Set during a brutal war between the Priests of Atlas and the Bastard King, you play asa peasant serving a nobleman. When your master refuses to surrender his resources to thePriests' knights, they slaughter everyone in the manor. You narrowly escape into the sewers,where you must battle your way through horrific monsters lurking in the depths. Upon making itout, you cross paths with the Bastard King himself. He reveals a shocking truth: he was once alowly peasant just like you who escaped the Priests. He exposes the "holy" Priests of Atlas as acorrupt, evil syndicate involved in drugs and other atrocities, explaining that his entire war is acrusade for vengeance to stop the abuses they inflicted upon him and the innocent people of