Unhappy with the aliens and UFOs that got inexplicably dragged into the universe by the M&M RPGs, a team of experts were brought together to redesign the world and give it a new 2,000-year history, keeping only the bare essentials from before. Better still, the plot of HoMM will intertwine with the moderately more juicy looking first-person RPG Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, with certain characters cropping up in both games.