Erra’s Throne: Column Three
This is the part where things kind of get real.
Meet: Stang, a tester for Gephyr Studios, the makers of Erra’s Throne.
Stang’s always had a special relationship with the game.
For a long time, he thought that it hated him.
But now he’s discovered Akkad’s hidden truth. Its personal magic. How it satisfies hopes so deep and impossible, he’d long ago stopped admitting he had them.
So when a mysterious new TrueDeath is rushed into the game, Stang is hungry to beat it and reap the rewards. There’s only problem: Emmy Kim, the odd little girl who flipped out at SMAX East, who also seems to know something of Erra’s secret gifts.
He’ll face the girl in Akkad, that’s certain. The only question is whether he’ll destroy her or join her, when he does.