In "", the Prince and his father Sharaman attack the palace of an Indian Maharaja after the Maharaja's Vizier lets them in with the promise of treasure, among them an hourglass containing the Sands of Time. The Prince finds an artifact called the Dagger of Time, which can manipulate time. While visiting the Sultan of Azad after the battle, the Vizier betrays them and releases the Sands of Time, turning everyone but the Prince, the Vizier, and the Maharaja's daughter Farah into monsters. Despite mistrusting each other, the Prince and Farah ally. That mistrust later leads to Farah's death while saving the Prince, and the Prince uses the Sands and the Dagger to return to before the attack on the Maharaja's palace, preventing those events from taking place. In "Battles of Prince of Persia", the Prince goes on new campaigns for his father, but due to his interference in "The Sands of Time", a mystical being called the Dahaka appears to kill the Prince and correct his changes to the timeline. The Prince's desperate attempt to imprison the Dahaka in the Box of A Thousand Restraints unleashes a group of hostile spirits and provokes a war between Persia and India. This leads to the death of his mother and to him becoming an outcast. He succeeds in undoing his mistake, but is forced to go on the run from the Dahaka.