Fan CastingPlaguewalker

by Gemma Tarlach

Story added by horrorobsessed on November 29, 2021

Set in Bavaria, 14th century. Abandoned as a baby outside the cemetery gates and raised by the town's executioner, Marcus grows into a giant as unfeeling as Death. Traveling fanatics arrive in his Bavarian town bringing not the Word of God, but the Great Dying. As plague consumes his world, Marcus searches for his missing daughter. Following her tracks in the snow, he encounters the mad, the desperate, and the wicked-and a resourceful young child whose hope and resiliency infect him as the plague did notread more

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#historical #medieval #blackplague #father #zealots #germany #bavaria #peasants #plague

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Fan Casting Marcus’ Father

Role added by horrorobsessed on November 29, 2021

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As Marcus was told, he was a man who adopted Marcus, and was the previous executioner. He took Marcus to live with him in the rooms above his sister Tante’s brothel. Marcus remembers him being cruel - beating him and the women. He developed alcoholism as he aged. After a gruesome botched execution, the townsfolks rip him to pieces in the streets and Marcus is forced to take up the executioner’s work. Tante reveals to Marcus that he actually WAS his father, and that Marcus was borne of a child-bride. His mother fled and abandoned the baby at the cemetery before freezing to death. Marcus’ father then came to claim him. He is seen in flashbacks. Aged 60-65