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A duel on a cloak three ells wide. Step off it and you lose.
Open beta on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, 11 to 14 December 2026.
The first law
Sigrun says nothing before a duel. She sets her shield and walks you backward until the wool runs out.
hólmganga: going to the islet. The old word for a duel fought on a cloak.
The second law
Seventy winters and one arm.
Every man who laughed at the arm
is under the sand now.
Old Ormr tells you the joke first. The seax comes at the end of it.
The third law
Eydis sees the dead through her right eye. She ties a cloth over it so they cannot see her looking back, and fights from a crouch that never stays put.
draugr: one of the dead who walks back up the beach to finish a quarrel.
The fourth law
Bjarke has not slept since the hall burned. He hits until the wood gives, and then he goes quiet.
drengr: a fighter who stands by what was said on the sand.
Round V. One ell of wool left.
Bjarke swings from the edges of the cloak. Keep your feet on the wool and parry as the axe lands. A dashed mark is a shove: you cannot parry it, so step back in after. Hold three folds and the cloak gives you an oath.
Arrow keys or A and D to step. Space or J to parry. Esc to pause. Auto parry leaves you one button: Step to centre.
The cloak is laid. Press Take the Cloak when you are ready.
Ten fighters, one stake each. Eight still breathe. Two walked back out of the sea to finish something. Choose a stake and it comes up out of the sand.
Sigrun HallsdottirShield first. Her left braid burned in the hall fire, and she never cut the right one to match.
Wherever the cloak is laid, the field is marked the same way: hasla völl, to mark the field with hazel.
Where the holmgang began. The tide takes the footprints between rounds and leaves the stakes.
A boat plank washed up on the black sand. Someone cut the news into it with a knife.
11 to 14 December 2026. Eight fighters, all six shores, ranked duels from the second day.
Draugr Ketil joins on the third day of the beta. Hazel Ring said he was not ready. He disagreed.
Old Ormr's lines are in, all of them. He asked to record more. The answer was no.
Ormr reads it out loud. He adds a line that is not there.
Pick the oath you will fight under and leave an address. Your open beta key arrives before 11 December. Before every duel a fighter swears one oath, and it bends one rule for them alone.
Four hides stretched on the wall of the burned hall. Read them before you step on the cloak.
