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The Legends of Arkain Series

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A Campaign Series made by Shar Dundred

You are not allowed to publish any edited version of any Arkain map! This includes but is not limited to Reforged edits!




Campaign Info

The Legends of Arkain is a campaign series which takes place on the world Arkain.
The races of Arkain fight against the demon invaders, who try once again to enslave every being on Arkain. The Humans, the Orcs and the Undead will have to make a stand against them... or face complete annihilation or enslavement by the Demons.
This campaign series will consist of actually three different series. There will be a Human, an Orc and an Undead campaign series. They will all run in the same timeline but will present three different stories and outcomes. When they are all finished, it's completely up to you, who wins this conflict.
Those, who win the war, will write the history.


Features

- Three different storylines/campaign series
Take control of one of the three factions, the proud Humans of the Empire, the plundering and strong Orc Clans or the mysterious Undead Nexus and their endless army of the dead, and face the demonic invasion as well as other struggles that await you.
- New units
Command units, you already know, as well as completely new units with new upgrades and abilities.
- Decide the fate of Arkain
At some points of the campaigns, you'll have the opportunity to decide things, that affect the storyline, characters and sometimes even the chapters you play or how you have to play them. By doing or, well, not doing certain side quests, you can also affect the campaign.
- Three difficulties
You can play the campaign in either easy, normal oder hard difficulty, just like in the original WC3 campaigns. It will impact on the AI difficulty and scripting as well as other minor changes.
In easy version, for example, the AI won't rebuilt lost buildings.

- Full Jass AI
In this campaign series, every single AI is written in Jass instead of being created with the AI editor. This makes the AI more intelligent.
- Universal Hero hotkeys
All hero abilities use the QWER hotkeys.

Factions

The Human Empire
There have always been Humans on Arkain. The Human kingdoms and their allies, the Elves and Dwarves, have fought the Demons for centuries while also being attacked by orc pillagers. They had no chance against the demons and were already close to annihilation, when the Empire showed up.
They came over the Great Sea in the west and saved the kingdoms, who immediately joined the Empire in return. The Humans still fight the Demons and more and more of them join the fight against their old suppressors.
The Humans already tried to get rid of the Demons for good, but they failed. However, they continue fighting and won't stop until there are no humans or enemies of humanity anymore.
The current Emperor is Theodor the Second.

The Orcish Clans

Legends say that the Orcs hail from another continent and then spread all over the kingdoms. But not even the oldest Orcs can tell, if that's the true or the Orcs have been here all the time, just like the other races.
But it is known that the united clans attacking absolutely everything and everyone they met and conquered a large territory. It did work for a while, but not long. The other races, especially the Demons, who were very angry about that insult, brought the fight to them and massacred half of the green skins.
The Orcs had to retreat and lost much of their territory. The only reason, why half of them are still there, is that their enemies fought among each other as well.
The Orc Clans allied with the Trolls, to increase their strengh, but still didn't manage to gather an army, that was comparable to their old numbers. Since they weren't able to begin their another huge conquest, the clans stopped working together and some old rivalries amongst the clans became important again.
Still, they managed to raid the other races and remain an annoyance for the other factions. There are still many Orcs left, which could prove to be a strong force, if they'd be united under a strong leader.

The Undead Nexus

The Undead are the most mysterious race of Arkain. Of course, necromancers and necrolytes are not unknown and have always summoned some undead servants to do their bidding, but the Undead as a complete race are a mystery to all creatures.
Once, a group of mighty necromancers, who became insane because of their immense power, believed they could rule the world with an army of the Living Dead. However, only days after they began attacking the Human kingdoms, they simply vanished. Their armies were gone and only the remains of the corpses were proof, that they ever existed.
What no mortal and no Demon knows, is, that a powerful Archlich, Aridon the Watcher, self-proclaimed guardian of Arkain, took care of them. He has the ability to take control of every Undead, he wants to control. He uses this power only, to make sure, that besides him is no one, who can form a real army of Undead. He always made the Undead kill their masters and reanimated them as his loyal servants.
The only mighty Undead, not currently living on the Dead Mountain, are guarding old temples and ruins, which contain artifacts, not meant to fall in the hands of neither mortals nor Demons. Still, they all call Aridon their master.
Aridon and his Undead live on the so called Dead Mountain, which lies within the Human kingdoms. Every sent expedition on this mountain never returned, so the Humans decided to simply ignore it and built a garrison to watch over the only entrance to the mountain.
Aridon claims to be as old as the world itself and has seen the rise and fall of races and nations. His goal is to maintain the balance of the world - or at least, what he sees as balance. He stayed out of every conflict and only watched for millenia.
But recent events force Aridon to end his idleness and take action himself instead of only manipulating others. He'll have to make the world know about the Undead - and give reason to fear them.

The Demon Legions

If there are any creatures besides the Undead Lord Aridon, who are as old as Arkain itself, than it must be the Demons. These creatures have been the bane of Arkain for a long, long time. If their history contains anything else than attacking and enslaving other races, than only the Demons know about it.
Every Demon Legion is lead by its most powerful Dreadlord. Who is the one, who commands all Legions, is unknown to every non-demon.
The Demons' realm lies in the East of the continent and is seperated by a bottomless rift, the so called Void. No one, except for Demons and their slaves, has ever been on the other side of the Void. The Void is so heavy fortified by the Demons, that they managed to block every attack there. The Void is also the place where the Imperial Army was defeated during their Great Attack.
Now, the Demons seem to begin another great offensive against the other races. And this time, they are determined to be victorious and won't show any mercy.



Keywords:
Legends of Arkain, Legends, Arkain, Legend, choices, choice, Shar Dundred, Book, campaigns, campaign, campaign series, series
Reviews
19:11, 16th Jul 2015 PurgeandFire: Corresponding resources approved.
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Some levels really take ages to complete with little level of achievement under way. The orcish 4 leaders level it takes a fair amount of time to stabilise I had to wall up behind a fortress of farmwalls with towers to just be able to move the army out on to kill of those orcs. But in the end having levels that require over 50k gold mined to get a shot of completing the. While only getting 1 lvl on the heroes. Felt a bit underwhelming. Same applied to the elven trator level. I had to set up bases deep in enemy terretory to just benefit from the gained advancement of terretory. The valkyries are fun units but their spell immunity is one one hand OP and on the other hand makes them useless against infernal and other valkyrie's. Felt like they lacked decent frontline units.

I liked the choice of models the bearknights could've had a little bit of more flavor with just some 1 active skill to make them different from regulair ladder knights.
The lost one defile is a really pretty model. I liked most of the custom hero models a lot as well. I'm not entirely sure if any of the choices i did make end up doing anything. Even though at the end of the campaign they are listed. Oh well aedelle prolly did change something for i wasn't close to explorering the entire temple.

unlike the blizzard campaigns where with excellent micro you can get away without losing any units this is for hell not the case. Throwing a full 100 food army against a enemy just to clear a single defensive chokepoint felt like the only real way towards beating the levels. I'm not entirely sure this is how you imagined it to be played. But it was not what i expected. The story itself is fairly well set up as far as i can tell from the first human book so far.
 
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Just downloaded yesterday, i'm currently at mission 5 human.
The side quest United Forces is not working, after I chose a hero, nothing happened.

Ps: my WC3 version is 1.31
 
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I'm about to DL the second human book, guys this Campaign is so good. Like for real, I can't stop playing it, I hope there are more books, even if it reaches 10 books, I'd play it
 
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The truth is that I have nothing to say about this campaign, it is very good, the only thing that remains is to launch its version for reforge, after that excellent, my congratulations to the creator, this is a campaign that every good player should have for less .
 
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Hello everyone! I have a question - is better to play this pack, or The True Story of Arkain, if never played the campaign before? I am especially excited about choice system and want to experience it as much as possible. Is it better realised in the True Story, or this pack is more "whole"? I am honestly confused about which a need to play to receive a "True Arkain experience"
 
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If you want more story related choices & also do not want to wait for the canonized True Story to be finished, I would highly recommend the six original campaigns.
Thank you for the reply! Then I will proceed to play originals, and, much later on, the True Story. It will be exciting to see how my choices will line up (or not) with canonical take. Good luck with all your endeavors!
 
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Is there currently a way to play this in Reforged, and if not, do you plan on making a version for Reforged the way SevenBlood is making his Revamp series of the WC3 campaigns?
 
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Is there currently a way to play this in Reforged, and if not, do you plan on making a version for Reforged the way SevenBlood is making his Revamp series of the WC3 campaigns?
I don't know is Reforged with Quenching Mod support this whole campaign but there is a chance you'll get a bug so 1.29 is the recommended version for all campaigns.
 
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Does this work with war craft 3 reforged?
If yes do I need other programs too?
I'm rarely new and I love wc3.
Big Greetings.
 
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It does work with Reforged, but you will need to get the Quenching Mod to use Custom Campaigns
So i have now the quenching client 1.7 ^^ , do i have now to put the whole arcain series into the folder?
is there maybe a viedeo or something who is showing those downloads?
Big Greeting.
 

Kasrkin

Hosted Project: LoA
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Co-op Arkain is on the 'to do' list of things that may or may not occur. And this bundle hasn't been updated in a while.
 
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Hey! I'm kinda new about this workshop thing i've returned to WC3 just for Nostalgia but now i realize i can't play Custom Campaigns like i did back then.
Any other way of how to play your campaign?
Tried quenching but it's buggy for me, maps don't load.
anyways what a masterpiece of campaign man!
 
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Hey! I'm kinda new about this workshop thing i've returned to WC3 just for Nostalgia but now i realize i can't play Custom Campaigns like i did back then.
Any other way of how to play your campaign?
Tried quenching but it's buggy for me, maps don't load.
anyways what a masterpiece of campaign man!
As author suggested, all third-party mods that make all Arkain campaigns playable in Reforged are officially not supported.
Furthermore, Arkain campaigns work best on 1.29.2.
 
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One exciting question - will these cards work now? That is, Blizzard has already added the ability to use custom campaigns, will it work in the latest version of the game?
 
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absolutely loved the campaign! Are the next chapters coming anytime soon? I would love to play them!
 
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To anyone here on 2023, Legends of Arkain books are working just fine on Reforged Custom Campaign, even with reforged graphics (but it has performance issues, so i would recommend playing on classic graphics). I've played a couple Human and Undead book missions and i have encountered no bugs so far, it even plays way better than in the classic WC3.
 
To anyone here on 2023, Legends of Arkain books are working just fine on Reforged Custom Campaign, even with reforged graphics (but it has performance issues, so i would recommend playing on classic graphics). I've played a couple Human and Undead book missions and i have encountered no bugs so far, it even plays way better than in the classic WC3.
Ram into a few problems my, but still happy to play it in Reforged graphics
 
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