

In early 2011, several news sources reported that a sequel had been under development in 2006-2007, as shown by the resume of a former BioWare employee. It is also an experiment in including a less " Saintly/ Horrifying" Karma Meter than that of most other games, an idea which would bear further fruit in one of their later series. With your home destroyed, and Master Li kidnapped, you set off for the Imperial City accompanied your childhood friend Dawn Star, and a mysterious ally who calls himself Sagacious Zu.īeing Bioware's very first original IP, Jade Empire still shares many features with their earlier Knights of the Old Republic, including "light side" Open Palm and "dark side" Closed Fist paths through the story, but adds more fluid and interactive combat. Yes, firebombed: they have flying machines in the Jade Empire. This goes swimmingly until the town is finally found by the Lotus Assassins, a secretive order of former monks that do the Emperor's bidding, and firebombed. Sun Li explains that, seeing how wrong his actions were, he rescued you as a baby and raised you in secret in the obscure village of Two Rivers. The drought was ended by killing the Water Dragon, a powerful goddess who controlled part of the cycle of life and death, but this also blocked the path to the afterlife for an ever-increasing host of angry ghosts and spirits, who now plague the world of the living. The reason for the attack was that the Jade Empire was gripped by a ten-year drought. You also happen to be the last of said spirit monks. It turns out he is really Sun Li, the brother of the current Emperor, and the general who commanded the army that destroyed the temple of the mystical Spirit Monks. The story begins in the idyllic, beautifully-rendered little town of Two Rivers, with you as the senior student in a martial-arts school run by the mysterious old Master Li. The Jade Empire is basically what Ancient China would be like if all the myths and legends were true: ghosts and spirits litter the landscape, and there's an enormous hierarchy of demons, gods and other things that make up the humorously played straight Celestial Bureaucracy (which are mostly based on Ancient Chinese legend). Jade Empire is an Action/RPG computer game, set in a fantasy world based on Imperial China, rather than the more usual Medieval Europe.
