10 Years Before AAC

Ten years before the pioneer's story begins, there were already people, secrets and events whose traces remain in this world. Billy wakes with no memory and crosses paths with Helge, with Lorea and with an abandoned lottery shop. Zacharia finally tells him the truth: somewhere in this city, someone runs a secret ring betting on the deaths of the powerful, and the one behind it is whispered to be called the Architect. On another shore, the tide leaves someone else with no name and no memory. It looks like Billy's story all over again. It isn't.

The series, still open

These are stories of people, of secrets and of events that left their mark on the world. They begin on a misty road, beside a ruined house.

EP.1 The Nameless Man

Billy wakes with no memory in a fog-covered slum. All he keeps is a broken image: a shadow asking, in a low voice, "Is Emrik dead?" Billy doesn't know who Emrik is. Someone out there already wants him dead for it.

Helge

A stranger named Helge corners Billy and calls him a murderer. Before Billy can think, his body moves on its own and disarms a trained killer, as if it already knew how. Whoever he was before, he was not just a settler.

Lorea and the Crossroads Union

Everyone said that Lorea, enforcer of the Crossroads Union, was cold as ice. Billy finds her elbow-deep in machine grease. She offers him protection, for a price, and seems to know more about him than she lets on.

The lottery shop

In the back room of an abandoned lottery shop, Billy finds a board of erased code names and a strange engraved coin. Someone has been running a secret game there, and Billy may already be a piece on the board.

Zacharia and the Architect

Zacharia finally tells Billy the truth: somewhere in this city, someone runs a secret network of bets on the deaths of the powerful. For whoever is behind it, a name is whispered: the Architect.

A different shore

A different shore. A different person, no name, no memory, washing up in the surf. It looks like Billy's story all over again. It isn't. Someone else is about to learn the same hard lesson he did.

The ruins beneath the Warrior's Prayer

Billy is ordered to rescue a fellow Union member. He goes down into the ancient ruins beneath the Warrior's Prayer temple and scares off her captors with an old ghost story. It works, but a symbol on the wall warns of something worse.

Gunpowder and ambush

Escaping the temple, Billy and the woman he has just saved find a hidden room full of empty gunpowder crates: someone is stockpiling supplies for something big. Then an ambush breaks out. The Lorea who walks out of it, her hands stained with blood, is no longer the woman Billy first met.