Pagan Hope is a PC/Windows hybrid rpg between roguelike and hack and slash gameplay types. It can be played straight-through as most of the maps are connected with constant paths, but there are also maps where the feeling of randomizing will be present.
The plot: A great wizard summons a portal that connects the humans` realm with the unknown realm of Ja`han. A fierce demon, ruler over Ja`han that came through the portal, takes the sorcerer`s body and starts a quest to conquer the humans` souls. A young sorcerer is sent to retrieve some magical tablets that can block the portal.
Pagan Hope
Once upon a time, on the great ages of Evoc, there was a great sorcerer named Andalor, born in Ursanab, a small village from Hondol. He learned magic from the High Priests of Thulia until he surpasses all of them; then, seeking for greater powers, he moves to Naraka where he learns, from the elders, about the stone tablet of Dwarfs.. He was in a so big desire for power that he became greedy and bloodthirsty - he started to kill anyone who stood in the path of his new desire: to find the magical stone tablet.
It was said that the Dwarf Tablet contains an ancient conjuring spell that can summon unimaginable dark powers. The power of the spell was so immense that the ancient dwarf sorcerers hid the tablet deep into a mountain` cave.
Andalor roamed in the caves, deep into the mountains, all around Hondol until he found it. But the thirst of the power darkened his mind and blinded his sight as he understood the meaning of the tablet wrong. The spell was not meant to provide the caster with great powers, but was a summon spell to invoke a powerful force from the underworld of Ja`han.
Andalor cast the spell when a big portal appeared near him. The earth started to quake and dark-blue clouds gathered around the portal, when an immense demon came through. Being blinded by desires, Andalor didn`t realize what he did, so he tried to subjugate the demon to steal his energy, but the demon pounced upon him raping apart his soul and making his body his own... while in the dark tongue of Ja`han he summoned all the creatures to come through the portal and invade this realm; then, he took the Dwarf Tablet and broke it into three pieces which cast them away so they cannot be found.
The demon, who now possesses Andalor, is named Erebus and he is the ruler of the 5 realms of Ja`han. From the deepest and darker corners of Ja`han unusual creatures stepped to the realm of humans, destroying everything in their path and making the humans` souls their source of power.
The demon knew, as well as the high priest of Thulia that only the Dwarf Table spell can close the portal. The single thing that the sorcerers can do now is to slow down the portal powers. The great sorcerers of Hondol formed a council where they discussed the matter and they decided that while they focus on diminishing the portal powers, a still novice warlock but with great potential, should be sent to find and retrieve the broken parts of the tablet and to kill all the creatures and demons that invaded the human realm.
The mission is: seek and obliterate!
