NCsoft Europe has revealed the intriguing back-story to Lineage II's next instalment - Lineage II Chaotic Throne: Gracia.

Lineage II is revered as the premier player-versus-player (PvP) MMO and, since its launch in 2003, has enticed more than seventeen million players worldwide.

The goddess Eva so loved the world and its creatures that to protect it from the rising tide of monsters, she summoned the Kamael. Her desire was to bend their original god-killing purpose, and harness their immense strength to defend Aden. The results were, unfortunately, disastrous.

The awakening of the Kamael came at a high cost. To push them into the service of the Light shifted the natural balance of the universe. Just as there cannot be light without shadow, or summer without winter, so the benefits of the Kamael's service to Aden offset the balance elsewhere.