MYTH II HISTORY FOUNDATIONS — LOCAL DIGEST
Recorded: 2026-09-16

WHAT MYTH II IS
[DOCUMENTED · LOCAL DIGEST] Myth II: Soulblighter is a squad-based real-time tactics game originally developed by Bungie. A battle begins with an existing force rather than base construction, resource gathering, or unit production. The local overview identifies physics, terrain and elevation, formations, veterans, limited forces, and friendly-fire risk as central concerns.

This is an orientation summary. It does not establish exact unit statistics, balance rules, or undocumented engine behavior.

STORY AND HISTORICAL FRAME
[DOCUMENTED · REFERENCE BOOK CROSS-CHECK] The wider Myth setting is organized around recurring Ages, the Nine, the Fallen Lords, the Tain, the Myrkridia, the Trow, and the Great War. The public Reference Book keeps the current Connacht -> Balor -> Alric -> Soulblighter sequence and identifies which portions still need captured journal pages or transcript verification.

[FAN CROSS-CHECK / NEEDS PRIMARY CAPTURE] The Myth II campaign follows the Light through locations including Willow Creek, Salvation, the Baron's Keep, Gonen's Bridge, the Cloudspine, Muirthemne, Forest Heart, the Tain, and the final pursuit of Soulblighter. Mission order is retained in the local campaign route JSON; exact journal wording remains a capture task.

COMMUNITY PRESERVATION
[DRAFT · LOCAL SOURCE] Project Magma is associated with keeping Myth II playable on modern systems, while The Tain is associated with community plugins, maps, and archives. The local source does not establish exact ownership, staffing, or dates, so those claims remain deliberately general.

[DRAFT · TIMELINE STARTER] Community support continued through multiplayer, plugins, mapmaking, tools, Discord, and archives. A dated community chronology still needs source-backed entries before it is promoted to a canonical timeline.

CAMPAIGN CROSS-CHECK EXAMPLES
[FAN CROSS-CHECK / RUNTIME CAPTURE NEEDED] Local transcript notes connect the opening Willow Creek mission to Salvation: grave robbing and black smoke lead into villagers held at a cemetery and a rescue-and-escort objective. They also connect the April 19 Forest Heart mission to the April 20 Tain mission, where the Summoner is identified as pursuing a Tain shard and attempting to resurrect the Myrkridia. These links are useful reading context, but the in-game journal pages remain the primary-proof target.

LOCAL STRATEGY-GUIDE CAMPAIGN ARC
[DOCUMENTED · LOCAL PAGE-LEVEL SOURCE] The preserved strategy guide provides a second page-bounded route: the early village missions establish escort and cemetery-defense pressures (printed pp. 62-66); the Keep chapter turns the campaign toward Baron Kildaer, a drawbridge, and an indoor assault (pp. 70-78); and the Soulblighter chapter pivots from Cruniac's death to repairing a World Knot and warning Alric (pp. 89-91). These are concise arc notes, not reproduced text or a replacement for the in-game journals.

PROVENANCE AND LIMITS
Derived from:
- C:\Myth2Bot\knowledge\history\myth2_overview.md (confirmed)
- C:\Myth2Bot\knowledge\history\project_magma_and_tain.md (draft)
- C:\Myth2Bot\knowledge\history\community_timeline.md (draft)
- C:\Myth2Bot\knowledge\sources\raw\official_history_docs\myth_ii_strategy_guide_full.txt (retained local source)

Verification routes:
- Bungie Myth II manual: https://manuals.plus/m/dd377820b34ed3740fb58ecc55d45303b035acef6e1699259a29a9721a0b5077
- Project Magma documentation: https://projectmagma.net/docs/
- The Tain archive: https://tain.totalcodex.net/

The digest distinguishes documented orientation from draft community context. Expand only when a source, capture date, and evidence level are recorded.