About the archive

This site began as an attempt to bring together the scattered and often contradictory information found online about the story and mechanics of the Might and Magic series.

Many people have spent years doing the hard work of recording as much information about these games as could be found, but searching through it today, and the format of those old pages, can discourage a player who has taken an interest in the series — whether out of nostalgia or as part of the renewed interest in retro-style games, still very much alive in steampunk and magicpunk productions.

The site is not limited to organizing existing knowledge, however. Alongside a synthesis of the story, you will find practical tools for players — full walkthroughs of successive game areas, maps with the coordinates of key locations, a bestiary with monster stats, and concise "how to win" guides. The goal is for the site to serve both the reader interested purely in the story and the player who has sat down to play and gotten stuck somewhere.

A separate part of the site consists of original texts introducing each installment of the saga — the Prologue, followed by the successive chapters of the Sheltem-Corak conflict, all the way to the World of Xeen and Might & Magic VI. These are not translations or compilations of existing write-ups, but an original telling of the story, written so that each part connects to the one before it and builds a single, continuous narrative. Fitting this narrative to the sources took considerable work, and where Polish-language materials had gaps, I turned to Western sources to close the missing threads without infringing on anyone else's work.

The site is being built in two language versions — Polish and English — maintained in parallel, each with its own editorial rules: the English version tries to stay faithful to the original sources, while the Polish version allows itself more freedom where that improves clarity or factual accuracy.

The source material this site partly relies on exists thanks to the work of fan communities (including the rpgclassics.com archive), to whom I owe the ability to reconstruct many details that could not be found anywhere else today.

I hope the current form of the site will be appreciated by new readers and old veterans alike, those who have devoted a significant part of their lives to these games.