Our operatives have one slim hope in the form of help from unexpected sources. What better field to create an army of undead than the mass graves of Stalingrad, a year following the Nazis’ worst defeat in one of the war’s most decisive battles? Von List, now bonded with Kortifex, has gained the power to raise the dead. This officer was in command of the Die Wahrheit battalion in search of mystical antiquities to help turn the tide of the war in the Nazis’ favor. “Der Anfang” - or “The Beginning” - introduces players to these Dark Aether entities via their artifacts, which were plundered by antagonist Oberführer Wolfram Von List. The other four - Saraxis the Shadow, Norticus the Conqueror, Inviktor the Destroyer, and Bellekar the Warlock - are in revolt against Kortifex. Kortifex is one of five Dark Aether entities bonded with mortals via their otherworldly artifacts. Our Special Forces operatives are stranded in the snowy graveyard of Stalingrad, with no backup and no means of communication, held in by the dark magic of Kortifex the Deathless. After the Nazi experiment went catastrophically wrong and punched a hole through the dimensional veil, the effects traveled far and wide. It all began with the opening of the Dark Aether gateway at Projekt Endstation.
