Viking Story

[CodyBohdi]

Seriously, how can you not be intrigued by this as a potential game?

Early in the new age the world of Midgard is blighted with a deep winter known as The Frost. only a few months into the coldest winter remembered, the settlement of Runeheim runs dangerously low on it's supplies and sends it's best raiders out to gain as much as possible in a campaign that should only last a few weeks... It's been months, now Runeheim is on it's last leg, with no boats and only one more option: Raid from a sister settlement and take their boat and supplies.

The story has a humble and small beginning that spirals down into what caused the fleet of Runeheim to vanish, increasing jotun attacks, and even standing against a wave of new gods fighting for Midgard.

And just like runeheim... I NEED BOATS!!! as in tilesets, help please?

 

[MinisterJay]

Are you going to throw in a little bit of Nordic lore in this?

 

[CodyBohdi]

Definitely, I WAS considering making odin a playable character but I mean come on... Can't use a god... kind of op. I do think I could do a work around to include him into the story (super easy since he would just wander around disguised as a vagrant to meddle in human affairs).
all in all though I'm thinking post Ragnarok, only it didn't end with a giant wolf eating the land and a giant snake envenoming the sky. But some gods were lost and some were born. Yada yada, I've been fleshing out the premise of this game for about a month. got half a notebook full so far, a good chunk of it though is all of the classes i'm putting in it and story, the background lore is a little less priority.

anyway, I've got up to the part where you take the boat from a neighboring settlement developed in game... but I need a boat tileset...
probably also need some dwarf characters too.

I need to be more artistic...

 

[MinisterJay]

If one follows the complete lore, Odin is killed. Basically every deity in Asgard is killed.

 

[CodyBohdi]

Most die, a few who already died come back from hel (per the poems and stories from the poetic edda) but that sort of tore down the foundation to a true viking story with the prospect of fierce fighters dying in battle and going to Valhalla, but there is no Valhalla if the aesir and Vanir perish or atleast there's none to carry the fallen there.
could make it pre-Ragnarok but then I couldn't have neat areas like the Maw of Fenris, either a great gorge/ravine created by fenris. Since he was allegedly so ginormous that he could eat clouds and the sea at the same time, but you know, it's whatever lol.

 

[MinisterJay]

Awesome, I was waiting to see if you would use the 'R' word - Ragnarok. Looking forward to seeing updates on the progression of this game. Thalzon has some awesome Nordic Battlers.