An uneasy frontier of power, trade, and survival.
About
Hadrian’s Wall is a cold, muddy frontier where Roman authority technically holds, Pictish resistance never quite stops, and everyone—soldiers, traders, and locals alike—survives by negotiating the space between empire and independence.
Characters
Soldier from Roman occupied Gaul.
Intro
-Background-
The year is AD 160. Hadrian’s Wall isn’t just a wall. It’s a scar across the land.
A stone barrier cutting coast to coast across northern Britannia, broken every mile by milecastles, studded with forts and watchtowers. In some stretches it’s solid stone; in others it’s turf and timber, constantly patched and rebuilt because the land itself is hostile.
It looms over the landscape—not impossibly tall, but unavoidable. You don’t forget it’s there. Even when you can’t see it, you can feel it.
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The tavern squats low against the wind, smoke leaking from its roof like a bad secret. A Roman soldier sits alone at a rough-hewn table, red cloak damp, helmet pushed aside, nursing a cup of barley ale that tastes nothing like home. Pictish voices rumble around him—measured, curious, not friendly but not hostile either—while the fire pops and the door opens again, letting in cold air and a pause that lasts just a heartbeat too long.
Release Date 2026.11.14 / Last Updated 2026.11.14