You and your characters arrive during one of the brief bouts of peace between the two nations, and by the time you do, the locals are so jaded that even your court historian (appointed by Lord Markham. The few times Harmondale hasn't been run by Erathia or Avlee, it's been run by tax-happy tyrants or deranged necromancers. The two kingdoms have been periodically warring with each other for the past 480 years or so, and Harmondale is one of the things they've been fighting over. Harmondale has had a turbulent and violent history due in part to the fact that it's smack dab between the human kingdom of Erathia and the nation of elves in the Avlee and the Tularean Forest. Unfortunately, there was a reason Markham wanted to foist the place onto the first group of idiot peasants who came along. Finally, after finishing Lord Markham's grocery shopping, you are given the deed to Castle Harmondale. Luckily, you don't actually need to defeat the dragon to progress the story, just run into its cave to grab a shield and finish a quest. All that stands in the way of you and that sweet sweet title of nobility is a seashell, a hat, a lute, a red health potion, a bajillion fire-spitting dragonflies, and a literal dragon that you will only beat if you have about an hour to spare. The hunt is being held by Lord Markham of Tatalia, and the prize is the deed to Harmondale Castle and the lands surrounding it.

embellishments that Archibald sees through, but finds amusing, and their conversation is interspersed with jump cuts to the knights relaying their version of events to their leader, Gavin Magnus, king of the light mages.īoth Gavin Magnus and Archibald Ironfist are very interested in what the strange sea creatures could possibly mean.įorget all that, though! You control a party of adventurers who have joined a scavenger hunt on Tutorial Island- I mean Emerald Isle. The goblins explain the story to their leader: Archibald Ironfist, leader of the necromancers, brother to the missing King Roland Ironfist, failed conqueror of Enroth, and reoccurring villain of several of the past games.

When the knights come over to investigate, they find that the creatures have shed their skins and left them behind. They appear to communicate with each other then go their separate ways. Then strange and terrible fish-like monstrosities rise out of the ocean. The opening video in all its nineties-era digital animation glory opens on a troop of goblins and a troupe of elves and knights fighting with each other on a beach. Like Might and Magic VI before it, Might and Magic VII takes place in the world of Enroth, only this time it takes place on the continent of Antagarich, the land to the south of the continent of Enroth. Published in 1999, it takes place in the Ancient Universe. Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor, or MM7, is the 7th RPG in the original Might and Magic series by 3DO and New World Computing.

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