1490 Doom - Lore Series Podcast

There was a road through the lowlands, before The Creeping Death rose over it. The peat cutters still know where the stones lie. Klaas Koster knew better than most, and it did him no good at all. This story is a precursor to the events in The Outpost at Meerbridge. Narrated by Scanner Barkly Music by Eric Michael Robertson A Buer Games production https://1490doom.comDiscord: https://discord.gg/mwU...

Macroom, County Cork. April, 1490. They burned Orla on a Tuesday. Called it justice. The crowd nodded the way crowds do when they're too afraid to speak and too tired to feel. Róise watched. She did not look away. Something had been wrong with the land long before the execution. The soil darker than it should be. The water tasting of rust. Animals found drained and pale, veins black as ink. No...

The Book of Adrian | A 1490 Doom Story Narrated by Scanner Barkly November, 1490. Brittany, France. The world didn't end all at once. It rotted. Slowly, patiently, the way things do when God stops paying attention. The fields went first, then the people, then whatever passed for hope in a place that never had much to begin with. Adrian is seventeen. He has a helmet, a stolen dagger, and the pa...

Annals of the Doomed: Book Five (Part One) “For Whom the Bells Toll”Written & Performed by Joel MengelMusic by Eric Michael Robertson Through choking fog that clings like grave soil to the lungs, two shadows flee. Job and Ophelia, hand in bleeding hand. Behind them the zealots come: rusted blades, stolen armor, eyes ablaze with sanctified madness. Father Radley, priest of the pyre, preaches me...

Annals of the Doomed: Book Four “Long Live the King”Written & Performed by Joel MengelMusic by Eric Michael RobertsonBeneath the vaulted stones of Westminster a hollow monarch rules his silent court. The air hangs thick with incense and decay and the creeping death seeps through every crack in the ancient walls. Upon a throne of bone and tarnished gold the mad king delivers his final decree to...

Annals of the Doomed: Book Three “Fight and Flight”Written & Performed by Joel MengelMusic by Eric Michael RobertsonFrom the shattered heights of a dying stronghold, a lone defender leaps into legend. Fifty five meters of freefall between life and death, a desperate act of faith, loyalty, and defiance against the creeping death that has swallowed the world whole. Inside the tower, fog cloaked...

Annals of the Doomed: Book Two – “The Cleansing Fire”Written & Performed by Joel MengelMusic by Eric Michael RobertsonThe smoke clings to skin and soul alike. In the ashes of the courtyard, Father Radley waits, convinced that each fire purges not only flesh, but the creeping death itself. One by one, he names the heretics. One by one, he delivers them to the flame. But as the last embers die,...

Annals of the Doomed: Book One – “I Ring the Bells”Written & Performed by Joel MengelMusic by Eric Michael RobertsonThe bells echo across a dead and silent land. No beasts roam. No birds sing. No voices answer. Yet still the bells toll, summoning memory, hunger, and the faintest glimmer of defiance in a world swallowed by the Creeping Death.🕯 Grimdark historical fiction set in a collapsing wor...

The river dried to nothing. Northward they went, through dust and silence, chasing whispers of home. But some tides cannot be outrun. Some tides are not made of water. In the shadow of Valladolid the weight of a dying world comes to bear and one man learns what it means to drown where no river runs. Narrated by @malev_minis🕯 Grimdark historical fiction set in a collapsing world⚔ Based on the 1490...

The sky is pitiless. The soil is sick. Mateo and Baltasar follow the river north, through lands stripped bare by famine, fear, and flight. Towns stand hollow. Roads are choked with the remnants of those who came before—abandoned wagons, scattered shoes, warm fires with no one around them. When they finally see the migration with their own eyes, it’s worse than they imagined: a silent procession un...

The coast is not what they remembered. Mateo and Baltasar step ashore only to find Spain hollowed by hunger, disease, and silence. Smoke rises from empty farms. Bells ring where no hands remain to pull the rope. They follow whispers of sanctuary northward—through villages stripped bare, past monks speaking of Seville’s fall, and into forests where something watches. The Creeping Death has come hom...

Adrift on poisoned waters, hunted by the dead, and haunted by what remains of their own souls... Mateo and Baltasar flee the burning ruins of Madeira aboard the crippled San Telmo. But the sea offers no refuge. Becalmed under a rotting sky, they face something worse than storms—a floating fortress of the damned, stitched together from shipwrecks and filled with hollow-eyed horrors. One shot. One b...

Trapped on a dying island and hunted like beasts, Mateo leads a desperate prison break beneath the rotting manor of Madeira. At its heart waits Baltasar, a chained cannon-bearer with one shot left and a soul not yet spent. What follows is a sprint through fire and blood as loyalties are tested, lives are lost, and a crippled cutter called the San Telmo becomes the last hope of escape. But the sea...

At the heart of Madeira, a tyrant sits atop a throne of hunger. His name is whispered like a curse—Duarte. His rule is fed by fear, and beneath his manor, something stirs. As Mateo scavenges for survival in a land rotting from within, he finds an unlikely ally: Baltasar, a forgotten gunner chained in the dark, clutching a final cannon shot meant for a king. Together, they forge a pact in the shado...

Chapter 4 – The Windless SeaThey drift. No wind. No clouds. No rain. Just silence. Just heat. Just death, patient and watching. The crew of the Justa endures ten windless days at sea, clinging to hope that has no shape. A child is passed to Mateo. Men make impossible choices. And on the horizon—land, or the memory of it. This is The Drowning of Mateo Sanz, a grimdark audio saga set in the dying wo...

At dawn, a ghost ship drifts into Las Palmas—and with it, a warning. The ports of Castile have sealed their gates. The wind has vanished. The island is falling. As panic spreads and the city begins to fracture, Mateo and his crewmates must decide: die waiting... or risk a voyage that may never find land. But escape comes at a cost—and some things, once taken aboard, can never be left behind. Narra...

Adrian’s journey nears its final shore. Carried by a silent river to the edge of a forgotten coast, he faces what lies beyond the maps—where the sea meets the mist, and memory drifts like ash on the wind. This closing chapter is a quiet reckoning. A descent into stillness. A meditation on what remains when everything else is gone.🎧 Begin the series from Chapter 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

The silence spreads. In Chapter 2 of 1490 Doom, Mateo begins to sense a deeper unraveling—not just aboard the Justa, but across the island itself. The chapel is sealed, the streets are emptying, and the port authority has fallen silent. As the crew clings to routine, a fire erupts in the tanner’s yard, and a strange wind carries something unnatural from the west. Then—out past the reef—a ship appe...

In this episode, we begin The Drowning of Mateo Sanz — a grim new story set in the dying world of 1490 Doom . The year is 1490. Off the coast of what is now Spain, the winds have gone still. The sea has turned sour. And on the island of Gran Canaria, a stranded sailor named Mateo watches as the world he knows quietly begins to rot from within. Listen as the creeping death first takes hold. Explore...

Wilhelm woke to a scream. The door was locked. The towers never slept. Nothing in this place was what it seemed. This is the final chapter. Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/1490doom/ https://www1490doom.com

After a long descent through frost and ash, Wilhelm and his companions come upon something impossible. A city untouched. A promise of safety. A breath of something like hope. But peace can be unfamiliar. And sometimes, even comfort carries a shadow. Chapter 9 invites you into the gates of Solreich—a place that remembers. But not everything should be remembered. Follow us on instagram! https://www....

The night is still. The river whispers. And the stench of death lingers in the air. Adrian, Father Gregor, and Simon approach the tower—a monolith of stone and silence, standing watch over a graveyard of desperate souls. But something waits within. Something unseen. Something patient. A single misstep. A silent fall. A horror beyond words. They should have never come here. Follow us on instagram!...

Wilhelm and his companions descend from the poisoned heights, only to find themselves standing before the gates of a city long thought lost. The air is thick with death, but something else lingers in the shadows—watching, waiting. What lies within Sondrio’s crumbling walls? Survivors… or something far worse? Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/1490doom/ https://www1490doom.com

Drifting down the Loire, Adrian, Father Gregor, and Simon cling to survival, their bodies weak, their hope fading. But as they approach a silent, looming tower on the riverbend, unease takes hold. Gregor hears something the others cannot. The air is wrong. The water is restless. And the tower is waiting. Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/1490doom/ https://www1490doom.com

The road leads downward, into the mist, where a forgotten castle rises from the poisoned lake. Torchlight flickers in the high towers—proof that someone lingers within. Desperation pushes Wilhelm and his companions to breach its walls, but what waits inside is more than they bargained for. Steel clashes in the darkness, fate turns on a blade’s edge, and the past refuses to be forgotten. In a world...