Lore of Tainted Grail

[Valravn]

This might be a stupid question but I just started playing the game and besides some crashes I really like what the game has to offer. But is there more lore to read about the universe of kamelot and Tainted Grail?

But I am quite confused with the story and some random moments in the game. Like when you are exploring and are fighting through a group of enemies just to round the corner and there is a npc just standing there.
Some I can place, like the necromance in the crypt but other not really.
The cineamatic at the start after, 'obtaining' Arthur looks interesting, It's just that some looks don't fit other.
The medieval Kamelot doesn't suit the h.R. Giger from that cinematic.

I understand that there is the old King arthur stories, is this based on that with a twist? Or is Tainted Grail based on other sources?
For now I am just trying to make more sense of things.

[Takichi]

The Game is based on the Board Game of the Same Name aswell as the Tabletop RPG. Or rather it plays in the Same Univers, i am not sure if the Story of the Video Game is Based on a Specific Story of one of those Games aswell (Like the Owlcat Pathfinder Games for example recreated in both their Games Adventure Path´s of the Tabletop RPG).

The General Idea it´s based on is the Arthurian Saga, mixed in with Keltic Mythology.

[Brady4444]

I was told in another thread that the video game takes place a few years before the board game. I didn't know about the ttrpg though.

[OlMaltelO]

The initial lore / world was written for the boardgame. That released to Kickstarter in 2018. It came with 3x 40-60 hour campaigns to play with up to 4 characters each, covering 3 eras on the eastern half of the Island of Avalon:
- the main campaign, "Fall of Avalon".
- "Age of Legends", playing during the age of Conquest, roughly 600 years before FoA.
- "Last Knight", playing roughly 600 years after FoA.

and a 20ish hour Add-on, "Red Death", where you take your characters from any of the campaigns back to the homelands.

After its pretty successfull release, they started working on a videogame adaptation, which spawned a prototype for this game that now is released as Tainted Grail: Conquest, and then was refined into this game now.

After that was really successfull they made a second boardgame (Kings of Ruin[gamefound.com]), which comes with 4 new characters and, IIRC, also set during the age of Conquest, but on the western part of the island.

Simulatniously there was a TTRPG[gamefound.com] made based on the lore.

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They had a short note on the lore by the author on the Conquest steam discussions which might answer a few things, otherwise we've collected a few tidbits on the Conquest wiki[taintedgrail-conquest.fandom.com], though its barely scratching the surface, as it was a bit too much to really work through everything.
if you have any questions feel free to ask, I have a few materials I can pull information from on specific topics of the general Tainted Grail Lore, but parts of it are essential to the story and might spoil major plottwists. :)

[Masha]

I wouldn't necessarily call Tainted Grail: Conquest a prototype of Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon, since it's a completely different game genre (rogue lite card game vs 1st person open world rpg in the vein of elder scrolls). I think you mean predecessor?

[OlMaltelO]

Originally posted by Masha:

I wouldn't necessarily call Tainted Grail: Conquest a prototype of Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon, since it's a completely different game genre (rogue lite card game vs 1st person open world rpg in the vein of elder scrolls). I think you mean predecessor?

initially, they wanted to make Fall of Avalon. They developed a roguelite mode, in order to be able to test the game mechanics without people having to play through the same story again and again. it just happened that Conquest turned into its own stand alone game, and they realized Fall of Avalon wasnt really gonna work the way they wanted with this type of game.
You can read a bit more on that story here[taintedgrail-conquest.fandom.com], if you want :)
so Conquest started indeed as a prototype for this game.