Kirill acts as a guide for the Player and instructs them in the Prophecy. He is also quite corrupt, and despite wishing to free himself and the others from Kairn's evil grip, he willingly hands his daughter to the vampire. He also keeps his son Andrei in an upstairs bedroom as a zombie, unwilling to kill him. Deidre Khristoverikh - The female lead, she is the one who saves the Player and is later given to Kairn by her father Kirill. Deidre plays a small active role in the game itself, merely acting as a love interest and a damsel in distress for the end battle. The Agrippa - The Agrippa is an ancient and powerful book of dark magic. Used by Kairn to achieve his power, he later saw it as a threat and had it chained in a secret room in a cave. It threw a curse on him which is the prophecy that forever threatens Kairn. When the Player speaks with the Agrippa, they become affected by the Brimstone curse and must remedy it by using the Dismissals of Evil Vol. III, which is located in Kairn's fortress. No one will talk to or help them until the curse has been removed. Intellectual property rights Event Horizon Software has ceased to exist as a company long ago. The company has developed three other games: The Summoning, Dusk of the Gods and DarkSpyre. Strategic Simulations, Inc. was bought by Ubisoft in 2004. Reception Computer Gaming World stated that Veil of Darkness "held me in rapt attention until I had seen it through to its resolution". While critical of the brief length of the game, the magazine stated that "the experience is one to be savored ... definitely one that I am glad to have played". The magazine later nominated Veil of Darkness for its Role-Playing Game of the Year award, alongside The Summoning. Power Unlimited gave a score of 70% writing: "Veil of Darkness may not have an original story (it's very similar to Dracula), but there are plenty and many assignments, all of which work together to keep the game fun. Only the intro is a bit too long." References External links Unveil An open-source project dedicated to extract VoD resources and provide a map viewer. 1993 video games Action-adventure games DOS games Strategic Simulations games Video games about vampires NEC PC-9801 games FM Towns games Video