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Elemental: Of the Titans

Elemental: Of the Titans

 

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Seven thousand years ago was the noontide of the mortals of Elemental. It was the age of the Magicians.

The world was filled with magic and wonder. Its power shines as a beacon across the universe and gains the attention of immortal beings that would become known as the Titans.

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The immortals found a world lush with life and rich in magic. They soon set out to dominate this world and in doing so soon found themselves in conflict with the mortal Magicians and with each other.

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The immortals were dominated by two leaders of terrible might. One was named Curgen; the other, Kir-Tion. Their great struggle had two terrible consequences…

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Curgen used his great power to create new races of creatures that collectively became known as “The Fallen”.

 

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Curgen’s rival, Kir-Tion, captured the gifted Tar-Thela and corrupted her, transforming her into the Emerald Sorceress. Using her unique power, she takes the magic of the world and locks it within the crystal shards that have been spread across the world. Unexpectedly, the shards become rooted in place.

 

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With their source of power gone, the mortal Magicians were quickly swept away.

 

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Then came the Channelers. Mortal beings who could channel the magic from the shards.  Some allied themselves with the Titans, others fled to bide their time in the far west.

 

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In a final battle between Curgen and Kir-Tion, a league of mortal men led by Amarian III and supported by Tandis and his apprentice Talax are able to tip the balance preventing Curgen from opening a portal to the Titan home world. They succeed in destroying the Titans but at a great cost; the Cataclysm.

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The world was broken.

Now…

Civilization is gone. Life hangs by a thread.

The only hope for Elemental is you.

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Reply #26 Top

Midicholorians? In my Anakin Skywalker? It's more likely than you think.

Reply #27 Top

Each sovereign will be provided a midicholorian count...

Does this mean we'll have a cameo of Yoda in game? Please, pretty please? lol

Reply #28 Top

Yoda would be a fallen, he looks like a goblin   mouahahaha...  wait that means he would be a bad guy and I am a good guy... that means he will kick my butt... DOH!

 

The art is awsome, the story is cool. There will be a bok too. With what I read up to now I can't wait to read the book.

 

more more more

Reply #29 Top

It would be nice to see, during playtime, the transformation from the devastated lasndscape of the last pic to the lush landscape of the first or second one, but since this is a magic WAR game possibly it becomes a moonscape... what is much better!!!. Yes,  I like destruction spells!! }:)

 

Reply #30 Top

As for "biological" immortality, I like it. It's an elegant, balanced way of dealing with an important character, both for gameplay and the story. Do I turn him into the uber-bookworm or train him up and 300 years down the line have a one man army?

The current story has the channelers being very long-lived. I still like the idea of them being ageless ('biologically' immortal), but I'm not writing the book. Re a 300 year long game, with a turn a day, that's almost 110,000 turns. It would be awesome to have a maps that could stay interesting for that long, although I have no idea how much real time that would take...

Each sovereign will be provided a midicholorian count...

Ouch! Salt in the wounds of a former devoted George Lucas fan...

Reply #31 Top

So is this the storyboard for the intro movie? :thumbsup:

Reply #32 Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 24

Each sovereign will be provided a midicholorian count...

<X3

Noooooooo... how could you sell us out?

 

Everyone knows that magic comes from nanotechnology :grin:

Reply #33 Top

Quoting MagicwillNZ, reply 32

Quoting Frogboy, reply 24
Each sovereign will be provided a midicholorian count...


Noooooooo... how could you sell us out?

 

Everyone knows that magic comes from nanotechnology

 

Fool. nanotechnology is just for kids, REAL technology comes from objects SOOO BIG you can't ever see them.

Reply #34 Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 24

Each sovereign will be provided a midicholorian count...

 

Quite brave, even to be joking about something like this :)

Reply #35 Top

This theme would also go really well with this game from 1991.  My personal favorite DnD [dungeons and dragons] setting: Dark Sun

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Sun

Reply #36 Top

Nice concept art!

As for the story it does what it should, but presented like this it feels a bit like just another creation myth for a PC game (with novel annexed). But maybe when we get to know more ...

Could you ever meet/resurrect/conjure a Titan in the game?

Reply #37 Top

Could you ever meet/resurrect/conjure a Titan in the game?

Frogboy has dropped hints that something like this might indeed be possible. He has said a few times that there will be beings of incredible power that show up once in a blue moon (you'd have to play many games to see even one), beings that might even dwarf the might of a dragon.

Whether they still intend to go ahead with that, who knows. But based on that I suspect they have, or at least had, plans for Titans to not be completely absent from the game.

Reply #39 Top

"clinically immortal"
Read that and suddenly thought this.

"clinically immoral"

He was just on TV btw. :)

Reply #40 Top

Quoting Demiansky, reply 21

The story, though, is unfortunately, not very moving.  Sure, it's enough to keep me interested and make a worthwhile setting but not exactly earth shattering in the grand scale of fantasy narratives.  1) It's about on par with Warcraft's backstory.  Could be better. 

Someday, I hope to see someone step forward and posit a story and setting as original as 2) The Logic Factory's "Tone Rebellion" or "Ascendancy" but for a fantasy setting rather than scifi.

 

1) I consider WarCraft to be great so I guess that I'll consider Elementals story to be great as well.

2) Uh what?  Never heard of....

Reply #41 Top

Apparantly the Tone rebellion is about leading an army of jellyfish to deveat the Leviathan. I'll certainly give that its unique ... Ive heard many good things about Ascendancy though.

Reply #42 Top

Quoting FalseMyrmidon, reply 38


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The Kurgan

lol I thought about Highlander as soon as I saw the name too. It's a cool name, I think Elemental can use it. They even spelled it different.

Reply #43 Top

Hehe .. the Kurgan could be the Visual reference for a far less human Unique Champion (less Fallen-human too). The True Big Bad in the Blade of Vengeance quest (not the suprise ending, but the true victim of the Blade of Vengeance).