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BattleMaster => Locals => Beluaterra => Topic started by: Tom on April 26, 2011, 07:58:58 PM
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There's been some discussion around what the areas mean, if they can be recovered, but little has been said about what the blight is. How does it look like, feel like?
Well, I'm not going to reveal all that, since it's a major theme for Beyond. But, here's my vision of what it looks like from outside, near the edge:
(http://wiki.battlemaster.org/images/thumb/Beyond-Teaser3.jpg/800px-Beyond-Teaser3.jpg)
For a larger image, go to http://lemuriaskies.deviantart.com/art/Beyond-Teaser-206499585
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Hmm, I'd like to walk along that edge. :)
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Aw, it doesn't look that threatening...
And too bad all the blighted regions turned to generic rogue regions. Those flavor texts for the factions were actually interesting.
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it is interesting but it would have been more interesting if we could see the ground :)
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The blight is just a huge monster like the one from Lost. That's why you get wounded when you try to enter it ::)
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it is interesting but it would have been more interesting if we could see the ground :)
Oh, you will... and it won't make you happy.
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I'm envisioning someone dropping to their knees and uttering, in complete despair
"You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"
;D
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I always went off the text you would see travelling into a Blighted region. You'd start to feel sick, struggle to breathe. The lands around you were unlike anything you'd ever seen. You simply knew that if death had a realm, it would be somewhat like this. Nevermind all the creatures, vermin and fauna that are all but beyond your limited human comprehension.
To be honest, I'm slightly worried that Beyond will make the Blight appear less sinister. I feel like a games rendering won't quite square with what I have in my head or get across just how horrific it actually is. But I suppose with the way most people are talking about one day regaining lands that will be exactly the same as before maybe there does need to be a visual kick up the arse somewhere along the line.
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The text you get depends on which force blighted the region (Not sure if that's still the case). I guess that's the one for the Undead.
Monsters:
As you cross the border into Ovujemeh, you begin to notice that the land is more feral than you remember. Pure, primal nature is ruling here. Men is prey. You are being attacked by cats, dogs and stranger creatures, but also by insects of every kind. It is impossible to fend all of them off. Horrified, you turn around and make your way back to where you came from as quickly as you can.
I had the Daimon one somewhere too, but can't find it right now. It would be great to find out more about the Blight and hopefully we will also get to see the different kinds of Blights from each Invasion force :)
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Stubborn folk who think like that will continue to do so. What irony that people have high hopes after the fact.
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I guess that's the one for the Undead.
That was a mixture of what I remembered of the daimonic one and my own embellishment I'm afraid >.<
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I see this and in my point of view it's seems little bit horrible and it the good one. If you have any pictures like this then share with and good work.
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I see this and in my point of view it's seems little bit horrible and it the good one. If you have any pictures like this then share with and good work.
Er, did you miss the part where that is a screenshot of the incomplete Beyond side-adventure? Beyond is an intended sequel to The Dream that is currently on indefinite hold (apparently these things are hard to make on your own, go figure).
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I think of the Blight as described in the Wheels of Time series. A place where anything and everything has some sinister way of killing you. Think deadly plants, deadly rain, deadly grasshoppers :)
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I think of the Blight as described in the Wheels of Time series. A place where anything and everything has some sinister way of killing you. Think deadly plants, deadly rain, deadly grasshoppers :)
I'd like to reconquer that land of damnation with my holy armies. 8)
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I'd like to reconquer that land of damnation with my holy armies. 8)
I hear the Malkier do too. Not that that has gotten them anywhere, of course.
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I hear the Malkier do too. Not that that has gotten them anywhere, of course.
Damn, I want to start reading them again!
It was not my intent to go off-topic though. I think the blight should be like some evil vapor coming up from the ground or marshes. A foul stench, that changes all happy living things into evil living things, basically.
That stench could be unbearably sweet too, of course :)