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The Last Kingdom Fan Wing
For the people who finished the story of Uhtred of Bebbanburg and immediately wanted to argue about it. This is the whole programme in one place — what you can play now, who the profiles cover, what the chronicle says, and every game still to be built, in the order the research says they are wanted. Nothing here is called playable unless it is a link.
The reign — live now
Not a sitting: a game that runs for weeks across as many visits as you like, keeps its own state, and is meant to be lost a few times before it is held.
Trivia and sorting — live now
Five pages you can play today. One sorter and four rounds, each a pure function of its own address: no account, no request, no answer leaving your machine, and a link at the end that opens on your exact result for whoever you send it to.
Destiny Is All — Saxon or Dane?
Seven either-or questions about how you actually live — oath or opportunity, prayer or feast, the wall or the water — and a verdict on which side of the shield wall would have claimed you.
Live · Allegiance sorter · seven questionsWhich Season Are You Living Through?
Taken, sworn, waiting on a dying king, holding a long middle, settling an old account, or called back after the ending. Nine questions place you in one of the five seasons — or in the film after them.
Live · Trivia round · nine questionsWhich Character Are You?
Uhtred, Alfred, Brida, Finan, Aethelflaed or Beocca — matched on what you do at three in the morning when somebody has to decide, rather than on what happened to any of them.
Live · Trivia round · six peopleWhere Would You Stand in the Shield Wall?
Front rank, second rank, flank, banner, reserve, or the one who counts the dead. Six jobs a wall actually needs, and courage is deliberately not the axis, because everybody in the line is frightened.
Live · Trivia round · six positionsWhich Ninth-Century Job Would You Have Survived?
Burh-builder, chronicler, hostage, trader, oarsman or ploughman — the real Britain of 865 to 918, out of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Asser rather than out of the script.
Live · Trivia round · six occupationsThe characters — live now
Profiles rather than quizzes, and they live next door at /site/last-kingdom/ because a character page is not a game and should not pretend to be one in its structured data. Each carries who played them, which seasons they are in, a few of the lines they are remembered for — attributed by character and season — and where the history and the story part company.
Uhtred of Bebbanburg
Born Saxon, raised Dane, never allowed to be simply either — and the reason a fortress on the Northumberland coast has a fan base. Played by Alexander Dreymon in all 46 episodes.
Live · Character profileAlfred
The scholar-king who would rather build a system than win an afternoon, and the only person in the story Uhtred cannot simply walk away from. Played by David Dawson.
Live · Character profileBrida
Saxon-born, Dane by conviction, and the least willing person in the story to hold two ideas at once. Played by Emily Cox, from the first episode to the last.
Live · Character profileRagnar
There are two of them, which is the question everybody actually arrives with. The blood-brother, the man who raised him, and what happened to each.
Live · Character profileThe chronicle — live now
The other half of "was any of that real". A dated record of the ninth century out of the public-domain sources — the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Asser writing in 893 — set beside the series that dramatises it, with the places where the two part company said out loud.
The games — the build list
Ten games, in demand order, from research into what this fandom actually asks for — mods, roleplay campaigns, the licensed board game and eight or more live quiz properties. The first of them is live — Lord of Bebbanburg is above; the nine below are not playable yet, and each one says so. They are published anyway: a list somebody can hold us to is worth more than a wing that quietly grows things, and the order is evidence rather than taste.
Hold the Wall
Three verbs — brace, shove, stab — and a line of people that either holds or does not. Three minutes, a new wave every day, and a huscarl beside you with an opinion about how you did.
PlannedThe War for the Kingdoms
Britain in 878 on a fifteen-region map, played solitaire against a deck of events, with a rival warlord who sends dispatches between turns and will actually negotiate.
PlannedSaxon or Dane
The full version of the sorter above: three wars, an allegiance token that tarnishes every time you switch sides, and two judges — a priest and a skald — who both watched you do it.
Planned · grows out of the allegiance sorterHolmgang
A duel in a torchlit ring, and a challenger who taunts you in chat before it starts. What you say back sets how hard he comes at you, which is the part we are most curious about.
PlannedArseling to Ealdorman
A trivia gauntlet with companions instead of lives: lose one and you lose a friend, and the skald mourns them by name before improvising two lines of verse about your run.
PlannedThe King's Shadow
Two meters — the king's trust and your own name — and one audience where you have to argue your case in your own words. The chronicle written at the end will under-credit you, deliberately.
PlannedStorm the Coast
The river first, because the water is the fantasy, and then the raid — a greed-versus-alarm loop where every extra minute ashore is another bell rung somewhere inland.
PlannedThe Burh Holds
Build by day, defend by night, three nights running. The town reeve argues with your budget in the morning and eulogises the districts you did not save, by name.
PlannedNight at the Fortress Gate
Torch cones, rain and lightning, and five companions with one verb each. The fortress master talks to you over the wall as the alarm rises, and answering him moves the guards.
PlannedWhat this wing is
The Last Kingdom is the story of a man born Saxon, raised Dane, and never quite allowed to be either — told across Bernard Cornwell's novels and the television series they became. This wing is the corner of the site given over to it: five things you can play today, five pages of profile and chronicle, and a build list that says out loud what is coming and admits that none of it exists yet.
Everything here is free, needs no account, and works with the network switched off. Every result is carried in its own link, so an argument that starts here can be continued somewhere else. The board has a Last Kingdom room where destiny gets argued at thread length, and the Residents keep it warm between releases.
The house rules, including the one that changed
Characters and places are named — Uhtred, Alfred, Brida, Ragnar, Bebbanburg, Wessex — because naming a work is how you talk about it. What is new in this wing, and is not true of the others in this corner, is that it also quotes: a handful of short lines from the series, each attributed to the character who says it and the season it comes from, always inside a sentence of ours that is doing something with it. A word from Leofric, a sentence from Alfred, a refrain from Uhtred. That is quotation, and it is bounded on purpose.
The caps are what make it quotation rather than reproduction. No transcripts and no scenes. A handful of lines per page, never a run of dialogue. No media at all — no stills, no clips, no episode audio, no music. And nothing the wing's AI writes ever quotes or recombines a line: the machine's half of this wing is original writing or it is nothing, which is the separation that keeps both halves clean. The ninth-century material is public domain — the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Asser, and The Wanderer, which is where the show's own motto comes from.
How the build list was ordered
Not by what looked fun to write. The order came out of a survey of what this fandom actually produces and asks for: the campaign mods people build for other games to re-tell this story, the roleplay playlists, the licensed board game and the mechanic reviewers singled out in it, and the eight or more Last Kingdom quiz properties already running elsewhere. Where the evidence was thin the idea did not make the list, however good it sounded. That is why there is no city-builder and no survival game on it.
This is fan-made, and unofficial
This is a hub of unofficial fan pages for The Last Kingdom — the television series and the novels of Bernard Cornwell it is based on — naming the work, its characters and its ideas under nominative fair use, and quoting short attributed lines from it within the limits set out above. It is a free, unofficial fan tribute, made for fun. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Carnival Film & Television, Netflix, or Bernard Cornwell and his publishers.
Everything else in this wing was written fresh for it. No scene, transcript, still, clip, logo or artwork from any television series or book is reproduced anywhere in it, and nothing here imitates an official mark. Iron Realms — the strategy game the rest of this site is about — is an original fantasy world with its own map, its own houses and its own art, and has no connection to the world of The Last Kingdom.