Dark Messiah of Might and Magic - Epilogue

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic concludes the epic story laid out in Heroes of Might and Magic V, but as a 3D first-person role-playing game instead of a turn-based strategy game.

The "boss fight" at the end of Dark Messiah of Might and Magic involves confronting Arantir, who in turn summons a skeletal dragon. From Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East, we can surmise that this creature is supposed to be the "Avatar of Death" and the ability to summon it is special to Arantir. In the turn-based strategy game Tribes of the East, the creature appears black and shadowy. Since the final showdown in Dark Messiah takes place indoors and in a shadowed cavern, this wouldn't have worked out very well.

There are four possible endings to the single player campaign in Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Actual gameplay does not vary very much -- the endings are reflected only in the final movie/cutscene. The player must choose to keep either Leanna or Xana alive (he cannot choose both or neither), and he can choose to keep the skull or give it to his father, the Demon Sovereign Kha-Beleth (we know more of his identity, and the "Isabel" named in Dark Messiah, from Heroes of Might and Magic V).