Legend of Sword and Fairy

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[edit] The Legend of Sword and Fairy

The Legend of Sword and Fairy (also known as Chinese Paladin, or the short file name PAL), is arguably the most famous Computer Role-Playing Game in the Chinese-speaking world. With its earliest version released in 1995 by Softstar Entertainment, the game has been enjoyed by tens of thousands of players worldwide throughout the decade.

[edit] Plot Summary

This is the coming-of-age adventure of a Chinese youth, Li Xiaoyao (note: with Chinese names, surname is written before given name), and his quest to become a renown swordsman in the settings of a mythological ancient China, where the world is occupied by various gods and demons and people with supernatural martial arts abilities.

In his quest for sword skills, he meets three girls, each with a unique, yet tragic background: Zhao Ling'er, an exiled princess; Lin Yueru, the daughter of a wealthy martial arts master whose mother died when she was young; and Anu, an ethnic Miao girl grown up during the chaos of a civil war. The destinies of the girls are forever changed by their fateful encounters with Xiaoyao....