Beynac-et-Cazenac is a medieval village wrapped around a limestone cliff in the southeast of France's Dordogne valley. Perched atop the cliff-face is the Château de Beynac, an imposing fortress built by the barons of Beynac in the 12th Century, featured in films like Ridley Scott's The Last Duel. Beneath the castle, the surrounding village hugs the hillside tightly, its narrow buildings connected by twisting streets so steep they threaten to tip you into the river three hundred metres below.
Here, hundreds of Black Desert players have gathered to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the popular Korean MMO. Beynac is the inspiration for Black Desert's in-game city of Heidel, and as such makes an ideal venue for the occasion. For one cloudy Saturday in June, reality and fiction collide. The castle is adorned with Black Desert banners, while the village's precipitous streets have been temporarily redubbed "the adventurer's path."
