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Post by Latch on Jun 10, 2008 8:44:31 GMT -5
Maybe I'll use the old, dead name of a villain from an old series of mine...Drowlden. It's a lame anagram of "Endworld," their word for the apocalypse, but the story never came together. That sounds cool... A Drow is a dark elf. Just throwing that out there. They have expirience in dark magic, so to me it seems appropriate.
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Post by dirges on Jun 10, 2008 19:59:36 GMT -5
I know that Drow are dark elves. It's from D&D. I have the books but never got to play.
Speaking of which, Van was originally a Drow before I decided to make him something totally differ—a Darkling. This works much better since Drow live underground, which would have been a seemingly unfitting origin for Van (I made it that Darklings live perpetually in the dark skies, whereas their foes, the Leviathans, live in the center of the planet. The neutral creatures of between them, the Behemoths, live on the surface, completely oblivious to both and their belligerence).
...Just throwing that out there.
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Post by Latch on Jun 10, 2008 21:18:20 GMT -5
I know that Drow are dark elves. It's from D&D. I have the books but never got to play. Speaking of which, Van was originally a Drow before I decided to make him something totally differ—a Darkling. This works much better since Drow live underground, which would have been a seemingly unfitting origin for Van (I made it that Darklings live perpetually in the dark skies, whereas their foes, the Leviathans, live in the center of the planet. The neutral creatures of between them, the Behemoths, live on the surface, completely oblivious to both and their belligerence). ...Just throwing that out there. I know all about Van... he's my little brother.
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Post by dirges on Jun 10, 2008 22:25:59 GMT -5
I know all about Van... he's my little brother. I meant my Van, you twat. I meant that affectionately, of course. Salazar van Emerithe, who is made of total hotness. I would have thought that this minor difference would have made it clear from the beginning.
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Post by Latch on Jun 11, 2008 9:56:14 GMT -5
I know all about Van... he's my little brother. I meant my Van, you twat. I meant that affectionately, of course. Salazar van Emerithe, who is made of total hotness. I would have thought that this minor difference would have made it clear from the beginning. But I'm an elf, remember?
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Post by dirges on Jun 11, 2008 19:07:33 GMT -5
I meant my Van, you twat. I meant that affectionately, of course. Salazar van Emerithe, who is made of total hotness. I would have thought that this minor difference would have made it clear from the beginning. But I'm an elf, remember? I wouldn't've known; Elves are exceptionally intelligent. You merely struck me as above average and talented.
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Post by Latch on Jun 11, 2008 19:43:06 GMT -5
But I'm an elf, remember? I wouldn't've known; Elves are exceptionally intelligent. You merely struck me as above average and talented. Don't overestimate me, harhar.
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Post by dirges on Jun 11, 2008 21:00:19 GMT -5
I wouldn't've known; Elves are exceptionally intelligent. You merely struck me as above average and talented. Don't overestimate me, harhar. I wasn't.
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Post by inyuo on Oct 3, 2008 11:17:17 GMT -5
Erm, just to 'resurrect' this thread ... (har de har)
... the topic of different forms of zombies. It had never occurred to me before, but all the differing ways that the dead (or non-dead-but-crazy) come about is a pretty neat concept.
However, perhaps it's be worth thinking even further out of the box. Necromancers and virus's have been done before, and unfortunatly are often followed by a strick bunch of rules. Which are often very cliche ones (everyone knows that necromancer zombies do their masters bidding and that virus zombies turn into a mod of enraged football hoolgans) Perhaps a new form of conception could arise for the zombies, something new and maybe even in a completely opposite direction. Is it possible that the Panada Empire decide a mass breeding program to create a bunch of subservient monsters? Or maybe that zombies were just normal people who, aware of their zombification, kept it secret from the world (much like werewolf storylines)? These could have a trigger point, much like the full moon.
I'd like to hear Arg's opinion on this, as Necromancy plays a big part in his storyline, and so is vital in some form or another
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Post by Latch on Oct 3, 2008 21:08:10 GMT -5
There are necromancers, mayber there are some in Panada, but hey, the Senate has nothing to do with it. They want to stop it... but they're more concerned for bigger paychecks.
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Post by dirges on Oct 3, 2008 21:49:50 GMT -5
I was told by Arg that in his version, the zombies were controlled by these bizarre adepts who each had a third eye. This can be verified in the released portion of his prologue.
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