West of Aleroth	North of Aleroth	East of Aleroth

Around Aleroth

Orcs, orcs and ....

How to vaporize an Orc

The forest surrounding Aleroth is just filled with orcs. Wherever you go, there are some just dying to get a piece of you. Of course you help them a bit with that.... the dying part that is.

So you can have your stroll to the east and north of the Aleroth forest and fields and enjoy the scenery and the dying orcs.

...a snake
I've also encountered a snake in the game in the northern part of Aleroth. Just the one and I must have stepped on it's tail as it was desperate to bite in me, so I had to chop it in pieces to make it stop doing that.

The snake	My sword

A familiar sword
In the western part you will stumble over a death orc, a sword near some scorched earth and an arrow with blood. If you think back to the intro movie than you should be able to understand why these things look familiar to you.

Southwest of Aleroth

The southwest of Aleroth
All the rest of the action takes place in this part. Assuming you are traveling from the north down to the south, you first encounter a teleporter. You can't do anything with it at this moment, but at least you know there are other ways to travel now in the future (but not in the demo however).

Going further down you will end up in another orc camp, with some goodies to collect and of course orcs to kill :-)

The teleporter	Orc camp

The Dragonrider
Going further to the south an ingame animation will start with a dragonrider who is complaining about being send of on a mission. And guess what he is coming for you. There is no escaping him and even though a discussion will start in the end he zaps you and you fall flat on your back. Then a figure appears calling the dragonrider to stop. This is Zandalor as you will learn from the conversation and the two are not friends. Zandalor appears to be a great magician as he disposes of the dragonrider without much trouble.

The dragonrider	Zandalor does his magic	and again

Then he heals you and tells you about the dragonrider and the Black Ring who send him to hunt for you and the other marked ones. You will learn from Zandalor that you are indeed one of the three marked ones. But he does not reveal what it means. Instead he asks you to meet him again in the Dwarven Breath Inn and marks the spot on your map if you ask him.

Just before he says good-bye he also give you a teleportation map and explains you how the teleporters work. Each teleportation device needs to be activated by a scroll that are held by each of the seven races. Zandalor gives you the scroll of the magicians. Furthermore he tells you that for more information you should search the nearby abbey if you like.

Then he takes his leave and the demo ends. But if you save now and reload that saved game then you can continue playing.

A small key at the right

Beyond the demo
Continue your way south and stay on the path, you will soon encounter some soldiers who are in a fight with the orcs. A little bit to the right of the path, just in the curve, there is a small silver key as you can see in the screenshot. This key will open a chest that is located near the orc camp with the cave leading to the catacombs. The chest is at the foot of a tree to the northwest of that camp.

Further to the south you will see a bridge and on that bridge there are two soldiers combatting two trolls. These trolls are a bit sturdier than the average orc so be warned. You will have there everlasting gratitude when you help them kill the orcs, but it doesn't appear to be worth much though ;-)

You do learn from the soldiers Ferris and Jupiter that the trolls are ambushing the travelers and take all their gold. So somewhere there must be gold stashed away. And if you do not cross the bridge but walk further to the southwest then you will end up at a cave with at least one other troll there who doesn't like you very much. When you killed it, you can enter the cave. But be aware, there are several trolls in that cave and they just might be too much for you. But if you haven't tried you never know...

The entrance of the cave	Inside the cave	A lot of trolls

If you are quick enough then you just might get by, without getting killed yourself. You can try to kill all the trolls of course, but if they are too big a match then your target is to first access the right most chest in the upper center area and take the key from that (and maybe the potions in it as they just might come in handy right now). And then quickly go all the way down to open the chest with that same key. There is a large sum of gold there for you to take with you. But as the area there is small it just might fill up very quickly with trolls. One of the trolls seems to be a kind of big boss there and even though he starts a conversation with you, there is no way to reason with him. He wants you death!

Basically you can continue after this by crossing the bridge, but beyond that point things are getting a bit unstable as the demo simply does not contain the required files for everything to work properly.