The Wayfinders
Three high schoolers are flung into a brutal medieval world and must survive a civil war with unlikely allies while hunting for any way back home. The Wayfinders follows teenager Alex Harlan, who is yanked from ordinary high-school life along with two classmates when a freak accident opens a portal. The trio lands in a war-torn medieval landscape of fortified towns, mercenary bands, and scarce food. Early days are spent learning basic survival—finding water, avoiding patrols, and decoding the local tongue—while the shock of displacement still dominates every choice. They soon cross paths with a small band of outcasts who have already lost homes to the fighting and who reluctantly share shelter. Trust builds only after the teens help repel a night raid, proving they can contribute rather than merely consume scarce resources. The group’s first shared goal becomes simple: stay alive long en