The Lady, The Mage and The Knight

The Lady, The Mage and The Knight, aka LMK, is a cancelled PC game by Larian Studios and Attic Entertainment. It was a Diablo-esque character-based RPG.

Plot
The land is engulfed in a civil war that started 400 years ago. This was caused by two brothers, who then captured and enslaved whomever they could find. Three potential heroes step forward to defeat them: the Lady, the Mage, and the Knight.

Gameplay
The game would have been a fast hack 'n' slash action game. There were 12 spells to use. There were around 80 NPCs to talk to and 40 enemy types.

Development
LMK began as Unless: The Treachery of Death in 1996 by Latrian. Attic Entertainment Software then joined forces later that year. Unless: The Treachery of Death then became The Lady, The Mage and The Knight, set in the The Dark Eye universe.

The game met trouble at E3 1999, where Diablo II was shown off. Diablo II was 16-bit, whereas LMK was 8-bit. This led to the game getting up-hauled to 16-bit at great cost.

Cancellation
Both Larian and Attic had financial problems, including unpaid wages to its employees. Both dev teams had to rent one big dirty grotty apartment, which was unbearable. The game was cancelled in 1999 and they got to work on a hit: Divine Divinity.

Users who purchased Divine Divinity from GoG would also get the LMK tech demo. Also Divinity II: Developer's Cut Edition has it too.

Videos
Trailer from 1998.

E3 trailer from 2000.

Prototype
The demo was released when buying Divinity II: Developer's Cut Edition on GoG. https://hiddenpalace.org/LMK:_The_Lady,_the_Mage_and_the_Knight_(September_6,_1998_CeBit_Demo)