#Avadon the black fortress companions software#
#Avadon the black fortress companions series#

With the first game, that discontent eventually lead to an open attack against the Black Fortress where the player could either choose to help the raiders or help defend Avadon.

As the player invariably becomes a 'Hand' of this organization (the aforementioned field agents/assassins, sent out to 'solve problems' that threaten the stability of The Pact) internal questions are always raised about the methods Avadon employs, and those you might personally employ, in order to achieve your goals. The authority of Avadon is absolute, which makes it as many enemies as allies (probably far more so the former, honestly), and it inspires a degree of fear in all but the insane when Avadon's Eyes are upon them. Avadon acts as an independent entity where agents, assassins, and spies - bolstered with the best magic and equipment that not even money can buy - are sent out to maintain the peace of The Pact at any cost: an imposing manifestation of the idea that the end (peace) justifies the means (death and oppression).

#Avadon the black fortress companions series#

The Avadon series concerns a continent named Lynaeus which has a powerful five-nation alliance in its center colloquially known as 'The Pact.' The peace of The Pact has been fragile at the best of times, but the nation states and the hostile 'Farlander' countries that occupy the surrounding coastal regions have always been kept in check by the administration of Hanvar's Council and the might of the Black Fortress of Avadon.

#Avadon the black fortress companions software#

Each game to come out of his studio Spiderweb Software looks more or less identical: axonometric or top-down level design that has small parties with limited skill trees take on carefully considered quests and enemy group encounters in settings with a significant amount of worldbuilding behind them. That's by design, of course, and I'm not using the observation as a pejorative: for genre veteran Jeff Vogel (who has been making these specific types of turn-based CRPGs since the mid-90s) every one his projects is consciously big on mechanics and storytelling and light on presentation. Avadon 2: The Corruption was originally released in 2013, but it looks and plays like a game released thirty years ago, not seven.

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