Sweet, I love more backstory, been waiting for this one since the last one popped up.

Thank (insert deity here), I thought it would never come out

*APPLAUSE*

Very, very . It's even in letter form... it's been years.

Thanks!  

That was awesome! The only problem is that now I want Fable II even more!!! Great job

mine isn't working for some reason. i have already read the destruction. but it won't pop up.

Yeah same w/ me MrGilligan.

they should have oakvale music playing in the background, im reading it and listening to the music from myspace and it makes reading the story alot nicer!

yay, another one, but wait the silverlight wont install, dammit

oh why must you torture us so?

wow never thought that would happen to heroes

Yippeeeee!!!!

I loved the first section, 'Fragments of the Old Kingdom', and I've been waiting for ages to read the next instalment.   thanks guys, I'm off to read it right now  

that was and everything but did it have to be so sad?... it almost brought tears to my eyes now i wanna play the game more than ever i hope i get to avenge that guys story.... wow to sad for my taste... or at least to sad and i'm left with nothing to do about it except wait 2 more months for the game.

Thanks, that was a sad story. The roach startled me.  Maybe part 3 is TLC?
Love the letter form.

Thank you soo much, such a great and sad story. Who writes the Tales of Albion? is he/she the same person as the one who came up with the story for fable II. I hope so its great.

@moonfever. hehe the bug made me jump too

@CTOM @moonfever what roach/bug?

Wish bloody Silverlight would work for me As im Mac/powerPC I can only install version 1, and I get nothing.

If some kind chap or chapess could fill me in....

I had an update for it a while ago, so I have it installed any everything, maybe ill reinstall

Great read, way to pass the time

i think its great , sad story lol i wonder if i go into certain places on fable 2 and a group of villagers will start attacking me.. lol

very nice! been waiting for this sucks tho that no one liked the heros anymore

Thanks mates! Been looking forward to this

awesome.... sad story, but perfect.

cant wait till the game drops!!!

now i will feel to finally avenge whatever relative this will be!

it doesnt fit,,,, the person said he saw are hero from fable 1,,, so he must have been what.. 4-5? then he became a hero at 17-18? and saw the hand guns at around 20? and already the hand guns are out,,, so 480 years later in current albion there should be some even more advance things out right???!!!!???

I can't get Silverlight to install

*damns his computer*

can anyone post the story in a topic?

finally!!! backstory is a very thing. ive been waiting for ages for this to come out!!

Yeah! Finally!

I read it loved it but saw no backstory except how the world came to hate Heros. But loved it and this blog.

wow that was a sad story  does that mean there is no more heroes guild

the bug was a cute touch.....and the story was so sad. i felt so bad for the hero and his family. i can tell from this that the game itself is going to get you emotionally involved in the game just as PM has planned.

so sad.... T_T seems like his daughter might be your older sister..  hero-blood in the veins.

cool to hear what happened

I love this one, it had a very interesting ending to it. job. Looking forward to part 3.

Wow that was a nice read. Hope to see more.

Hey Bopit,

In response to your mention about the guns vs. development time.. I'd like to point out that a lot of time passed in our own world with the development of the gun. They had "Explosive Hand Cannons" in the 13th Century. Albion may also have gone through some backwards development (i.e they kept building on a mistake until they reached a point where their guns may have been , but had a chance of blowing up in their own faces... which would force them to go back to the drawing board.. which is what we had to do with the musket vs. the rifle). It's important to remember when it comes to history and development, that it hasn't been until recent years that technology has been able to advance as quickly as it has. This is due to uniform research which takes place across the entire span of the globe. so I think it is totally believable that only a few decades after the events of Fable 1, guns were invented and by Fable 2 they have only advanced as far as what looks like a... actually I'm not sure if it's more of a rifle or a musket... but it does look pretty sleek and not made out of copper or anything else that may have blown up in the heroes face.. but yeah. I believe.

that's a way to look at it... oh.. i se... yeah it makes total sense now.. thanks stu_fargher.. ^_^

Ya that was great!!! stu u have a point with the gun thing. hopefully the 3rd story will lift my mood with hope for the return of heros. If it comes. It would be cool if our hero learns his "powers" or what ever without the heros guild.  

Love it. The history of the Archon. Knight, Queen and Jack of Blades. Now it makes sense why he's so feared in the first game. The rise of Nostro. Scythe being more inportant than I realized. I really want to visit the guild in Fable 2. I hope there is something of this hero we can see in the new game as well. To trace his steps as he fled. Can't wait for more.

Man the poor hero, he died beacause of the egocentric assholes who thought that calling themselfs herose would give them absolute freedom, without no consequences. I wonder what happend his wife and daughter.

I t seems as if they could have done allot more with the second series, which shows a single hero being plunged into a world that has taken an almost universal mob mentality. They may have had him forced to defend himself and kill some folk, driving them to further hate him for simply choosing to not allow himself to be killed be a weaker, imbecilic and frankly inhuman group of individuals.
In hindsight, it seems that Lionhead has sacrificed plot elements time and again in order to allow the player "freedom", or more like the ability to take center stage, and hurts the lore in doing so. Background information was vague and never given reason behind why, for example, they would allow "heroes" to choose whether to be or .
Furthermore, although I understand why they had to keep it vague to allow the decisions of the player in the original Fable to still have possibly taken place, I felt it really left allot missing when the author of the diary, who wished to be a hero since he was young(within Fable's original timeline), mentions so little of perhaps the greatest hero's/villain’s deeds that it seemingly borders unremarkable status to even the most avid followers of his/her tale.

love the story.

are they going to make more after fable2?