Unlike Dungeon Siege, Dungeon Siege II takes a more varied approach to its gameplay. Valdis and the player character resume the battle, in which Valdis is killed. Valdis tries to destroy the shield with the Sword of Zaramoth, but when he strikes the shield, his sword shatters instead. He gives the shield to Valdis, revealing that he is a Dark Wizard. The shield protects him from the Dark Wizards, but the battle with Valdis himself proves to be a stalemate until the old man appears and takes the shield from the player character. With the shield re-forged, the player character travels to Valdis’ stronghold known as Zaramoth's Horns. This medallion had previously been worn by Drevin he gave it to the player character before he died. As they re-forge it, they place a medallion in the center of it for added durability. After he gathers all of the pieces, he takes them to the Agallan giants so that they can re-forge the shield.
The old man then explains the Plague, saying that it is caused by crystals created during the Great Cataclysm that give license to the souls of Zaramoth’s army to possess the living.Īfter the player character returns home, he begins to gather the pieces of the shield himself so he can use it against Valdis. Valdis hopes to cause another such catastrophe by gathering the shards of the Shield of Azunai so he can shatter it again. The blow shattered the shield, causing a catastrophe that ended the First Age. The old man then describes an event called the Great Cataclysm, caused when the Sword of Zaramoth that Valdis wields struck a magical shield called the Shield of Azunai. On the way home, the player character rescues an old man from Plague-maddened dryads. After being cured by the water from an Elven shrine, he returns to his hometown. After he earns his freedom, he discovers that he is infected with the Plague, a mysterious disease created by the Dark Wizards that drives its victims to insanity.
Rather than execute him, the dryads allow the player to earn his freedom by helping them in the war against Valdis. The player character regains consciousness in the custody of the dryads. Drevin is killed, but the player character is only knocked unconscious. After the temple is captured, however, Valdis attacks the mercenaries. The player character and Drevin are ordered to capture a temple held by dryads. The game begins with the player-controlled protagonist and his friend, Drevin, serving as mercenaries in the army of Valdis, a warlord who has aligned himself with a race of Dark Wizards and wields the magical Sword of Zaramoth. 3.3 Leveling up, classes, and customization.
The patch went into the game though, so I can least play without the 'known issues' getting in the way. Well, some how I ended up with a modded game but I don't know if it's really modded or not. I also got a message saying that the Ebeuela(?)file was missing.
Through most of this, every time time I tried to extract the file or re-download it, I got a message telling me that a file called splash.exe could not be found and that DS2 could not continue to add the mod without it. So I tried to extract the file to DS2res, save and possibly a couple of other places to no avail. I extracted the file to the default location but saw nothing different about the game I was playing, a game listed as DS2mod on my computer. When the file was downloaded I got a window that said it was a zipped folder. Pressed the red bar that says 'download file'. I got to a page that described what the mod would do.