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Server Concept
This is a Malazan server, based on the Malazan universe by the fantasy writers Erikson and Esslemont
It is designed under the direction and supervision of Rake, the brains behind the server 'From Ashes Risen' which gave so many new ideas to the Conan servers that you now see everywhere, such as quests and using the AoC mod for other fantasy races.
The server story plays as an alternative ending to the series of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series, only here the Crippled God has managed to poison Burns' veins so much that this Elder Goddess is waking up, thereby destroying the Malazan universe.
Your character is trying to escape the destruction (better, postpone being destroyed), either by escaping into a magic warren or into an Azath, and the story will begin with you, after your death, standing on the beach of an island with an Azath, a Death-house. It seems your escape failed, the world is dissolving, and soon this death realm must fade as well.
But wait, some of the Elder Gods, Krull and T'riss had foreseen the possibility of this ending, and they had created a new warren, Telda Olos, the Warren of Dreams. Maybe one of Burn's creatures will totally make this its own and 'Ascend' and after ascending, claim its throne. From there, this new god would be able to influence Burn's reality just enough to change reality so that a time path in which Burn does not wake up would be the active one.
Will you be that person, would you be the one that saves the world?
The potential overarching storyline available to your character
You will start your character at the beginning Azath, where you will meet a mentor that will create a body for you based on Malazan race you choose. After that you, a new soul-taken with a new body, get dropped into the Warren of Telda Olos at your racial starting location.
From there you develop your character, do quests, interact with others, and pick a class, or better 'a Path' as the classes have multiple stages to develop.
Meanwhile you learn that the Crippled God is starting to get access to this warren as well, and that Telda Olos is starting to respond to the destruction of the world: new extreme powerful undead that the locals call 'the Scourge' are arriving daily and the dream warren is more and more becoming a warren of nightmares.
Then, at one point <what point? A level?> you are ready for the next stage: Soul Shifting.
Soul shifting means you start over again, this time with more races to choose from, while keeping the class abilities you had collected. Souls shifted can take a second-Class path, including magic.
Once again you play and develop yourself through the world, this time with the end goal of ascension.
After ascension you can start the third main stage of the server setup, the race to claim the throne of this warren. But beware on, that last part is going to be the most brutal you have seen. If you however do succeed in that: congratulations your character has won and can now save the world; a world where temples will be erected in your name…
As a final note: most people will be happy to stay and just roleplay, a big group will never soul=shift, and an ever bigger group will be fine with never ascending. Why? Because this world offers so much more.
What makes this world unique?
Not only does this world offer a clear way to keep higher level players involved via the soulshifting-ascenscion line it offers:
- A Malazan lore setting, not only present in the choice of races, magic, gods and background story, but with the lore found INSIDE the game world. Books, steles, and letters will teach you the essential lore in the game itself.
- Unique races (Malazan) that are very different from your usual Elves, Orcs and Humans fantasy settings, each with their own unique culture and bonuses, each with their own small admin towns where you can find your quests and racial perks.
- A unique territory system. Not only can you conquer and try to hold territories like a few other servers do, the regions in Telda Olos have both a physical, and a spiritual dimension. Ignore the latter and purge like events will undermine your hold on the land.
- A for Conan Exiles server unparalleled system of magic and religion. Twelve warrens create twelve different types of magic, and twelve gods from the Malazan pantheon made it to this server, meaning twelve different types of shrines and temples instead of the usual six.
- The Class system with progression along a path (like, 'the path of the warrior' with ranks and achievements that unlock higher level items and feats. It is set up to encourage clan builds with people of diverse class paths as picking a career has strong consequences.
- If you thought the FAR server was trendsetting with its' mod selection, wait till you experience the mods from Songs of the Fallen.
- There are not many other roleplay servers that will be as dangerous as Songs of the Fallen. The usual 'let's quickly try to build the high-end Age of Calamitous items because of their high stats' is not going to work here, but the monsters are real forcing people to work together.
How do I start?
Assuming you have read the rules, and declared you will adhere to them, there is the moment where you get access to the full discord server and the login information to create your character.
At that point, it gets a bit confusing for some players due to the limitations to modify the base game. Let's say you want to create character that is of the Teblor race. You have seen the racial examples and are trying to create this half-giant. But the base game character creation, even in its modded form is not going to allow you.
This is what you have to do: Pick a name, and decide on a race and a gender. Ignore all other settings and just start, unlike the vanilla game, the real character creation happens later. You launch the game and appear on the beach of a scary looking island. Interact a bit with some of the actors until you find the mentor that will give you a body for your soul to possess. That is where you pick your race. Once you have picked your race your new body, inhabited by your soul will appear close to a small admin controlled settlement that belongs to the race you picked.
Don't move, you are in a safe spot, instead, press 'shift-M' and now you will setup the appearance of your character.
Then press 'shift-R' to setup your roleplay settings. Take your time to also explore all the emotes that are now available to you.
Check your map to see the territories. Three neutral territories belonging to your race have been set aside for beginning players to be safe from at least their own race. You are however free to move to whatever area you want. Please realize that the lore is setup that most races have never seen people from other races and they should have a high level of distrust. They might have seen Humans, but probably not in a friendly way.
Only then you will start to play.
Now, find a clan or maybe start one, explore the town, pick a trade. It might be wise waiting to pick a trade until you have found a clan, as clans that are diversified in classes will have an advantage.
This post has been edited by MetalApache: 24 September 2019 - 07:22 PM
