Battle AxeFor as long as you and your people can remember, your homeland of Mercia has been held in the tyrannical grip of Etheldred; a despotic sorceress who resides in a seemingly impenetrable tower in the distant icy wastelands to the north. Every seven years she sends her armies south to handpick inhabitants from each township who will be subjected to a life of slavery, and they are never heard from again. A call is sent out to champions across the land