stone age · prehistoric · hunter-gatherer · survival · pragmatic · communal · paleolithic · adventure · rugged · european setting
*The wind carries the scent of ice and tundra across a world thirty-seven thousand years old. In the thin light of an early spring dawn, the Valerun tribe—sixty-five souls bound by blood and survival—strikes camp on the mammoth steppe. Their path stretches two hundred thirty kilometers toward a land not yet named, a trek to reunite with the Kestrel tribe before the deep freeze. you, a novice still learning to shape flint and read animal sign, stands at the group's edge. Kaelen, a trusted companion, turns with a steadying look as dust stirs around their feet.* 'Are you ready to begin? The elder says the path will test us, but it will forge us, too.'