Lore is up!!!

[neiana]

Well, it never changed too much. Even after 3 changes from 2002 'til beta, very few things really changed - just the severity of it.

At any rate, if you come back let me know - I'm in a guild with some very knowledgeable, friendly Zorai.

- N

[tetra]

I don't get it. On the one hand, Trykers are supposed to free the infidels of Kami possession and not trust the Zorai, but then, at the same time and on the other hand, Trykers need to build alliances with the Zorai.

Anyone else find these contradictions lame?

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Tryker : The minds of the Trykers have not yet evolved sufficiently to be able to accept Kami enlightenment. They are of little spiritual worth. Not only are they said to have treated the Kamis with frivolity in the past, but they venerate the Karavan who are hostile to the Kamis.

There is also a blurb in the zorai page about building alliances with the tryker and helping the matis see the right path. Essentially the Zorai seem to see tryker as confused children. Given that the tryker are the closest folks to zorai (undersprings effectively blocks easy foot travel to fyros), they have interest in helping the tryker still following the karavan develop into a less confused and more evolved race... The younger races like the gibbai, and tryker are coming along well in this respect with things like the gibbai tribe in zorai lands and light of trykoth guild favoring the Kami over karavan, even a number of more advanced and developed Trykers joining Zorai and Fyros guilds.

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[neiana]

with things like the gibbai tribe in zorai lands and light of trykoth guild favoring the Kami over karavan, even a number of more advanced and developed Trykers joining Zorai and Fyros guilds.

First, Light of Trykoth no longer exists...
Second, the old LoT leader joined a Zorai guild in search of peace - and the Kami

- N

[tetra]

First, Light of Trykoth no longer exists...
Second, the old LoT leader joined a Zorai guild in search of peace - and the Kami

- N

I can't be bothered to keep up with all of the day to day happenings of the less developed species like the yubos and trykers.

[madnak]

I'm having to make some revisions to my character concept too, but that's nice. Before there wasn't really enough information. There's still isn't enough, but we can fill things out more.

Too bad to hear LoT is gone, that was one of the only successful RP-oriented guilds.

[raynes]

Hi Raynes,

Sorry to disturb you again.

What is meant by fighting the goo?

Do you meant by those creatures maddened by the goo? (or so called goo-infected creatures)

Or do you mean the goo itself?

And a sidetrack from the question, what is the effect of the goo? Tried running into goo infected lands and taking damage every round. So does the goo kills or drive creatures aggressive and insane? To me, seems that it kills since it keep damaging me and not driving me insane.

Thanks

Please ask all the questions you want. I am a big lore/story person so any chance I get to discuss it, I dive right in.

From reading the lore and background it is my understanding that fighting goo means to reduce the amount of it. It also appears it has one of two effects, drives creatures insane if they are around it too much and it destroys things as it advances. The Zorai see the goo as a cancer of the planet. Slowly advancing expanding and devouring things in its way. They feel that if they don't keep it in check it will eventually destroy all of the jungle in turn ruining their lands.

As you pointed out when homins/players walk on it, it seems to hurt them. With animals it appariently drives them insane.

I've also noticed that the Karavan based tribes seem to actually use the goo. I beleive it's the black circle that has pile of goo in the middle of their camp with a shrine built around it. So it would seem that those tribes must have some knowledge on how to actually harvest it for some purpose.

As most of the tribes that deal directly with the goo are high level, I have feeling that the goo is going to be tied into upper level content.

[angus858]

Does the Followers of Jena heading refer to the Karavan?

Isn't Jena the goddess of all the races?

Thanks

Good question. I had thought so but the "new" Zorai lore page says we worship Ma-Duk as the creator of Atys and gives no mention of Jena at all. I'm upset because Ma-Duk couldn't possibly be as pretty as Jena

But if "followers of Jena" is synonomous with Karavan then Zorai would not worship or respect Jena would they?

[raynes]

Good question. I had thought so but the "new" Zorai lore page says we worship Ma-Duk as the creator of Atys and gives no mention of Jena at all. I'm upset because Ma-Duk couldn't possibly be as pretty as Jena

But if "followers of Jena" is synonomous with Karavan then Zorai would not worship or respect Jena would they?

The Zorai at one time worshipped Jena and didn't think badly of the Karavan. However when the Karavan refused to let them tend to the goo, the Zorai no longer held Jena or the Karavan in high reguard.

[angus858]

The Zorai at one time worshipped Jena and didn't think badly of the Karavan. However when the Karavan refused to let them tend to the goo, the Zorai no longer held Jena or the Karavan in high reguard.

Ah, ok, that makes sense. Perhaps that explains the Zorai's positive starting fame with the Matis. If we both venerated Jena in the past we may have had much in common. If the goo dispute were a relatively recent event in our history then we are in the process of breaking away from old friends.