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The Lore leaks from ExtraLife are now in the wiki. Enjoy!
Lex
Member, Phoenix Initiative, Avatar of the Phoenix, Kickstarter, Alpha One
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That was speedy
P.S. Still hate you.
I'm sooo thrilled right now, thank you!
Steven Sharif is my James Halliday (Anorak)
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
-HPL
Liches and Undead in Ashes! I can hear your bony dance all the way in elfland!
If some one has done it before that means that it can be done again
So I've been thinking about this since last night. How are they gonna explain away necromancers as normal citizens when undeath originates from corruption/ancients?
Feels like some juicy lore will be cooked up for this. Kind of like warlocks rejoining the horde in world of warcraft?
It would explain the lack of info on the summoner
Clerics for example are particularly attuned to the threads of essence that channel life and motive energy. They can heal and even resurrect, and they can steal energy, turning their enemies’ powers against them.
We now could say that certain magic focused classes have special attunements to comforming essence types. Mages could be attuned to elemental essence for example.
I think that Summoners are attuned to the essence type that lets them connect. Connect our realm with the realm of elementals, or law and order or chaos. Connect to astral planes and then force or coerce the creatures comming from there to do their bidding.
A Necromancer (Summoner/Cleric) could also have a certain affinity to the essence of life. They could for short amounts of time controll the corpses of their enemies by influencing this essence. Make their bodies believe that they are still alive so to speak. Still sanctioned by the gods, and with minimal chance of madness. ;D
All I heard was "become a Lich"
Long live The Ancients and may their reign of terror never end! 😈
YES LONG LIVE THE ANCIENTS!
that is until I take over and do to them what the Necrons did to the c'tan
/looks away at something, anything else....
[I'm still going to ignorantly make myself believe that no one (NO ONE) has ever used the words "Good" and "Necromancer" in a single sentence... ]
Steven Sharif is my James Halliday (Anorak)
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
-HPL
When I think back on the dark times before you and Mags, I am hugely grateful for all you do to keep this community together and ever bready for Ashes
Praise be to the Glorious Ancients!
Is the worship of the "Other Ones" (or Old Ones...as I like to think of them in terms of Lovecraftian-stylized lore)....a 'thing'?
Can we choose one of them as our deity?
Steven Sharif is my James Halliday (Anorak)
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
-HPL
That is definitely what they are hinting at in terms of being able to worship good or bad gods. I hope that's the case for sure, because it would be a very boring game if it only had goody good gods
I should bloody hope so
Bone Daddy and the Pale Queen over here flirting again 😏
GET A CRYPT YOU TWO!
It is worse than I feared.
The ones whom we have relied on for order and justice in our communities are the very same who scheme and betray. Not even the elves are safe.
I know not who can help us.
I shall gather the family and flee to the hills.
Surely we can live a few days in peace before chaos spills over.
And then...
Difficult decisions await me.
My dear children,
should you ever find this diary - I beg you remember only the best of me.
I may not be who I am now,
but know this:
I did it because I loved you - for the sake of your joy and happiness.
Forgive me.
*harmless whistling*
You should train harder, that should have collapsed the left side of your neighborhood.
Wrong, he does neither have a heartbeat as well as functioning lips/tongue/windpipe. He is a dusty skelleton sitting around helplessly, while his undead minions run amok.