Shadowsong II: The Pendant of Infinity (Game)

Shadowsong II: The Pendant of Infinity is the second game in the saga and is based in the kingdom of Dragonshore, west to the kingdom in the previous game in Stonehelm. This game had been hinted at in the first game as within the game, Shill travels to Dragonshore to catch the Hooded Man in the Great Waste, a large desert situated in the northeast of Dragonshore. While there, Shill can obtain a map of Dragonshore, revealing lots of areas like in Stonehelm that one can explore, although the only location availible in the first episode of the Great Waste.

Plot
The story starts where the main protagonist, Orion, is with his friends in the great waste, when they are lost in a sandstorm and ambushed by a large creature that Orion has no memory of. He passes out and somehow wakes up in the house of an old couple who raise him back to health while Orion struggles with his amnesia. When the old man of the couple decides wisely that Orion has had a long and powerful past, he makes it his personal goal to get Orion back up to strength. He enrols him into Dragonshore Academy, the highest leagued fighting school in the kingdom of Dragonshore. While there, depending on your chosen class, you will meet your new teacher with your new roommate, Rick, and be taught by them for a period of time.

On the third day of study, Orion wins a tournament, and the fighting teacher, Shill, tells you about a first year tournament against a rival academy in the kingdom of Eldrin. You are chosen and for the next three days, after your assignments, Orion visits Shill to do some extra training for the tournament.

List of areas and dungeons

 * Port town shore (explorable)
 * Dragonshore University (town/explorable)
 * Southern forests (explorable)
 * Small stream cave (dungeon)
 * Ample Village (town)
 * Midwestern forests (explorable)
 * Jester's Mountain (dungeon)
 * Southern Eldrin (explorable)
 * Black Knight's Mountain (dungeon)
 * Dragonskeep City (explorable/dungeon)
 * Upon return to Dragonshore, undead monsters are infiltrating the city of Dragonskeep, following the opening of a lich portal in the city. Orion and his party secure the city, before being informed by Shill that they must obtain the elder weapons before entering the Distortion World and being able to defeat the lich. It is sealed at the bottom of a lake at the foot of a mountain to the west of Dragonskeep.
 * Western Forests (explorable)
 * _ Mountain (town)
 * Orion and his party arrive and plunge themselves into the lake, holding their breaths to the point of unconsciousness. They wake up to miraculously find themselves in a dimension outside of Shadowsong, where the elder trees appear in human forms.
 * Mirage Dimension (dungeon)
 * There are three large explorable areas in this dungeon, each one represented by one of the three trees. Each area ends when Orion finds a golden seed on the ground and collects it. Navigation of puzzles and increasingly strong monsters is the main element. The first area is classic grassland (representing Ender), the second is creepy dark forest-themed (representing the second tree) and the third is snow themed (representing Glaco). Following this there is a final small snow area where the player navigates two small ice-tile puzzles and then claims the elder weapons inside a small cave. They are transported back to the base of the _ mountain.
 * Western Forests (explorable)
 * Dragonskeep City (town)
 * Shill sells provisions to stock up before entering the distortion world.
 * Distortion World (dungeon)
 * Various fun puzzles and enemies before defeating the lich lord.
 * Various explorable areas
 * The Pendant of Infinity needs resealing within the Hall of Architects. You travel by foot to the kingdom limits to reach the great wastes.
 * The Outer Great Waste (explorable)
 * Nomad's Rise (town)
 * The Inner Great Waste (explorable)
 * Inside the beast (dungeon)
 * The huge monster that ended the mission of Orion's team at the initial cutscene to the game appears and swallows the entire party. Orion needs to fight through the body of the beast to reach the heart, where it can finally be slain. The path is now clear to the Hall of Architects.
 * The Deep Great Waste (explorable)
 * Hall of Architects (dungeon)
 * Has many levels and puzzles to solve. Three great mirrors need to be collected from the three wings of the hall and placed in the hands of the statuettes at the back of the hall, which reflect the sunlight to open the final hallway, within which, following a fun final boss fight, the Pendant of Infinity is sealed. Emerging at the top of the hall, Orion and his party use their teleportation stone to return to Dragonskeep. This effort shatters the stone, and fast-travelling is now disabled.
 * Dragonskeep City (town)
 * Stock up on supplies before getting a boat to Alastor's Domain.
 * Alastor's Domain (explorable)
 * A number of explorable areas, similar to the Ring of Fire etc. in Guild Wars. Heading towards the black palace where Alastor resides.
 * Black Palace (dungeon)
 * Black Palace (dungeon)

Downloadable Content
Shortly after the game's release, it has been said that a DLC pack titled "Orion's Awakening" will be released. The pack will likely be availible from a new menu when the player begins a new game. They will have the choice between the "Pendant of Infinity" which is the main storyline, or "Orion's Awakening (DLC)" which obviously contains the DLC package. Orion's Awakening will be a prequel to the game, telling the story of Orion and Dadrien's childhood. The content will be free and availible a few months, (most likely) after the release of the main game.

Trivia
During the first game, there were certain hints in place to indicate that this game would be in production. This could include;


 * At the start of the game, it was mentioned that there were five kingdoms in Shadowsong, although the gmae only features Stonehelm.
 * There is a point in the first game where Shill enters the kingdom featured in this game, Dragonshore, to catch The Hooded Man. While there, you can read a bulletin board, that, although the game does not allow access to anywhere other than The Great Waste and a few smaller areas, there is a map that you can read that features the map of a whole nother kingdom.
 * In this map, the areas that actually unfolded in the second game were actually perfectly right as to where the locations in the second game are.
 * While Shill is in Dragonshore, every standard battle against an enemy he has, (other than the Hooded Man), plays a new track that has never before been played in the first game. In the second game, this was actually the standard battle track for all enemies, (discluding high end enemies).

While in the capital city of Dragonshore, Orion can actually meet up with a slightly older version of Shill, the lead protagonist from the first game. While in conversation, he is simply referred to as THE SAVIOR. He is also next to another character from the first game, April, assuming that the two of them could of perhaps began a relationship after the first game. Shill says in the talk that he is "from Stonehelm" and is "just travelling".