Wraithlands

Zuberi, Lisa, Hanz, Eli, and Shifty awaken in the lethal chaos of Doomhaven, each alone and carrying the scars of shattered lives. They resonate with the tune of exile, family loss, addiction, engineered alienation, and the ache for human connection. The landscape is both mysteriously beautiful and deadly. Survival demands skills they barely remember, and to prevail demands they place their trust in strangers with motives as muddy as their own histories. But before they can struggle to trust, having awoken in separate parts of this world eager to claim their lives, they must come together. Alone at first then together, they face strange beasts, poisonous fruits, and predatory fauna as they navigate strange savannahs, dense jungles, and haunted swamps. Every small triumph, over nature or each other, lays the foundation for bonds that will be stressed to the breaking point. In their struggles, brought together by providence and something more, the strange bedfellows discover they are not defenseless. Faced with the horrors of this strange land, uncanny abilities awaken in each. Zuberi’s inhuman strength, Lisa’s prophetic flickers, Hanz’s shadow-calling, Eli’s empathy, and Shifty’s surreal adaptability become both tools and temptations. When they finally defeat a foe that has haunted them since their awakening, Root reveals herself to them and answers their questions, although they soon realize the most she speaks, the more lost and desperate their prospects seem to be. Before vanishing again, she sets them on the Serpent’s path and promises to meet them again after they have completed their next trial.