November 28, 2005 - P.M. Studios' Etrom - The Astral Essence is an action RPG set in a parallel dimension. This future Earth is a dark place, mainly inhospitable desert. The residents are crammed into huge cities with external walls that protect them, and internal ones that segregate the poor from the privileged minority. Etrom is the main character. While a soldier, he encountered the titular Astral Essence, a mystical artifact or perhaps a being since he refers to it as a female. Soon, he began having visions. He left the military, but was branded a traitor for concealing vital information, becoming a fugitive.

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Having completed the first mission, Etrom joins Johan , the crazy prophet, in an incredible underground magic temple. Their conversation clarifies and creates problems at the same time. Johan explains something about the powers of the Astral Essence, stressing the fact that, since the very moment it has seized him, he has become part of a "bigger" world. Magic exists it's powerful. Johan says he has no answers to the protagonist's agonizing questions, but indicates the way to another location, the Temple of Fate, where "gods" will talk to him.

The journey that follows this dialogue is long and complex. Etrom, in order to get to the Temple of Fate will have to explore dark realities, clear and secret, of the four states, frantically searching for seven magic keys, thanks to which he will be able to activate a mysterious Dimensional Circle leading him to the "Void Lands", where, somewhere, that Temple is hidden...