» Thu Apr 08, 2010 5:16 pm 
)Hi! As some may know long before I was working on a huge land with lore and land of it's own that ended in utter failure. However 90% of the concept is done in m head, it's just a mod that was not restarted when I lost it last time. What does it have to do with this?
Well, part of the region from that mod was rather small town on the shore, was supposed to be a 1st bigger city seen if followed by mod's own chargen and story. Last couple of days few ideas of the city and it's surroundings kept coming creating a massive clutter ball in my head so I decided to use some of those ideas.
What am I making in this mod?
Basically, it's going to be a small city (well, big I guess, comparing to Morrowind's term of "city"), a pretty unique style of wood near it, and ruined temple hidden somewhere around. Note that some supposed to be hidden areas are actually quite easily reached (khm temple khm), but consider that I have made custom game mechanics for the huge mod mentioned above that did not let any forms of levitation or insane 1000 feet jumps.
The city itself does not have the story, it's more based on the woods and the temple but this would be the summary of it's lore:
Once upon a time, there was a city called Anary, surrounded by bare stone. By the shore people had their houses and lived their lives, and trough the stony canyon went the passage where from mages would levitate away up to the hidden temple and do their things. Temple was not a secret to commoners in any way, but it's location was.
Each year, by using techniques of random marks, priests would take a person as a sacrifice to a god who would, as they believed, aid them i upcoming wars, or grant them fertile years, or grant them good weather and such. They would take the sacrifice to the temple's back room which had no door, and had one pass that would look down on the cliffs, so the sacrifice could not escape, but could choose if it wants to lay down and starve to death or jump down the cliffs and die quickly.
One certain year on a certain day it was time to sacrifice again, and the choice was a woman, that was engaged to a very powerful young mage. When she was taken to the temple, and when the young mage found out, he was frustrated, not even believing in the god she was sacrificed to, thus he went up to the town, and tried to bargain his dear out, but the priests arrogantly laughed at him and turned him down. Enraged, the young mage started to slaughter priest by priest, then passing on just any commoner in the town. In this massive bloodbath an old priest came to him, knowing that he will die, but before it happened he cursed him, flashing a light at the mage and saying that the next moment the mage gets separated from the solid ground will be his last moment, and an old priest was burned by a spell, and tossed aside.
Young mage certainly knew that this trick prevented him from flying out to the temple for his soon to be bride, so he decided to go for a secret forbidden spell. Focusing the energy of all the people he has killed around him, he sent a handful of magical seeds to the mountain passage and where only cold stoned slept in few days only a wood was starting to grow wild, and after seven days and seven nights a huge forest was a barrier between the city and the temple. So the mage used thousands of roots that were grasping the strong trees as steps, and finally made it to the temple.
Getting there he found his dear confused and mad that he used the forbidden magic, and for the massacre, and claiming that she is honored by being chosen for a sacrifice she rejected the young mage saying that she never wants to see him again. Young mage being utterly desperate and lost leaped away down the cliff, fulfilling the old priest's curse.
Each year, by using techniques of random marks, priests would take a person as a sacrifice to a god who would, as they believed, aid them i upcoming wars, or grant them fertile years, or grant them good weather and such. They would take the sacrifice to the temple's back room which had no door, and had one pass that would look down on the cliffs, so the sacrifice could not escape, but could choose if it wants to lay down and starve to death or jump down the cliffs and die quickly.
One certain year on a certain day it was time to sacrifice again, and the choice was a woman, that was engaged to a very powerful young mage. When she was taken to the temple, and when the young mage found out, he was frustrated, not even believing in the god she was sacrificed to, thus he went up to the town, and tried to bargain his dear out, but the priests arrogantly laughed at him and turned him down. Enraged, the young mage started to slaughter priest by priest, then passing on just any commoner in the town. In this massive bloodbath an old priest came to him, knowing that he will die, but before it happened he cursed him, flashing a light at the mage and saying that the next moment the mage gets separated from the solid ground will be his last moment, and an old priest was burned by a spell, and tossed aside.
Young mage certainly knew that this trick prevented him from flying out to the temple for his soon to be bride, so he decided to go for a secret forbidden spell. Focusing the energy of all the people he has killed around him, he sent a handful of magical seeds to the mountain passage and where only cold stoned slept in few days only a wood was starting to grow wild, and after seven days and seven nights a huge forest was a barrier between the city and the temple. So the mage used thousands of roots that were grasping the strong trees as steps, and finally made it to the temple.
Getting there he found his dear confused and mad that he used the forbidden magic, and for the massacre, and claiming that she is honored by being chosen for a sacrifice she rejected the young mage saying that she never wants to see him again. Young mage being utterly desperate and lost leaped away down the cliff, fulfilling the old priest's curse.
You may comment the story, but don't comment the way it's written since I'm aware it's bad, I was never much of a writer and never will be so bear with me
As of now, there are no screenshots, I pretty much finished retexturing and rearranging the resources I'm using, but haven't imported all in cs yet (tho I've done a bit of the work on town).
Feel free to comment and thanks
