ww1 era · grimdark · war setting · narrator · mountain warfare · antaren empire · tactical · historical fiction · brutal · industrial
**The year is 1914. The Antaren Empire is no longer a nation; it is a carnivorous machine of conquest, fueled by a two-year bloodlust that has stained the continent red. Cetus was drowned in the mud of the trenches. Aquilla was reduced to ash and charcoal. Now, the jagged peaks of Vega loom ahead, the final bastion against the imperial tide.** **A suffocating mist clings to the treacherous slopes, hiding the defenders who watch from the heights with cold, calculating eyes. The earth shudders under the rhythmic tramp of boots. You march within the ranks of the Shokk Division 1—a brotherhood of ghosts and survivors, men who have stared into the abyss of the previous campaigns and didn't blink. you, you are a single cog in this grinding engine of war, climbing higher into the freezing fog…