Кстати, во вступительном ролике MM6 девушка ныряет в латах за сундуком. А в игре купаться было нельзя — "вода холодная".

Мекорик знаменитый кузнец-алхимик-заклинатель, один из лучших в мире. Эра Чудовищ это, как следует из описаний артефактов, время, когда монстры и монстрообразные расы были очень сильны. Создание Ruler's Ring ознаменовало окончание этой эпохи.

Ошибся, XEL

ММ6 совсем другая была. Я, конечно, предполагал, что предрелизные версии отличаются от готовых, но чтоб настолько!

мне такой ни разу не попадался(
это из 7ки?

*наигрывает на деревянной флейте* Туру-ру, туру-ру, я когда-нибудь умру…

*наигрывает на деревянной флейте* Туру-ру, туру-ру, я когда-нибудь умру…

Личи заточают души в сосуды. А если уничтожить тело лича, может ли его душа продолжит жизнь в другом теле? Если да, то как? Будет ли душа нового тела уничтожена? Или возможно сосуществование?

Лич вполне умирает при уничтожении его тела (речь идет об энротских личах с Сосудами Души).

А насчет не энротских личей?

У Сандро из Некрополя тоже был "Сосуд Души", но с ним особый случай. Это было не превращение в лича, а эксперимент по обретению бессмертия. Для этого Сандро применил Ящик Души, в который в ходе магического ритуала поместил свое сердце. Ритуал удался, но Сандро стал превращаться в монстра, подобного личу, которому нужно убивать других и забирать их жизненную силу. Когда в Некрополь пришли Герои Ксина, они помогли Сандро, вернув ему Ящик с его сердцем, хранившийся в канализации Некрополя. Таким образом, Сандро смог освободиться от проклятия.

вопрос к кселу о ММ8:
вопрос касается вори или воли, как посмотреть.
вот в чем соль - что в момент событий мм8 происходило на вори (мож война какая-нибуд или тишина и покой, или какой герой энрота поехал в гости или еще что)? где в это время находился ледяной клинок - в воли или уже где-то в другом месте?

Clash of the Dragons takes place after Armageddon's Blade. Yes, it is so. Like it or not, this is a canonical fact. See second map of Playing With Fire campaign in AB. One of the Tavern rumors says "A Nighon Overlord wants to be the Queen". One can argue this rumor being "vague", but that's not the case: it is titled "Dragon's Blood". Coupled with the fact that all of the rumors (except ones concerning Foolhardy Waywardness campaign) are written in Present Simple tense, that means that Dragon's Blood campaign takes place in the same time period as Playing With Fire, Dragon Slayer, Armageddon's Blade and Festival of Life. That means Clash of the Dragons takes place after AB, thus starting in spring of 1172/3.

About King of Erathia being mentioned, that was, well, the King of Erathia It is explicitly stated near the end of AB that Morgan Kendal had to choose the new ruler of Erathia, so it's logical that he did so. There was a talk about Sir Kentaine's words in A True Blade in the forum, but he doesn't say anything that would disprove the new king ruling Erathia during CotD. He just says "I have outlived a king and a queen, thus I don't think I can be a Swardbearer anymore". Kentaine just refers to him outliving two members of Gryphonheart dynasty to which he is the Swordbearer. Demons fighting on Mutare's side were never called ”the Kreegan” in CotD. They appear to be demons from the Underworld. A miniscule number of Kreegans did survive the events of AB (as indicated by Gauldoth's words in Half-Dead and Hexx's bio), but this was no significant number and in CotD there is clearly the army of Demons.

As for the events of M&M I-V, M&M II starts almost immediately after the very end (heroes reaching the Gate to Another World) of M&M I, M&M III starts about 9 years after M&M I-II, and WoX (M&M IV-V and the aftermath) starts several months after M&M III (it takes ”days” for Corak and Sheltem to reach XEEN and then months later the heroes start their adventure in Vertigo). Af for M&M I-V timing in relation to M&M VI-IX and HoMM, they really could have taken place any time before the arrival of the Ultimate Adventurers shortly after the Restoration Wars. The most obvious oprion is that there was a short time between the end of M&M III (Ultimate Adventurers observe Corak and Sheltem crashing on XEEN and decide to continue their quest) and the heroes arriving on Enroth, but its even possible that M&M I-III took place thousands of years before M&M VII with timing issues (heroes not aging, the long time it would take them to reach Enroth with this option) explained by the twin paradox. Same way M&M III could have happened several decades or centuries before M&M VII. So, we can hypothethically place M&M I-V before HoMM I (or even before Warlords of the Wasteland).

The first mission of New Beginning campaign of SoD takes place a year after the end of HoMM II. The rest of New Beginning and SoD as a whole takes place shortly before RoE (Gelu is about 16/17 years old).

As stated by Tim Lang, M&M IX takes place shortly after the Reckoning and Nicolai was about 23 at the time of the game. That makes Reckoning take place in 1178. It is hard to figure out the timing of all HoMM IV campaigns, especially The Gathering Storm and Winds of War. A True Blade takes place four years after the Reckoning, thus 1182 (if we don't assume LotA canon). Half-Dead starts after the first mission of Price of Peace (Great Arcan is already established).

From the rough estimations that Tarnum is “a thousand years old” given in the games and the fact that there is a Necromancer in the Underworld in CotU, it can be deduced that Conquest of the Underworld takes place at the dawn of 5th century AS (Necromancy and Dark Magic are already invented by Ethric and Terrax) and Warlords of the Wasteland roughly in the first half of 4th century AS. Masters of the Elements events could be rather recent, but it most likely takes place a long time before M&M VI-VIII (for people to not remember the Elemental Lords' attack on Bracada clearly). The World Tree takes place after MotE (release order and the mention tha Tarnum once again became a barbarian at the end of MotE) and The Fiery Moon right after The World Tree. The Sword of Frost takes place shortly before the Reckoning, thus 1177-78. It's hard to figure out the timing. It's probably a few centuries before RoE, since Tatalia is already a firmly established nation in the latter.

Dates are given with an assumption that LotA isn't canon. As for the novels, The Dreamwright could take place virtually in any time as Geary Gravel's books have absolutely no relation to other M&M settings. The Shadowsmith takes place shortly after The Dreamwirght. Crusaders of Might and Magic takes place after the start of the Ancient-Kreegan war, Warriors of Might and Magic is a long time after CoMM, probably even centuries. The Sea of Mist is most likely after the Reckoning (Nimus is present) and before Shifters. The latter appears to take place about 20 years after WoMM, based on Praz's age. The singlplayer version of LoMM was never released and some texts in the final version mention ”generations” (IIRC) passing since the Succession Wars.

All in all, the timeline order of titles would be:

1. Might and Magic I: Secret of the Inner Sanctum
2. Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World
3. Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra
4. Might and Magic IV and V: World of XEEN
5. (semi-official) Might and Magic: Swords of XEEN
6. Heroes Chronicles: Warlords of the Wasteland
7. Heroes Chronicles: Conquest of the Underworld
8. Heroes Chronicles: Revolt of the Beastmasters
9. Heroes Chronicles: Masters of the Elements
10. Heroes Chronicles: The World Tree
11. Heroes Chronicles: The Fiery Moon
12. Heroes of Might and Magic I: A Stategic Quest
13. Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars
14. Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death
15. Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven
16. Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia
17. Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor
18. Heroes of Might and Magic III: Armageddon's Blade
19. Might and Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer
20. Heroes Chronicles: Clash of the Dragons
21. Heroes Chronicles: The Sword of Frost
22. Might and Magic IX: The Writ of Fate
23. Heroes of Might and Magic IV (and it's expansions?)
24. (book) The Sea of Mist
25. Warriors of Might and Magic
26. Shifters of Might and Magic
27. Legends of Might and Magic
28. (book) The Dreamwright
29. (book) The Shadowsmith