If you haven’t already seen The Daily Wire’s “The Pendragon Cycle &#8211; Rise Of The Merlin,” you’re missing out. The next best thing? The board game inspired by the epic original series.  
&#8220;Pendragon&#8221; is a highly anticipated seven-part cinematic retelling of Stephen R. Lawhead’s novels that reimagine the dawn of the Arthurian legend. The series centers around the rise and fall of kings and the birth of Britain, weaving together themes of love, war, destiny, and magic. 

Designed by The Daily Wire, this narrative-driven game of deduction brings the Arthurian epic to life. Connor Brinton, the game’s co-creator, said the ultimate goal is to give gamers a truly immersive experience into the Pendragon saga, from the iconic locations and legendary characters to the magical abilities and enchantments.
Now, fans of the show can dive beyond the screen and into the Pendragon legend itself.
Brinton says the game took over a year to develop, design and collaborate with creatives and experts to ensure the game would authentically represent the story. Brinton, who also worked on The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://store.dailywire.com/collections/games/products/yes-or-no">Yes Or No</a> card game, said the reason they created a board game was to give fans a &#8220;real experience&#8221; they can take home.
&#8220;When it came down to what do we make for Pendragon, the natural inclination was to figure out some kind of game that we could provide customers — like, a real experience to take home with them,” Brinton said.
“There’s something fun about people gathering around and playing it,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It’s different than anything that we built before. It’s a lot more ambitious. But I think it melds well with this kind of show.&#8221;
How does the game work?
“Explore the sacred isle. Unearth the hidden truth. Prove yourself worthy of the Grail.”
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Discover the secret: One character, one location, and one weapon are hidden from the truth.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Explore the sacred isle: Roll, move, and face enchantments as you travel the board.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Deduce the truth: Make calculated guesses to reveal what your opponents are hiding.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Use your powers: Each character has one special ability you can use.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Claim victory: Go to the correct location and make a final guess, if you dare — the right answer wins.</li>
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&#8220;If you are a fan of the show, you&#8217;re really going to enjoy the game,&#8221; Brinton said.
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Available for pre-order now, you can purchase the game <a href="https://store.dailywire.com/collections/games/products/pendragon-game">HERE</a>. 
And if you haven’t yet watched “The Pendragon Cycle &#8211; Rise Of The Merlin,” check it out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-pendragon-cycle">HERE</a>.

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Jonathan Gerlach, a 34-year-old Pennsylvania man, was arrested on Tuesday after vandalizing a cemetery — only later did police discover human remains in his basement and storage unit, including more than 100 skulls, several long bones, mummified feet, and decomposing torsos.
The <a href="https://x.com/FOXLA/status/2009736991189979136">arrest</a> follows a months-long investigation of burglaries at graves and mausoleums. From November 7 to early January, 26 underground vaults and mausoleums were broken into or damaged, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Surveillance footage from Mount Moriah Cemetery on January 6 shows the suspect&#8217;s car with “numerous bones and skulls in plain view in the back seat,” Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse said. From there, police observed Gerlach leaving the cemetery with a crowbar and a burlap bag filled with the skeletal remains of two small children, skulls, and other bones. He was taken into custody and, according to police, confessed to stealing roughly 30 sets of human remains. Authorities say a Monster drink was also found nearby and was later processed for DNA and fingerprints.
It is still unclear what Gerlach was doing with the bones, Rouse noted, some of which were more than a century old.
“Very simply, detectives have recovered an awful lot of bones at this point, and we are still trying to piece together who they are, where they are from, and how many we are looking at, and it’s going to be quite some time before we have a final answer,” Rouse said.
He called the sight &#8220;horrific,&#8221; adding, “Detectives walked into a horror movie come to life in that home.”
Yeadon Borough Police Chief Henry Giammarco also said it was one of the worst things he had witnessed in his 30-year career. &#8220;When people are laid to rest, that&#8217;s important,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The remains, they&#8217;re so old, but still, when they lived, they had a life, they mattered. It was important to us to get justice, and that&#8217;s working with the DA&#8217;s office. Hopefully justice will be served.&#8221;
Gerlach is charged with more than 300 counts, including 100 counts each of abuse of a corpse and receiving stolen property, multiple counts of desecrating a public monument, desecrating a venerated object, desecrating a historic burial place, burglary, trespassing, and theft. He is also accused of stealing jewelry, possibly taken from human remains.
He is jailed on a $1 million bond with no lawyer listed in court records, and an arraignment hearing is scheduled for January 20.

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NASA is cutting short the Crew-11 mission aboard the International Space Station due to a crewmember&#8217;s medical issue, and canceling the first spacewalk of the year that was originally planned for Thursday.
“I have come to the decision that it&#8217;s in the best interest of our astronauts to return Crew-11 ahead of their planned departure,” NASA administrator Jared Isaacman said Thursday in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffcV3jCwwPk">press conference</a>, adding that their return would take place “in the coming days.”
The space agency released no further details on the name of the crewmember or of the medical situation, but reiterated that the astronaut is now fully stable.
Dr. James Polk, NASA’s chief health and medical officer, said, “It’s not an emergency evacuation, but we are erring on the side of caution for the crew member.”
The spacewalk was to be performed by American astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, who would exit the orbiting lab for almost 7 hours and &#8220;finish preparing a power channel where a new solar array is set to be installed on the ISS,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/nasa-cancels-spacewalk-and-considers-early-crew-return-from-iss-due-to-medical-issues">Live Science</a>. It would have been Cardman&#8217;s first spacewalk, and Fincke&#8217;s ninth.
The other two astronauts were Japan’s Kimiya Yui and Russia’s Oleg Platonov.
The American-Japanese-Russian crew first arrived on the ISS in August 2025 and was scheduled for at least a sixth-month stay. The group was then supposed to be replaced with Crew-12 in mid-February, but this is now up in the air due to the early departure. Isaacman said they may &#8220;potentially pull [the crew] forward.&#8221;
&#8220;It is unclear what returning Crew-11 home early would mean for the ISS, as such changes to the usual rotation are highly unusual,&#8221; Live Science reported.
There are also three other astronauts currently living on the space station who launched from a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in November and are due back to Earth in the summer.
NASA announced it will provide further details regarding the upcoming crew in the next 48 hours.

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Nick Reiner, the son of legendary Hollywood director Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner, was <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/19/nick-reiner-diagnosed-with-schizophrenia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> diagnosed with schizophrenia just weeks before he allegedly killed his parents and had been placed on a new medication, which made him &#8220;erratic and dangerous.&#8221;
A long-time drug addict who was frequently in rehab, Nick Reiner, 32, had been seeing a psychiatrist when his behavior had grown &#8220;alarming&#8221; after his medication was changed three to four weeks before the couple was found with their throats slit in their Los Angeles home. According to a TMZ report, the new meds drove Reiner “out of his head.”
&#8220;Our sources say doctors were trying to adjust the medications so Nick stabilized, but it wasn&#8217;t working,&#8221; the outlet reported. &#8220;Our sources also say Nick&#8217;s substance abuse was worsening the schizophrenia.&#8221;
Reiner had been receiving costly care at a Los Angeles rehab facility, with a monthly charge of $70,000, the report said.
The additional information on Reiner&#8217;s mental state comes just days after he was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, with special circumstances attached since there were multiple murders and he allegedly attacked with a deadly weapon.
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Nick Reiner&#8217;s two siblings — Romy, 28, and Jake, 34 — issued a statement after their brother&#8217;s first court appearance: “Words cannot even begin to describe the unimaginable pain we are experiencing every moment of the day. The horrific and devastating loss of our parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, is something that no one should ever experience. They weren’t just our parents; they were our best friends.”
Reiner, who was arrested hours after his parents’ bodies were discovered, did not enter a plea. After confirming that he understood he was waiving his right to a speedy arraignment, the judge granted a continuance, rescheduling the proceeding for Jan. 7, 2026.
He has retained <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nick-reiner-taps-heavyweight-defense-attorney-is-not-medically-cleared-for-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">high-powered defense attorney</a> Alan Jackson, whose past clients include actor Kevin Spacey and disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

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Brianna Aguilera, a 19-year-old Texas A&amp;M student from Laredo, was found dead outside an apartment complex on Saturday at 12:47 a.m., after attending a Texas A&amp;M vs. UT tailgate in Austin. Police say she was pronounced dead on the scene, with “no indications of suspicious circumstances.”
But Stephanie Rodriguez, Brianna’s mother, insists there is far more to the story.
“This was not accidental someone killed my brie,” Rodriguez wrote in a Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/stephanie.rodriguez.298465/posts/pfbid0Ym4qw84Up3hKyYS6BSddhyBmKiVoZ5UkqTTt4kjcDPeitek7xjqyV51hQ9ZYP1Tyl">post</a>. “My daughter would not jump 17 stories from a building and to be labeling this as a suicide is insane.”
“My daughter loved life and was excited to graduate and pursue her career in Law,” she added.
The Austin Police Department said in a statement, &#8220;At this time, the incident is not being investigated as a homicide, and there are no indications of suspicious circumstances.&#8221;
However, the details surrounding Aguilera’s death are not adding up for Rodriguez, and she believes foul play was involved.
For starters, Rodriguez said she had been trying to contact the police department for several hours before getting the call at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday that her daughter was in the morgue and had been identified through fingerprint analysis.
“No one reached out to me, I was the one who had to place several calls to Austin PD because I couldn’t locate her,” Rodriguez said, adding that she was told she could not file a missing person&#8217;s report because it hadn’t been 24 hours.
Rodriguez’s concern for her daughter started when Aguilera’s phone went on Do Not Disturb around 6:00 p.m. on Friday, which she says was “weird.”
“We always had this rule that if she was going to go out, she had to have her phone on ‘location on’ and answer her text[s] to at least let me know she was OK,” Rodriguez told <a href="https://www.kgns.tv/2025/12/02/mother-demands-answers-after-daughter-found-dead-following-ut-vs-texas-am-tailgate/">KGNS</a>.
What makes this case particularly intriguing is that Aguilera’s phone was later found in a friend&#8217;s purse by a creek, the location where Rodriguez initially told the police it was &#8220;pinging.&#8221;
Rodriguez also told <a href="https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2025/12/01/mother-questions-circumstances-surrounding-death-of-daughter-a-texas-am-student-in-austin/">KSAT</a> that Aguilera had been fighting with another student earlier that day, saying that she even provided text messages to the detectives. She said there were around 15 people in the apartment, but it was a bystander who stumbled upon the body.
In her Facebook post, Rodriguez addressed those she believes are involved, “&#8230; all the group of friends [had] a lot of time to come up with the same story … How is it that certain friends left immediately and the person who was living at the apartment complex vacated her apartment ASAP.”
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A GoFundMe set up by Aguilera&#8217;s family echoes the continuing confusion regarding the case: &#8220;The details surrounding what happened next remain unclear, and her mother is still awaiting answers.&#8221;
While the case is not being investigated as a homicide, the investigation is ongoing, and the police are waiting on an official cause of death from the Travis County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office.

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