New web series from The Spoils Card Game

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The Spoils Card Game is pleased to announce the publication of a new web comic book series dedicated to telling the story of its Shade of the Devoured Emperor booster expansion!

The Spoils is a collectible card game published by the makers of the world-renowned Dragon Shield card sleeves.

About The Spoils

The world of Luridia is one step away from total catastrophe. The magic-industrial complex has spawned a web of invention, speculation, and conflict that threatens to spin out of control. Feuding city-states vie for dominance with only a careless glance at the costs of their schemes.

Working class wizards churn out voidal humour, the raw stuff of magic, by the ton in massive factories. Mad elves use voidal humour to fuel their innovations, often bizarre arms and armors. Draconic warlords employ these weapons in their endless campaigns against one another, soaking battlefields in blood to claim the mantle of an empire long since destroyed. Cat-faced moneylenders broker and bully their way across the marketplace, wringing a profit from trade, war, even death. All the while, thieves prowl the streets, cutting purses and throats as it suits them.

Into this world, one man has plotted a course to power that would topple every pillar keeping civilization from collapsing into another dark age. In a different time, in a different place, men and women of great moral character would rise to stop him. Luridia has no place for such men and women. It needs Unlikely Heroes, whose obsession, rage, elitism, greed and deception will carry the day against the colossal forces that intend to snuff them out.

And to the victor go the Spoils.

The Spoils is an absurdist fantasy; a rollicking journey through a lunatic world only slightly less depraved than our own.

The Story So Far…

It is 150 years after the fall of the Marmothoan Empire at the hands of Emperor Barduse. The Swords of Great Justice are long dead. Once a band of powerful warriors in the service of the Empire of Marmothoa, the courage of the Swords could not withstand the sorcerous treachery of Gloamspike and Elzibeth. One by one, the Swords were defeated, their artifacts lost to time and space, and the terrible majesty of the Seraphim thought forever vanished from the world. No one suspected they would ever return. One by one, against all hope, the artifacts of the Seraphim have resurfaced, in places as distant as Lugubria, Metatropea and Acrolos. Fey coincidence, impossible treasure maps, even the ghosts of the damned all conspired to place the artifacts into the hands of our most Unlikely Heroes.

The Seraphim once chose to serve the majesty of masterful swordsmen, keen archers, fearsome berserkers. Today, they have now come to ally themselves with the likes of Acrolosian tinkers, brawling Imperial Army officers, legal clerks, voidal students, and the greatest con man to ever live. The strange power that brought this motley together is unknown and unseen, but its purpose has become clear: if the world is to remain unburdened by the absolute rule of an evil man or the wracking chaos of uncivilized hordes, our heroes must band together and fight.

In the melancholy north, a new ruling class has come to reign over the swamps and briars of grim Lugubria. Heralded by the smokestacks of industrial magic, the captains of voidal industry have suborned the power of the ancient houses and come to the forefront as a major power in all things political, financial and magical in Luridia. The Lugubrian Council of Quotidian Affairs is their instrument, a forum for their conspiracies and a united front to the world. In recent years, Eldridge Gosche has risen to the seat of Chairman of the Council, and has used his new political powers to launch his most ambitious plot to date: the theft of a god.

So begins the saga of the Unlikely Heroes, begun in The Spoils Card Game™, and expanded here in comic book form!

http://thespoilscardgame.com/new-players/comics-2/

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