About This Adventure

You woke in the Lands Between knowing every road, every merchant price and every death that waits on them, and you skipped the tutorial cave to prove it. Now you stand dry-booted at the First Step with your chosen class, one talisman, three flasks, no runes and one edge that will not stop a knight on a warhorse. The man in the white mask has noticed all of it, and his next question is one you cannot answer honestly.

Opening Scene

The First Step is a Site of Grace on the west coast of Limgrave, at the top of the lift from the Stranded Graveyard. Once a Tarnished touches an outdoor grace, it throws a golden ray, and this one points at Stormveil Castle and Godrick the Grafted. The rule on this coast is older than any castle: runes only become strength when a Finger Maiden turns them, and a Tarnished without a maiden stays whatever level they died at. The Roundtable Hold takes only the invited. Kalé, the merchant at the Church of Elleh up the road, sells a crafting kit for three hundred runes and nothing on credit. You know this beach. You counted on the lift: three measures of crimson, one of cerulean, zero runes, your class kit, one talisman, and the one edge you brought, which does not win a fight on foot. You touched the Stranded Graveyard grace. You saw the Finger Severer on the body by the arch and left it. You stood at the imp seal and knew Erdtree's Favor was behind it, and knew you had no keys. You walk...

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