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==Gameplay== Players have control over all three characters and can change character at any time (after all three main heroes arrive). There are many fighting moves, and players must use each character's skills to play the game effectively. Rannek uses a sword and breaks things with his gauntlets. Illius fights with a staff and uses magic (the game's most powerful ranged attack; the other two can throw knives (Zhai) or axes(Rannek)). Zhai uses two daggers and becomes invisible in shadows—this is useful for sneaking up on enemies and killing them. [[Boss]]es overpower characters in one-on-one fighting but can be defeated with the combined power of all three heroes. Although much of the game is hack-and-slash, there are several tasks that require the use of various skills. ===Story Line=== {{Spoilers}} The game starts with Rannek's arrival at the battle between two [[orc]] forces, finding himself drawn into saving the captured wood elves, whilst avoiding the assaults of a [[red dragon]], [[Caminus]], and both orc forces. He eventually comes across a [[drow]] female, who frees herself from her cage by stealing two blades from a nearby orc. She flees into the shadows, using stealth and skill to slay her enemies in secret, until she too finds herself saved by Rannek, who threw her out of the way to avoid being hit by orc Archers. This is when Illius, the sorcerer, arrives after being drawn to the area through a portal, slaying the archers and orcs with his magic and staff. The three are eventually forced deep into Gemspark Mine by the attacks of the red dragon. Inside they come across numerous challenges, including more orcs and a rather vicious orc 'king', who forces to three to work together to defeat him. It is learned that Rannek is a self-exiled warrior who failed to protect his village from invading [[trolls]], and we also learn that Zhai is half-drow, though her other half is yet to be revealed. Unwittingly, the three unleash Ygorl & Cireka from their imprisonment in the Demon Stone, and whilst the three and Cireka escape, Ygorl vanishes alongside his [[slaad]] minions. Once outside, Zhai notes that they are near Cedarleaf, a wood elf village, and the three rush to ensure it is safe, only to find Cireka there, summoning her Githyanki minions through a portal. Though the three work to distract her and slay her followers, Ygorl and his slaad army arrive to take the Silver Sword of Gith from Cireka, which Ygorl views as a powerful artifact. The two armies clash, with our three heroes fighting in the middle to ensure that numerous wood elves manage to flee. Eventually, Cireka flees herself, and Ygorl destroys the village, but not before a significant amount of wood elves, and our heroes, escape. Zhai reveals that her other half is wood elf, and that her parents were in the village. Illius suggests they visit his mentor, Khelben. The three do indeed go to Illius' mentor, Khelben Blackstaff, who tells them that they must acquire a Demon Stone held by the [[Yuan-ti]] people, who reside in Chult. He warns them that the Yuan-ti use it for 'unspeakable rituals' but is forced to stop from divulging further. Ygorl arrives at this moment to get revenge on Khelben, sitting astride the mighty red dragon found at the first battle site. The three are forced to fight their way down Khelben's tower, fighting bugbears manipulated into attacking the tower by Ygorl, although the castle's numerous defenses aid them along the way. As the three flee through Khelben's portal after defeating the bugbear chieftain, Ygorl flees the tower before destroying it, leading the trio to believe that Khelben has been defeated and, presumably, perished in the assault. The three determine that they must head to Chult, there to retrieve the Demon Stone, their only hope of capturing Ygorl & Cireka once more, to halt their destruction of Damara and Faerûn. At Chult, Illius is immediately incapacitated by some sort of Yuan-ti experimental creature, though Rannek and Zhai defeat them. Together the three travel to where Illius can feel the Demon Stone's pull, encountering numerous spiders and experiments along the way, as well as the Yuan-ti themselves. The trio are forced to fight the Yuan-ti at their temple, even facing off against Mershualk of the Eternal Hunger, the Yuan-ti God. Defeating all who oppose them, the trio steal the Demon Stone and make for their next decision: they will head to Mithral Hall, there to see Drizzt Do'Urden about finding Cireka. [[Mithral Hall]] is the heroes' next stop, where they meet the legendary drow, Drizzt Do'Urden, a drow known for renouncing the cruel and vicious ways of his people. Only moments after arriving at Mithral Hall, the great city comes under attack from a tribe of trolls, which Rannek identifies as the clan that attacked Nesme. Slaying the trolls, as well as defending numerous dwarves & the homes of the people, they successfully slay the clan king. Drizzt informs them that whilst he can't journey with them, they can most likely find Cireka at an abandoned portal in the Underdark, where Cireka would feel most at home. Thanking him, that is where they journey next. The three travel to the Underdark citadel told to them by Drizzt, but find themselves instead facing not an abandoned citadel, but one filled with githyanki warriors and mages. Fighting their way to the portal, the trio is forced to destroy a shield guarding Cireka, but are momentarily halted by the arrival of Ygorl and his slaad minions. With the two villains fighting each other, and their forces clashing around them, Illius attempts to use the Demon Stone to capture both Ygorl and Cireka once more, whilst Rannek and Zhai hold the other enemies at bay. Ygorl, however, senses the presence of the Demon Stone, and forces Cireka into a portal before vanishing himself. The trio makes the quick decision to follow, leaping through the portal to an unknown destination. They find themselves in the lair of the red dragon, [[Caminus]], seen earlier and controlled by Ygorl. Under the Slaad Lord's orders the dragon attacks Cireka, who attempts to defeat it using her Silver Sword of Gith. Fighting off numerous slaad, the trio follow Cireka as she flees and fights the Dragon, only to watch her untimely demise at the Dragon's claws. Taking up the Silver Sword, Rannek notes that the dragon fears the sword, before the trio continues fighting off slaad in an attempt to reach a nearby portal. Upon arrival, the dragon appears once more, and the combination of the trio's ranged weapons results in the Dragon's wings being ruined, causing it to fall into the lava. As Illius attempts to open the portal, however, the dragon pulls itself from the lava, and a dramatic fight ensues. In the end, Illius holds the dragon in place with a spell, whilst Zhai forces his head to the floor with her acrobatics, and Rannek finally slays the dragon with the Silver Sword. Illius notes that he now understands where Ygorl will be: Gemspark Mine, where he had one hundred years to harness the gems. They determine to see whether the Silver Sword can slay a Slaad Lord. The heroes return to the Gemspark Mine. Here they face more slaad than ever before, who attempt to stop the trio reaching their Lord. Defeating the slaad, they use a portal to go to Limbo—the Plane of Chaos—and engage in a final fight with Ygorl. It is during this battle that Ygorl reveals that he manipulated each of the heroes lives: he forced Illius' father to give Illius the cold shoulder and reject him; he caused everyone to fear and distrust Zhai; he manipulated the trolls into attacking Nesme, but leave Rannek alive, all in an attempt to gain the Silver Sword, and conquer Faerûn. He hadn't, however, counted on the heroes banding together and becoming so strong, and the result is that the heroes kill him, before returning to Cedarleaf, which is recovering from the attacks. The heroes are welcomed as such, and from the portal that Cireka earlier tried to use comes the form of Khelben Blackstaff, unharmed and well. He brings them thanks from Gareth Dragonsbane, King of Damara and it's neighbouring realms, and also informs them that they have been given command of Vasa, an untamed and perilous land. When they accept, he gives them a final warning: the Sword of Gith is a revered Githyanki artifact, and they will surely come to take it back," to which the heroes simply reply, "Let them try." ===Drizzt's Journal=== {{Spoilers}} One of the game's unlockable features is [[Drizzt Do'Urden]]'s journal, quoted as follows: ''Perilous forces are at work. The bards report that [[Khelben Blackstaff]] has gone missing, and that his tower lies in ruins. And I have received word that [[Illius]], his protege and my friend from [[Silverymoon]], is headed here with two companions: a human from [[Nesme]] and a half drow female. Despite my concern for Khelben and the danger these accounts foretell, I cannot resist a moment of pleasure at the thought that Illius is coming to me for help. I remember the trepidation in his eyes the first time we met. Well placed, I admit, when confronted by a drow. For I cannot deny that my people have earned the reputation that gives strangers pause. In [[Menzoberranzan]], city of my birth, far below the surface, treachery and murder are ways of life. Is it any wonder that the elven gods long ago banished the drow? But Illius quickly learned that he needn't be afraid. For though I share the same birthplace and blood as the drow, I do not share their beliefs. Nor do I serve the Spider Queen, [[Lolth]], whose tenets of enslavement and wanton destruction run contrary to all that I hold dear. Indeed, I came to the surface world to escape that, to find a life worthwhile and I expect that Lolth is not fond of my work here. For with my friends, [[Wulfgar (Forgotten Realms)|Wulfgar]], [[Catti-brie]], Regis and [[Bruenor]], I serve the way of community, friendship and peace - three causes that boil Lolth's [[ichor]]. Word has also reached us of a [[Slaad]] Lord of tremendous power moving through the East. And I hear whispers from underground of a fearsome [[Githyanki]] general making her way to an ancient stronghold of her people. Somehow these events are all connected, and their outcome will no doubt have far-ranging effects across the face of [[Faerûn]]. In my heart, I sense that the three travelers heading towards me are the key. I cannot abandon my duties at [[Mithral Hall]] in this uncertain hour. But if those travelers are searching for a way to find the Githyanki, then I must help them.''
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