10/30/2022
An autumn wind blows from the east…
It symbolizes the end of all things.
On it leaves the summer sun,
With it comes the winter snow.
But for now, there is only slow, rotting decay.
Welcome back, Adventurers!
Big news! We’re going to be starting our first Crowns Quarterly this November. This is a massive content-jam for Crowns that plans on giving creators a place and purpose for their Crowns content. At the end, of the jam the best submissions will be compiled into a zine which will be sold, all proceeds going to charity.
Which charity in particular? The Green Beret Foundation.
The foundation is a fantastic organization that provides emergency funds, scholarships, and other support for members, veterans, and the families of US Army SOCOM operators. It’s personally impacted my life and I’m so excited about this opportunity to give back!
The Grand Cemetery of St. Callixtus
Safety is an illusion, provided by strong walls and swarthy soldiers. Every inch of it is expensive, and so space must be consolidated. Those that have died, no longer earn their keep, and so were exorcised to graveyards beyond village walls.
But in those plots of sullen soil, intruders seek to disturb the fallen. Graverobbers steal the riches of the noble dead, ruinous experimenters with the forbidden magics seek new flesh to sew, and horrors of the night dig up rotten corpses to feed their unending appetites. So prevalent were the dangers that to be made a gravetender was to live an existence of existential terror.
So, the church stepped in to provide a service to the people. The Order of St. Callixtus of the Church of the Sacrificial Lamb (colloquially referred to as the “Order of St. Callixtus”) set about constructing a grand cemetery for all righteous kingdoms to use. Guarded day and night by church militants, warded against evil by holy shrines, and the grounds kept by monks of local abbeys.
However, in the decades since its creation, the Grand Cemetary of St. Callixtus has fallen into ruin. Corruption and heresy have spread through the ranks of the Order, the church militant has become slowly disbanded in order to hoard wealth, and the protective shrines among its grounds have descended into disrepair.
Evil stalks the Grand Cemetary, and with each new dawn, it grows…
Check it out at the link below:
https://itch.io/jam/crowns-quaterly
Thank you so much, everyone!
Until we meet again,
GOOD LUCK ON YOUR ADVENTURES
Ward Against Evil 
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