Like its predecessor Ecstatica II is officially based in medieval Europe, now specified as Saxony, but the overall design philosophy differs greatly from the original game's. Now he has to free himself, rescue Ecstatica, reassemble the Eldersign and defeat the Chief Sorcerer if he is to save not only his realm but the entire world. It is clear what the hero and Ecstatica have to do but before they manage to enter the castle the hero and Ecstatica are captured by monsters and separated. The corrupted Chief Sorcerer has plans to reassemble the fragments in a different manner which will make dark gods and their minions invade the world and enslave all of mankind for all eternity.

Unless the fragments of the seal will be rejoined soon, the entire world will cease to exist. Some dark powers have taken control of his mind and made him shatter the Holy Seal of the Old Ones, also known as the Eldersign, the 'fundamental power of all existence, all non-existence and everything in-between'.

In a vision he learns from a priestess that the land's Chief Sorcerer accidentally unleashed all of this while delving into the occult, specifically while studying the secrets of the Old Ones. Already days before he arrives it becomes clear that something is amiss and that a great evil has befallen the land. It is now established that the nameless hero is actually a prince and he is travelling with Ecstatica back to his ancestral castle, planning to marry her and thus make her a princess. in medieval Saxony, according to the manual over a year after the events in the original game where the hero defeated the evil in Tirich and saved Ecstatica from the demon's clutches (although the original game stated that it was set in 928 A.D.).

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