Prince of Persia: Warrior Within

Story

Seven years after the events of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, the prince is constantly hunted by a terrible beast, the Dahaka. The prince seeks advice from an old, wise man who tells him that whoever releases the Sands of Time must die. Since the prince has escaped his fate, it is the job of the Dahaka, as the guardian of the timeline, to ensure that he dies as he is meant to. The old man also tells of the Island of Time, where the Empress of Time created the Sands. The prince sets out for the island to prevent the sands from ever being created, believing that this will appease the Dahaka. After a naval battle with an enemy force led by a mysterious woman in black, the Prince's ship capsizes and the Prince washes ashore, unconscious, on the Island of Time. He later wakes up and chases the woman in black through the Empress of Time's fortress into a portal that transports them both back in time. The prince saves a woman named Kaileena from being killed by the Woman in Black, who is named Shahdee. Since Kaileena cannot grant the prince an audience with the Empress of Time, who is preparing to create the Sand, she instead tells him how to unlock the door to the throne room where the Empress resides. The prince makes his way through the fortress, using the sand portals to travel back and forth between the past and the present, narrowly escaping several encounters with the Dahaka, who cannot walk through water. The prince activates the mechanisms in the two towers of the fortress - the Garden Tower and the Mechanical Tower - which serve as locks for the door. He returns to the throne room to find that Kaileena is actually the Empress of Time herself, who has foreseen in the timeline that the Prince will kill her, and has decided to resist her fate as the Prince does. A battle breaks out and the Prince proves victorious; he kills Kaileena and returns to the present. What follows is the most dramatic turn in the prince's life, and he begins to believe the priest who told him, "You can't change your destiny! No man can." But the prince does not give up that easily.