Among them is Shan, a young man, and his sister, Lin, the last alive members of their family. Gabriel would stop telling such tales, but would never stop dreaming with them.įorty years before, almost a decade after the Crawler’s defeat, a group of Samarkandians battle their way through the Sakur Pass, a dangerous freezing passage in the Blade Mountains on the eastern edge of the Mistpeak Mountains of Albion. Fearing that Gabriel’s words would spread and eventually reach unfriendly ears, Katlan, the leader of the tribe, ended the storytelling as older dwellers had approach to listen too. Gabriel remarks how powerful they were and how the last great Hero, the King had vanished forty years earlier, leaving Albion vulnerable to the hands of people with not so good intentions.

Common text is for events that happened in Samarkand ten years after the end of Fable III.ĥ0 years after the Crawler’s defeat, a young dweller, Gabriel, tells stories about the Heroes of old for the children of his tribe.

Bold text is for events that happened in Albion ten years after the end of Fable III.Italic text is for events that happened in the Edgelands fifty years after the end of Fable III.The novel is set between the events of Fable III and Fable: The Journey and is a direct prequel for the latter game, which closes the story left open at the end of the book.Īlthough the book's story starts 50 years after the final battle of Fable III - right before the beginning of Fable: The Journey - the narrative quickly retreats 40 years into the past, and narrates the efforts of the Hero of Brightwall and his allies against the Darkness that is rising once again, but this time, in the neighboring lands of Samarkand. Now the fate of all that is good rests with a faint flicker of hope, that somewhere, somehow, heroes still do exist. As the Darkness spreads, town by town, a treacherous force has infiltrated the Queen's circle. As they forge ahead along Samarkand's ancient Great Road, populated by undead terrors and fantastic creatures once believed to be the stuff of legend, the King is drawn ever closer to his greatest challenge yet.īut soon, Albion is engulfed in a war of its own. To protect his realm, the King must lead his most trusted allies into a strange land unknown to outsiders. Within the walls of its capital city, a mysterious usurper known only as the Empress has seized control.

But on the night of his wedding to his new Queen, ominous word arrives the Darkness has returned.īeyond a harrowing mountain pass, the exotic desert country Samarkand has been overrun by shadowy forces. As King, he led Albion to an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity. It's been almost a decade since the events of Fable III, when the Hero vanquished the threat across the sea and claimed his throne.

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