

These worlds without any help and inspection died out, or fell to the barbarian level. Unfortunately their enemies - Kreegans, broke the net of space-time tunnels and gates which connect these worlds, and by this, they started the time of Silence. Ancients wield huge powers, powerful magic, but they also use ancient technology, which grants them much more power and skills! By their discoveries, Ancients can rule worlds, and even create new ones. In all games from Might and Magic series, You are in a world of Ancients - creatures older, than any already known world.

Where that idea come from? Such a futuristic town in the world of goblins, pixies and dragons? To understand this You must read something form the M&M world storyline. That's how this famous town was removed from the "Armageddon's Blade" expansion, and soon was replaced, by already known, Conflux. Some of mails was just gently ask about change Forge to another town, other mails were vulgar, there even were some with imminence of death!! Authors told that these mails weren't so much, and they would be surprised if more than 5% of players could boycott game, but they consider that 5% is too much. Much fans was wrath, after watching first drafts and screens! They started to send a mails to 3DO (HOMM and MM series distributor) and developers of HOMM&MM - NWC. It was unbelieable that knights, dragons and goblins could fight with robot, cyborg, or even other machine. Tell it Yourself - introduce that Forge looks, just has to elicitate fans reaction (which, as You already know, was not *nice* :P), and especially of these, which played Homm3 as just fantasy game. Ancient's technologiest existed there, has to give a possibility to produce powerful artifacts, full of gears, racks, futuristic lasers, cyborgs as from future, and other things which anyone haven't seen yet. As you see, The Forge has to be brand new, futuristic town in the might and magic world, which is Erathia.
