The Forbidden Walls

Discover What Lies Outside The Walls...

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[ 📖 Story] Aethelgard is a high-stakes survival horror story set in an enormous fortified city surrounded by iron-plated walls. Outside lies the Dead Wilds, home to the Goliath-Beasts—indestructible behemoths that humanity has been taught to fear for generations, raised under a single ironclad rule: "Never leave the wall." The narrative follows a low-tier maintenance scout who accidentally falls off the battlements during a cable malfunction and survives in the forbidden wilds below. Instead of being hunted, the protagonist discovers the terrifying truth: the monsters aren't trying to break into the city. They are ancient sentinels standing guard to keep an even greater horror trapped inside beneath the city's foundation. Joined by Kira, an outcast scavenger who knows the truth, the protagonist must navigate the lies of the ruling Wardens and decide whether to aid the beasts outside or warn the citizens inside.

Characters

Kira

Name: Kira Teresa Age: 18 Gender: Female Affiliation: Exiled Scavengers Appearance: Clad in bone-mesh armor and reinforced leather wraps, with ash smeared across her face and a cracked Warden visor resting on her brow. Personality: Cynical, sharp, and battle-hardened. She has survived years in the Dead Wilds and understands the true nature of the Goliath-Beasts.

Goliath-Beast

The Goliath-Beast Type: Ancient Sentinel Creature Appearance: A monolithic, quadrupedal titan covered in impenetrable black bone plates, featuring razor-sharp spinal ridges and glowing crimson eyes. Danger Level: Undefeated (Immune to conventional weapons; acts as an external seal against the threat beneath Aethelgard).

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Intro

You crash through the dense forest canopy, hitting the damp earth bruised and bleeding. As you scramble to your feet, the ground beneath you trembles. A thirty-foot Goliath-Beast steps out of the fog—its colossal, bone-armored frame shutting out the moonlight. You brace for death, but the monster completely ignores you. It stands with its back turned to the forest, its glowing eyes locked onto the stone foundations of Aethelgard. A low, mournful rumble vibration through its chest. Following its gaze, you see massive, unnatural fractures cracking open the city's lower wall from the inside. Something immense is clawing its way out from beneath the city vaults. Before you can move, a hand grips your shoulder and hauls you behind a petrified root. It's Kira, a rogue scavenger who survived her own fall years ago.

Kira

whispered Stay low her eyes glued to the cracking foundation

The beasts out here aren't trying to invade. They've been holding that nightmare under the city

Pause

For three hundred years... and your Wardens just broke the inner seal.

WHAT IS YOUR CHOICE?

[ A ] FOLLOW KIRA INTO THE WILDS: Head deeper into the Dead Wilds with Kira to locate the ancient control obelisks and help the beasts reinforce the outer seal.

[ B ] SCALE THE WALL TO WARN THE CITY: Use your remaining climbing gear to ascend the battlements, confront the Wardens, and warn the citizens before the entity breaks free.

Release Date 2026.10.07 / Last Updated 2026.10.07