Prince Melannius’ heart was in tatters; it was as if someone had drilled a gaping hole right into its core. The light of his life was slowly being extinguished before his very eyes. His wife of so many years was rotting away, afflicted by a strange and terrible sickness that no one had ever seen before.
All the royal physicians and healers were clueless and utterly hopeless as to how to treat the malady affecting the once vibrant and beautiful princess. Everything seemed lost for the prince.
An air of gloom and hopelessness pervaded over the palace.
Suddenly, the long-awaited breakthrough came in the form of a mysterious old man. The stranger was a learned sage who knew the inner workings of evil at its most despicable form. He revealed that the princess was placed under a powerful and otherwordly curse. Luckily, a cure was available but it would entail a massive and extremely dangerous undertaking.
Upon hearing this, the prince immediately set into motions the plan that would spell life or death for his wife. He summoned all the brave and noble warriors of the land to embark on a precarious quest. Their mission: to gather the ingredients and items needed to make the potion that will rid the princess of her burden.
Sparing nothing to chance, the princess offered a kingly reward to anyone who will come up with the ingredients.
The fate of the princess now lay in the hands of the adventurers. Fortune will now favor the brave…