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Elemental: The Tragedy of Procipinee

Elemental: The Tragedy of Procipinee

image This Summer we are hoping to put up some flash movies on the site to help introduce players to the lore of Elemental. The movies would be organized as a timeline starting at around 10,000 years before the Cataclysm.

Elemental: War of Magic, takes place approximately 100 years after the cataclysm.

The upcoming Beta 1G (due “real soon now”) begins to incorporate actual “game” stuff.  So I thought this would be a good opportunity to discuss and begin introducing people to the actual world of Elemental.

The Fall of the Immortals

Men referred to the immortal beings who dominated their world for thousands of years as the titans. The Cataclysm brought their dominance to an end but at great cost.

When players begin Elemental: War of Magic, the world is utterly ruined. Even though it’s been 100 years, the devastation is still nearly complete. Fertile land – i.e. land rich enough to grow food even with the benefit of Channelers sacrificing their own life-essence into the land is pretty rare.

Don’t expect a happy soundtrack at the beginning of the game. In fact, don’t expect to hear music at all. The background music for all Kingdoms and Empires is very subtle. Some of this will start going in during the Beta 1G cycle.

The Channelers

The number of people who can actually cast magic is nil in the world. That is because thousands of years prior, the Elas’nir known as Tar-Thela used her ability to gather the magic of the world and put them into the shards that her kind had brought with them. Unexpectedly, those shards became rooted where they were making their locations strategic ever after.

However, for a long while, the titans were pleased with the results – the mortals were no longer a threat to them magically.

Then, some mortals were born with the ability to channel magic through the shards and they became individually powerful enough to rival the titans.

In Elemental: War of Magic, players are one of these Channelers.  There are 10 default factions to choose from (or you can create your own).

One of the factions is called Pariden and is led by the beautiful Sorceress known as Procipinee.  She is the daughter of Emperor Amarian III.  In the final battle that led to the cataclysm, he rose up against his immortal masters and helped slay Curgen, the lord of the Dred’nir. 

In the aftermath, he led the remnants of his people west. It was he that learned how to cast the spell “Revival”. He sacrificed his own essence in order to provide this knowledge to all Channelers wherever they may be in order to one day revive the world.

His daughter, Procipinee, was one of those Channelers. Despite her best efforts, she is looked on with suspicion by the Kingdoms of men because of her family’s close associates with the now reviled titans of old.

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Reply #26 Top

Thank you, BoogieBac. No one would have wanted halfbaked factions anyways so it's a wise choice. ;)

Reply #27 Top

I also thought Porcupine ...

Backstory seems fine enough, although I'm mostly interested in a really good sandbox mode. I reckon the backstory elements will not fix the sandbox mode too much, thanks to the many editors we have been promised.

Ok for ten factions instead of twelve if you put more emphasis on the faction editor instead. Please let's have a superb faction editor, it will mean the game will live for so much longer.  

 

Reply #28 Top

I think that the earlier this stuff is introduced the more it will be accepted. There are going to be many strange game mechanics that will greatly benefit from a fictional backing.

For people who aren't consciously interested in backstories, I think it is more important than they realize that there is some fictional glue holding the physical laws of the alternate universe together. Context is important, even without delving into the story. 

Reply #29 Top

Re the lass' name, the double e at the end makes me think of the name Renee (with an accent on the last e), and a stress pattern like Persephone. Pro-SIP-ih-nay.

Reply #30 Top

My thoughts as well. Although I'm counting the days until Lady Porcupine appears in the official game.

Reply #31 Top

Pro-SIP-ih-nay

Ahh.. I see it now, tho I think it would benefit if it sounded more like Persephone. Pro-sif-ih-nay. Lol I'm not a master of linguistics in the least, but you get the idea ;)  

Reply #32 Top

I love a good story...

 

More more more please.

 

:frogboy:  

Reply #33 Top

I understand the tragedy of Procipinee now. It's not about his father being associated to the Titans and when the humans defeated those, she and her people being margined as Fallen, even ignoring the great sacrifice of his father for the future of all the living beings. No. The true tragedy is that no one has any idea of how to pronounce her name!!!8O

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Reply #34 Top

One Question.

 

Why does she have a large peice of metalwork modern art strapped to her back?

Reply #35 Top

It's an oversized two-dimensional tail. They'll be all the rage next summer... trust me.

Reply #36 Top

It is obviously a Glyph. A Glyph of what you ask? Well, obiously it must be a Glyph of Pro-sif-ih-nay.:)

Reply #37 Top

In the finest traditions of anime, that is the textbook representation of the spell she is about to cast, projected on the static background behind her for dramatic effect. This is an indication of how immenseily powerful and awesome (c) the spell in question is, as well as an indicator of its dramatic importance. Clearly, the procipinee is about to show its spines.

Reply #38 Top

I imagine the porcupine jokes are only going to get better!

Reply #39 Top

Quoting KellenDunk, reply 38
I imagine the porcupine jokes are only going to get better!

Hedgehogs are better.

Reply #40 Top

The lore seems really interesting.

 

A female sovereign! I hoped for a few :)

Reply #41 Top

Am i the only one that it reminds of Galactic Civilization? immortals : arnor ; Tar-Thela = Draginol and shards like in Twilight of the Arnor again ?

 

And this line : "the mortals were no longer a threat to them magically" remembers me of "the Dread lords were affraid that the younger races may be a match for them technologically".

Maybe GalCiv's development team = Elemental development team ?! (just kidding :p)

Reply #42 Top

Brad dodes have a tendency to reuse plot elements and names in a lot of his stuff... there was an old RTS called........ ermmmmm...... ummm........ (I forget and have no idea where to look it up).......... well, anyway, it had all of the GC2 races in it (their names, anyway) but was not connected to GC2 in any fasion.

Reply #43 Top

Quoting Scoutdog, reply 42
Brad dodes have a tendency to reuse plot elements and names in a lot of his stuff... there was an old RTS called........ ermmmmm...... ummm........ (I forget and have no idea where to look it up).......... well, anyway, it had all of the GC2 races in it (their names, anyway) but was not connected to GC2 in any fasion.

 

Maybe Brads only managed to get this far on his legendary good looks?

Okay, it can't be that then... :P

 

If you create a 'thing', and then create other 'things', its hard to seperate them completly. Often your telling the same story but with diffrent characters or a diffrent story with similar storytelling.

Reply #44 Top

Brad dodes have a tendency to reuse plot elements and names in a lot of his stuff... there was an old RTS called........ ermmmmm...... ummm........ (I forget and have no idea where to look it up).......... well, anyway, it had all of the GC2 races in it (their names, anyway) but was not connected to GC2 in any fasion.

Uh? What?

Maybe GalCiv's development team = Elemental development team ?!

It is.

Incidentally, it is all one universe. :)

 

 

Reply #45 Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 44
Incidentally, it is all one universe.

So GC3 will have magic spells and space dragons? kk!

Gonna stack modules of +fire resistance on my frigates.

Reply #46 Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 44

Incidentally, it is all one universe.

As in same universe and same dimension and same timeline?}:) ;P

Man, I know you (Stardock) are with an RPG in the very background (argh, the day I can put my paws up it...). A fantasy one would be lovely but someday a scifi one with Gal Civ as background... :drool: The Terran Effect. XD Well, one step at a time, huh?