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Elryn -> =Lore= The Dragonfable Archiving Thread (8/8/2011 14:23:06)
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As you walk along the dark corridors of the Grand Library, dancing fireflies lightly guiding your way, you turn left on a bend and come up to a clearing amongst the bookcases, a pedestal erected in the middle. Upon the pedestal lies an old oblong book which the fireflies, in their own sleepy, light ways, seem to take interest, gliding past you and dancing around it. Seeing as nothing other than the all too present bookcases, you approach the book. Nearing the book, you realize it is much larger than first thought. Three feet long and two feet wide, you feel strangely the book to be great as the oldest tree in the forest is largest, all bound in leather and iron. Forged or carved, you do not know, such is the intricacy of the ironwork. They converge on the front into a circle donned with a familiar symbol. The insignia of your homeland.
The book is locked and shut tight. Looking up, a worn key tinged bronze upon a thread hangs. You look tentatively at it for a moment then grab it. Turning the key in the lock, you hear an audible click and the book opens. Light flashes and blinds. All in an instant, a flood of stories, tales and lore rush through your mind. A story you recognize as one of your youth. An old tale, but told differently. More fully, more detailed, as if told by someone who first witness it. The story of a farmer who bears the same name as a town you never wonder much about. A detail account of the growth of a small village which you come to realize is the description of the old part of your home town. So many tales, so much lore, so much...
You open your eyes. The twilight of the Grand Library is just as it was mere moments ago, or what you believe was moments ago. The book under your eyes is empty. The damp and gentle fireflies' glow fills empty pages, bound to the book's spine. A tinged of disappointment creeps into your thoughts. Perhaps what happened moments ago had been nothing but an idle dream. You are about to turn when a feather drops gently into your sight. White with a long, soft tail. A metal point freshly ink. You peer at the book again, it glows in a soft moonlight glow. It waits.
What tales will you archive?
Greetings and welcome to the Dragonfable Archiving Thread.
This thread is used to archive and preserve forum lore of the Dragonfable. Has a dev revealed new interesting information on in-game lore? Quote it here so that it may be kept. Players may quote and post said lore in this thread as long as they follow the quoting format and guidelines outlines below:
Basic quote
N.B. Quotes must come from a reliable source. To this end, please quote only staff (exlcuding context).
First, include the date at which the post of the quote was made. Include a bit of context on the post. If you can, link a screenshot of the post in question.
Example of a basic quote :
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27th July 2010: Geo on DF in-game time (I edited a lot of extra info out of this quote).
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Keep in mind that time in DF does not match up to real lief. With how the game is set up, with most areas being scaled, new players can choose to go anywhere they want to start. They can do the storyline in any order.
What that means is that everything's happening right now, is all kind of happening at the same time or in a relatively short amount of time. While Akriloth is in the east setting farms on fire, Thursday is being haunted by her nightmares, while the gnomes are besieged in Popsprocket, Teral is brooding by the fire in Hunter's Paradise. With a story as large and all encompassing as DragonFable is telling, it akes years to get all the players out there, to get the base line down for al the orbs (while including some cool side-chains as well)*
*Note though, with a story as large and encompassing as DF is, we do sometimes overlook stuff. Especially with new team members coming aboard (/waves at myself and Alina) and other team members moving to different projects (/waves at Cysero).
Special cases
Quote and context:
In the event that a staff quote alone is incomplete (i.e. If a dev is answering the question of a player and his answer is unclear without reference to the player's question). The same guidelines as above apply. Additionally, quote both the staff quote and the context in order, identifying each poster.
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Kalanyr, [date]. On Xyphos Celestin
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ORIGINAL: SmashBrawlerX2
Where does Xyphos stand in all this? Is he also an Archmage?(In the Warlic sense) If he is, ive often wondered why so powerful a mage was missing from the final battle with the devourer. IIRC he wasn't there when Beleqwuaya disincorporated himself
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ORIGINAL: Kalanyr
He's an acquaintance of Beleqwaya's. Yes. His specialty is not precisely appropriate for the magic that was being worked.
If you are unsure or have any questions about archiving, you can always [img]http://forums2.battleon.com/f/image/pm.gif[/img] me and ask.
Now, enough chatting, on with the archiving :
27th July 2010: Geo on DF in-game time (I edited a lot of extra info out of this quote).
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Keep in mind that time in DF does not match up to real lief. With how the game is set up, with most areas being scaled, new players can choose to go anywhere they want to start. They can do the storyline in any order.
What that means is that everything's happening right now, is all kind of happening at the same time or in a relatively short amount of time. While Akriloth is in the east setting farms on fire, Thursday is being haunted by her nightmares, while the gnomes are besieged in Popsprocket, Teral is brooding by the fire in Hunter's Paradise. With a story as large and all encompassing as DragonFable is telling, it akes years to get all the players out there, to get the base line down for al the orbs (while including some cool side-chains as well)*
*Note though, with a story as large and encompassing as DF is, we do sometimes overlook stuff. Especially with new team members coming aboard (/waves at myself and Alina) and other team members moving to different projects (/waves at Cysero). Credits to Wildroses
27th July 2011: Tomix choosing to give some info on his saga:
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You don't really know what Vaal's wish was.
Aegis is the elemental spirit of Valour.
The temple district of Ravenloss is unavailable until later in the futurre, Riadne being one of the possible NPC.
Next chapter of Tomix Saga will be the last one, Envy will be the main villain, chapter with Lust is skipped since Tomix went on this one alone.
Tomix will be more mature in the last chapter, it's happening year after the events in Ravenloss (in-game time).
He won't have his spiritlooms anymore, he'll weave with bare hands, that's quite a thing!
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That's all, no more info! Credits to Wildroses.
1st August 2011: Rolith on the Build A Quest function.
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Okay, so here's the deal guys, Between the end of chapter one and some other priorities in my coding, things have been hectic. That said, this is still a huge priority for me. it NEEDS to happen in my mind, and I'll do everything in my power to see that is does. You're going to just have to have patience. Credits to Wildroses
2nd August 2011: True Mortal quoting Ghost on Summon Gems
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They will always have "Summon Gem - name" as a name, and they will always summon a being to fight.
They will always llook like a gem that rises up and shatters when used.
They will always float up into the air when you find them. These characteristics help to define them as a type of item. Credits to Wildroses
3rd August 2011: Tomix on Void Ships
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Void Ship feature will probably be introduced at the beginning of the last chapter of Tomix Saga.
(in spoilers)To be able to build it, you'll need to be on a certain level, have enough gold and do 4 quests to gather designers, builders, enchanters and crew members. Credits to Wildroses
12 August 2011: Geo on the lack of similarities between Lore and Earth
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ORIGINAL: TheDoom
Let's get something straight. Lore=/=Earth. Two different worlds.
^This. Many, many, many times this. Unless the things that go bump in the night really are darkness elementals..../goes to light some candles. Credits to Wildroses.
December 9th 2011 : Warlic in DF is confirmed to be over 5000 years old
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ORIGINAL: geopetal
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ORIGINAL: ArchMagus Orodalf
And Warlic is also >5000 in AQ.
He is here too. Credits to ArchMagus Orodalf
December 9th 2011 : Geopetal confirms that the king at the time Warlic was in the Swordhaven Academy was Slugwrath
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ORIGINAL: geopetal
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ORIGINAL: Dornalca
Umm, why is Alteon the king here? It certainly can't be the same one, given the timeframe (Nythera quests show that he looked like he does about two hundred years ago) so is this a ancestor? Or just a glitch?
Should be Slugwrath, not Alteon.
Credits to ArchMagus Orodalf
August 18th 2012: Tomix and Geopetal on elements of Chapter Two: Elemental Dissonance.
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Here is what Geo explained in the release thread:
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1. Warlic defeated his father, the original Wargoth, and eschewed/surpressed his infernal side when he overthrew his father and was thrown into Lore. In Lore, he was in human form and had to relearn how to control his powers (remember he'll explode if his mana ever fills up).
2. He also remembered the power he used to have before, which is why he was a jerk in the Alex chain. He used to be amazing, he rebelled and then he was back to square one.
3. When Warlic was pulled through the portal at the end of Chap.1 he was split. The Professor half was the one that saved the Atealans most recently and brought them to Lore. His infernal half, that had been suppressed for so long, went on a rampage, just like his father had.
4. The Atealans have been terrorized twice by infernals. Once by Wargoth Sr., then again by Warlic's infernal half.
5. Warlic just took on the name of his Father. Wargoth sounds way better then "Junior".
6. Think of it this way. The Atealans had passed the reign of terror of Warlic's father into legend. Then, all of a sudden, a new monster appears that fits all the descriptions of the legend that they had told stories about. His infernal half is pretty much his father reborn. It was a name he was already familiar with, even if he couldn't recall exactly where.
April 24th 2013: Tomix on the Atealans and their home planet of Somorah.
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I'm not sure if it's explained in game, but regarding the day and night cycle, atealans measure it with knowlege of glowing plants.
If they glow, it's night.
If they don't, it's day.
Once they were stuck on Somorah, atealans had to adapt. The planet had no sun nor moon, but it had a REALLY strong gravity, which made it orbit around, well, itself.
How exactly you ask?
Celestial magic!
Also, atealans don't know the concept of hours.
@DragonlordKhan - Somorah's waters were pale brown ;)
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