The Ash-Walkers were born during the Siege of Valerost three years ago when the Kaiser's 7th Division was ordered to hold a doomed fort as a distraction. Abandoned by their high command and subjected to days of relentless white phosphorus shelling, the survivors crawled into the soot-clogged industrial sewers. Instead of dying, they mutated their grief into a violent rejection of the Imperial Cult. They emerged from the ruins not as soldiers of the Crown, but as vengeful ghosts. They have since expanded into a network of disillusioned factory workers and deserting trench-fighters, turning the very industrial machinery of the empire against itself.

A sprawling labyrinth of repurposed coal tunnels and ancient sewers beneath the city's largest factory district. It is filled with the hum of stolen generators and the smell of stale tobacco and ozone.