King's Bounty: The Legend - Story, Characters, Creatures & Places
Story of King's Bounty
You can play the game as a warrior, mage or paladin, each of them has a tree for skills of three different directions:
Might, magic or mind. Here you spend your experience points for those skills to become a great and strong hero... or
something like this.
Once you have completed the tutorial you recieve a message to show up at the king's castle and be honored with the pretty
title: Royal Treasure Searcher. Then you are thrown out into a big world to find quests, enemies, strong troops
and also to fulfill some important orders given to you by your king to save the world.
Once you managed to find the Academy of Magic, you will get a small chest with an important content:
the Ragespirits.
There are four of them and once you managed to talk to them and fulfill their desires, they fight for you in the battles.
Each Ragespirit has special skills depending on it's history and ancestry.
While riding through the world you encounter several odd people and creatures, you have to make your way to isles or go
underground and fight against boss monsters, that are very different from other games. You hire troops to keep yourself
alive in the battles and sometimes you have to go into an amulett or another magical artefact. (That's no joke, you really
have to go into those artefacts.)
Characters
In King's Bounty: the Legend you can choose between three different characters and there are also several NPC's you should talk to. A short description of all available starting characters is listed here in this chapter.
Warrior
The Warrior is one of three characters that the player can chose in the beginning of the game. A Warrior receives two
Might-skills at the beginning and high combat characteristics. When he has enough experience to access a new level, he
can also get access to the Mind- and Magic-skills. A Warrior increases his Leadership faster than a Mage or a Paladin.
The Leadership allows him to hire more troops in the beginning of the game.
A Warrior can learn the skills Iron Fist and Anger.
Paladin
The Paladin is an intermediate class between a Mage and a Warrior. He is a fighter against evil and he develops his
Might- and Magic-skills evenly. He can learn Mind-skills faster than the other two characters, so he receives a greater
advantage when fighting against Undead creatures or Demons.
A Paladin can learn the skills Holy Anger and Runic Stone.
Mage
The Mage prefers wisdom and knowledge instead of brute force. He cannot command mighty armies and he doesn't know tactics
to increase the troop's fighting ability. A Mage has his Magic-skill to increase the strenght of his own troops or to
weaken the enemy's troops. He can cast powerful elemental spells or resurrect slain friendly troops.
Only the Mage can learn the skills Higher Magic and Alchemist.
Creatures
The bossmonsters in this game are very special and even the normal monsters are not really normal. In this chapter you can find out everything about King's Bounty's special monsters.
Giant Turtle
The first bossmonster you have to defeat in the game is the Giant Turtle, it lives on Lyaro Island where you can fly with the dirigble from the dwarf Trigum. This turtle was captured by an orcish magician when it was a baby, now the magician's magical experiments have transformed it into the Giant Turtle. When you have defeated the Orc, the turtle will follow you and help you fight against your enemies.
Kraken
The Kraken is a very big one... two of his tentacles have 5000 points and one has 8000 points, you need strong troops to
defeat it. It is immune to mind spells but it is also afraid of fire. When not attacking with its tentacles it can pull
devilfishes out of the water and throw them in front of your troops.
This bossmonster must be defeated fast or your troops are not able to kill all the devilfishes that this Kraken pulls
out of the water. Captain Wetbelly knows where the Kraken is hiding and he brings you there. Once this monster is dead,
you'll have the chance to get a fine young woman as your wife.
Spider Queen
The Spider Queen is a failed experiment, hiding in the Laboratory 44 in Dwarven Lands. Once you've reached Upper Hadar
and got access to the mines, especially Lower Hadar, you will encounter this giant spider.
The Spider Queen has 25.000 health points. It can summon Venomous Spiders to attack you. It's the same as with the Kraken
and the Devilfishes, if you are not fast enough they overrun you. With every turn that the Spider Queen will summon new
spider troops those troops will have higher numbers. Kill her as fast as possible and concentrate on the Queen herself
instead of the summoned troops.
Fire magic is a good option to use in this fight.
Special Places
All maps in this section are also part of the walkthrough for King's Bounty and they are stored in the gallery as well (together with more screenshots). You can find the links for the walkthrough and the gallery in the side navigation.
Greenwort
When you have finished the Tutorial, you will begin your adventures here in Greenwort. Here you can find the capital
city of Darion called Kronberg, it's the castle of King Mark Leonar II and it's laying on an isle completely surrounded
by a river. Greenwort is a lovely place with a coast in the north, where some pirates are living.
You can find here also the Magic School of Greenwort, a menagerie, a dwarf called Trigum with an odd derigible, the
Knight's Temple and a beautyful small village. Greenwort has also a cave with a Cyclops living here.
Arlania
Arlania is the perl of the south, a lovely place where you can find an observatory, the brother of the King, Carl, lives
here. Here in Arlania the mountains are fraimed by deep woods. Here you can find the Tavern with the bizarre name
"Dragontooth Tavern", the tooth itself is shown in a glass case inside the tavern. The Count Argus has his castle here
in Arlania and rules over this part of the continent Darion.
A mage, who is unable to control his staff, is living here in a rich decorated tower. Nearby the Dragontooth Tavern lies
a small strip of sands, where you can buy a ship from a sailor. Also the entry to the Creiston Mines which leads to the
dwarven lands of Kordar can be found here.
Verlon Forest
More meadows than forest are growing here, but the southern coast is wonderful and on a small island inside a lake lies
a farm. You can find here the Academy of Magic, two villages and a castle, where the Baron Norge has his home.
Near the village that lies in the west part, you can find a marquis who is not really friendly. At the coast in the
southern part of this land a lighthouse is standing on some cliffs and also a druid has his home here in the woods of
Verlon Forest.
Marshan Swamp
A hostile place with bubbling pools and poisoned vapors, many monsters spend their lives here. Here are three brothers
living, they are frog people and you have to talk with the oldest one. Two witches are living here as well, Chvakha and
her daughter, you can buy snakes from Chvakha to feed the ragespirit Sleem.
Here in the Swamps you can also find the furious paladin and the Temple of Deceased Souls, which is standing at a nearby
graveyard. Also the castle Karmag is here and the Chronicles Crypt.
Islands of Freedom
The Islands of Freedom, Western & Eastern Islands, are inhabited by pirates. The Coastal Brotherhood can be found here, and also the hidden treasure of Bartholomew Bart. All quests you will get here have something to do with pirates. The woman you can choose as your wife later has her home here and so has the second bossmonster, the Great Kraken. Oh, and some ghosts are living here too.
Kordar (Dwarven Lands)
Kordar is the land of the Dwarves and the Rage Spirits Lina and Reaper can be activated here. In Upper Hadar stands an
old pyramid, King Fandor's Map is located within it and you have to activate all the obelisks to get access to this
pyramid.
The main quest leads you here to the King of Dwarves, Tom Digor, who lives in the Castle Taron in Ardan's Peaks. Later
you can fly by dirigible to the Elven Lands or drive there by submarine. A train will carry you to Mehgard, there you'll
find the Chief Engineer Debat, who can tell you all about the Magic Portal and the keys you will need.
The Magic Portal can be reached through Taron Mines and a platform that leads down to the Underground Sea. The secret
Laboratory 44 is located in the Taron Mines and you'll encounter the third bossmonster here, the Giant Spider.
Ellinia (Elven Lands)
The Elven Lands Ellinia are a wonderful place, full of forests, animals and flowers. A Druid lives here and a strange
wizard, you also can find the Tree of Life here. The Capital Daloer is located deep in the Valley of Thousand Rivers,
Queen Violetta lives here and you have to rescue her from suffering.
You can find two Books of Death here in Ellinia which transport you to the Death Lands. And beware of the terrible
Dragons' Labyrinth, the Dragon Haas is controlling it.
Death Lands
The Death Lands are... well, not fully dead but inhabited by ghosts of all kind. You can find several souls hanging around here, some with quests for you. Two Books of Life will carry you back to Ellinia, once you've done your jobs here. The Tree of Death is located here, the Necromancer Kvorum can be found here and also Zelberra and her soul.
Demonis
Demonis, the Demons' Lands, are inhabited by demons of all sorts. The Recruiter Raab Sottan can be found here, the Demoness Isshara and two Roads Architects. You have to conquer Nexy Castle and also Magnis Castle to get the two stolen keys and to close the Magic Portal later.
Murock
The last land you'll visit is the land of the Orcs, Murock. From here you'll start your last journey with an Archaplane, build by the dwarves that got kidnapped by the Orcs. You have to fight the real Dragon Haas and rescue Princess Amelie.
Miscellaneous
You ever wanted to know where to find the next quest, what NPC talking to next,
which way to take and how to reach the end of the game?
Well, the old Hexenmeister has a fine walkthrough for you, it's written for the mage, but it may also be a good guideline
for the other characters too. There are also a lot of screenshots available in the gallery.
Both, the walkthrough and the gallery for King's Bounty: The Legend are linked in the side navigation.