Rakna's Lair

Rakna's Lair  is the 3rd level of Sylvan Woods. It's a dense, dark forest stage with Scuttlebugs and Monty Moles as the main enemies. Go through the aboveground path with dangers awaiting or underground path leading to the nest of Rakna, who seems to be out of her senses and needs to be knocked some sense into her...

Level Info:
Difficulty: Medium/Hard

Missions: Main Mission, Boss Battle, Destroy the Machine!

Bosses: Rakna

Secret Exits: N/A

Development History
This level was developed for an ancient project A Journey Across Worlds, which suffered from a lack of resources and overambition. During the middle stages of Demo 4's development, the level was completed except for the boss battle, which needs a sprite.

Trivia

 * The music used in this level is Great Tree SHANNOA from Ys SEVEN.
 * The music used in the underground lair parts is Fog-Shrouded Landscape from Castlevania: Lament of Innocence.
 * The original stage that the level was adapted from was named Rakna Trail.

Lore
This lair is situated in the darker and more dense parts of Sylvan Woods, protected with immense energy put by Nature Elementals, and primeval nature beings' cooperation, this territory was protected from dark forces for many years. And with putting an ancient forest arachnid known as Rakna in charge of guarding the lower parts of the woods from her lair, the balance was preserved for many years, until...

The theft of Star Prisms. With a giant Piranha queen getting ahold the Star of Nature, her kind started to infest around the woods. But luckily, her territory was protected, with the energy created long ago still running to this day, and Rakna preserving this to her life. But there's a saying: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire. As one situation was averted, there was another in works...

Monty Moles aiming to harvest the ancient relics of the lair, of course. The genius ones have set up a machine to brainwash the scuttlebugs and cut off their defiance against them, and this also affected Rakna herself, preventing her brethren to not defy the orders of the moles, and take out others who resist the orders instead. All but one, lone scuttlebug escaped the brainwash, and lurks around the world, trying to find someone to help her queen so she could snap out of this madness! Just so it happens that the people who can end it all, would appear in another snowy place, who thwarted the plans of the moles once before...