Ardra tells him to travel to Port Saiid and take a boat to Cradawgh's Island.Īlaron is eventually able to hire a boat at Port Saiid – after an unusual encounter with a cryptic jester but the ship travels into a powerful storm, and as the Stormbreaker is tied to the mast instead of the helm, the ship is damaged and forced to land at Chaos Isle. Without a True Name, his spirit is not bound to his body, and Alaron is incomplete. Ardra explains that the healing spell failed because Alaron is a Wildling – he has no True Name. This one includes a feeble, old man in a rocking chair. Ardra the sorceress begins the healing spell, which brings on another vision. Before leaving, Alaron converses with the Mirari queen Yeraza, who gives him the Stormbreaker, a blessed tree branch able to calm any storm.Īt the Wizard School, the doorman asks everyone's True Name, but Alaron cannot answer. Upon reaching Erromon, the Mirari King, Txomin, explains that they've been under attack from goblins and seeks Alaron's aid, promising to direct him to a naming wizard named Cradawgh.Īlaron clears the goblins off the mountains, however when he returns to Erromon he discovers that Txomin lied, and does not know the whereabouts of Cradawgh, telling Alaron instead to travel to Talewok, and see the sorceress, Ardra. Upon returning to Castle Gwernia, the king, Phelan, instructs him to ask the Mirari people of Erromon to help heal his poison. He awakes from a terrifying vision of monsters to find himself inside the hut of Oriana, a healer, who tells Alaron that the poison is beyond the powers of normal medicine to cure. If Alaron dies, the game is automatically over.Īidyn Chronicles: The First Mage follows a young squire named Alaron who, while searching for a missing farmer named Kendall, encounters a strange spirit and is poisoned by Goblins. Any party member who dies during combat is permanently removed from the game with no ability of revival. Spells and other talents area of effect is shown via a red flame border, and increases the higher the skill level. Also the characters aspect (solar or lunar) will perform better or worse depending on what time of day it is. Positions of characters (such as height and back attacks') can increase/decrease the damage and effectiveness of attacks. The player can move each party member a certain distance marked by transparent borders. When combat starts, Alaron and his party are transported to a separate screen with varying terrain. A pop up menu allows the player to equip the party members, view abilities and stats, use items, and access the world map and options menu.Ĭombat is turn-based, though stats of the player's characters and attacking monsters can affect turn order. The player cannot control any other member of the party except in combat mode. There is no way to change the speed Alaron moves, nor the camera view in normal gameplay. Time passes in real time, with night and day affecting visibility and combat (see below). The view is a mostly a third-person overhead behind him. The player controls a polygon-based figure of Alaron, moving him around both in and out of doors. The game takes place in a 3-D based world. Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage is a role-playing video game developed by Canadian studio H2O Entertainment and published by THQ for the Nintendo 64 video game console.
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