A New Evil Enters

[cruzazul 2807]

The fun begins!

[Masterfawkes 33]

Oh Tolkien I cannot even escape you in minecraft.

[Jon Evaglno 202]

[ChuckSUK 0]

SHITE MAN, SHITE!

[Wretched 2038]

Oh Tolkien I cannot even escape you in minecraft.

 

You joined a server called 'Lord Of The Craft' to escape Tolkien?...

[The Fact Core 511]

Scary...isn't it :3

[Merkaken 516]

Pleeeease tell me we can become antagonists

[E__V__O 1984]

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Sorry that I will be picky here...

 

With this, will there be information coming that shows how these beings where created?, What drives them, how was the world that they live in created?, How did they find Anthos?, Do they have a reason for all this?, Are they run by a Daemon?, did the creator make these begins?, How did they start up?, Would they have there own unique magick?. (illusion?), Will all the lore detailing everything be released  Will there be more information on them coming out soon?.

 

Yes I know these sound like good antagonists, although what are they?... we need something to at least help us in OOC.

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[Cappy 1599]

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How about you wait and find out? Lots of work has been put into developing the antagonist, and it would spoil the mystery to give everything away before you've even seen it.

[Old-Rattlesnake 1477]

Wraiths? Sure, why not.

[Merkaken 516]

I can be da Witch King, yus? 

[MonkeyCoffee 516]

Awesome! I just hope that the events that happen won't all be American based, as I won't ever be able to attend them ;-;

[Silent™ 552]

The kind of events I, along with quite of few of you I'm sure, enjoy are like when the Undead attacks on Alk'hazar and Alras, when all the players could fight together against an enemy. Similar to the first event in the North with the Dragons and Boar people, except it was very annoying that they had godmode on, and their bows seemed to do about 5-6 hearts with full leather armour on, which was quite OP.

Anywho, I look forward to the reveal event for these antagonists, as well as fighting them and defending the cities/forts from them. Maybe I'll even make an alt and apply to be one of these antagonists, or maybe they could turn my main character, Silent, into one of them. Thing is though, he won't go out without a fight! (He also won't pee himself in their presence XD)

I do want the event to be done on a saturday, and even though I am EST, I would prefer if you guys organizing the event could put it at a time so we can get as many players as possible from as many timezones as possible (As well as starting the event when you schedule it, not one hour after you said you would and players, like me, end up wasting time and then having to leave before the event finishes, missing the epic finale). That way less people will feel left out, and I'm sure you guys are going to record the antagonist release event, so that we can re-live it, as well as add it to the Youtube channel and possibly bring more players to the server, like you did with the Undead release trailer way back in Aegis.

I really hope you guys can schedule this event and take into account all the times you've had to reschedule and delay the event, which ends up being a big inconvienience to a good portion of the player base I'm sure. Perhaps put up a pole on what time the event should take place over the next few days, and then organize it according to the majority votes, or something along those lines.
 

All in all, I hope that these new antagonist are really well done, and I'm sure that it's going to unite the races against this new enemy, which is always fun, but I'm sure there will still be conflict between the races of Anthos. This should create some great RP, rather then just a frozen north *cough, Game of Thrones,  *cough cough* with dragons and Boar creatures. Now we've got wraiths that turn citizens of Anthos into their minions *cough cough*, GoT's White Walkers, *cough cough*

 

Well done, and very "original".

[CraftPrime 35]

SO COOL! The Wraiths are going to be epic opponents.

[Valentino MC: Mau5noize 1094]

 

Here i will give some few OOC spoilers for you all, well not even spoilers. A future post will recap all this, but for now this should answer some questions.

 

1. This antagonist has absolutely no massive mobspawning involved. I wanted something where RP and emotes could be involved during battles with a mix of PVP; not PVE and having 10 zombies spawn in your house or right next to you. If you enjoy this kind of excitement don't worry, because i'm sure we will have smaller antagonists to fill the gaps of player desires.

 

2. The release of this antagonist will be very small, it won't involve large nations or large groups of players...at least not at first. As fun as it would be to blow up the TO on the way out the doors, it doesn't make much RP sense for us; because the WR would surely come in and kick our a%#. 

 

3. This antagonist is militarily structured. It is player and GM ran. How? GMs hold the high positions, below them they oversee a couple "beast men" (as you guys have dubbed them, though they are not beasts at all. Just corrupted, twisted, horrifying versions of their former selves) armies which will be ran by players and ET. Would we ever consider allow players to climb the ranks of wraiths, sadly no; if we grow large enough to where we need another one, then we would. But for now, no.

 

4. We will have an application up shortly, then a RP time will be set to rp out something similar to what this post described. The application isn't long and pages of writing, see what i did with magic apps, reading pages of text can give you headaches. Simpler is better and your past behaviors and dedication on this server speaks for itself.

 

5. The antagonist has little to 0 magic usage involved. Only MAYBE several will be able to use some OP spells, but for the 80% of your interaction with them, it will be the grunts; leather and iron armor mix, with stone and iron swords. Maybe a few enchantments of poison. So those playing the antagonist will have to be able to know when they lost, give a good fun to the players; then take their defeat like a champ. 

 

6. We will not be releasing Lore for them directly to the community. It is easily meta-gamed and it is much funner to track down books in game and read RP posts that hints at where to find them and what is going on. A separate map has been built, an evil place; but its location and release will be kept secret. When the time comes, this is where players would seek out the truth, seek out a weapon, and even if so bold; seek out the antagonist master.

 

But all in all, i plan for this antagonist to be a service to the community; drive RP and give players something fun to do and someday unite them. What i won't have is RP or attacks that are unsettling to players and cause flame. So i will be handling ban reports that involve antagonist players and i will not hesitate to PK their antagonist player if they are found to be at fault. I have always been an unbias staff member, and will continue with the antagonist. So if the RP seams to be going the wrong way, or you feel it could be better; in OOC let them know ask them to compromise in the situation, but if you are outnumbered 3 to 1, and simply don't want to die; well then you should have stayed home, cause the antagonist is out in Anthos.