The Kreegan arrived to Enroth in 1162 in Night of the Shooting Stars. Search YouTube for Might and Magic VI intro and you see that.Amehmet wrote:Unfortunately, I've never completed any of the M&M RPGs either, so I'm getting the dates from the Internet. However, I can think of one case of a year being mentioned in HoMM 3 -- Xarfax's biography says he was captured by the Kreegans in 1162 AS.
They landed on north-western part of continent of Enroth but some of their forced (with their king Xenofex) went to Antagarich and invaded Eeofol.
If you kill enough people as an example, the rest will fear to tell story about how their slavers were slaves in past.Amehmet wrote:My point is that the Wizard-Kings should have killed a whole generation to stop the story from spreading, it's not as if the knowledge of Jarg's exploits had been limited to a small circle of people.
Clash of Dragons takes place after AB. Mutare's campaign indeed takes place during rest of AB campaign (excluding Sir Christian's - but it is stated in campaign intro).Amehmet wrote:Anyway, another chapter of Heroes Chronicles that I'm not sure where to squeeze into the timeline is Clash of the Dragons. There we have Mutare the Dragon Queen of Nighon, a king of Erathia, Kreegans and Gelu together. Now, we should think that Mutare's coming to power ("Dragon's Blood" campaign) happens roughly at the same time as the main campaign of Armageddon's Blade because "Playing With Fire" (Adrienne the Fire Witch's campaign) mentions both that Mutare is rising to power in Nighon and that Erathia can't attend to the undead trouble in the west of the country as it's already waging a war in the east (obviously referring to the main plot). Therefore, CoD should take place some time afer AB.
The text about king of Erathia is wrong. During these times Erathia has only regent - Morgan Kendal - and queen Catherine sailed back to Enroth.
If you look at HIV Lysander's campaign text, you will see it states that Catherine still was Erathia queen and was present on Antagarich during Reckoning - which is wrong, knowing both AB and MM8 game events.
As HC and HIV have the same author, it is clear, that text about king of Erathia in CoD is simple mistake.
No, The Kreegan threat was eliminated once and for all. Maybe there was some few survivors but as a whole nation/race the Kreegan was no more on Enroth (planet). In MM8 both queen Catherine and Escaton (Ancients' Guardian sent to eliminate the Kreegan) stay that there are no more Kreegans on this planet. Queen Catherine could be wrong but not Escaton.Amehmet wrote:However, Queen Catherine & co. had supposedly annihilated the state of Eeofol and committed a genocide upon Kreegans by the end of Armageddon's Blade, yet they're quite numerous in CoD. True enough, there's no mention of Eeofol, Kreegans are regarded only as "Devils and Demons" under Mutare's command. Moreover, when Tarnum gets across the sea in the final scenario, supposably to the island of Nighon, he finds only Infernos. Could all those Kreegans be the "few surviving clans" of Eeofol, accepted into Nighon? Or could Nighon have been inhabited by some Kreegans all along, even before the fall of Eeofol?
Either way, perhaps even more importantly, could Erathia really have chosen a new king in such a short time (there's only a few years between the end of AB and the Reckoning)?
Erathia never has new king or queen. Morgal Kendal never has time to choose new one. From some rumours which I heard long ago (and which could or couldn't be true) it was Gelu who supposed to be elected as new king... but we all know how he ended.
SoD starts 10 years before RoE and ends near beginning of it. The Kreegan arrived 3 years before RoE and attacked Erathia immediately but was soon stopped by Nighon Overlords and were quiet by next 3 years until beginning of RoE.Amehmet wrote:And there are several years at most between the beginning of SoD and the beginning of RoE. Could Nighon really have so much success in invading Erathia like it did in RoE such a short time after failing at it?
They have net of underground tunnels below all Antagarich - as stated in Sword of Frost, they can reach Vori (opposide site of continent). As for they living place - in MM7 we can visit their city on the ground. They living land is place of volcanoes and deserts, so no wonder they prefer live underground. But still they have some cities above caves... and from HIV Tawni's campaign we know, they also have some harbours and haven for pirates (probably Regnan pirates).Amehmet wrote:Be that as it may, I'm interested in what Nighon is like as well. It obviously has some land on mainland Antagarich too. I originally thought they were represented by the underground Dungeon because RoE takes place in Erathia and its immediate surroundings and it's through underground tunnels that they appear in the middle of Erathia. However, Dragon Blood suggests that most, if not all, inhabitants of Nighon live underground. The little parts that we see of its surface in HoMM are rough and mostly volcanic -- maybe inhabited by Kreegans (though I don't think that's the case)?