Hello,
some news from the front :
I am sick of playtesting. In the end it is always the same. You build a massive army and go rampaging.
But basically now I am happy with the choices, however .. it all got a little different. It turned out that the eye matters, too.
I was so tired of playtesting that I just started looking for really awesome and unique graphics.
I found them in :
1)Bannor
2)Light Elves
3)Dwarves (too some extent)
4)Doviello (they are all great but .. have you ever seen the War Elephant ?? That one is sooo awesome)
5)Amurites (they are just .. you know .. mindblowing
)
6)Sheaim (they simply have a veery unique play style .. armageddon anyone
)
however this is not completely fitting with the religions and the alignments. Therefore ... We get new leaders with distinct traits and background for this scenario only.
Example : What about an neutral agnostic Doviello ? An aggressive Bannor ? An evil Sheaim-Type Amurite Leader ?
A little teaser :
Background :
Tuollian, The Twisted (Phil, Arc, Evil, Amurite, Octopus Overlords)
.. The Amurite society is very liberal when it comes to knowledge and magic.
But even for Amurite Standards Tuollian was different. As a headmaster of Angarg the Northern Academy of Magic he was certainly not the average Archmage. Angarg had already a history of certain research in the more darker and twisted domains of magic.
It was also known that the life of a young student could get dangerous at times. Besides the well known fact that Senior Mages would regularly use and misuse their younger collegues for their own experiments. But things started to get out of hands when Tuollian permitted clerics on the campus. Amurite Sholars are interested in the divine knowledge of magic but they certainly draw a fine line between studies and devotion. But Tuollian turned Passion for his work into Fanatism for Twisted Enlightment.
It was not so much his methods but the results of his new experiments that stirred the disapproval of academic circles and the public. What kind of success is it when a student suddenly looks like the things that learn to summon in the higher academic grades ? Not too mention the unlucky ones who suddenly got missed and not to mention the complaints of civilians to their local authority about things that go bump in the night and are definitivly not your average Chaos Marauder or Elemental.
Slowly with rumours and sightings the case grew out of Angarg. Things started to affect even high politics. Foreign Relations with other leaders got spoiled. Death Magic is one thing. Nobody will deny its benefits and the wish to prolong one's life or to raise gone ones is very well accepted in the Amurite society. But Entropy, Chaos and Body and especially the Divine domains of these spheres are different topics.
Tuollian had crossed the line. There was reason why Religion was not prohibited but also not encouraged on campuses. There was reason why a young Adept had to choose only one line of Magic. There was reason why other Archmages with similiar powers had not given in to the desire to combine the different domains of Magic like Divine and Sorcery and Summoning.. but there was no reason in Tuollian anymore.
Eventually Valledia had to act as no leader had to act for centuries. She dismissed Tuollian from his posting and stripped him of his titles for continious, conscious and harmful misuse of students, besides endangering the public. He became an Outcast, a Twisted .. but he did not even care anymore.
Amurite Archmages had mastered Body and Mind, Elementals and Spirits, Charms and Curses, even defeated Death itself but he had mastered ... Creation !
The last known sightings of Tuollian where when he crossed the Amurite Border together with a group of few almost zealotious Mages and Students. He was heading north...
to be continued ...
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