat on their misery. Most people in Diamond Lake fall into two groups: those trapped here with nowhere else to go, and those who profit from their suffering.

You and your companions share a simple dream—escape. Escape the debt, the danger, and the grinding hopelessness of this place. All you need is the coin to buy your way out.

And now, perhaps, your chance has come.

A trio of adventurers from the Free City of Tulisarvi has arrived, speaking openly of their plans to explore the long-abandoned Stirgenest Cairn. If seasoned adventurers expect hidden passages and long-lost treasures, then surely there’s room for you to slip in behind them and claim a share for yourselves.

Treasure means coin.
Coin means freedom.
And freedom may be waiting in the dark beneath the cairn…