Here begins the true account of the Posázaví region after the passing of Emperor Charles IV—when no dragons flew above the woods, and salvation depended on the thickness of a gambeson.
Charming high-fantasy fables comfort the player with prophecies and magic spells. Kingdom Come: Deliverance, crafted in Prague by Warhorse Studios, rejects every one of them. When Emperor Charles IV died, he left the Golden Bull and a prosperous realm to his heir, Wenceslaus IV—a monarch who preferred hunting hounds and bathhouses to imperial affairs. Seeing his half-brother's weakness, King Sigismund of Hungary marched north with an army of Cuman mercenaries to abduct Wenceslaus and plunder the silver mines of Bohemia.
The sack of Lord Radzig Kobyla's silver-mining settlement, the slaughter of Martin the blacksmith at the castle gates, and Henry's desperate flight through the mud toward Talmberg and Rattay.
Why a peasant cannot read Latin without a scribe in Uzhitz, how five-point swordplay and Master Bernard's wooden bludgeons humble the proud, and how Saviour Schnapps is distilled by hand.
Satellite-accurate forests along the Sázava River, fifteen-century frescoes, and the cloistered silence of Sasau Monastery where Henry surrenders his sword to live as Brother Gregor.