Icewind Dale II is the sequel to Icewind Dale.
The call has gone out across the Sword Coast. The Ten Towns of Icewind Dale are paying for mercenaries, soldiers, and adventurers of all types to sail north and defend the town of Targos from encroaching goblinoid hordes. It is up to the heroes to break this grip of evil, or die trying!
Description[]
Icewind Dale II is set around 30 years after the events of the original game. Its plot revolves around a goblin uprising in the North, known as the Legion of the Chimera, which threatens to overrun the Ten Towns if not stopped.
Gameplay[]
Icewind Dale II is a real-time adaptation of the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition ruleset, presented from an isometric perspective with a head-up display (HUD) at the bottom of the screen. The HUD provides access to an automap and a journal that records quests and significant events. The player interacts with the game using a point-and-click interface; for example, clicking on the ground moves the selected character, and clicking on a passive non-player character (NPC) initiates dialogue, offering multiple conversation options.
The game world is divided into area maps, obscured by fog of war, which are revealed as the player explores. A multiplayer mode supports up to six players over a local area network or the Internet. The "Heart of Fury" mode is also available, increasing the game's difficulty and offering more powerful items. The game features over seven hundred items, and the designers included a system that randomizes the items players obtain from enemies.
When beginning Icewind Dale II, the player can choose to play with a pre-selected party or create a custom party of up to six characters. Unlike the Baldur's Gate series, Icewind Dale II does not allow players to import characters from previous Icewind Dale games. During character creation, the player selects each character's gender, race, class, alignment, and attributes, among other options. Players can also choose subvarieties of races or classes.
Race, alignment, and attributes influence the available dialogue options and NPC responses. For instance, some NPCs may be prejudiced against certain races, or a character with low intelligence may have limited dialogue options. Some sub-races in the game are significantly more powerful than the core races of Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition, requiring them to earn more experience points before leveling up. Characters can reach a maximum level of thirty. It is possible to add additional characters to the party at any time, even during combat.
Icewind Dale II's gameplay emphasizes combat, employing a real-time adaptation of the turn-based system from Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition. This adaptation led the developers to remove certain features, such as attacks of opportunity. Dice rolls are simulated by the game. Instead of the traditional turn-based rounds of Dungeons & Dragons, characters operate on independent rounds, during which they can execute one or more actions, depending on the action's duration. The player can pause the game at any time to issue orders to characters. Each character has a limited inventory capacity for carrying items.
Plot[]
The story begins in 1312 DR as a group of mercenaries arrive by ship to defend Targos. They report to the town palisade and fend off an assault by the goblin contingent of the Legion of the Chimera's army. After this, the mayor of Targos orders them to start an offensive on the approaching force. The group kills the chieftain of the army, and discovers that he was under the command of a woman named Sherincal. When they return to Targos, the mayor asks them to rendezvous with reinforcements from Neverwinter. The group travels to meet them in an airship piloted by Oswald Fiddlebender.
A storm causes the ship to crash, and the group awakens to discover that a glacier blocks the reinforcements' path.[8] While investigating the glacier, the group finds Sherincal, a half-dragon, guarding the entrance to an Aurilite temple. They learn that Sherincal leads the Legion of the Chimera's western forces, and that the leaders of the Legion of the Chimera, cambion twins named Isair and Madae, reside in the Severed Hand. Inside the Aurilite temple, the group finds a prisoner from Kuldahar, who asks them to warn Kuldahar of the threat posed by the Legion of the Chimera. After this, the group creates a passage through the glacier, and meets with the reinforcements.
As the group travels to Kuldahar, they meet a drow named Nym, who tells them that the pass to Kuldahar is guarded by the Legion of the Chimera, and that an alternate path through the Underdark exists. Later, Isair and Madae locate the group with information from Nym. They state their intention to attack Kuldahar, and warn the group to not interfere. The group then passes through the Black Raven Monastery to enter the Underdark. After exiting the Underdark, they are flown to Kuldahar by Oswald Fiddlebender.
When the group lands in Kuldahar, they discover it has been invaded by the Legion of the Chimera. They meet the Archdruid of Kuldahar, who tells them that a portal has been opened to allow yuan-ti from the Jungles of Chult to assault Kuldahar. After the group prevents the attack, the Archdruid tells them that they may reach the Severed Hand through an exit at the bottom floor of the Dragon's Eye. The group travels through Dragon's Eye, and proceeds to the Severed Hand. Once inside, they learn that the war between the Ten Towns and the Legion of the Chimera was caused by the mayor of Bryn Shander, who had sent Isair and Madae poisoned food. They also discover that a mythal that was cast on the Severed Hand has been corrupted, and the structure will be transported to the plane of Limbo. Eventually, the group finds Isair and Madae, and kills them.
Index[]
Characters[]
- Protagonists
- goblin slayers of Targos
- Other
- Alia Shield-Maiden • Amraith • Anja • Aocha • Bashshar al Rachid • Bastinado • Beodaewn • Black Geoffrey • Blanchard Pike • Braston • Brogan (Targos Guard) • Brohn • Caballus • Cahl-Hyred • Carita • Carynara • Crandall • Dalwynd Meadsbreath • Deirdre Gallaway • Eldgull • Elytharra Dinnesmore • Ennelia • Firtha Kerdos • Gark • Geldin • Ghotrag • Gohar • Gumph • Guthewulfe Henghelm • Hadbruki • Halgren Death's Head • Harbesh Carver • Harshom • Hedron Kerdos • Honest Jon • Hylei Shadowhand • Ilquog • Jorun Tamewater • Kei the Wooden Idol • Jari • Kepp Trapmaster • Khatja • Kickshaw • Koluhm Bonecutter • Kylei Shadowhand • Kylie • Kyosti • Laeris • Leevi • Llendril Coe • Loki (cat) • Lumbar Grundwall • Magdar Shenlen • Mordakai of Thay • Mokrul • Naleen • Nevae Quar • Nolan the Healer • Nyzeil Nighthammer • Oagla'ta • Ogrok • Oinchack'Olp • Olap Tamewater • Oswald Fiddlebender • Phaen of the Rags • Pondmuk • Reig Redwaters • Rhaekbog • Rukwurm • S'feria Ranul • Screed • Sheris Lyricist • Silence-Before-Iron • Sirge de La Sunya • Tahvo • Tianya • Trugnuk • Ulbrec Dinnesmore • Ulek the Burrower • Veira • Vghotan • Vunarg • Vraedna • Xuki • Yquog • Yurst • Zack Boosenburry
- Referenced only
- Aznee Fraystrings • Arakon • Belib the Wary • Black Donald • Craum Straug • Dom • Don Di'Armos • Donovan • Dullcobble Tweed • Frostmaw • Hagnen Odestone • Heglyf • Hreidgar • Hrothgar • Jerrod • Kaervas • Kellem Longeyes • Kresselack • Letto • Lodur • Marg the Trembler • Mariner • Mensel • Miraenna Odestone • Myo-Myo • Pellon Kay • Quinn Silverfinger • Rawleigh Gallaway • Ryomaru • Sammel Colger • Shou Lung • Suhailah el Khaba • Sulo • Tim Rootfield • Thom Wainwright • Tiernon Denthelm • Unseeing Eye • Wu-Wei • Wylfdene • Young Ned
Creatures[]
- Playable Races
- aasimar • drow • duergar • ghostwise halfling • gold dwarf • half-elf • half-orc • human • lightfoot halfling • moon elf • rock gnome • shield dwarf • strongheart halfling • svirfneblin • tiefling • wild elf
- Other
- abishai (red, white) • aerial servant • barghest • bear (polar) • beetle (bombardier, boring, fire) • beholder • boar (arctic) • bugbear • cambion • cat • chicken • chimera • cold bones • cornugon • cow • cyclops • deer • demon • derro • dog • doomguard • doppelganger • dragon (black, white) • drake • drider • drowned dead • dryad • efreeti • elemental (air, earth, fire, water) • ettercap • feyr • flamewalker • fomorian • frost giant • genie • gelugon • ghost • glabrezu • gnoll • goblin • (dekanter) • golem (crystal, flesh, iron, mind) • half-dragon (blue, red) • half-goblin • harpy • hell hound • highland cat • highland snake • hobgoblin • hook horror • illithid • invisible stalker • jaguar • lava mephit • lemure • lion (spotted) • lizardman • mad cat • marid • mind flayer • minotaur • mummy • mustard jelly • myconid • ochre jelly • ogre • olive slime • orc • orog (neo (black, red)) • otyugh • panther • rakshasa • remorhaz • salamander (frost) • scrag • shadow • shambling mound • skeleton (boneguard) • spider (giant, wooly, ice, phase, sword) • treant • troll (fire, ice, snow) • tundra yeti • umber hulk • verbeeg • viciscamera • viper • werebadger • wererat • werewolf • wight • wolf (dire, winter) • worg • wraith • wyrm • wyvern • yuan-ti (abomination, halfblood, histachii, pureblood) • zombie (ice • poison • slime)
Locations[]
- Bodies of water
- Black Raven River • Ice Lakes • Shaengarne River
- Referenced only
- Eastern Ocean
- Buildings & Sites
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- Castles & Fortresses
- Z'hinda Citadel
- Inns & Taverns
- Evening Shade • Salty Dog Tavern • Weeping Widow Inn • Winter's Cradle Tavern
- Referenced only
- Whistling Gallows Inn
- Shops
- Gallaway Trading Depot
- Temples
- Black Raven Monastery • Ice Temple
- Referenced only
- Hojori Temple • Seven Stone Monks Temple
- Other
- Healing Pavilion
- Mountains & Hills
- Referenced only
- Sunset Mountains
- Roads
- Referenced only
- Bremen's Run
- Settlements
- Kuldahar • Targos • Rilauven • Shaengarne Ford • Wandering Village
- Referenced only
- Arabel • Athkatla • Berdusk • Bremen • Calimport • Enholm's Point • Hornhollow • Immersea • Lonelywood • Luskan • Port Llast • Sigil (Lady's Ward, Prison) • Silverymoon • Slow Cedric's Gallop • Sshamath • Waterdeep
- Regions
- Chult • Demiplane of Shadow • Icewind Dale • The Underdark
- Referenced only
- Kara-Tur • Reghed Glacier • Western Heartlands
- Wilderness
- Cold Marshes • Fell Wood • Fields of Slaughter • Hrothgar's Vale • Ice Wall • Kuldahar Pass
Magic[]
- Weapons
- Azure Rod • Belib's everlasting torch • Black Chimes • bruiser staff • Clenched Fist • craftsman's hammer • dredging claw • duergar-rorged axe • Final Word • Goblin Hunter • Haft Over Head • Heart • Kegsplitter • Kyosti's spear • Lamia's Tongue • Lolth's Sting • Memories of Kuldahar • moonblade of Selûne • Mountains of Selûne • Nine Paces • Ryomaru's Harmless Staff • scimitar of the defender • staff of corrosion • Sulo's Hook • sure striking short sword • The Executioner's Wife • The Left Hand of Darkness • The Skirling Skull • Thy-Dunag blade • Wandering Sky • whispering staff • Widow-Through • Winged Blight
- Armor
- air genesi armor • armor of the clerics of Myrkul • Black Urchin • Brazen Bands • Dragon Sight • Flank of the Virgin • Footman's Folly • Myo-Myo's gong • Phaen's robe of rags • shield of fortitude • studded leather armor of horror • studded leather of the shield • wandering hunter's armor • Wyrm's Maw
- Potions
- armor of faith potion • braehg • delay poison potion • greater restoration potion • lesser restoration potion • minor mirror image potion • potion of arcane absorption • potion of magic dispelling • potion of explosions • potion of shield • potion of minor elemental barrier • potion of shield of faith • potion of shocking grasp
- Wondrous Items
- Book of Leaves • cat's grace wand • chromatic orb wand • The dire old lute of Pellon Kay • ghost-touched bottle • Hammer of Lucerne • Lucky Knucky • Mensel's Obscene Grimoire • The Merry Shorthorn • Pipes of the Wheezing Dragon • treadlightly boots • wand of aid • wand of bane • wand of grease • wand of mage armor • wand of evil protection • wand of horror • winter wolf cloak • winter wolf gloves • winter wolf hat • winter wolf scarf • yeti skin boots • yeti skin cloak • yeti skin gloves • wandering hunter's boots • wandering hunter's cloak
- Spells
- acid fog • acid storm • aegis • Aganazzar's scorcher • aid • alicorn lance • animal rage • animate dead • antimagic field • armor of faith • aura of vitality • ball lightning • bane • banishment • barkskin • beast claw • Beltyn's burning blood • black blade of disaster • blasphemy • bless • blindness • blink • blood rage • blur • bull's strength • burning hands • cacofiend • call lightning • carrion summons • cat's grace • chain lightning • champion's strength • chant • chaos • chaotic commands • charm person • charm person or animal • chill touch • chromatic orb • circle of blades • circle of bones • cloak of fear • cloudkill • color spray • command • cone of cold • confusion • conjure animals • contagion • control undead • creeping doom • cure critical wounds • cure light wounds • cure moderate wounds • cure serious wounds • darts of bone • deafness • death armor • death ward • decastave • defensive harmony • delay poison • delayed blast fireball • destruction • dire charm • disintegrate • dismissal • dispel magic • divine shell • dolorous decay • dominate person • doom • draw upon holy might • eagle's splendor • elemental barrier • elemental legion • emotion: despair • emotion: fear • emotion: hope • emotion: rage • entangle • exaltation • executioner's eyes • faerie fire • feeblemind • fiery cloud • find traps • finger of death • fire seeds • fire shield • fire storm • fireball • flame arrow • flame blade • flame strike • flaying • flesh to stone • freedom of movement • frost fingers • gate • Gedlee's electric loop • ghost armor • ghoul touch • giant vermin • globe of invulnerability • glyph of warding • goodberry • grease • great shout • greater command • greater restoration • greater shadow conjuration • greater shield of Lathander • harm • haste • heal • healing circle • hold animal • hold monster • hold person • holy aura • holy power • holy smite • holy word • horrid wilting • horror • ice blade • ice dagger • ice storm • icelance • identify • impervious sanctity of mind • improved invisibility • inflict critical wounds • inflict light wounds • inflict moderate wounds • inflict serious wounds • insect plague • invisibility • invisibility purge • invisibility sphere • iron body • iron skins • knock • lance of disruption • Larloch's minor drain • lesser planar binding • lesser restoration • lich touch • lightning bolt • lower resistance • luck • mage armor • magic circle against evil • magic missile • magic stone • Malavon's rage • malison • mass dominate • mass haste • mass heal • mass invisibility • Melf's acid arrow • Melf's minute meteors • meteor swarm • mind blank • minor elemental barrier • minor mirror image • mirror image • miscast magic • mist of Eldath • mold touch • moon motes • moonblade (evocation) • Mordenkainen's force missiles • Mordenkainen's sword • negative energy protection • neutralize poison • non-detection • Otiluke's freezing sphere • Otiluke's resilient sphere • Oswald's mending • phantom blade • planar binding • poison • power word: blind • power word: kill • power word: silence • power word: sleep • power word: stun • prayer • prismatic spray • protection from acid • protection from arrows • protection from electricity • protection from evil • protection from fire • protection from lightning • protection from petrification • rainstorm • raise dead • ray of enfeeblement • recitation • remove curse • remove disease • remove fatigue • remove fear • remove paralysis • resurrection • rigid thinking • sanctuary • see invisibility • seven eyes • shades • shadow conjuration • shambler (conjuration) • shield • shield of Lathander • shillelagh • shocking grasp • shout • shroud of flame • silence • skull trap • slay living • sleep • slow • smashing wave • snakebite • Snilloc's snowball swarm • Sol's searing orb • soul eater • spell resistance • spell shield • spider spawn • spike growth • spike stones • spirit armor • spiritual weapon • spiritual wrath • star metal cudgel • static charge • stinking cloud • stone to flesh • stoneskin • storm shell • strength of one • suffocate • summon djinni • summon efreeti • summon fiend • summon invisible stalker • summon monster I • summon monster II • summon monster III • summon monster IV • summon monster V • summon monster VI • summon monster VII • summon monster VIII • summon monster IX • summon nature's ally I • summon nature's ally II • summon nature's ally III • summon nature's ally IV • summon nature's ally V • summon nature's ally VI • summon nature's ally VII • summon nature's ally VIII • summon nature's ally IX • summon shadow • sunbeam • sunfire • sunscorch • symbol of death • symbol of fear • symbol of hopelessness • symbol of pain • symbol of stunning • Tenser's transformation • thorn spray • tortoise shell • tremor • trollish fortitude • undead ward • unholy blight • vampiric touch • vipergout • vitriolic sphere • vocalize • wail of the banshee • wall of fire • wall of moonlight • web • whirlwind • wyvern call
Organizations[]
Flag of the Legion of the Chimera.
- Annals of Halgren • Arcane Brotherhood • Black Raven tribe • Bruenghor Clan • Cult of Malar • Gallaway Trading Coster • House de La Sunya • Iron Collar Band • Lady's Lament • Silverstars of Selûne • Sisters of the Blood Moon • The Hands of Fury • The Winter Rose • Uthgardt • Vunarg Clan
- Referenced only
- Band of the Key • Cult of the Eyeless • Free League • Kumo • Leberm • Mercykillers • Monastery of the Yellow Rose • Purple Dragons • Red Wizards • Shadow Thieves • Tribe of the Bear • Tribe of the Elk • Tribe of the Great Whale • Winnowing Drake Company • witches
Religions[]
- Auril • Black Raven • Helm • Lolth • Malar • Mask • Mielikki • Myrkul • Selûne • Silvanus • Tempus • Waukeen
Miscellaneous[]
- bellows root • Bitter Black • Botany Bay • Bremen's Runs • cinnamon • Cormyrian brandy • Dualdon's Wake • Dualdon's Wake Mead • Gohar's Galloping Grog • Gutboy's Revenge • Hair of the Wolf • Heart of Winter (book) • ironwood • Knee-Cracker • Legends of Icewind Dale • maiden's milk • malachite • Moonshae whiskey • Old One Eye • oatmeal • Season of Raining Spears • Shaengarne's Tooth • The Ten-Towns: Easthaven • The Ten-Towns: Lonelywood • Tome of Deeds Valorous • Traveler's Guide to Icewind Dale • Veira's Gaze • vellum • Wicked Wench
Icewind Dale II: Enhanced Edition[]
Unlike all the other Infinity Engine games, Icewind Dale II did not get an official "Enhanced Edition" remaster by Beamdog. This is due to the fact that the original source code for the game has been lost.[1]
On November 4, 2023, The Red Chimera Group published an unofficial Icewind Dale II: Enhanced Edition mod using only the WeiDU code and hex editing.[2] The mod lets you pick what changes you want to enable, giving the opportunity to play the updated version of the original game with no additional materials. The team was congratulated by Beamdog[3], and Josh Sawyer, the lead designer of the original game, streamed the mod.[4] The mod uses Andrii Shafetov's logo design made for the Red Chimera Group.
Gallery[]
Appendix[]
Notes[]
- ↑ The game takes place around 30 years after Icewind Dale. The exact date is indicated in the party journal as the 1st of Mirtul 1312 DR.
Trivia[]
- The intro video of Icewind Dale II had a teaser for the cancelled Baldur's Gate III: The Black Hound.
See Also[]
Further Reading[]
- Clifford Horowitz (April 2003). “Silicon Sorcery: Icewind Dale 2”. In Jesse Decker ed. Dragon #306 (Paizo Publishing, LLC), pp. 76–82.
References[]
- ↑ Andy Chalk for PC Gamer. Icewind Dale 2 can't be 'Enhanced' because the source code is lost. Archived from the original on 24/11/2023.
- ↑ Icewind Dale 2: Enhanced Edition is released!. (November 4, 2023).
- ↑ Congratulations to The Red Chimera Group.. (November 6, 2023).
- ↑ Streaming Icewind Dale II: Enhanced Edition Character Creation!. (November 12, 2023).
External links[]
Disclaimer: The views expressed in the following links do not necessarily represent the views of the editors of this wiki, nor does any lore presented necessarily adhere to established canon.
Icewind Dale II article at the Icewind Dale Wiki, a wiki for the Icewind Dale game.- Planet Baldur's Gate
Connections[]
Other settings
Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse • Planescape: Torment (Enhanced Edition) • Ravenloft: Stone Prophet • Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession • Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace
Collaborations
Dragonheir: Silent Gods • Stumble Guys