A while ago we posted the teaser/cover art for Sonic and the True King - Before the Fall, featuring a mysterious shadowy figure. Now, we do read your tags and comments and most of you were with no doubts convinced you were looking at the silhouette of Shadow the Hedgehog.

But you weren’t. Not quite, anyway.

Meet: Alam, the shadow of Babylon!

He is a former incarnation of Shadow the Hedgehog, yes. But he is still quite a different character. First and foremostly because his past is quite different to Shadow’s. Nobody really knows a lot about his past, as he’s very secretive about it. Nobody can say where he came from but there are rumors about him seizing total control of Babylon’s underworld in a single night.

By night he runs a network of spies, possibly even assassins. His currency is Information. If something happens in Babylon, Alam is the first to know. The first to ask. But you will not get information from him for free. There is always a price.

By daylight he runs the “Sun’s End”, a guesthouse and tavern located on the central market of Babylon’s lower district.

Of course he doesn’t run the place alone, though. Prepare to see some more familiar, and yet different faces in the Demo.