2013-03-21, 09:58 PM
^I won't develop this much here. But it occurred to me that the 4 crystals setup in the proposal for V is actually very good.
I see it like a Dragon Ball adventure, where you travel with companions using the Dark Slayer as a compass.
First some background on Dark Slayer. This only occurred to me very very recently since I've been thinking about combining magics. Mixing them to get hybrid effects.
I shortly determined that the best effect for mixing all four magics (fire, water, wind, earth) is lightning, because you need all four to make a lightning bolt. You need the earth obviously to attract it. And you need heat water and air to form the storm clouds that generate the bolt...
Then its pretty obvious that since Dark Slayer has all four elements being equal, that its sword magic just has to be lightning based.
But! It only later occurred to me (like days ago) that the name itself, Dark Slayer, perfectly captures a lightning bolt in the middle of the night. Its like the dark of the night itself is literally slayed right before your eyes. Like a giant black sword ripping through it.
To me this is awesome. In fact so much of this comes together so well, its downright mysterious. I can't remember off the top of my head what the sword magic for Dark Slayer is in KF2 and 3. But this is why we are discussing refactoring everything.
And if there is any question. I want to make something that will bring the world to its knees, so as effectively as possible we can make the best case going forward for both SOM and making games in a totally public domain share and share alike way.
I imagine something that makes the crowd that liked SOTC think this new thing, KF, is orders of magnitude more magnificent. And no I am not a writer. I write code. But I can see myself taking on directorial responsibilities, like the director of a movie, I think that is what I am best qualified for actually. But I'd probably be one of those directors that angers everyone involved, so that's the only reason I have doubts about even playing that role. Normally its not a problem, but if you are trying to do something open, and social, then pissing everyone off is probably going to do more harm than its worth (I can always make my directors cut version after the dust settles)
Finally as for V. The Dark Slayer is perfect for this. And here is why. In KF we talk about the dragon knights I think. And there would be dragon kings you'd think too. So I imagine there was a time when Elegria was a federation with 4 dragon kings in each corner. Fire in the north, Water in the east, Wind in the west, and Earth in the south. And they were dragon kings because their power came from dragons, or what I would submit is where the magic actually comes from (edited: actually this is simple, dragon+knight=magic+knight) and probably they kept the company of dragons. Their subjects may have believed the kings were dragons.
And federal seat was in the middle of the continent, where Verdite is. The king of the continent was called the Black Dragon, because there are no black dragons, but instead that is where the four magics came together. Each king had a crystal where their magic was consolidated. And the Black Dragon had a black crystal. And that is the Dark Crystal, which is what the Dark Slayer used to be. And the black dragon wielded lightning through the combined might of the four satellite kings and their kingdoms.
So the Dark Crystal was like a key used to access the other crystals, since the middle kingdom would be the axis through which the others would meet and make decisions. Round table style. And the remains of the Black Dragon king are among the ancient ruins that the cemetery of KF1 sits astride according to its back story.
I think this period would have seen the continent more populated and prosperous than ever, in a way that would not even be befitting a proper King's Field game, which as we know, must be desolated
And I think the kings would have known of other continents that would have been their colonies. But eventually the federation broke down and civil war ensued. It's possible that it was after that that Elfos and Elwin had enough and departed taking the dragons with them.
According to my back story notes Sylval would have already been AOL. So I don't think fire dragons would have been around. But they could have been believed to be nesting beneath Melanat in the mantle below the earth's crust. I think fire dragons are only ever summoned as transient spells, or appear if the world is about to end and be made anew. Only a great hero could get in the way of that.
I see it like a Dragon Ball adventure, where you travel with companions using the Dark Slayer as a compass.
First some background on Dark Slayer. This only occurred to me very very recently since I've been thinking about combining magics. Mixing them to get hybrid effects.
I shortly determined that the best effect for mixing all four magics (fire, water, wind, earth) is lightning, because you need all four to make a lightning bolt. You need the earth obviously to attract it. And you need heat water and air to form the storm clouds that generate the bolt...
Then its pretty obvious that since Dark Slayer has all four elements being equal, that its sword magic just has to be lightning based.
But! It only later occurred to me (like days ago) that the name itself, Dark Slayer, perfectly captures a lightning bolt in the middle of the night. Its like the dark of the night itself is literally slayed right before your eyes. Like a giant black sword ripping through it.
To me this is awesome. In fact so much of this comes together so well, its downright mysterious. I can't remember off the top of my head what the sword magic for Dark Slayer is in KF2 and 3. But this is why we are discussing refactoring everything.
And if there is any question. I want to make something that will bring the world to its knees, so as effectively as possible we can make the best case going forward for both SOM and making games in a totally public domain share and share alike way.
I imagine something that makes the crowd that liked SOTC think this new thing, KF, is orders of magnitude more magnificent. And no I am not a writer. I write code. But I can see myself taking on directorial responsibilities, like the director of a movie, I think that is what I am best qualified for actually. But I'd probably be one of those directors that angers everyone involved, so that's the only reason I have doubts about even playing that role. Normally its not a problem, but if you are trying to do something open, and social, then pissing everyone off is probably going to do more harm than its worth (I can always make my directors cut version after the dust settles)
Finally as for V. The Dark Slayer is perfect for this. And here is why. In KF we talk about the dragon knights I think. And there would be dragon kings you'd think too. So I imagine there was a time when Elegria was a federation with 4 dragon kings in each corner. Fire in the north, Water in the east, Wind in the west, and Earth in the south. And they were dragon kings because their power came from dragons, or what I would submit is where the magic actually comes from (edited: actually this is simple, dragon+knight=magic+knight) and probably they kept the company of dragons. Their subjects may have believed the kings were dragons.
And federal seat was in the middle of the continent, where Verdite is. The king of the continent was called the Black Dragon, because there are no black dragons, but instead that is where the four magics came together. Each king had a crystal where their magic was consolidated. And the Black Dragon had a black crystal. And that is the Dark Crystal, which is what the Dark Slayer used to be. And the black dragon wielded lightning through the combined might of the four satellite kings and their kingdoms.
So the Dark Crystal was like a key used to access the other crystals, since the middle kingdom would be the axis through which the others would meet and make decisions. Round table style. And the remains of the Black Dragon king are among the ancient ruins that the cemetery of KF1 sits astride according to its back story.
I think this period would have seen the continent more populated and prosperous than ever, in a way that would not even be befitting a proper King's Field game, which as we know, must be desolated
And I think the kings would have known of other continents that would have been their colonies. But eventually the federation broke down and civil war ensued. It's possible that it was after that that Elfos and Elwin had enough and departed taking the dragons with them.
According to my back story notes Sylval would have already been AOL. So I don't think fire dragons would have been around. But they could have been believed to be nesting beneath Melanat in the mantle below the earth's crust. I think fire dragons are only ever summoned as transient spells, or appear if the world is about to end and be made anew. Only a great hero could get in the way of that.