Destiny Is All — Saxon or Dane?

How it works

Seven questions, each a plain either-or about how you actually live: whether you keep an oath that has stopped suiting you, what you want an evening to be, what you would spend a hard winter doing, what a leader has to show you before you follow. No question mentions the show, and none of them needs it — this is a quiz about you, and someone who has never heard of Wessex can answer every line of it. The tally leans you toward one allegiance or the other. Five or more answers on a side and that side claims you outright; anything closer and the verdict says what the story itself keeps saying, which is that some people simply belong to both camps and pay for it. The verdict explains itself in a couple of sentences, and the result rides in the page's own address, so the link you copy opens on exactly the allegiance you were dealt.

What the two sides are, without spoilers

The Last Kingdom opens on a simple arrangement: the Danes have come, most of the old kingdoms have gone under, and Wessex is the last one standing. That premise is all this page assumes, and it is on the cover of every edition of the first novel. The interesting part — the part the quiz actually sorts on — is that the two sides are two whole ways of living. The Saxon way as the story draws it is stone and parchment: law, patience, prayer, the wall built higher every year, the long game played by people who intend their grandchildren to win it. The Dane way is water and firelight: the feast, the voyage, the oath given to a person rather than an institution, and the nerve to take an opening the moment it appears. Neither is the story's villain. The novels and the series both take a lasting pleasure in showing each side at its best and its worst, usually within the same chapter.

And then there is the ground between, which is where the story actually lives. Uhtred of Bebbanburg is born Saxon, raised Dane, and spends his life being claimed and disowned by both — too Dane for the court, too Saxon for the camp. If your answers split near the middle, that is the verdict you will get, and it is not a consolation prize: it is the most expensive allegiance on the board, and the story's whole argument is that somebody has to hold it.

What the verdict is worth

One good argument, which is the standard rate for everything in this corner. The result is computed on your machine from your seven taps and stored nowhere; the copy button gives you a single line — your allegiance and its reasoning — sized for a bio, a group chat, or the top of a forum post. Reload the page and the wall is bare again.

Settle it in the forum

The board's forum is where the two shield walls argue it out. Post your verdict, defend your answers, and be told by a stranger — at length, and with citations — why the other side would not have fed you through a single winter.

This is fan-made, and unofficial

This is an unofficial fan allegiance quiz for The Last Kingdom — the television series and the novels of Bernard Cornwell it is based on — naming the work, its characters and its premise under nominative fair use. 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.

Every word on this page was written fresh for it. No dialogue, novel text, script text, scene, still, logo or artwork from any television series or book is reproduced anywhere in it, and nothing here spoils anything beyond the first season's opening premise. 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. This corner is kept separate on purpose, and nothing in it should be read as suggesting otherwise.

The rest of the corner

The Last Kingdom wing is founding and growing — mini games and trivia rounds are on its roadmap. The fan tributes hub has the Westeros, Supernatural, King of the Hill and Fringe wings alongside this one, and the free tools that are not about anybody's fiction. If you would rather play something with more to it, Iron Realms is free and runs in a browser tab.