Steam Store Page: Note: By default SpellForce was running in 4:3 aspect-ratio and every launch it asked for CD-key. SpellForce (Gold Edition) includes the first two games in the series, while SpellForce (Platinum Edition) includes all three games. SpellForce: Universe includes all three of the SpellForce games as well as both the sequel games. A sequel, SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars was released in 2006 and Spellforce 2: Dragon Storm was released in 2007.
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SpellForce is a combination Real-timestrategy and RPG game created by Germangame developers Phenomic.
The original game SpellForce: The Order ofDawn was followed by two expansions:SpellForce: The Breath of Winter (2004)and SpellForce: Shadow of the Phoenix(2005).
SpellForce (Gold Edition) includes the first two gamesin the series, while SpellForce (Platinum Edition)includes all three games. SpellForce: Universe includesall three of the SpellForce games as well as both thesequel games.
A sequel, SpellForce 2: Shadow Warswas released in 2006 and Spellforce 2: DragonStorm was released in 2007.
In 2010 JoWooD Entertainment will releasea second expansion called Spellforce 2: Faith in Destiny.
Gameplay
SpellForce focuses on the RPG elements of controlling an avatar,and on many levels the RTS elements of leading an army as well. Theplayer begins by creating a hero, called an avatar, and thenselecting which character properties they want their avatar tobegin with. Besides the storyline, there are also plenty ofside-quests, that when successfully completed, usually grantexperience and/or item rewards.
TheCircle
The Circle was a grouping of the 13 most powerful mages from thecorners of the world, that gathered together to explore and studymagic. During their studies together they vastly expanded theiralready considerable powers, and learned to master the Allfire(known as Archfire in SpellForce2). This act granted the CircleMages immortality.
In their lust for power, they came across a book left by the oldgods that taught about a ritual known as the Convocation.
TheConvocation
SpellForce - The Order of Dawn, begins a few years after theConvocation. The Convocation was a ritual that would supposedlygrant immense power. However something went wrong, and the worldwas left fractured, broken, and scattered. The only parts of theworld that survived the Convocation, were those that were protectedby magical towers that held the power of Aonir-the Star God.
Runes
The Circle, in all their power, commissioned Runestones, stonesthat encased the souls of warriors, who would be both immortal andbound to the will of their master. With the power of theRunestones, the Circle Mages could summon vast armies in a veryshort time and with little effort. Any Deaths would be meaninglessas they could simply be re-summoned.
Storyof The Order of Dawn
The story starts with the retired Circle servant Tahira, whoreluctantly agrees to help a soldier find her lost companions andcomplete their objective, to find a powerful Runestone believed tobe in the hands of the local orc tribe.
She finds the Runestone, rescues the missing soldiers, and handsover the Runestone to the soldiers who, unbeknownst to her, wereserving Rohen Tahir, the last known surviving Circle Mage.
Rohen arrives, and takes the Runestone, finds an altar in theshadow pass located west of greyfell and summons the Runewarrior,who is both the protagonist, and the player's avatar in the game.He gives the RuneWarrior his own Runestone, thereby freeing himfrom his slavery, he tells the runewarrior that he has held what isleft of the world together and that the 'circle is closing andthese lands need a protecter'and asks him to follow a messenger tothe nearby town of greyfell where orders will be awaiting him. Hethen leaves the avatar and travels to the Wildland Pass, afterreceiving news that 'creatures of black steel' are breakingthrough. The last thing Rohen says is 'so it has begun'
The scout leads the avatar into an ambush from another, unknownmage. After freezing the avatar in ice, the mage talks about howRohen is walking into a trap and refers to him as an 'old fool',and tells the scout to kill the avatar, and deliver a magicallysealed casket which contains plans for an invasion before leaving.The messenger however fails to kill the avatar, and the avatarbegins his quest to save Rohen from his fate.
The avatar has many adventures along the way, but eventually hemeets up with Rohen before any harm has come to him, however,Rohen, surprised to learn that another Circle Mage has survived,gives the avatar a book about the Convocation and tells him to findhockans legacy and that it is the only thing that is powerfullenough to stop a Circle Mage. Rohen then unlocks the casket, onlyto find it was empty suddenly the cricle mage appears and freezesthem both, the unknown Circle Mage kills Rohen and tells the avatarto return to the Order of the Dawn and tell them the time of dawnhad past the time of war has begun.
The avatar returns to the Order, and then begins his quest forthe Phoenix Stone. Lead by the undead ghost of Hokan Ashir, aNecromancer of the Circle, whom the player gives the Mask of Belialin return, the avatar eventually finds this powerful artifact inthe ruins of Mulandir.
The avatar is about to return with the Stone to the Order of theDawn, when in an attempt to help the avatar, the army of the Orderattacks the army of the iron ones and breaches the barricade lines.The orders army however is left in ruins in the process. The avataruses this opportunity and pushes onwards towards the CircleMage.
He however walks into a trap, and has the Phoenix Stone stolenfrom him along with the book of the convocation. He continues hisdesperate pursuit of the Circle Mage, eventually fighting his wayto the Circle Mage, who at last is revealed to be none other than ayoung version of Rohen himself, intent on attempting theConvocation again, sure that this time it will work for him. Rohenthanks the avatar for his hard work, and then, using the power ofthe Phoenix Stone, walks into a time-gate, that sends Rohen backinto the past, years before the Convocation. We see an illustrationof how time passes, with Rohen growing to be his mature self again,and we see him just before the Convocation, muttering to himselfhow his younger self, about to perform the Convocation, doesn'tknow what he is doing, and how he himself was a fool, which stillrefers to his younger version. after seeing the cutscene the playeris taken back to the main menu and scan start a new game with adifferent character if they want.
Storyof Breath of Winter
In the Wake of the world, when the elven people where young, agreat and powerful dragon named Aryn, the Frostweaver, is about tofreeze the whole world. Suffering the bitterness and loneliness ofhis existence he brings frost to everywhere he seeks for a partner.Only Cenwen, the elven queen, stands against Aryn, and warms hisheart with her singing. Aryn grants his gift to the ice-elvenpeople, in return taking Cenwen with him forever, weaving aprotecting Glacier around them.
The player starts with a completely new avatar in the Swamps ofUrgash. Summoned and freed by Grim and Lena, two sub-leaders of arefugee group, the avatar is to find and bring back Dunhan andReowys, two other runewarriors who lead the group shortly before.After many adventures, the avatar manages to recover the runes andbring Dunhan and Reowys back to the refugees under his order.
Then Grim reveals a plan to attack the ice-elf city in order tobring Cenwen back to Aryn, for the ice-elves want to bring ice allover the world through making Aryn search for his partner. TheAttack is successful, but Grim does not free Cenwen, who is not inthe city at all, but frees a Fial Darg, a prince of Darkness, andleads an invasion army into the land of the ice-elves. Lena and theavatar realize that they have been fooled by Grim, and that theyhave to save at least the refugees from the dark elven Red Empire.They manage to bring the humans to the Capitol of theice-elves.
Here, Lena and the avatar hear about the plot of the Fial Darg:He wants to use the blood of Cenwen, a firstborn, to bring back thedark gods, Zarach and Nor, onto the world. The avatar has to seekout for the only weapon that can stop a Fial Darg, the shadowsword. But to stop the Fial Darg and save the world, the avatar hasto pay an enormous price: the sword transforms its wielder into ashadow, invisible strangers from outside the world, mysterious andhidden before the normal eye.
The avatar ignores this price and finds the shadow sword, thenhe kills the Fial Darg (who in return kills Lena) and brings Cenwenback to Aryn, who return to the Glacier and bring peace to theworld.
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