HOMM II MAP - Nosferatu.Mx2
Map Maker: Timothy Duncan
Email: tduncan@haverford.edu
Please Read NOSFERATU.TXT first

Note to Players:
You will soon find that the story splits and you will 
be forced to choose one of two paths.  The level is 
built so that you ONLY follow one of the two paths, so
you shouldn't go back and follow the other path just 
to make your hero stronger, despite the fact that you 
will be able to do so (you can't, as of yet, make 'either
or' events in the editor).  Depending on which choice
you follow, you will be directed to read either Journal1.txt
or Journal2.txt.  At the end of the map, read the 
conclusion at the end of the Journal that you have 
chosen.


INTRODUCTION - please read before playing map, if you
care about this sort of thing...


The year was 532.  That means that 532 years have passed
since the Great Cataclysm, a catastrophic series of
natural disasters that tore apart the land and destroyed
the once great Empire of Colbeck.  Some said the 
cataclysm was sent by the gods to punish the cruel
despotic emporer, who ruled with draconian laws and
a military the likes of which had never been seen.
In any case, the world was torn asunder, and the people, 
without an empire or any government, drifted apart until 
a barbarian, a strict follower of the wonderful 
cause of justice, named Galad L'av, united the newly
formed tribes under a new government.  Galad, who earned
the nickname Galad the Glad, established a new line of
rulers (the House of L'av) and until 532 they 
had ruled over a world brimming with peace and love.

The events that began in 532 are unclear to most 
historians, but it is known that a terrible blunder
occurred.  Lord Alric Love, descendant of Galad L'av 
(the name changed to Love because of the wonderous
deeds of the regal line), was the ruler when the Four
Years War began, and indeed it is hypothesized that
his overconfidence caused it.  It is about this time
that an Necromancer by the name of Ghelstion Nosferatu,
a descendant of the Colbeck imperial family, in anger
for what happened to his ancestors, secretly raised an 
army of Vampires an then waged a four year long war against 
Lord Love. The forces of good were winning, and Nosferatu 
and his army were sorely beaten for the first three years,
but something happened in the fourth and final year of fighting.
Lord General Sorgan Polinios, commander of Love's forces,
mysteriously disappeared and Alric was found headless one 
morning in his bed, his skull, polished clean, sitting
ominously on the mantle across the room. With such a moral blow to
the forces of good, Nosferatu soon swept across the land in
an angry fury, like a tempest bent on sucking the very life
from the land.

In 536 Love family was destroyed and Nosferatu initiated
an 800 year period of darkness under the might of his
undead armies.  Peasants were farmed as food and the 
living were the ones who were feared by the populations
of zombies and skeleton civilians.  Nobody even remembers
a time when the living ruled the earth, but the pendulum 
swings again, and now, in the year 1374, the force of
change presses.  The Loves are back, somehow, and in full 
force, and a plague of good threatens to retake the 
earth.  Remember, to you, evil is good, and good must 
never prevail...


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