Two become three

Posted on: Jun 21 2008, 04:46 PM

By now you know the savanna will have two major sects of elves. Despite them being completely different they are not like different countries, they are one, they have no borders and they have the twin priests as the major rulers of both sects. In fact, they are so much the same and they remember that so well that I am planning a ritual to mark that, but it is still in a very initial concept phase.

Two is a nice number, however, I think three is better. In fact, I think a third sect was inevitable, because neither the mountain (still unnamed) elves nor the Katamarai seemed to have been changed by Marr Vellis' arrival and I wanted that to be something that would change the society a lot.

So, a third sect arrived. Sailors and explorers, voyagers and adventurers, merchants and dreamers. I now have enough archetypes in the elven society for a player choosing an elf to be whatever he wants to become - a healer or agent/thief for the Katamarai, a warrior or mage for the mountain ones and a general adventurer or merchant for the island elves.

At the same time, I think I need to reduce the cities in the savanna, because there are far two many villages lying around for any to be significantly large. So, I think I will reduce the number and increase the size.

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So, today I want to picture how would the Katamarai react to Marr Vellis. Because they always want to impress and their major weapon is charm and wonder (healing really isn't of much help in international affairs), they would have sent a big committee to Marr Vellis to impress the world and to lead the city to think they were far more powerful than they actually were.

In fact, this move played so well that the new island sect became independent enough from the mainland culture and formed its own. And it marked the idea people have of elves throughout the world, which would fit the idea of elves players first entering the game have.

To picture the magnificence of the committee, check this clip from Aladdin. In fact there would be plenty of similarities, because the Katamarai have loads of Arabian culture in their making.

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