Quavinir_Twiceborn 1041 Popular Post Share Posted October 14, 2020 Aloha! Given LOTC has had such a bizarre history, I thought it’d be fun to write down some of the more crazy and fun things I’ve seen. This is both lore-wise, and OOC, but hopefully this will let some people learn some things, or atleast have a decent chuckle. (The “You’re Banned Game” post by Watyll)#1: The longest thread on the forums is a forum game. Made in mid 2012 and running until mid 2016, the “You’re Banned Game” on the forums boasts a whopping 927 pages. Originally, before the forums updated and changed how comment pages were calculated, it had well 1,000 pages. The “You’re Banned” game was simple. all one did was find a reason to ‘ban’ the person who commented above them, and simply say ‘banned for ‘x’. Given the forums ran differently back than, and featured most recently updated content rather than most recently posted content, the You’re Banned Game, and other forum games were constantly featured. The You’re Banned Game was favored due to its simplicity and lack of any real competition, and many renamed themselves or gave themselves custom forum titles specifically referencing this game. It was really pretty nice. (An excerpt from the application of Ghonnereabag12#2: The most Repped Post on the Forums is an Application Made on March 25th, 2012, the most repped thread on the forums was made. The application of “Ghonnereabag12”. A vulgar, vaguely racist, comedic application telling the story of the Jamaican, Jewish, Detroit-born gangster and criminal Tyrone. Applying once and never applying again, our dear friend made one post, and that was that, the king of joke applications, and arguably the most well liked of all memes, it goes to show you dont need to stick around to make an impact. #3: LOTC has a Dinosaur Land Yes you read correctly, dinosaurs arnt just still alive in the world of LOTC, there is an entire country far off on the world LOTC takes place on that is inhabited not just by large dinosurs such as Trexes and Sauropods, but man eating plants and animals. Inhabited by wandering clans of desperate hunter-gathers, elves in cities on trees, and even a thriving human port city. Vectra, LOTC’s own Dinotopia, is a implemented and canon land in the world of LOTC where one can claim their character was born and raised before immigrating to Arcas, or whatever previous or subsequent land you choose. Speaking of lands... (A screenshot of Telarith, a town owned by Telanir)#4 There has been a Played Map that is NOT CANON. In late 2012, LOTC’s 2nd major continent, Asulon, became physically unplayable due to a myriad of reasons, with the backup of the map file being difficult to obtain. Though a tempoary-map was planned between the move from Asulon to Anthos, the corruption of Asulon made the transition inexplicable in-character. To remedy this issue, the administration decided to create a temporary, non-canon map for the players of LOTC to RP on. Set in an alternate universe where the descendants failed to travel from Aegis to Asulon, and instead crashed on a few islands, this map was fully freebuild with little to no regioned areas. Given the freedom to build wherever one pleases, the apathy of the lore team, and the freedom to temporarilly play a completely new character, many chose to play extreme and outlandish characters, such as 10 foot tall high elves, or flourescent pink orcs. (A basic graph of the world LOTC takes place on, shared by Zarsies) #5: LOTC’s World is a Giant Frisbee The world LOTC takes place on isn’t a sphere, a square, or even a box. LOTC’s world is a double-sided disc, with each side being generally inaccessible from the other, to the point that they’re viewed as separate dimensions. The ‘origin’ side, where the bulk of the 4 brother’s history takes place is called ‘Aos’, whilst the opposite side, which was home to both Anthos and Asulon, is referred to as Eos. (Excerpt from the earliest lore-post of the Khrarjyr, made by Xerdun.) #6: Kharajyr were originally made by Iblees. Kharajyr, LOTC’s troubled aztec cat people weren’t always the creation of a now giant skeleton, infact, in of the earliest drafts of the lore still on the forums, Kharajyr are specifically Iblees tainted animals with vague intelligence, that were blessed by a variety of aenguls simultaneously with sentience, bipedal legs, and opposable thumbs, kharajyr were made to be weapons of Iblees turned against their initial creator. (Excerpt from the Asulon Wiki) #7: Dwarves had an entire official language that was so unpopular it was forgotten. In modern day LOTC, most races atleast have a decent history with another language. The Valois (or auvergnians depending on who you ask) introduced French to humans in Aegis, Elven has been used since near the server’s beginning, orcish blah has become nearly synonymous with orcish culture, yet, the dwarves have only begun using a unique language recently- or so one might think. A decently long list of words and substitutions can be found on the Asulon wiki, originally posted by Kirrekith in early 2012, yet barely any forum posts can be found using any of the unique dwarven words. It wouldn’t be until Anthos that the first speckles of the modern ‘ancient dwarves’ would begin being used. After the Asulon wiki became defunct, asulonic dwarven has scant ben heard from ever again. (Excerpt from ‘The Abyss’ By Swgrclan) #8: The Starting land of Aegis got New Londo’d. The starting land of Aegis is quite literally infused with a consuming evil darkness and is also in a giant pit, filled with cancerous mutants with dark magic, undead, and ruled by a eternally undead armored telepathic philomath. Made so due to a big battle between Aeriel and Iblees (and a few lore-writers’ penchant for dark souls-esque writing), it was used as a source for dark magic, and for possible events. (Archive Screenshot of the Game Team in early 2019.)#9: There have been nearly twice as many defunct staff teams than current ones. The history of LOTC’s staff has been a rocky one, however, it has been worse believe it or not. Currently there is 6 separate teams, Story, Community, Moderation, Technical, World, and Admin. However, there have been far more separate staff teams, with even more members. Not including rebranded, or merged teams, the list of defunct teams is as follows: 1. Wiki Team – Volunteers for wiki updating and maintenance, this team saw 3 separate iterations over the course of a decade. Though many times very useful, each iteration seemingly fell to having large swaths of its member group do very little, causing the decision making teams at the time to can them, favoring to put their duties to the Application Team (now Community Team) or even Lore Team (now Story Team). 2. Villain Application Team - The team incharge of reviewing and judging villain applications (applications required for one to play a villainous character) had 2 separate iterations, one in Asulon and Anthos, and another in Axios. The Villain Application team (or VAT) was useful so long as villain applications were a thing. When villain applications were removed, so were the VAT.3. Server Moderator - One of the most shortlived staff teams in the server’s history, the server moderator (or SM) was made as to be a non-decision making counterpart to the Moderator Team. This team was simply to deal with basic conflict and the ever-constant stream of modreqs for various game issies.4. Game Moderator - A bizarre separation, a Game moderators, separate both from standard moderation, or forum moderation, is a team I know very little of admittedly. From what I can tell, it was a similar team in early 2019 to server moderator.5. Magic Moderator - A team technically separate from both the Lore Team, GM, and ET, the Magic Moderator was a staff member specifically capable for dealing with issues and lore to do with magic and magical creatures, places, and items, and took a more proactive role ingame than the LT of the day. 6. Magic Application Team - Separate both from Magic Moderator, Lore Master (Later changed to Lore Team, and than Story Team) and either of the other application teams, the Magic Application Team was a team specifically for reviewing, judging, and keeping track of all users of magic on the server. In times past, magic applications were some of the most difficult applications to finish on the server (with things such as ORQs, RP scenarios, full character backstory, personality, etc.) with the MAT reviewing each and every one. 7. Mentors - Going from a standardly player run team, to a staff team, to a player run team again, the mentor team was made to help new players become integrated to the server, as well as educate willing players of lore, proper RP etiquette, and overall provide information as needed. 8. Guides - Similar to the mentor team, but being distinct as their own team, and even existing parallel to the mentor’s team, the guide team was made to educate the playerbase, create guides on the forums, assist with the wiki, and generally be a good example for other players on the server. 9. Media Team - A team with a couple iterations, the media team was a group whose entire focus was providing media (whether be it music, skins, srt, renders, screenshots, videos, etc)for both use by member of LOTC, or to promote and advertise LOTC to the outside world. The team was commonly plagued by long swaths of little to no activity in both iterations, leading to their disbanding. The ‘Content Creator’ rank in Community Team is somewhat similar to the Media Team of old. 10. Forum Moderator - The bane of trolls and the patron saints of the You’re Banned Game, forum moderators were a team whose entire prerogative was ensuring the forums were organized and orderly. Before the advent of discord, the forums were used far more frequently, and for a more wide variety of reasons. When the forums started to be used less and less, with laxer standards and with less consistency, the forum moderation team was disbanded, with a few GMs given the reigns to keep the forums in check. 11. Safety Team - A ill fated, and vestigial team that in the end may not have even been originally assembled, the Safety Team was intended to work against moral degradation and sexual predators on the server. Due to its vagueness, early announcing, and lack of planning, the Safety Team was removed as quickly as it was made. The top of the Lord of The Craft Planetminecraft Thread #10: Voting didn’t use to be rewarded, it was mandatory. Due to the popularity and consistent use of websites such as Planetminecraft, Lord of The Craft’s promotion on these sites was extremely important to its growth. Hence, for a period of time around late 2011 to early 2013, to be accepted to the server, it was mandatory for a player both to copy and paste their application in its entirety onto LOTC’s planetminecraft thread, but also to vote for the server on planetminecraft, and write down one’s voter number. This voter number would be cross-referenced, and one could have their application denied for not voting. Donations listed on the previous Kharajyr Thread#11: Some of the most influential changes have been due to server donations. Whether done in back ally deals or official donations, money has a way of getting things done on LOTC. Both the ascended, and kharajyr were added as official ‘races’ due to donations of only around 2-300$ USD (Im an aether donator, where is my race?) Though there are dozens of unconfirmed rumors of other large changes due to ‘donations’ or money changing hands. (An excerpt from ‘(4.0) Ghouls by Druinsbane) #12: There has been almost 20 separate varieties of playable undead on LOTC Talk about a rough crowd, there has been many separate versions of undead non-ET/ST members could play regularly on Lord of The Craft, whether sourced from some kind of god, one’s own internal darkness, or a fancy set of evil runes and binding magic, there has been loads of different kind of undead. The list is as follows: Ghouls, ghosts, gravens, liches, wraiths, wights, Harbingers, Ibleesian Undead, Burzdukutotaz Intelligent Undead, zombies, dopplegangers, pale knights, dread knights, death knights, abyssal knights (But only half undead???), darkstalkers, dreygur, and drowned. Also, for this fact SPECIFICALLY, I was asked to ding in a disclaimer, even if I do find it a bit silly. #13: There has been 2 accepted playable frog men on LOTC, that isn’t alot but its weird that its happened twice. Wonks, through some bizarre turn of events, were somehow not the first playable frog people on LOTC. The Man-Frogs of Lenfarthing, a race so complex they had atleast 8 known words, 4 of which were written down, encompassed their entire spoken language. With a complex hormonal system and limited intelligence, the man-frog was the original frog men on LOTC, unfortunately leaving little lasting impact on the server as a whole. #14: Aeldin exists due to a server exodus In mid 2013, many were extremely unhappy with the way the server was being ran. Not just bandits or a couple unhappy players, but moderators, admins, and many prominent members of the community. At the time, LOTC was the only largescale RP community bringing in large numbers. High-school RP hadn’t taken off, and LOTC had very few competitors. Hence, it was a big deal when a large group of prominent LOTC players announced their departure for a new startup server made by a former LOTC player. This departure, at the time, was referred to as the mass exodus, and in character, was a large amount of characters hopping on boats, and sailing the heck off Anthos. However, a good few months later, this competing server was beginning to fall apart, causing most of the players who left LOTC to return. However, given it hadn’t been that long, most people wanted to play their previous characters, or descendants of their previous characters- but they had all sailed off into the great unknown, where did they go?... The answer: Aeldin. A mystical land now ruled by the Oren empire with its own history and societies and people groups, extremely similar to the Oren of the day, but better and more stable in almost every way. Initially, a large amount of LOTC staff rejected Aeldin, however, whether through genuine acceptance, erosion of resistant, or simply writing it in and not taking no crap, Aeldin became accepted into LOTC cannon. Its also argueable that orcish horns stem from the same origin, as the orc-like race on this competing server (referred to as Hobgoblins, but were just as large as orcs, spoke orcish, had tusks, and were basically just LOTC orcs) had horns, and horns only started popping up on orcs after the fall of the competing server. Thats all I have for now. I might edit in some other fun or interesting facts I find, or forgot to put in. I hope you guys enjoy! Lemme know if there is anything I missed, or simply whether you liked something like this. 58 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronin_champloo 5951 Share Posted October 14, 2020 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaMoist 1707 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Have you been bored 17 minutes ago, Quavinir_Twiceborn said: LOTC has a Dinosaur Land I remember when Elrith wanted to do something with this. Dinosaur land is pretty dope, found out about it when I started writing lore for skull island themed **** on one of Elrith’s projects and had to be told that it was already done 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devvy 1348 Share Posted October 14, 2020 wow. these are really some bizarre and fun facts about lotc. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
argonian 12836 Share Posted October 14, 2020 really cool thread how did you even remember half this **** 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCapybara 1803 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Shooketh 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarsies 6024 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Fun facts indeed. Minor note: the Aos/Eos map is slightly outdated because I made it while inebriated, Arcas should be much closer to Atlas (directly south) for obvious reasons. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeypoacher 6993 Share Posted October 14, 2020 elysium, kalos & thales best maps. lotc is unironically more fun when people don’t give a ****, and you aren’t forced to rp in a boring messymedieval house and grind out activity hours for a megalomaniac also post link to asulon wiki 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
argonian 12836 Share Posted October 14, 2020 did you guys know dwarves once had an archbishop i dont mean like an archbishop of the brathmordakin, but like a proto-canonist one dwarves and halflings shared a religion w/ humans in those days, but religious rp was non-existent back then so everyone forgets that also speaking of religion and canonism – one of the most important saints in canonism, st. dan, was only a saint because he called himself one. like his /setname was literally "saint dan” or some ****, and everyone just went with it lmao. another important saint from the same period, st everard, secretly supported the undead. funny how that goes 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quavinir_Twiceborn 1041 Author Share Posted October 14, 2020 I added a few more fun facts that hopefully some people will enjoy. Im glad people are liking this post so far. 9 hours ago, AlphaMoist said: Have you been bored Not especially, but I just have been wanting to make something like this for a good while, so I put a good bit of effort into it. 6 hours ago, argonian said: really cool thread how did you even remember half this **** My memory is notoriously bad with alot of things, but stupid LOTC facts with no outside use I remember surprisingly well. 1 hour ago, Zarsies said: Fun facts indeed. Minor note: the Aos/Eos map is slightly outdated because I made it while inebriated, Arcas should be much closer to Atlas (directly south) for obvious reasons. Makes sense. Though would south be directly below Atlas? Or is the map not necessarilly aligned with the cardinal directions? 9 minutes ago, howard said: elysium, kalos & thales best maps. lotc is unironically more fun when people don’t give a ****, and you aren’t forced to rp in a boring messymedieval house and grind out activity hours for a megalomaniac also post link to asulon wiki Type in <https://www.lordofthecraft.net:80/wiki/wikka.php?wakka> into the wayback machine. Direct links don’t seem to be working with this unfortunately. The anthos temp wiki however is still accessible. https://lotc-wiki.wikidot.com/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anore 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2020 11 hours ago, Quavinir_Twiceborn said: (A basic graph of the world LOTC takes place on, shared by Zarsies) #5: LOTC’s World is a Giant Frisbee The world LOTC takes place on isn’t a sphere, a square, or even a box. LOTC’s world is a double-sided disc, with each side being generally inaccessible from the other, to the point that they’re viewed as separate dimensions. The ‘origin’ side, where the bulk of the 4 brother’s history takes place is called ‘Aos’, whilst the opposite side, which was home to both Anthos and Asulon, is referred to as Eos. Exciting news on this front, In a sleep deprived state after a voice call with Heero and Llir arguing about it, I have fixed the alignment of the Aos side of the map I am currently working on a large scale quality RP version of this, but here is another view, a shiftnative approved rendition, of the map. Larger version for viewing: 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
argonian 12836 Share Posted October 14, 2020 1 minute ago, Anore said: Exciting news on this front, In a sleep deprived state after a voice call with Heero and Llir arguing about it, I have fixed the alignment of the Aos side of the map I am currently working on a large scale quality RP version of this, but here is another view, a shiftnative approved rendition, of the map. allow me to solve this 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarsies 6024 Share Posted October 14, 2020 1 hour ago, Quavinir_Twiceborn said: Makes sense. Though would south be directly below Atlas? Or is the map not necessarilly aligned with the cardinal directions? An argument could be made for that. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anore 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2020 9 minutes ago, argonian said: allow me to solve this Well thats the thing, technically speaking Axios and Athera are both connected to Aegis, or were at some point before Aegis with boom, if we want to refer to Aegis as a Supercontinent 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slayy 816 Share Posted October 14, 2020 15 hours ago, Quavinir_Twiceborn said: #3: LOTC has a Dinosaur Land I have a character from there! This is amazing! I love that this can help new people who are joining the server and help old players again get familiarized with all the old lore! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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