SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars is a hybrid real-time strategy and role-playing game developed by Phenomic Game Development, released for PC in 2006. Set in the world of Eo, the game centers on the Avatar, a player-controlled hero who leads a party of companions while commanding armies in large-scale battles. The central conflict involves an alliance between the Dark Elves and a mysterious faction known as the Shadows, whose combined forces threaten to conquer the realm of men. As the campaign progresses, the Avatar must forge alliances with various factions to mount a defense, while uncovering deeper and more dangerous conspiracies driving the invasion. Gameplay blends traditional RTS base-building and unit management with RPG mechanics such as hero progression and party-based adventuring, tying both systems together across an extended narrative campaign.
For five years the terrible conflict around the mysterious Shadows sundered the country of the Dark Elves and fanned the flames of a civil war amongst them. Even beyond the borders of their territories unrest prevails: a new power rises in Eo, a threat that seems to spread its shadow over the whole realm and endangers the people's ancient alliances... Craig Un'Shallach, Dark Elf General and member of the Dracon caste, fights alongside his clan against the influence of the ominous Shadows, but the tide of war turns against him. When defeat seems imminent, his daughter Nightsong escapes in order to warn of the approaching menace. She flees into the borderlands between the realms of humans and the dark elves to alarm the humans about the pact between Shadows and Dark Elves and of the army of the Shadows, which advances under the guidance of the insane alchemist Sorvina towards the realms of the light! With this alarming knowledge Nightsong reaches the fortress of the Shaikan, the legendary dragon warriors, bonded by blood with an ancient dragon, feared by the races of light and darkness alike. There she receives the unexpected assistance of a courageous Shaikan who joins her journey to tell the tale of the Shadows and Sorvina and to save his homeland and family. However, to resist the impeding doom powerful armies will be required. The dormant alliance of light must be reforged, no easy task for two creatures counted amongst the enemies of Light....
