Dragon Quest/ Dragon Warrior

Known as Dragon Warrior in America, this game series was created by Enix back in 1986 and released in North America in 1989. Since then the saga has continued over 10 titles and multiple spin offs. The chief mascot of the series in Slib the Blue Slime. The first three games of the series are the Erdrick Trilogy. Chronologically the first game is Dragon Warrior III in which you play the Erdrick. The second part of the Game is Dragon Warrior, in which you are a hero destined to find Erdrick's legendary armaments. Lastly in Dragon Warrior II you finish one final adventure.

The world on which the game takes place has to areas. The Overworld looks very much like earth and has very similar continents. Located in the world is a Volcano which leads to the Underworld. There are a number of town and city states all over the world. The Overlord is plagued by the forces of Baramos.

The underworld is part of the Inner world, apparently the world is hollow. The inner area has two land masses, Alefgard and Torland. This world was plagued by Zoma, who was Baramos superior. It was here that Erdrick ended up. Centuries later the land of Alefgard would be plagued by the Dragonlord, who used Castle Charlock (Zoma's Castle) as his base of operations. In a few years time, a descendant of the Dragonord, Hargon would attempt to summon the god of destruction Sidoh to destory the world.

In subsequent games, the world does chain and takes place on different worlds. The second trilogy IV-VI, Zenithia chronicles are connected and a brief effort was made to attempt reconcile the two trilogies... by linking them by the bonus dungeons in the remake. Also it is believed that there is also another link between the Zenith in Dragon Quest III and Castle Zenithia in the second trilogy.

The series also went on to to have a short anime and cartoon series as well. The American version of the show is Dragon Warrior and the japanese version is Dragon Quest!