Fleeing with all haste, they return to Skogr and alert the Chieftain and his wife, Oddleif, to the impending attack. Rook and his young daughter, Alette, encounter a lone Dredge whilst hunting in the woods near Skogr. Choices only affect supporting characters.

Important story-branching events: None.

Not long after their departure from Strand, Vognir is slain by stray Dredge in Vedrfell under unclear circumstances, with Prince Ludin being the only eye witness. Ubin is also headed for Grofheim so he attaches himself to Vognir's caravan. The Varl are escorting Prince Ludin, the heir of King Meinolf, to the Varl capital of Grofheim in order to seal an alliance between the two races. Ubin meets up with the kendr of the Varl king, Vognir, along with his entourage, Hakon and Mogr. Shortly afterwards, a large fleet flying the Varl and the Arberrang banners land on Strand's docks. The Governor's steward, Eirik, requests Ubin's assistance in handling further problems with the Skaflings. Ubin, a tax collector for the Varl King, Jorundr, arrives in the human city of Strand just in time to stop an attack on the Governor by a renegade clan called the Skalfings. It has been several weeks since the start of an ominous cosmological phenomenon: The sun has stopped in the sky. However, some of the first Chapters of the game are played from the POV of two Varl characters, Ubin and Hakon. The main protagonist/POV character of the first part of The Banner Saga is Rook, a human hunter from Skogr. The first part of the trilogy details the opening act of what starts like the Third Great War, fought between the invading Dredge and the unsteady alliance of Humans and Varl. Some important events have consequences that often trigger in latter parts of the story. The story in each Chapter unfolds through the point-of-view (POV) of a specific character of the story the POV character occasionally shifts between chapters.

The third part of the trilogy ('Saga 3'), Chapters 16-22, was first released in July 2018.

The second part of the trilogy ('Saga 2'), Chapters 8-15, was first released in April 2016.The first part of the trilogy ('Saga 1'), Chapters 1-7, was first released in January 2014.

The story-arc will be completed in a trilogy and is broken down in Chapters: The Banner Saga is a single player video game series that takes place in a fictional world inspired by the medieval and Viking culture.

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