William of Newbury (2024-)

The quiet town of Newbury is a place of plague and civil war, where the dead no longer rest. William, a monk whose faith falters in the daylight but hardens in the dark, moves through this landscape. He confronts the risen corpses and malevolent spirits that haunt the countryside, his purpose clear even as his own brother and the Church seek to halt his grim work. His path crosses with desperate thieves in the shadowed forests and abandoned chapels, forcing uneasy bargains. The conflict is a quiet one, fought in fog-draped fields and candlelit crypts, where a single man stands between a broken kingdom and the things that stir beneath it.