Enter Dreadwatch | Free Lore Primer
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Lore-Hounds rejoice! With the launch of the Dreadwatch campaign drawing closer, today we’re buzzing to share a deeper look at the lore & setting behind our upcoming modular terrain campaign.
The Dreadwatch Setting Primer is a completely free, 24-page introduction to the Prison City - its history, its inhabitants and the many horrors lurking within its walls.
The Prison City
Dreadwatch was once one of the great works of the Azerai Empire: an immense prison-fortress built to contain those the Church deemed too dangerous, troublesome or valuable to release.
Behind its walls stood entire districts of workshops, foundries, chapels and cell blocks. Thousands lived and laboured within its confines, and generations were born into captivity without ever seeing the world beyond its walls.
Then, without warning, Dreadwatch fell.
Whatever happened has long since been erased from Imperial history. Revolt, plague, forbidden rites and the escape of something terrible from the Lower Vaults are all whispered as explanations. None have ever been proven.
The Prison Still Holds
Centuries later, the ruins endure.
The Penitent Crusade once again flies its banners above a reclaimed bastion. Tormentor Cults make dread pilgrimages to places marked by centuries of suffering. Anatomists pursue their grisly work beneath abandoned infirmaries, while brigands, scavengers and treasure hunters fight over whatever corners of the prison they can hold. Beyond them lie territories claimed by beasts, monstrosities and stranger things still.
No single power rules Dreadwatch, it is law unto itself. Its territories constantly shift, familiar paths become deathtraps and even a successful expedition may discover that the way home has closed behind them.
Though the prison fell centuries ago, it remains remarkably adept at keeping people inside.
Explore Dreadwatch
Inside the free Setting Primer, you’ll discover more about the history and fall of Dreadwatch, explore its ruined districts and meet some of the factions, characters and creatures fighting for survival within the Sundered Stockade. This is just the beginning.
Our upcoming Dreadwatch Terrain Campaign will bring the Prison City to the tabletop with an enormous collection of modular, FDM-optimised ruins built around our new modular Terrain system, which we’re dubbing Keystone.
If you haven't already, sign up to the prelaunch page to make sure you're there when the gates open.
SIGN UP FOR PRELAUNCH NOTIFICATIONS
(and grab that free sample STL to check out Keystone for yourself!)
And if you want to delve into Dreadwatch right now:
DOWNLOAD THE FREE SETTING PRIMER
See you within the walls,
The Bestiarum Crew