High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Zeliard is a platform-action RPG video game developed for the NEC PC-8801 and published by Game Arts in 1987 in Japan, and re-published for MS-DOS PCs in 1990 by Sierra Entertainment in Europe and North America. In Zeliard, the player controls a knight named Duke Garland, whose task is to save the Kingdom of Zeliard by destroying the evil overlord Jashiin, and recovering the magic jewels called Nine Tears of Esmesanti.