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Alustor
Famous Hero
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posted November 12, 2025 04:42 PM |
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HoMM lore artbooks / sources
This might not be the best place to ask, but HoMM3 is my fav of the series and has the most active community so i have higher chances to get an answer. So, the 30th anniversary and the launch of Olden Era sparked up my flame for HoMM universe and i want to dwelve deeper in this world and learn more about the lore; probably a good source for MMH V-VII is the Ashan Compedium that i ve already ordered; there are the HoMM 3 artbook, HoMM 5,6,7 art books ( i ve got the pdfs except MMH7) but those don t realy give much info of the universe; the upcoming 30th anniversary retrospective book might ( i hope it will ) give some lore for HoMM I-IV, but it will surely not be as the Ashan Compedium. I ve searched the forum and found some threads with some info, but nothing coursiv; my question is: is there such a compilation somewhere ? somebody must have surely tought about this before me and made some progress maybe? Do you guys know about other artbooks except those that i mentioned? With lore preferably
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AlexSpl 
Responsible
Supreme Hero
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posted November 12, 2025 06:34 PM |
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Edited by AlexSpl at 18:51, 12 Nov 2025.
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Have you seen this?
https://mightandmagic.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_(Ancient_universe)
Also there is the HoMM lore scholar named XEL, who did a brilliant work at piecing the M&M lore bits together in a really huge document, but I don't know if there is an English translation avaivable.
I remember reading this in ancient times - https://demilich.by/mm/mm_01.htm
You can google translate it and decide if it's OK to read. Example -
It was a supercivilization. It was so old that even the oldest sources of information spoke only of the current era of its development. None of its representatives remembered its origins or how it had emerged. Therefore, they simply called themselves the Ancients. They had experienced everything that any civilization can experience in its development. The dominance of cybernetic mechanisms, nuclear wars, ecological disasters—the Ancients drew the right conclusions from all these harsh lessons; otherwise, their civilization would not have survived for so long. They spread across space and accepted into their ranks all races that crossed their path. The Ancients learned to respect the interests of others and left those who did not wish to join them. They were not aggressors, but their numbers were constantly growing, so they were forced to steadily expand their domains. And on each new planet colonized by the Ancients, its own culture and social system formed.
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Alustor
Famous Hero
ooo da :)
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posted November 12, 2025 08:05 PM |
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i found that wiki too and was exploring it, it s not bad, but i didn t knew about the 2nd source, very intresting, i will definitley google translate it, thanks a lot!
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