think ninja with an arabic flair. dangles at one side.
sounds good zran. I have a feeling what about.
let me know and i'll write accordingly. ;)
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think ninja with an arabic flair. dangles at one side.
sounds good zran. I have a feeling what about.
let me know and i'll write accordingly. ;)
It is a thin black veil that hangs around his neck. When in battle and he is prepared to kill he will raise it to cover his face except for his eyes. (think the Aiel from Wheel of time)
OK, sounds like a plot. ^-^ Yay! I now have an introduction! ^_-
Oh my, can't wait to keep this moving later today.
Big congrats Bel! Spoil her rotten!
I was in the same situation as Shari, but for Dragon Age: Origins - I just didn't want to admit it. But, I beat it last week, and feel no need to play through it all again... yet ^_^
I do have to complain a little about it. I'm starting to worry that BioWare is getting a bit formulaic... I really hope not, but all their recent games seem like the same thing in a different package. Yes, they are all unique unto themselves, but not a lot of innovation in how the games are played. Dragon Age in particular is not a dark game by any means. I was really confused by the marketing ads after I started playing it, it's just your typical fantasy setting, you can be bad or good in your choices, whoopty ding.
GI recommended The Witcher to me a fair time ago, and I think it's a much better game. You don't get a team, and you don't have magic, but the potion making system is basically your magic, is fun, and elaborate, as is the skill system, and it's a better story. I did I mention it really is an 18A game. Can't wait for #2 in that series. I also need to read the books.
FYI, working at a publisher isn't really conducive to getting a lot of recreational reading done.
SKYSAIL NOTE
Phoenix gave you a conceptualization of the geography which is a little off. Essentially if you flip what he said about the Occident (like a mirror) it works (and the Western continent is actually in the west that way).
I'll add a geographical locations reference to one of the first posts in the thread and add to it as we go, but here are the biggies for now.
- The Occident is the Western Continent - the Dominian Empire is the continental superpower in the north.
- The Eastern Continent is unnamed - the Crimson Sun Confederacy is the continental superpower in the mid to north.
- The Island we are on is in the middle of the Haloed Sea, approximately 1 day from the Occident.
- The Haloed Sea is between the two land masses, and is also surrounded by the polar ice cap to the north, and a mysterious desert-land to the south.
- Farther east and west past the continents is unknown at this point.
- Coral, our starting point, is on the Southern coast of the Eastern continent.
IC Post #36Quote:
Originally Posted by Geco
You might see where my confusion stems from.
Hmm... we started in Coral, in the East. I don't know when you introduced the Empire, but somehow I made the connection. I'm not as stubborn as I once was so I'm not going to go back and look ^_^ or perhaps it was just in my head and never clarified. Either way, what I wrote above is what we'll go with =p Sorry for the confusion.
I didn't mean to sound so brusk. It's just that all this time I was envisioning us traveling into the setting sun based on your initial post (conversing with Meg in that tavern). I do realize an inherent contradiction with calling the main continent The Occident when it may not be in fact the "western-most" continent, but then again perhaps the world cannot translate Latin :D I used the term simply to give the landmass a name to reference, and I like the title.
So to clarify, we are traveling east across the ocean? It doesn't affect the setting much, as I can just mirror the continent in my head. I have a scan of what I'd sketched back in November. I've filled in some place names since, but perhaps I'll simply redraw an updated map - one not done in an 3.5"x5.5" moleskine at the cinema.
Not at all Arc, haha, although this is becoming kind of funny in how both of us keep confusing the other ^_^ If it's easier, don't think of it in terms of the main continent.
Coral, where we started, is on the southern coast of the Eastern continent. The ship is traveling West to Gebron, on the Occident.
Your original quote from the thread:
"A rough map I've sketched has the Dominian Empire in the north west, Faroese a larger greenlandish island to the northwest, the "waste" on the eastern half of the continent (orcish lands, barbarians, etc), and the Haloed Sea (our current position) in the Southwest."
The Haloed sea covers the entire eastern side of the Occident and lies in between the two continents.
[map removed due to crappiness]
So if you flip what you said above (on the map you've sketched) it works... Except for the Faroese. You said it's in the northwest, but on your map it's northeast, so really maybe you confused yourself ^_^. FYI, sweet map. The sea is a lot bigger, and continents farther apart, but it looks awesome. Gebron would then be somewhere inland between the rivers around Calidonia and Darusia.
To ease the building of a list, would everyone mind adding an OOC post of the rough geographic position of any locations in your character's history or that you might like to establish. Arc, if you wouldn't mind taking the list and doing your best to place them on your map (if you plan to fix or sketch a new one) that would be really awesome.
What I'm thinking is a small region, where the main city is called Vishay, where Lord Daron Worthingstone rules, father of Edric Worthingstone. It doesn't really matter where it is, I haven't had a specific location in mind on the continent, but I'm thinking somewhere that haven't been touched much by the war, to fit it into the twins history.
More exactly how long ago was the war?
I think I started describing things from the perspective of where I had placed Juvaria.. and thus Faroese was to it's NW - but got off track and started to just position things vaguely.
I'll find a moment tomorrow at work to sketch and scan the moleskine. Bear in mind distance is relative, I had no scale on the drawing - so the gap between continents may be thousands of miles as it stands. I'll also try to splash some color overlay to reference borders.
Any input is appreciated!
Arlen Vegough - Ciribaque - Small and isolated. I was imagining them as a sort of minority in a larger land that was remote, and thus they went unknown for a long time, definitely part of the Dominion. He's he's fifty now, so something you imagine would be taken 20 years ago. (Rogue noble perhaps, in the past) Somewhere in the north with rolling hills and small mountains. 60's-70's in the summer and typically just above freezing in winter. They're at some elevation, but it doesn't often snow. The mountains keep moisture mostly away, so it's a grassland. Small hardwoods grow in valleys where streams and creeks are, from the melt of spring, nearly all year. The air is dry but there are many streams and a single large river. Geographically landlocked (mountains), but close to the ocean. Close enough that Arlen would remember seeing it from hiking the mountains' peaks some 30 miles away quite fondly. Basically, remote enough that they would be overlooked except from sky, perhaps smack dab in the middle of Faroese or Acacia even. anywhere in the north now part of the dominion.
I need a place for Wintrow and his orcish tribe(s) I figured that several tribes would live around each other warring amongst themselves. Somewhere near the equator where in winter its fairly dry and hot no snow some times bushfires. In summer the weather is quite wild heavy storms often lasting days. Maybe near the coast too. The lay of the land would be dry rolling grass plains dotted with forest of trees where the orcs haven't yet been. Kinda like Australia :)
Keep in mind that the equator isn't necessarily in the middle of either continent, I actually have it running through the southern one, so that would be a good place for the Orcs as well.
Sounds perfect I don't mind where also I meant to get up a bit about Wintrow in my last post so I shall try again now.
Isn't it called a Shoufa in the Wheel of time?Quote:
Originally Posted by Drice