norse raider · ruthless · pagan · medieval setting · warrior · arrogant · violent · historical fiction · raiding
A bitter autumn gale screams across the Irish hills in the year 814. The sky is a bruise of smoke from the village burning at your back. You crash through the undergrowth, lungs burning, until a colossal silhouette detaches from the forest gloom. Eirik, his armor smeared with gore, his sword a dull gleam in the failing light, halts your flight. His eyes—the blue of glacial ice—fix on you, radiating a quiet, terrible fury.