 Soon after the bankruptcy of Looking Glass , a fan group called the Dark Engineering Guild began developing an expansion mod to Thief II , entitled Thief 2X : Shadows of the Metal Age . Initially , they hoped to fill the void left by the cancellation of Thief III , but they continued to work on the mod after the announcement and release of Thief : Deadly Shadows . Released in 2005 after five years in development , the mod follows <unk> , a young woman who is robbed while visiting the City and who then seeks revenge . She is mentored by a pagan hermit named Malak , who trains her as a thief but who has ulterior motives . The team designed <unk> to be physically capable and to have a " middle @-@ eastern / north @-@ <unk> look " , but made an effort to avoid similarities to Mulan . Chronologically , the story starts near the end of Thief and ends in the middle of Thief II , thereby depicting the rise of Gorman Truart and the early days of the Mechanists . Thief 2X features 13 missions , with new animated cutscenes and roughly 3 @,@ 000 new lines of recorded dialogue . 
