So i had an idea awhile back about creating a massive RPG using minecraft as the platform. So i set to work!
The first thing I did was find a seed using amidst (not going to release my awesome seed).
Then I went to doing writing of lore and such.
After that I grabbed some programs and set to work.
Lore
You live in The Vast Blue, a land locked sea that is filled with mystery and adventure. It is The Time of the Mechanism. In the past 50 years there has been a huge boom in technological advancements with the appearance of Lord Lazarus's flying city Nod. Will you go to explore all of the lands? Will you settle your own kingdom? Will you become a Senseless and collect the secrets of the worlds? It is your story, Make it right.
The Time of The Mechanism
It is The Time of The Mechanism. Machines are the dominant way of doing things. Magic is just rumors told to little ones. The Steam Engine has caused exploration to rise to a peak, Settlements are going up what seems like daily, and people are always traveling to far away lands in search of a better life. The Khans are starting to settle down and make towns and cities and the reminiscent of the Yankovic Empire are starting to rebuild there great land. It is a good time to be alive.
Story of Mai'rus and The Iron Republic
The technological advancements of Mai'rus, one of the larger nations, Lead to a large amounts of cultural and political changes. These changes split the people of Mai'rus into two people, The separatist, who wanted to split away and develop these new ideas, and the traditionalist, who thought that the old way's best and that the current system of government was as good as it is gonna get. The separatist superseded Mai'rusian land to create The Iron Republic. The Mai'rusians took action by declaring war on The Iron Republic. After 6 years of stalemate they declared peace and now live in harmony and citizens can pass through both without worry of attack, but the minority of both still treat each other as rebels.
Yankovic, Esamir, and The Broken Lands of Khan
Long before The Time of The Mechanism Esamir didn't exist. The entire peninsula Esamir is built on was once all Khan land. The Khans are a nomadic people so they had many villages through out the land that they moved too and from. They are also known as the horse lords due to the large amount of open space in the Khan Empire.
Several hundred years before The Time of The Mechanism there was a great war between the Khans and The Yankovs. The Yankovs wanted Khan land because the mesas are high in iron content. They attempted to build a town thinking the savage Khans couldn't do anything against there Yankovic Steel swords and armor. They were very wrong. Hundreds of Khans showed up to repeal the invades riding horses equip with slings, spears, and bows. They Yankovs were defeated and that is when they decided that the only way to take the Khan Empire was by a massive land invasion. They sent hundreds of thousands of troops into the Khan Empire to take the land for Yankovic. The Khan Warlords found out about it and replied by uniting under a single banner. As the Khan Empire was much bigger then Yankovic they had many more troops, all equip with whatever they could get. The Yankovics were slaughtered but such a large amount of bloodshed on a single battlefield caught the attention of one of the gods. Drela and Bapha saw this and decided to curse both nations for destroying so much life. The Khans were cursed to never be united, no matter what they did it could never happen for if it did, Drela would destroy all of them. Bapha cursed Yankovic with a plague, killing off most of there empire before it stopped.
Esamir was created by the only warlord who did not join in on this war. His name was Saurlo Rlab. He thought that so much bloodshed was pointless for his people, after all he was the farthest away from the Yankovics. When the other came back from the battle after finding out about the curse. They told Saurlo about the curse, He refused them refuge in his land as he wanted nothing to do with these cursed Khans. They marked him and his people as traitors and stopped calling him brethren. Saurlo then made Esamir as a refuge for all of those that are unwanted by the world.
More coming soon....
Magic System ( Lore )
So you can't just do magic in this setting. All magic has a basis in making a pact with a supernatural being, albeit evil or good, you have to make some sort of deal. If you want to throw fire balls then you have to go to a fire spirit and trade something that would be of value to a spirit for his magics. Nothing is truly free....
There is a simple bit of lore for the magic system. There are 21 Elder Gods each with their own plane of existence and each with their own type of magic, here is a list showing what each god does.
later i will make a huge list of the planes and gods descriptions in detail but I don't have time atm.
God Name :Magic type: Plane Name
Bala: Flesh magic:Gonde
Azus: Mind-control: Ichar
Mele: Summoning: Mariene
Mala: Air: Mola
Ritha: Shapeshifting: Formene
Mery: Darkness: Formene
Maraie: Plant Life: Kasdail
Ligo: Force: Apun
Beli: Soul: Hargonde
Bapha: healing: Sakku
Aros: Cold: Ithlul
Hela: Fire: Hombelond
Gaku: Metal: Leriande
Avan: Earth: Leriande
Ammoth: Water: Orlothlon
Drela: Holy: Ridusa
Agal: Infernal Power: Sirestir
Hethani: Death: Ellond
Rama: Demonology: Dorwine
Alel: Bone: Dorthimlien
Gurth: Animal Life: Yurnith
Character
So basicly you have a choice between impoverished noble, wild-man, and a person from a traveling caravan. This atm only affects where you start, but in the future it may end up effecting how NPCs talk to you and background specific quest. This will also effect your starting gear. E.X. A impoverished noble will still have more money then a wild-man, where as a traveling caravan will have better exploration gear then a noble.
so I created a map, mainly so I can effectively create and write lore in a way that won't create hundreds of errors, but I see no harm in uploading it here.
List of nations
Esamir
Mai'rus
The Iron Republic
Darkwood
The Broken Lands of Khan
Yankovic
Rumbis
Archimedia
Mederian
The Under
The Fly City, Nod
Yombashi Island Chain
Each nation on this map is very unique and each has it's own backstory, when I am finished with these stories I will start to upload them to this thread.
I plan to have quest, shops, world changing events, and loads of other cool stuff.
one of which is called Settlement, It is basicly, if you build a town with certain requirements, write a backstory, and I like it. I will add it to the official map and world to be released in the next version.
Versions
So I got to thinking and realized that alot of quest and other features would have to be different for SMP. So I decided I'm going to need a SSP/adventure version and a SMP version. The main difference is there will be harder quest that requires team work and not so 1 time quest in SMP as all players, new and old, should get a chance at raiding a dungeon.
Release?
Due to having a life and not being solely devoted to minecraft the release date might not be until late summer/early fall, But I will work my hardest to atleast get the finish map of the first version out by the end of summer. The main thing that will consume time is going to be creating shops, quest, and NPCs.
This isn't all of the lore! I have alot of unrefined lore written so I'm gonna see how other like it with an RP on the forums! here is a link
Gods are not to be respected, Gods are not to be loved, Gods are to be feared, they are to be feared because they are not mortal. Gods know no love, no feeling of belonging, they have no humanity. Gods are completely alien to all things human, the best way to describe it is Sociopath. Gods are Sociopaths with all the power you can imagine, so yes they are to be feared.
-X3fusion (AKA) Xefilis
the first city to be made will be the only city and capital of esamir
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Gods are not to be respected, Gods are not to be loved, Gods are to be feared, they are to be feared because they are not mortal. Gods know no love, no feeling of belonging, they have no humanity. Gods are completely alien to all things human, the best way to describe it is Sociopath. Gods are Sociopaths with all the power you can imagine, so yes they are to be feared.
-X3fusion (AKA) Xefilis
I think this is a pretty cool idea, i would play it but i think pics of some of the area's would be in order first.
cool, nice username btw xD. umm, I'm gonna put some pics of Esamir in the post.
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Gods are not to be respected, Gods are not to be loved, Gods are to be feared, they are to be feared because they are not mortal. Gods know no love, no feeling of belonging, they have no humanity. Gods are completely alien to all things human, the best way to describe it is Sociopath. Gods are Sociopaths with all the power you can imagine, so yes they are to be feared.
-X3fusion (AKA) Xefilis
And the story/lore is very interesting. I'm looking forward to the release.
Thanks man, I am running a forum RP of the current setting so if you want to get the inside-info head over there and check it out.
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Gods are not to be respected, Gods are not to be loved, Gods are to be feared, they are to be feared because they are not mortal. Gods know no love, no feeling of belonging, they have no humanity. Gods are completely alien to all things human, the best way to describe it is Sociopath. Gods are Sociopaths with all the power you can imagine, so yes they are to be feared.
-X3fusion (AKA) Xefilis
Gods are not to be respected, Gods are not to be loved, Gods are to be feared, they are to be feared because they are not mortal. Gods know no love, no feeling of belonging, they have no humanity. Gods are completely alien to all things human, the best way to describe it is Sociopath. Gods are Sociopaths with all the power you can imagine, so yes they are to be feared.
-X3fusion (AKA) Xefilis
-X3fusion (AKA) Xefilis
-X3fusion (AKA) Xefilis
cool, nice username btw xD. umm, I'm gonna put some pics of Esamir in the post.
-X3fusion (AKA) Xefilis
Thanks man, I am running a forum RP of the current setting so if you want to get the inside-info head over there and check it out.
-X3fusion (AKA) Xefilis
-X3fusion (AKA) Xefilis