Drakath's Dreadhaven origin

The Prince of Dreadhaven

Drakath begins his history beside the Chaos Gate, addressing the Hero before their passage to the next world. He presents himself first as a prince deprived of his inheritance. His father, he says, once ruled the entire world, having united its monsters and enslaved its human population. Drakath acknowledges the oppression while treating the kingdom as something that should have become his.

Alteon is the enemy in that telling. Drakath describes him leading an army of human peasants to Dreadhaven and overthrowing his father. His contempt for the rebels runs through the account: their liberation is, to him, the theft of his future throne. The framing matters because these are the memories and judgments of the enemy now explaining himself to the Hero.

The Dreadhaven episode lets the player approach that history from another position. The July 18, 2014 release describes playing as Alden, the young man destined to become King Alteon, before continuing as his daughter Victoria. The preserved map records likewise place the Alden form at the castle approach and the Victoria form at the later bandit section. The story is narrated by Drakath, but its playable roles are not confined to him.

As Alteon approaches the throne room, Drakath's father gives his son a necklace containing an evil eye. Drakath calls it a magnificent gift, then admits that he did not know what it was. He remembers his father wearing it for as long as he had known him. At this point in the account, the object has passed to Drakath; its later significance has not yet been explained.

The preserved map identifies the defeated ruler as Slugwrath. Its current Aidora dialogue distinguishes defeating the king from the remaining General challenge, and offers a route onward to the bandits as Victoria. That same record says Aidora replaced Lynaria in Dreadhaven. The replacement and optional General fight belong to the documented map versions; neither supplies an additional scene in Drakath's spoken account.

Drakath says the rebels made Alteon king. Alteon spared the prince's life, intending that another child should not suffer because of the old tyrant's crimes. Drakath rejects that mercy as weakness. His answer was to create a mercenary band with the aim of killing Alteon and recovering the throne he still considered his own. The fallen prince becomes the bandit leader without surrendering his claim to kingship.

Victoria and the Bandit

The next playable part places Victoria against Drakath and his bandits. The release announcement situates this part in Oaklore Forest; the preserved Dreadhaven map contains the later bandit screens and switches the player's form to Victoria. Those records describe the route into the encounter. The closing scene begins with Victoria and Drakath already facing each other outside the wooden bandit fort.

Their private thoughts undermine their threats. Drakath is struck by Victoria's beauty and imagines her ruling beside him. Victoria finds him handsome and wonders whether she could change him. Neither thought establishes that a relationship has begun. Both characters are imagining a possibility while confronting an enemy.

Drakath announces that he will spare Victoria. She answers that she has decided to spare him too. He tries to recover his menace by promising that another meeting will be a fight to the death, but both stumble into admitting that they hope to meet again. The scene leaves attraction and rivalry together, rather than presenting an uncomplicated victory, rejection or redemption.

Back at the Chaos Gate, Drakath says their paths did cross repeatedly: he allied himself with the DoomKnight Sepulchure. That statement carries the account beyond the bandit encounter, but this part does not yet explain the alliance, the elemental orbs or his transformation into the Champion of Chaos. Its final card explicitly leaves the story to be continued.

The first origin release therefore ends with the prince still pursuing power, a mysterious inheritance in his possession, and a new personal connection to Alteon's daughter. The July announcement also identifies this as only the first part of Drakath's story. The later Falconreach account must supply the next steps; the Dreadhaven scenes alone do not establish how the necklace, Sepulchure and Chaos ultimately connect.