The Settlers: Heritage of Kings

The Settlers: Heritage of Kings, also known as Settlers 5: Heritage of Kings, was a real time strategy game made by Ubisoft on November 25th 2004.

Plot
A young man called Dario defends his home Thalgrund from bandits. After defending Thalgrund, he goes to Ridgewood and saves his mother but she dies in her bed, telling Dario that he is the son of the Old King Keron of the Old Empire. She tells him to go to Crawford and talk to his uncle Helias, brother of the king.

While defending Crawford, the general of the Dark Hordes, an enemy led by the Dark Lord Mordred, Kerberos is spotted. Dario goes around the fallen kingdoms to reform the Old Empire. On the way, he meets new people like his friend Erec, Helias, Ari and so many others.

Later, it is revealed that Kerberos is the son of Helias and that when Helias rejected the throne, Kerberos became bitter and joined Mordred's hordes. He then besieged the Old King's Castle and killed Keron.

On their way to defeating Mordred, Dario discovered Kerberos killed his old master and became the new leader of the Dark Hordes. Besieging the dark capital of Evelance, Dario achieved victory against the dark hordes and Kerberos killed himself.

Dario then became king and married Ari.

Heroes
THE HEROES OF THE GAME: DARIO - The main protagonist of the game. He can look out with his pet falcon. He can also scare away enemies. EREC - A childhood friend of Dario, He can boost allies attack and can kill multiple enemies in a single blow. HELIAS - The uncle of Dario, he can bless allies to take less damage SALIM - A engineer, he can set traps and heal allies PILGRIM - A dwarf, he can build cannons and open closed shafts with his bombs

ARI - A robber knight and Dario's wife, she can turn invisible and can call her bandit friends into battle.