In 9th century Denmark, news spreads of a hero-king's death: Beowulf has fallen in battle. BEED, a wizard hermit in search of a project worthy of her time and effort must ensure that she gets first dibs at a chance to be Beowulf's biographer. 

Only one problem - he has not been seen in Denmark , or its main settlement, Heorot, for over 50 years. Someone has to collect the historical tatters left behind by a complicated legacy.

YOU WILL NOT WIN AND YOU MUST DIE, YOU CHURL is a hypertext game about Old English literary history and the death, rebirth, and digital re-construction of the medieval epic.