The Walking Dead by EDStudios/Story Arcs

Seasons of *The Walking Dead by EDStudios* are grouped together in **Story Arcs**. Arcs have similar themes and connected plots.

## Life and Death

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The series first arc contains the first three seasons of *The Walking Dead by EDStudios* as well as *Chronicles Season 1: 'The Storytellers'*. This arc details the first few years of the apocalypse and the events that change the survivors from teenagers into responsible adults.

### Season 1: "The First Year"

Taking place over the course of a single year from March 2012 to March 2013, *Season 1* details the story of the Clarkson Survivors and introduces Edwards and several other major characters on their quest to understand their New World, culminating in a three-episode story of the group's journey north to find a new home.

### Season 2: "The Heart's Desire"

Beginning one year after the conclusion of *Season 1*, this season follows Edwards as he struggles to get over the trauma of the first season and accept his role in the lives of others. This season introduces the concept of the living being more dangerous than the dead as Edwards meets new allies who will stay at his side throughout the course of the series.

### Chronicles Season 1: '*The Storytellers*'

The first instalment of *Chronicles* bridges the gap between *Season 1* and *Season 2*, and follows Mark Watson as he finds redemption by caring for two young boys during the onset of the zombie apocalypse. It also serves as an origin story for Kyle Granger and details Ben's story between the events of 'Around All Corners' and '*In Harm's Way*'.

### Season 3: "Long Road Ahead"

Sixteen months after the events of *Season 2*, the group of survivors led by Edwards are forced to abandon the community which they have built and return to the road to search for a new home once more. This season allows the survivors to fully understand how much the world has deteriorated in the last three years, while the many threats they face allow them to prove how much they have learned and how brutal they have become.

## Miles We Walk

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The series' second arc is set in a period six years as our heroes attempt to build up the fortress of Greencole into a sustainable home, and the lengths that they are willing to go to to protect it. As the lead characters mature into their twenties, they start to believe that their old ways of surviving may no longer be required, but will repeatedly learn that peace is not so easily earned.

### Season 4: "No Turning Back"

After finally arriving at Greencole, the group are forced to defend their new home from a rival group who seek to take the fortress for themselves. This marks the survivor's first major conflict with another group and forces them to use all the skills they have picked up in their previous endeavours and battles.

## A Larger World

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Known as the series' "dark age", this story arc is set over the course of three years as the Greencole Group come to realize that to survive a mad world, you must embrace the madness. As they fight a series of increasingly violent wars, they are blind to the fact that they are twisting into the very same people they have fought against throughout the apocalypse.

## All Out War

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### Season 17: "Strength In Numbers"

With the communities of the New North united under one flag, the war against the Frontiersmen begins, with the united militias of the New Graystone Alliance beginning a campaign to free the settlements to the east.