In typical schlock plotting fashion, the lords of Stonekeep are super snooty and pompous and hopelessly preoccupied with bickering amongst themselves. Wahooka, here adopting his human disguise as the greedy wizard Pendaran Tremayne, chooses the young duke Cassius of Kural to relay his warning to Stonekeeps lords. One of its provinces, Kural, is invaded by a host of undead and mutated Throgs, Shargas and wacky new creatures called Ogares and Galoks. If youre curious, a quick overview (warning: might slightly spoil the ending of the first game for you):įive hundred years after the events of the first game, Stonekeep is capital to a great realm.

I plodded through the whole thing hoping it would get better, only to moan and groan to the last page. I expended a great deal of effort hunting down a copy of 'The Oath Of Stonekeep', only to find that its little more than a forceful snooze, full of mustache-twirling villains, a dumb cardboard hero, an abundancy of scowling, sneering and much raising of brows, all peppered with just enough names and references to Stonekeep so you remember what game its supposed to be about. Though Stonekeep 2 (GameFAQs listed its title as Stonekeep 2: Godmaker for a while) was never made, its supposed story was published as a small novel as well. Note the title art's similarity to Planescape: Torment's style! Stonekeep 2 concept sketches: upper class citizen, port city prisoner, soldier, and cover art of Ulger the Cruel, main villain for the game. It seems odd that someone spent money for the rights to tack the Stonekeep name on a game destined to stink up bargain bins from its birth, but maybe it was just a move to keep the rights to the Stonekeep name. On the dark side of that, a Stonekeep title was recently, and very quietly, released as a crappy kid-friendly Wii game that has practically nothing to do with its PC predecessor. The same who handled such titles as Planescape: Torment, Baldurs Gate and Fallout. What surfaced from that suggests wed have been looking at a very different game set several hundreds of years after the events of the first Stonekeep, but promisingly, a name mentioned as working on the game was Black Isle Studios.

Despite my best hopes, the games intended sequel never got far out of the conceptual stages.

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