Using the limestone they'd excavated, they built a defensive wall and a wooden watchtower. When the bandits arrived, Osric rained down arrows from the battlements. They won, and Cedric, a skilled carpenter, joined their colony, helping them upgrade their wooden huts into a "baronial" stone fortress.
The plague didn't just end an era; it ended everything. For , Barstan , and Osric , the world had shrunk to the size of a muddy clearing beneath a limestone cliff. They were the "lucky" ones—survivors of a calamity that had wiped out 95% of the population. Going Medieval Free Download
Their first summer was a blur of frantic digging. They carved a primitive hall into the hillside, using the earth itself as insulation. Aveline, a former scholar, spent her days at a crude research bench, trying to remember the secrets of smelting ore before the winter could claim them. By the time the first snow fell, they had a single warm room, a stockpile of smoked meat, and a flickering hearth. Using the limestone they'd excavated, they built a