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Post by Bannanachair on Aug 26, 2018 0:19:19 GMT -4
I just updated the thread. I decided to finish dragons later (just some more subtypes of dragons are all that's left) and to also include Warlocks in the next update instead of this one. Still, it is already over 10,000 words with 2,300 words being added this update.
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Post by Bannanachair on Sept 1, 2018 3:23:43 GMT -4
I have an idea for a holy order/knightly order/monastic order, for after I write up some stuff about one of my religions. Well, I actually have two ideas, which I'll get to in a second, but the first one is the coolest. How does a knightly order operating in the waters of the Oln Sea, waging naval combat against cyclopes in a never-ending holy war sound? It changes the Oln Sea from a boring inland sea to something really fun to work with, and is just a cool idea all around, I think.
My second idea is like the personal bodyguards of the Pope, or this world's version of the dude. I namedropped the Threun Guard in my last post in response to Jonos, and so I think that they can work there. I was planning on having His Popiness rule basically the Papal States somewhere in Elusia already, though I'm still working out the specifics on where in Elusia. Probably the capital of what was formerly Elsutia, but I'm still working out the specifics of that as well.
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Post by Bannanachair on Sept 2, 2018 9:44:23 GMT -4
I've just made a somewhat good-ish map. I've fleshed out the geography of Orevod much more than of anywhere else, and so obviously expect me to add some stuff to Eredal and Elusia later when they become relevant (especially to Thasia and Datha). Anyway, underneath this spoiler is a map of Orevod, Southern Eredal and Northern Elusia. Tikobe, Duck14, Leggo, you should all be able to easily see where your characters are on the map now. |
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Post by Bannanachair on Sept 2, 2018 11:18:41 GMT -4
Actually, I like this map of the same region better: |
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Post by Bannanachair on Sept 21, 2018 4:52:20 GMT -4
Actually, I like this map of the same region better: I've updated the map a little bit since then, focusing on the downriver parts of the Nubarb. I have not yet added all of the cities and counties of Datha, but I do have the physical geography (especially roughly the forested area) detailed somewhat. I added a small mountain range in the north of the duchy of Estermere in Eredal, named all but one of the county capitals in Thasia and added a very small river south of the Nubarb which I haven't yet named. I will make a separate map later for Argolon, because that's off to the southeast of what's on this map. Tikobe, Duck14 and Leggo, what do you guys think of this so far? |
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Post by Bannanachair on Sept 22, 2018 12:06:55 GMT -4
Here's a very, very tentative map of Argolon that I will edit and polish later. I plan on removing the names of the duchies eventually and just putting down the names of cities, but aside from Calbourne, I don't have any towns or cities actually named yet visible on this map. Duck14, Tikobe, Leggo - any thoughts so far? I made a mistake in the OP when I said that Vrelon is on Argolon's northern border, by the way. I meant that Traketus is on Argolon's northern border. Vrelon is to the north of both Traketus and Eredal. |
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Post by Bannanachair on Sept 22, 2018 13:01:46 GMT -4
Actually, I like this map of the same region better: I've updated the map a little bit since then, focusing on the downriver parts of the Nubarb. I have not yet added all of the cities and counties of Datha, but I do have the physical geography (especially roughly the forested area) detailed somewhat. I added a small mountain range in the north of the duchy of Estermere in Eredal, named all but one of the county capitals in Thasia and added a very small river south of the Nubarb which I haven't yet named. I will make a separate map later for Argolon, because that's off to the southeast of what's on this map. Tikobe, Duck14 and Leggo, what do you guys think of this so far? I made the Spiderwood Forest larger in my new version, so that it better fits my map of Argolon. The Earldom of Prodour would probably appear on both maps, in case anyone eventually wants to try combining both maps into one big map. |
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Post by Bannanachair on Sept 30, 2018 10:52:32 GMT -4
I've finally thought of some stuff for the religion! I'm writing the chapter about the religion and a chapter about the Threun Guard (an elite religious order alluded to briefly in a post in Jonos's storyline). I might also write up brief chapters explaining more places in the world due to the increase in the number of characters from outside the southwest Emuine region so far established, but I don't think I'll yet write up enough detail to make them playable locations.
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Post by Bannanachair on Oct 1, 2018 9:36:56 GMT -4
If anyone wants to offer their two cents on this, I'd appreciate it. 3.1) Thre’Dar (3.1
Thre’Dar is a tri-theistic religion worshipping the god Ynedar, the god of all that is good. Ynedar is complimented by Yllios and Ybris, the twin gods of evil who are continually at war with one another but prevented from entering the world by Ynedar. Thre’Dar is practiced throughout Western Emuine, from Oyinid to Slairis.
Darists believe that Ynedar sent five Prophets to the world four thousand years ago, in the Five Great Kingdoms, but that due to the intervention of demons, dragons, faeries and others, people have lost their way. The old faith was practiced by only a scant handful of people in a few caves in the Cavelands, until slightly over one thousand years ago He sent one last prophet, Neoran, to remind the people of the truth.
The truth that the prophet Neoran brought to the people was that of the three gods: He taught the world that Ynedar was all that was good, that Yllios was all that was oppressive in its evil and that Ybris is all that was destructive in its evil.
He also taught of the Five Great Kingdoms of ancient times: Arkhosia and Bael Turath who shared Emuine between them, Olnar’Ith in the middle of Emuine that sunk into the Oln Sea and Zarionar and Men-Thar-Kot that controlled Eplune. The Five Great Kingdoms were all of Ynedar, but they all became infested by the works of Yllios and Ybris, and since then all nations have been of one of the two.
He taught throughout the Cavelands for ten years, then stole a boat to sail to Zarionar in southeastern Eplune. He returned with riches, but they were stolen and he was enslaved, forced to work in mines in the Riftlands where he died. He taught also that slavery was of Yllios, and that any nation of Ynedar would not have slavery.
Two hundred years after Neoran’s death, the empire of Tarthel adopted Thre’Dar as the official religion. Less than fifty years after that, Tarthel fell.
The faith is ruled by the Threun Pope in the former Elsutian capital of Thre. Under him, each kingdom has a High Priest who serves in the capital of that nation and oversees all of the temples of the faith. Despite the Threun Pope’s location in the south, the most religious nations are in the north: Argolon follows a modified form of Thre’Dar that sees fey creatures as being good, Oyinid allows Thre’Dar but doesn’t enforce it, many priests in Elusia and southern Eredal don’t hold fey as inherently evil and in Orevod atheism and dragon-worship are encouraged over the barely-tolerated Thre’Dar.
Tikobe, Duck14, Leggo, any feedback at all would be quite nice. |
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Post by Tikobe on Oct 1, 2018 18:54:00 GMT -4
You say it's barely tolerated in Orevod? Like, by how much?
Also, sorry for the recent silence in the RPs, but it'll be like that for another day. Got another day of catching up to do.
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Post by Bannanachair on Oct 1, 2018 22:39:51 GMT -4
You say it's barely tolerated in Orevod? Like, by how much? Also, sorry for the recent silence in the RPs, but it'll be like that for another day. Got another day of catching up to do. I'm trying to decide. Atheism and dragon worship are preferred, but the dominant religion of the area is still practiced somewhat. I think it would be practiced more the closer to the Eredalian border one gets and less the closer to Ostcliff one is. |
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Post by Bannanachair on Oct 2, 2018 3:29:50 GMT -4
New map! I changed the coastline of Elusia south of the Nubarb. Does anyone have any thoughts on this change? |
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Post by Bannanachair on Oct 9, 2018 12:33:46 GMT -4
I couldn't sleep due to exam stress and so decided to touch up my map of Argolon. I hope you guys enjoy my improvements. Here's a very, very tentative map of Argolon that I will edit and polish later. I plan on removing the names of the duchies eventually and just putting down the names of cities, but aside from Calbourne, I don't have any towns or cities actually named yet visible on this map. Duck14 , Tikobe , Leggo - any thoughts so far? I made a mistake in the OP when I said that Vrelon is on Argolon's northern border, by the way. I meant that Traketus is on Argolon's northern border. Vrelon is to the north of both Traketus and Eredal. I added the Diton River which I mentioned in the OP, I changed the density of the Spiderwood Forest so that the map will eventually join onto the other one better when I decide to photoshop them together when it's all done (after figuring out how to do so) and, most notably, added the cities of Bluewall, Aldfair and Vertton that I mentioned in this post about Kellian of Aldfair and this older post. I want to change the widths of the Stalm and the Wiples so that they are initially thinner and then expand to be wider (like what I did with the Nubarb), add tributaries of the Stalm and change all my coastlines (in this map, the Orevod/Nubarb/South Eredal map and my other maps that I haven't posted yet because they're just not good and not of regions important just yet). Tikobe, Duck14, Leggo, Death, Glow, pirate593 - do any of you have any opinions on the maps? |
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Post by Tikobe on Oct 9, 2018 15:58:50 GMT -4
Judging from the big ol' "Calbourne" I'm seeing and the names of the surrounding regions I can assume I'll be referring to this map for my Kainer posts.
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Post by Duck14 on Oct 10, 2018 20:57:45 GMT -4
Nothing in particular, but nice to know what Argolon looks like. And more rivers for Alfred to explore if he ever makes it that far away. The centre looks very green with not much in or around it. Is it just a very flat country?
Also, who’s pirate593?
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Post by Bannanachair on Oct 10, 2018 21:30:35 GMT -4
Nothing in particular, but nice to know what Argolon looks like. And more rivers for Alfred to explore if he ever makes it that far away. The centre looks very green with not much in or around it. Is it just a very flat country? Also, who’s pirate593? I haven't developed much of the interior of Argolon, but, as with Eredal, I'll edit it to add forests and mountains and lakes and rivers and other things when they're mentioned. Argolon is meant to be very forested, but I just haven't gotten around to filling all of that forestry in. If I'm not mistaken, pirate593 here was pirate59392 on ROBLOX, who was in a few memorable RPs, though I only have the link to that one. I reached out to him on Discord and mentioned Fantasy RP and he said that he had some amount of interest in it. |
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Post by Bannanachair on Oct 10, 2018 23:04:19 GMT -4
Nothing in particular, but nice to know what Argolon looks like. And more rivers for Alfred to explore if he ever makes it that far away. The centre looks very green with not much in or around it. Is it just a very flat country? Also, who’s pirate593? I haven't developed much of the interior of Argolon, but, as with Eredal, I'll edit it to add forests and mountains and lakes and rivers and other things when they're mentioned. Argolon is meant to be very forested, but I just haven't gotten around to filling all of that forestry in. If I'm not mistaken, pirate593 here was pirate59392 on ROBLOX, who was in a few memorable RPs, though I only have the link to that one. I reached out to him on Discord and mentioned Fantasy RP and he said that he had some amount of interest in it. Also this thread was quite enjoyable. Definitely in my list of top 5 RPs I've been involved in that have included giant spiders. |
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Post by Bannanachair on Oct 17, 2018 11:50:31 GMT -4
I added a bunch of stuff to Fantasy RP. I added the religion, renamed to Darism. I added warlocks. I added more geography information. I might have added one or two other things, I forget.
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Post by Bannanachair on Oct 22, 2018 12:35:18 GMT -4
Some bad news, some good news and some more bad news:
The bad news is that I just awoke from an absolutely terrifying nightmare at midnight twelve hours before my last chemistry test. It was a terrible nightmare that really, really messed me up, and I will never be able to see certain things the same way again.
The good news is that, thanks in large part to that nightmare, I have a unique and interesting villain for the storylines in Argolon, who might possibly be the most terrifying character that I will ever write if I can do him properly and will certainly be a good villain anyway, I hope. This means that I have medium-term regional storylines worked out for all regions in Fantasy RP revealed thus far in addition to a handful of overarching plotlines in mind for the entire world.
The more bad news is that this character, as I envisioned him, is both terrifying and probably very difficult to write, and will probably plague more dreams to come if I continue to try to dwell on him. He seems like something that might vaguely have existed in maybe Celtic mythology, and I feel like I definitely read or read about a visually similar character at one stage or another, so I might be able to try to read instead of dwell in the more disturbing corners of my mind. Still, though, I'll definitely try to make him an absolute goddamn nightmare to even think about, even if I resort to taking inspiration from other writings instead of my twisted nightmares. Maybe he's Lovecraftian?
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Post by Tikobe on Oct 22, 2018 20:39:38 GMT -4
So?
Good news: Nightmare-fuel villain in Argolon
Bad news: Kainer's in Argolon.
Shit.
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Post by Bannanachair on Mar 24, 2019 0:14:26 GMT -4
At long last, the map of Orevod, southern Eredal and northern Elusia is finally taking shape! Duck14, Tikobe, Leggo, please tell me if you have any input to this map or know of anything I said that contradicts it. |
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Post by Bannanachair on Mar 24, 2019 19:25:01 GMT -4
I decided to purchase inkarnate pro. What are your thoughts, guys? |
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Post by Bannanachair on Mar 25, 2019 9:22:52 GMT -4
Here's my map of Northern Eredal. And so something like this would be a map of all of Eredal: So, what do you guys think? |
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Post by Bannanachair on Mar 25, 2019 19:05:21 GMT -4
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Post by Tikobe on Mar 25, 2019 23:43:05 GMT -4
Holy hell.
I mean, I realized that Orevod was small when compared to some other kingdoms, but now that we're seeing more of Eredal I'm beginning to realize just how small it is on a comparative level.
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