The king of Totenwald was once laid to rest in the great tomb called Cryptum with his hallowed ancestors. Discontented to stay at rest for reasons yet unknown. When his daughter ascended to the throne after the period of mourning he rose from his tomb and gathered a host of undead soldiers unseen since the first darkening.

After his rise from death he made war against the vassals of Totenwald. Their fortresses were rent and their bodies added to the uncountable host of undeath. This continued through the countryside until he reached the River Dontau. A massive defense was made by the queen’s vassals but the king’s forces were unbreakable, without feeling, and without mercy. They tossed themselves into the ditches. Into the fires they fearlessly marched and onto the pits they filled with their bodies.

The river was breached. The brave men of Falumian, Gottrang, Horos, and Ullralir were made to join the horde. Now past the River Dontau it is unlikely they can be brought to heel. Every settlement past the city of Eir has fortified with palisades and more restrictions on travel, trade, and anything that could lead the undead to them.

The legions of the dead now summon the city of Lonweser to siege. Its occupants fighting in any way to preserve themselves against the legions of the dead. lest the undead get past the city and pour into the inner vassal duchies.

The undead seem to be truly conquering. As they erect monuments to the king and build weapons for the war effort. They can speak and deliberate. But make no mistake, these creatures are to be expunged as they are the most unholy of things.

-Lord lormaster Baron Von Sneg

This is a setting called Admortium where the undead and mankind fight bitterly as they have for many years. There are also other monsters like beastmen (just weirder furries), Demi humans, and fae like elves fairies and all that. Though most of them have been successfully oppressed by Mortium. Now that Mortium’s authority has been largely replaced by the strife of the war against the dead. Its authority now mostly sits in the vassal kingdom of Totenwald and the far northern region of Mumurlnir.

the errant of Totenwald is a veteran of both the wyld wars and the new war of the dead. The wyld wars were against the native wyld peoples of the lands now called Totenwald. He was one of the surviving knights of the battle at River Dontau. He has since become more distant from others and has turned to monster hunting to help his fellow man.

monster hunters are men who leave the fortified settlements to hunt monsters for the elder of the settlement or a liege. No monster is off limits from the smallest beastman to the most terrible undead abomination.

you can be literally anything. Human, furry, monster, abomination. I tried to have many creatures. Though they are all mostly under the Wyld specification. Things that wander the woods at night. Lest you are undead. Intelligent undead are called Gravewalkers. They can look like a human or a monster. You can tell it’s a gravewalker by the wounds on their bodies where they rise to life.