"Fifty years after the Great War, the world was slowly healing from the scars of battle, but one day... everything changed."
⚠️Spoiler Warning: This page contains Spoilers for Chapter 1 of Corrupted Shadows
The Prelude is the opening cutscene in Corrupted Shadows, meant to introduce the Great War, and the Corruption. The Prelude was introduced in v0.1.0-chapter1a and was amended inv0.2.1-chapter1 to fix a slight mistake in the text
Original Game Text
The following is the text from inside Corrupted Shadows
Spoiler: In Game Prelude
50 years after the Great War, the world was slowly healing from the scars of battle, but one day... everything changed.
Rumors spread from village to village, of strange occurrences happening throughout the land
Whispers of a Corruption rising from the shadows... The world, once at peace, now finds itself in chaos.
The world would never be the same again...
Full Prelude
The following is a modified text of the Prelude to add clarity and to expand lore
Spoiler: Full Prelude
Fifty years after The Great War, the world was slowly healing from the scars of battle, The Iron Fist had won and the Crimson Legion was banished, but one day.... everything changed
A corruption spread from the shadows, infecting the vicious monsters lying in wait, the once peaceful world changed, Monsters became aggressive, people went missing, and rumors spread from village to village, of strange occurrences happening throughout the land
The world went into madness, Villages fell, monsters ruled, and the peace earned from the war was stolen by the monsters. The world found itself plagued by an ancient evil, poisoned by the hatred and vengeance of war
The world would never be the same again...
And now you stand, years later, here to finish what the factions couldn't but, it's been so long... Are there even people left to save?