Liam Mills

Despite my best efforts, I am British.  The British Isles are a fascinating place. Over the last two hundred years we have homogenised into a general sense of “Britishness”, but these isles of mine are home to a proud and profoundly strange folkloric tradition stretching back 3,000 years. There is one recurring myth found across the UK that formed the basis of Kingbreaker’s lore: The King in the Mountain. For those unfamiliar, this is a common motif across several cultural traditions: A noble...

The College of Haruspex  Equal part administrative service, funerary firm, library, and religious practice, the ministrants of the College of Haruspex worship the grim-faced Stocktaker of the Dead, who oversees the Cthonic Bureaucracy from his throne beneath the earth. The College is an unusual organisation, overseeing the gathering of information, the production and maintenance of birth and death certificates, and the proper rites of interring the dead, and the enforcement of necromancy laws...

The ultimate goal of Kingbreaker: The Crownday Festival is to become one of the eponymous Kingbreakers, a sort of heavenly hitman blessed with eternal undeath and endless resolve and tasked with defeating each of the Six Kings that rule over this land. However, to become a Kingbreaker one must survive a gauntlet of duels held over the course of a single day - the victor of these duels will have proven themselves worthy in the eyes of Providence and will be promoted from a plain old Duellist...