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Are the lore write-ups for each race still happening?
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I asked this on the discord, but I figured it probably got buried there and it might be better to have answered on the forums anyway.
Early last year there were discussions on the discord server about there being lore write-ups for each race, it was said they'd be in-depth enough to include things such as naming conventions. It wasn't to be "spoiler lore" but pre-game lore for us to understand the setting better. Initially this was talked about as if it would be happening early last year, but with the Kickstarter immediately after, PAX, and everything else—it's completely understandable that it was moved to the side for more immediately important things.
Is this still in the works? And if so, any idea of when we might see it? Not all that many new games focus very much on their lore, so it would be really great to see something like this and I think maybe even some people who initially aren't very interested in the settings of the games they play in might start thinking more in-depth about the universe of Ashes of Creation if this sort of information was given out.
"What cultures am I the most interested in? What kind of name should I pick for my character? What kind of a background would my character have come from?" It'd be really amazing to see what people can come up with.
( @GMSteven )
Early last year there were discussions on the discord server about there being lore write-ups for each race, it was said they'd be in-depth enough to include things such as naming conventions. It wasn't to be "spoiler lore" but pre-game lore for us to understand the setting better. Initially this was talked about as if it would be happening early last year, but with the Kickstarter immediately after, PAX, and everything else—it's completely understandable that it was moved to the side for more immediately important things.
Is this still in the works? And if so, any idea of when we might see it? Not all that many new games focus very much on their lore, so it would be really great to see something like this and I think maybe even some people who initially aren't very interested in the settings of the games they play in might start thinking more in-depth about the universe of Ashes of Creation if this sort of information was given out.
"What cultures am I the most interested in? What kind of name should I pick for my character? What kind of a background would my character have come from?" It'd be really amazing to see what people can come up with.
( @GMSteven )
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You can look to the 64 class name variants to see how this bites him in the ass when he does release information. From his statements he spent a lot of time and effort coming up with names that made sense to him. Only to have people spend the next months saying shit like "WHY NO DRUID!?!" "MAH LIST IS MAKES MORE SENSE!!" and multiple people chiming in saying they know better. The fucking hubris and hyperbole of the internet gaming crowd.
I figured I'd ask because it was being talked about March 2017 as being something right around the corner that would be there with the race reveals—but we didn't get it then. Which is fine, 'cause as I said stuff happens. I'm pretty patient.
That's mostly why I figured I could ask now just to see if it was still going to be a thing or not, since we've gotten lore since then but not the more in-depth stuff on each race that was supposed to be there when the races were revealed.
Plans might've changed, which is fine and expected, just wondering if/when that'll be happening or if that got put to the side for now.
→Thousands and thousands of years ago there was a cataclysm that hit Verra.
→Our ancestors fled that. Everyone but the Tulnar left through portals to another world without magic. The Tulnar hid deep underground.
→All of this time later the stories from that time are essentially myth and legend—until the portals open up again. By now various nations and races have formed and split over time. The Pyrian Empire became the Empyreans and the Pyrai. The Aela humans who fled Verra split into the Vaelune and the Kaelar. The Kaivek Orcs from before the cataclysm split into the Vek and the Ren'kai. The Dunkenzell Dwarves from that time split into the Nikua and the Dunir. The Tulnar (or "The Forgotten") hid deep underground and became a mixture of various races.
→Our various governments and (I assume) just general individuals are passing through to explore and colonize this new territory. As such we re-enter Verra from the other unnamed (as far as I know) planet and enter a world where magic exists again.
It makes sense that there's such a huge variety of stuff thematically. It's a big world, and presumably the one everyone-but-the-Tulnar fled to is a big world too. Gonna see a wide variety of stuff.
What I'm asking about is the lore of the people who step back into the world, and the cultures they come from. The Elves, the Humans, the Dwarves, the Orcs, the Tulnar. They said we'd be getting more detailed descriptions at some point, so I'm just curious where we are on that.
And it's why I'm excited (and a little anxious, admittedly!) to see if they're still going about this stuff.
Which would make sense, if we are returning to a "forgotten" world, we wouldn't really know anything more than we have already been told.
Not asking for lore from the "Forgotten" world, but the known world that our characters come from. The cultures/backgrounds of each of the races, and what they do know/believe when stepping into this forgotten world.
Steven: "We also are going to be doing some in-depth overviews of each of the races as we move forward in the coming weeks and months. Some in-depth overviews of each race, a little bit of their history..."
Jeff B: "A little bit of the lore they come through the portals with. So each of them will have a little bit of story to give you guys a flavor of who they are as a race and kind-of where they're coming from and what their mythologies are."
Knew I wasn't imagining them saying they'd be somewhat in-depth! There's also this as well:
So that's more that's confirmed that we can look forward to! In their latest stream they mentioned they'd been talking about the lore and that after they hit their next milestone they'll be getting more of it to us—So hopefully this all is being considered as a part of it!
If they're dead set on doing that in any major ways it would probably be better to just not give us anything before release. Why even go through the trouble of creating misleading/false lore instead of just cutting out the portions he doesn't want revealed?
Not that I don't believe you, but do you have a source on the quote? I'd just like to know how it was he phrased it.
Yeah, I honestly don't know of any game that just laid all of its lore on the table with no surprises whatsoever when it comes to deeper and more important lore elements. Like I've said a few times I'm just talking the introductory stuff they've said they're going to do. They specifically said they're going to do a detailed write-up on each race before the game is out, and even said that would be in "the coming weeks/months" last year. I even more specifically asked if there'd be stuff like naming conventions in there, which Steven said there would be.
It was clearly pushed back, which is fine—I'm patient—but there is some detailed stuff we seemingly are supposed to be getting before the game drops in our hands. That's more of what I'm talking about with this stuff.
Definitely 100% true though, he has said (and I'd expect) he wouldn't just throw all of the lore at us.
I don't think any story changes should affect your characters back story. I doubt they would make a change to the current culture of the races as they come to verra. Only thing we might see change is their history.
Still cant wait for that lore 👍🏻 @GMSteven