This is a major breaking point in the game, and you decision will affect the way the rest of the game plays out. After you've managed to accomplish some of your major goals, like getting the Dwarves to help you repair your castle (Goblins don't keep the cleanest house) and stopping an all out war between the Elves and the Humans, you'll be selected to pick which party, the Keepers of Light or Dark, gets to act as mediator in the peace talks between the Humans and Elves. After this is accomplished, Castle Harmondale's steward will give you an overview of Harmondale's current political situation and you'll be ready to set out into the world. The first order of business will be to clear all of the goblins out of your new home. Like the rest of the series, For Blood and Honor breaks all of the action into small sub-quests that players can choose to tackle in any order they like. Suddenly all of Erathia's problems affect you and the people who depend on you in a very real way. After winning a prize offered by Lord Markham, a wealthy landowner, you will find yourself the Lord of Castle Harmondale and the surrounding lands. While all of this may sound interesting, it shouldn't really matter all that much to a hearty band of adventurers, right? Wrong. Harmondale, a very small little domain squeezed in-between has suffered from the constant tension between these two major powers (the Dwarves, to the south in Barrow Downs keep pretty much to themselves) and has recently fallen to a band of marauding goblins. The king of the Elves has also established his own domain to the north in the lands of Avlee and the Tularean Forest. As you start the game, Catherine Gryphonheart has taken over the throne of her father (who has been transformed into a lich by the Necromancer's guild) and is ruling over the kingdom of Erathia. Sadly, the company's decision to retool the Might and Magic VI engine rather than putting together something new really hurts the game in an era where RPGs are once again required to be competitive.ДЄs usual, Might and Magic VII's story is a deep one, with loads of plot twists to keep the whole thing from slipping into a predictable Tolkienesque rehash. With For Blood and Honor, the venerable development house has created an old-school RPG that gives players an amount of freedom that they've never really had before Вї the freedom to choose between good and evil. New World's RPGs have always been long, well written, and pretty damn addictive. I've waited for each game in the set impatiently, pausing only to briefly examine the box before tearing in and losing myself in the rich game world. Before we get started, I should let you know that I'm a huge fan of the Might and Magic series.

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