With none of her attributes or skills reduced. 'Gia' came through from The Magic Candle II The import process works very well, almost too well. A 'strange blight' has begun to affect the forest, and the queen asks Gia to go investigate. My character, Gia, is back in Telermain, on Oshcrun Island, protecting Queen Alishia and Prince Jemil. Despite some lines from the second game saying 'Zakhad's pall of darkness has departed from Gurtex completely,' Rebnard is apparently still trying to subdue the continent. The third installment picks up four years after The Four and Forty. (The plot ended up getting pretty ridiculous by the end, which you can see in my entry on winning that game.) While the demon himself was immortal, Jemil was able to send him 'far, far away' using a magic orb. At first just interested in discovering the fate of the 'four and forty' guardians of the original candle, the party ended up rescuing Prince Jemil, Rebnard's son, from the clutches of the demon Zakhad. In The Magic Candle II (1991), the hero of either the first game or Maramon or both continued the effort by helping the invasion of Gurtex from Oshcrun. He gathered his armies and took the fight to them, crossing the ocean and landing on Oshcrun Island-on the way, conquering the island of Maramon as told in The Keys to Maramon (1990). After the party's success in the first game, King Rebnard of Deruvia decided he was sick of living in fear of the demon lords of Gurtex. In ancient times, Dreax had come across the sea from Gurtex with an army of invaders, but he had been bound to the candle by a ritual created by the now-mostly-lost race of Eldens. You'll remember that in The Magic Candle (1989), the protagonist and his (later retconned to 'his or her') party of locals scoured the land of Deruvia to find the items and rituals necessary to renew the magic prison (a candle) of the demon Dreax. It depends, quite early, on lands and people that are remarkably close to the events of the first two games but mysteriously went unmentioned within them. Where I thought the plot of II flowed naturally from I, III definitely feels less necessary.

A general sense of this game being 'tacked on' pervades the introductory sequences. It also, unlike II, doesn't have its own subtitle, which always strikes me as the creators saying it-here's another one,' without any attempt to give the new installment its own character. It is the only one of the trilogy not to have its own Wikipedia page. Commenters have only brought up The Magic Candle III four times, none of them offering anything substantive about it.

Before I wrote about The Magic Candle II, it was mentioned in 22. Before I wrote a word about The Magic Candle, it was mentioned in 55 comment threads on other entries. I don't like to go into a game with a bias, but there were some ominous signs. All this was on my mind as I began The Magic Candle III.

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