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Galanoth -> =WF= Temura's Song contest! Submissions (6/1/2009 9:35:28)
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This contest is done -- Winners will be announced by midnight Tuesday, June 16th!
The following is the story of Temura Ge'Thrak, who will be the WarpGuardian commander in WarpForce.
Temura is on the right
Contest: Create one of, or a combination of, the following: Original written and/or recorded song lyrics, original recorded music.
RULES: 1) One entry and one post per member. You may post an entry and repalce it with another before the end of the contest period, however.
2) All lyrics must be PG -- no profanity, etc. Your lyrics must follow the same rules as any posting on the forums would.
3) The music and lyrics you submit MUST be your own original work. By submitting to this contest, you are automatically promising that your submission is original.
4) You can TEAM up, up to 3 team members total: One of you can write, another record music, and yet another can sing. If your entry wins, then all members of the team win. Each winner gets an NPC on the Alteon in the area of their choice. However, this one entry will count as the one entry allowed for each member (see rule 1).
Format: Post a link to your finished file in .wav format OR mp3. Songs can be up to 3 minutes long.
Judging: Entries will be judged on overall creativity of music, lyrics, or both (50%), adherence to the theme of Temura's Story (20%), quality of sound recording (20%), and usability in the game-- such as how easily it can be looped and if its filesize is between 3-8 MB (10%)
Timeframe: Contest begins today, June 1, and ends on Friday, June 12th. Winners announced the following week.
Prizes: 1st place -- Temura's fellow WarpGuardian in the WarpGuardian Tower will be named after your character! A chance for your music to be ingame! You also get 4000 Z-Tokens.
2nd place(s) -- A chance for your music to be ingame plus 2000 Z-Tokens.
3rd place(s) -- 1000 Z-Tokens.
(NOTE: Z-Tokens are secondary currency in AQ and in WF)
TEMURA'S STORY
Temura is the last descendant of several human families that were taken in by the Drakel over a thousand years ago, when the Drakel moved into huge domed cities, called K'elds,
shielded from the attack of a world-eating creature called the Devourer. Temura’s ancestors were kept hidden in the massive mansion of the wealthiest Drakel family, the
Ge'Thraks.
Knowing that she is the last human hidden in a Drakel city, she goes against the Ge'Thrak family’s wishes and escapes the Drakel dome, going into the outside world
which no Drakel has seen for centuries, in search of other humans. The stories of the past say that the Drakel were the only true civilization, followed
closely by the Elves. Humans and dwarves had barely graduated from tribal society to villages and farms, and constant feuds kept them from becoming greater. The Elves did
not have the technological know-how of the Drakel, and were unable to properly defend themselves from the Devourer's Network, and so they suffered much. While the Drakel
passed centuries within the domes while the Network plundered Lore and many suffered and died. All the while, Temura's ancestors lived relatively safe lives under the
protection of the Ge'Thraks. After a millenium had passed, young Temura, only 16 at the time, ventured into the outside world thinking that all she might find is a
wasteland full of barbarians and monsters...
She finds monsters—lots of them—but also finds that Humans have become the dominant race, now living in many towns and kingdoms across the world of Lore.
Shortly after she left the K'eld, the Drakel themselves began to emerge. Many sought ways to increase their ability to defend against the Devourer's Network, should the
Devourer come again. Many Drakel cared little about the other races and used their superior technology and magiscience to take whatever they wanted in efforts to build up
their military might.
Temura tried to fit in to the human societies but could never quite understand many of their ways. In the K'eld, she was raised by parents who learned much from the Drakel,
and their worldview was very different. When her parents died, she became the last and only human in the entire K'eld.
A wide open plain dotted with villages, or a city open to the sky-- the daily effects of the elements and constant threats from neighboring kingdoms or monsters -- all of
this was alien to Temura. Also alien were the emotions that she suddenly had trouble controlling in the way the Drakel taught. Young human men looked at her strangely and
often tripped over their own feet. Sometimes the bravest of them would attempt to talk to her, and their boastful pride was enough to make Temura feel embarassed for them.
Naturally, she soon gravitated back to the K'elds. But wars had begun to spring up between Drakel, Human and Elf factions.
Temura found sanctuary with the caring Pra'Mithia, queen of K'eld Alorin. She knew the Ge'Thraks of K'eld Ner, where Temura grew up, and held their same philosophy: Becoming
friends with Humans, Elves, and even Orcs, Vampires and Werewolves of Lore would be the key to surviving the Devourer's return.
And return he did... first Agents of his Network, and then the full force of the Network. Lore became engulfed in war for over a year. During all of this time, while
heroic warriors, wizards, rogues, and all manner of creatures fought back, Temura grew into Queen Pra'Mithia's right-hand woman, studying the new alien technologies brought
to Lore by the Network, learning better ways to fight them, and planning-- planning for a way to extend the defense of Lore far beyond our world's verdant forests and azure
skies...
The story of Temura Ge'Thrak continues in WarpForce, July 2009!
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