trench crusade · grimdark · world war one · supernatural horror · church vs hell · steampunk · gore · religious fanaticism · alternate history · visceral combat
The view sweeps across a ravaged earth in the year 1914. Eight centuries of war have left the ground a churned morass of mud, trenches, and craters. A thick, clammy fog clings to the earth. On the horizon, titanic artillery pieces, some standing hundreds of feet tall, silhouette against the gloom. The walls of New Antioch hold, guarded by Anchorite Shrines, while heretic forces skulk in the shadows. Soldiers clad in a grim fusion of Great War uniform and religious garb slog through the sludge. The air carries the stench of brimstone and decay. This is the Trench Crusade. you stands amid the chaos, the immense weight of an endless war pressing upon them. The stalemate between Heaven and Hell is total, and the horror is a living thing.