Falconreach and the Champion of Chaos

The Eight Orbs

The next part of Drakath's history follows him into Sepulchure's service. Falconreach's preserved Celestia dialogue urges the player up the tower toward a growing darkness. The July 25, 2014 release presents the journey as a return to the past, continuing the story of the fallen prince. The historical scenes themselves remain framed by Drakath's account at the Chaos Gate.

Sepulchure praises Drakath for helping reunite the evil forces that had served his father. He credits him with bringing Noxus, whose necromancy raised the great dragon skeleton that became the fortress, and Xan with his destructive fire legions. Sek Duat, ninjas and pirates appear in the same inventory of recruited forces. Drakath has become useful to a ruler whose armies extend far beyond his old bandit company.

Privately, Drakath has no intention of remaining a subordinate. While Sepulchure praises him, he imagines the moment when he will strike down the DoomKnight and take everything for himself. Service to Sepulchure is another route toward the power and throne he still wants.

Sepulchure orders him to collect eight elemental orbs. Drakath's narration claims that he fought the land's heroes and gathered every orb himself, with only a troublesome Dragonlord hindering him. The scene gives his sweeping claim emphasis, but does not show an independent account of each acquisition.

Its closing card points outside the retelling: it invites the player to experience what actually happened in DragonFable's Book 1 and provides a link to that game's website. The invitation is part of the native AQW scene. It preserves a distinction between Drakath's compressed account and the fuller story it refers to; these four AQW replays do not verify that other game's complete sequence or settle every detail of his claim.

The Betrayal at the Circle

The orbs are delivered to Sepulchure. Drakath begins by calling them his own, then corrects himself: for now, they belong to his master. Sepulchure intends to use them to claim the world for the plane of Darkness. As the ritual proceeds, the assembled heroes fear that he is about to summon the Ultimate Orb.

Robina places her hope in Drakath, believing that he alone can do the right thing. He chooses that moment to act. The preserved scene account describes him driving Sepulchure's own sword into the DoomKnight's back; the native scene directs the attack and Sepulchure's fall. Robina initially celebrates it as a rescue.

Drakath immediately destroys that interpretation. He announces that the moment belongs to him and renews his claim to take the throne and the world by force. The scene account describes him taking the orbs and becoming Dragon Drakath. Native transformation controls and the extracted dragon-form artwork support the change, while the static renders leave its complete motion and effects unresolved. Betraying Sepulchure has not made Drakath an ally of the heroes.

The next replay opens with Drakath dying on the ground. His transformation has not secured his triumph, but these scenes do not supply an uninterrupted account of the defeat between those moments or name the person who struck him down. The retelling moves instead to the necklace his father left him.

The Queen's Debtor

As Drakath lies dying, the eye in his father's necklace opens. He looks into it and encounters madness and the voice of the Queen of All Monsters. He says that her presence consumed his mind and became part of him, then wonders whether she had always been part of him. That uncertainty belongs to Drakath's own account; it is not a resolved explanation of the amulet's entire history.

Drakath says the Queen saved him. In exchange for extraordinary powers, she wanted her freedom. When he asked how to release her, he received no instructions, only chaotic laughter. The bargain gives his survival and new power an obligation without providing him with a stated plan for fulfilling it.

The scene presents his changed appearance and sword, then carries his account into his travels. Drakath says he discovered that he could grant powers to others and that creating each Chaos Lord made him stronger. The claim explains how he describes building his influence; it does not establish an unlimited rule for every possible transfer of Chaos power.

Meanwhile, Alteon and Sepulchure prepared their war against each other. Drakath says he waited until the two enemies were locked in combat, choosing that moment to reveal Chaos and humiliate them both. The prince who had lost his inheritance had also outgrown service to the DoomKnight, while retaining his hatred of both rulers.

The final scene returns to the fallen Eternal Dragon and Drakath's present confrontation with the Hero. He lists the identities he has held: prince, leader of the Darkwolf Bandits, general of the ShadowScythe, and Champion of Chaos. What unites them now is the obligation to the being who saved him. He declares his intention to free the Queen of All Monsters.

The playable tower route is a separate layer of the retelling. Its preserved quests lead through the Dragonlord, Dragon Drakath, Sepulchure and Alteon fights, and Celestia offers further replays and challenge fights afterward. That sequence should not be used to rearrange the cinematic betrayal, assign an otherwise unnamed attacker, or imply that each gameplay victory is a new event in the framing confrontation. Current map records also document a temporary Drakath form, without proving every original release detail or live server gate.

Drakath's explanation has caught up with the purpose of the Chaos campaign, but the Hero's fate and the Queen's release remain unfinished. The native preview promises Shadowfall Rises next. This part ends with the debt and intention made explicit, before the events promised by that preview.