Most of the ideas I came up with where pretty grim, now that I think about it. When writing for these jams, I look to real world myth and historical events for inspiration. Between the idea of using disease as a weapon and finding inspiration in the Napoleonic battle of Austerlitz, where fleeing Russian and Austrian forces lost a large number of men as they attempted to cross a frozen lake that could not support their weight, I guess this was destined to be a grimdark entry.
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