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Enderal: Forgotten Stories needs your support!

Enderal: Forgotten Stories is an expansion-pack/DLC for Enderal. It is being developed mainly by Nicolas Lietzau, one of the project leads and lead writer of the main game, with the support of a small part of the SureAI-team. “Enderal: Forgotten Stories” aims to bring in parts of the story’s content that had to be cut from the initial release, adding 10-20 hours of new quest content, as well as improving several aspects of the main game. Without further ado, here's a small teaser we prepared for you meant to give you an idea of what "Forgotten Stories" will be about:

• Two guild quest-lines: Join the Golden Sickle, Enderal's most influential merchants’ guild and experience an exceptional non-linear story that deals with intrigue and greed. Delve into the secrets behind the Rhalâta, the mysterious cult ruling the Undercity.
• A story mission revolving around the Sea Of Eventualities and Yuslan Sha'Rim's past
• A quest shedding light on the Veiled Woman's origins
• A mission that allows the player to explore in detail the death of a certain character
• A secret ending for the main-quest
• A new class: the "Phasmalist" (Dev-Blog #2)
• A second new class: the "Lycantrophe" (Dev-Blog #3)
• New bounty missions
• Professional localization in both German and English (starring, amongst others, Dave Fennoy from "The Walking Dead" and Lani Minella from "Skyrim")
• New weapons and sets
• New spells (Dev-Blog #1)
• Several game-play changes and additions, such as hidden talents, rebalanced and overhauled crafting skills, high-level crafting, and enchantment that makes investing in craftsmanship a lot more rewarding.

Assuming the world doesn't end anytime soon, Enderal: Forgotten Stories will be released eventually, just as the main game was. However, I – Nicolas – am currently developing this DLC as a full-time endeavor and am paying for the time invested from my private savings. While the project cannot be supported directly, you can support my work as a writer by donating through PayPal (the upper button on the page)– any donations would be greatly appreciated and will help me cover my basic expenses. You can also support me through my (still very basic) Patreon-page!

If you cannot donate, you can still support us by spreading the word and/or voting for us at the "SXSW Game Awards 2016", the winner of which will be decided on March 18th in Austin, Texas (We will be present at the show!). Just follow this link, scroll down to "Fan Creation of the year" and vote for Enderal. Two clicks, no registration required! A huge thank you to everyone who has supported us thus far!

Will old saves be compatible with "Forgotten Stories" or will I have to start a new game?

Generally speaking, Forgotten Stories won't be compatible with old save-games. We advise starting a new play-through. Otherwise you will encounter gamebreaking bugs that we won't be able to fix. Forgotten Stories is designed and balanced so that it fits and enhances the main game rather than as a stand-alone.

When will "Forgotten Stories" be released?

Not 2017 anymore. We planned to release in 2017, but too many different and unforseen things happened, so that we weren't able to finish it. Rest assured - we are still working on it. Even though we are following a schedule, we cannot give a definite release date as of now.

Why isn’t the whole SureAI-team working on this?

Because many members of the core team are now heavily involved in other projects. Enderal - Forgotten Stories was originally intended to be created by me alone, but, thankfully, some other members (and new, external contributors) agreed to help, which takes a lot of weight off my shoulders and even allows us to work on some yet unannounced features which I simply could not have done on my own. This does not mean that SureAI doesn’t exist anymore or is somehow compromised: It simply means that Forgotten Stories is more of a private side-project by me as Enderal’s writer.

But there are still bugs in the main game! Shouldn’t you be fixing them rather than developing new content?

We are. Both me and some of our team are still working on bugfixes daily, and there will be more patches to come.

[Inachis Io]

That's excellent news! I'm so happy, I could kiss you right now, but of course that would be highly inappropriate.

[Moravia300]

Man, I was excited for Enderal as much as for Witcher 3 , and I wasn't disappointed one bit. But DLC... well, this sounds like a dream, really.

[speedxgrapher]

Congrats on everything so far and thank you in advance for all this hard and amazing work!

[Hazzmat]

So for me to properly experience the new content I have to start an entire new playthrough? That's a bit of a bummer. Anyway I already this going to be cool so good luck to you.

[democrite]

bravo and thanks again for the great game, hoping the dlc will be as amazing as the game is

[Principe Alessandro]

Nicolas you are simply amazing, you and your team deserve a donation as a full priced game for every player. I cannot stress enough how amazing is your work despite the limited resources at your disposal.

[chairmanxyz]

I was so excited when I found out about this! Enderal honestly won me over many other AAA titles of 2016 and I still rave about it to friends. Even though I know the story now, I look forward to starting again with a new build and I will definitely be going for that secret ending. Seems you're putting a lot of thought into bringing both old and new players back in and I think that's really great. Hope development is going well!

[Daniel]

Great to see! Hope development will be smooth.

[my_summertime]

Great news, but I have one question: Is it gonna be separate esp and bsa or do you intend to use skyrim.esp form oryginal Enderal?

[Nicolas Samuel]

It will be a seperate .esm and .bsa to load alongside "Vanilla Enderal".

[God]

This is literally amazing, I loved playing through Enderal but to be honest I'm terrified to return, after only recently getting my social life back on track after playing through the game.
I'm really worried that in order to play this DLC will I need to have a new character, or be at a certain point in the game, considering most of my save games are located at the very end, or what, I'm not entirely sure how this will start.
If I need a new character #RipMySocialLife.
#CaliaIsAmazing, #TooManyHashtags

[Deleted User 23162]

By far the best RPG I have played in a very long time. It takes a lot to keep my attention in RPG games these days and it was the story alone that kept me engaged. Very emotionally moving. Great concept. I hope this story-line and universe continues.

[iaval]

From day 1, it felt that Skyrim is a datadisk of Enderal and not vice versa. For me, truly breathtaking, well made RPG.
Extra ending sounds awesome, but those included are already deep enough.

Spoilers ahead:

[+]

The best save to have without finishing the game IMO is just before you bring the crystal from Silvergrove. Store it in secure chest and carry on with other quests, adventures, etc.

[Velho e Bom Joe]

Woah, nice! looking forward to it.

The only thing I miss from vanilla Skyrim however is the crossbow (which I think fits amazingly on Enderal's slightly more advanced technology level). Is it possible to "trim" the Dawnguard esp to make it "compatible"(as in, just include gameplay stuff, not the worlspaces) with Enderal? possibly including on the launcher, checking if the user legitimately owns the DLC? I really wanted to use the crossbow on my second playthrough

[Jewelie]

This is really exciting news! I'll be following this DLC very closely, thanks for all of your work Nick

[Tiber]

Really amazing Rpg, the story line, the side quests, the characters, very well written, very addictive and emotional too.
It's like a great movie that leaves you wondering what to do with your life after finishing it .
Very excited about the new ending for the main quest, even tho

[+]

I was happy that I got to save Calia one last time, tho it felt a bit like a sudden end

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Thank you for this game, and the experience of playing it.
PS: More Calia quests please, #LoveCalia ).

[Hazzmat]

Hi Nicolas. I have a question for you. I am thinking about donating because you said you are paying out of your own earnings so you can work on this DLC for us so thank you for that. So what are the extra benefits of becoming a patron on patreon?

[Nicolas Samuel]

Hey Hazzmat!
As of now, there aren't any special benefits yet - it's a tricky subject, because we cannot sell anything related to Enderal. I've thought about making a sort of personal devblog only accessible to my patrons, but that's still in the making. So far supporting me on Patreon is a pure show of goodwill.

[GhettoArcher]

Hi Nicolas! Sorry for my bad English. I've just finished the game, i don't know how to put in words. Amazing content, beautiful areas, mindblown story-line etc. I keep recommend Enderal to my closest friends. I've seen that the game mainly based on magic and spell usage. As an archer for the first time i feel the marksmanship side of the martial arts been nerfed a little bit. Is there any way to balance this a little bit in the Forgotten Stories DLC? Might the hunter community will be interested in and so do I Any way keep up the good work, we're waiting for the new content!!!

Here's what i meant with all this:
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