"The RUNE is a bootloader. It doesn't control the Mold. It reboots it. Every time someone cracks it—every time a pirate, a scientist, or a soldier tries to 'unlock' it—the Village rebuilds itself. Different lords. Different horrors. But always the same hunger. You can't kill it, Kaelen. You can only corrupt it."
Ethan wakes up in a remote, snowy European village ruled by four terrifying "Lords" and their deity, Mother Miranda