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Step inside the fire-lit halls and frost-choked battlefields of the Viking Age, where the berserker legend was born. Far from the glorified verses sung by skalds, the life of a berserker was one of isolation, suspicion, and ruin. Feared by enemies, distrusted by comrades, and consumed by a frenzy that promised strength but delivered only exhaustion, their reality was harsher than the myths suggest. This is not a tale of triumph — but of a man slowly erased, his name forgotten while the beast he carried lived on in story.
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