Lands of Lore III is a 1999 action role-playing game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Electronic Arts.

It uses many common elements of RPGs such as the guilds the player can join, having both weapons and magic attacks, and several portal worlds.

While exploring one of the rifts, Copper runs into a remnant of the Draracle, who explains that due to his departure, the mirror sealing away the Shining Path between worlds has broken.

Copper is on a quest to recover his soul as well as to save his home and world, but Richard does not believe the rifts are a dire threat, and so offers little assistance.

After recovering most of the shards, Copper returns to find that Gladstone has been reduced to ruins by the leakage from other worlds and King Richard has fled into the surrounding forests, leaving Lord Jeron (spelled Geron in Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos) to look after the remaining residents.

Ailing from wounds and beset by creatures from other worlds, Richard at last realizes how grave is the need to restore the mirror, and gives Copper a writ for all the equipment and money he needs.

Copper nonetheless recovers the last of the shards, but Jakel blocks him from returning directly from the rift world to the Draracle Caves where the mirror must be assembled.

Gladstone has been rebuilt, and King Richard has returned to full health, but there has been no sign of Copper since the seal was restored, and he is presumed dead.

Why Copper never returned to Gladstone, and how the line of succession is resolved following the disappearance of the sole heir, are questions left unanswered as teasers for a prospective fourth game.