TSI games, the new development team formed from veteran SSI staff members, have just put out a newsletter detailing their new game’s world and its history. In the document, which gives fans a rather lengthy run down of Seven Dragons saga’s setting, Tactical Simulations interactive starts with the creation of the world and ends with the founding of the empire:
- To this barely stable mix of beings came the Malloi, spawned by Chaos from a different world. They ripped the minds from those they captured, creating puppets to do their bidding. Powerful entities, wielding the greatest of elemental magic, they could withstand the powers of all the beings of this realm.
- In the end, the Fae and Dragons sacrificed much of their energies to call upon the most fickle and powerful force they could find, the endless Winds of Chaos. Simply opening a path to this great storm would destroy the lands along with the Malloi. Instead, the Dragons chose men to act as vessels, to channel the Chaos and direct it only against the great enemy. The Fae agreed, only because they believed this link to Chaos would only persist for the fleeting lifetimes of those humans. It was not difficult to find Men who desired such powers. Those Touched by the Winds of Chaos would not long outlive the war, and the world would return to how it had been.
- This gambit proved successful, and the Malloi retreated and sealed their gates behind them. The few kingdoms of Man lay shattered, their people scattered across the globe. The Fae and Dragons, exhausted, could only hope the Malloi had left for good.
- Fearing a reprise of this war, the Seven Dragons founded the Empire. Not willing to abandon the power of the Chaos Touched, and much to the displeasure of the Fae, these dragons also left open a small conduit to Chaos. Its unpredictable winds dance around the world and, upon occasion Touch a human.
If you’re interested in playing what has been promised to be a modernized recreation of the kind of CRPG gameplay we had in the Goldbox games, you can visit the TSI website.
