[Campaign] Detached Tales: The Convict

[GoblinTRASH]

"Aederron stirs, and it calls your name."

STORY

After the first Great War between the elves and the humans, the vast lands of Aederron remains scarred with blood and grief. Neither won nor lost, yet the rivalry between the two factions still remains. However, something dark and grim has awoken from its eternal slumber, vowed to conquer and devour Aederron bit by bit, amassing its cultists from different regions, a new rising God bound to destroy anyones glory, The Eternal.

After witnessing the vision of two possibilities of Aederron's fate, Erith, the holder of the future and truth, journeyed towards one of the heroes she foresaw in her vision, no other than the night elven convict, Alyssae Virelune, whose exiled from her own kin's lands.

PROLOGUE VIDEO

SCREENSHOTS (CHAPTER 01)

FEATURES

MAP 01 will hopefully in the future feature 2 major boss fights, then 3 minor boss fights and one determinant boss fight (in which two of these fights, you get to pick a choice to spare or kill, who knows if they might be playable later on or might be an additional obstacle..?) MAP01 currently has 100% finished terrain, just the cinematics and triggers are hoarding up all the time. It also introduces determinant characters whereas once they're killed, they wont reappear again. But if you manage to finish their quest and make them survive, they will join you later at the last chapter of the campaign (for the hardest boss fight). I also want the quests to feel more unique and immersive, so I changed the optional quests tab to instead be a tab where you can find out more context about the flashbacks/memories you'll find in each map.

As for the story and how many chapters, there will be 2 cinematics, 2 playable cinematics, and 5 chapters, and 2 determinant chapters. I've already figured out how everything will pace out, and how the ending for this campaign will be. The only problem is if I can pull it off... being a uni first year and all, I may be too ambitious but I've started this campaign since like.. 2022? then stopped for 3 years then for the past months, I've been coming back to developing it after being inspired by Baldurs Gate 3. (The Eternal? more like The Absolute...)

PROGRESS BAR

AS OF.. 2/3/2026

CHAPTER TITLES	PROGRESS	TIME ESTIMATED TO FINISH	GAMEPLAY
PROLOGUE	100%	CINEMATIC	CINEMATIC
CHAPTER 1: THE OATH	100%	1 hr 30+ min	MISSION-STYLE
INTERLUDE: RESTLESS NIGHT	100%	DEPENDANT [Approx 30min+]	MISSION-STYLE
CHAPTER 2: A WAR SHARED	100%	1 hr 10 min+	RTS
INTERLUDE: WHAT DREAMS CONCEAL	100%	DEPENDANT [Approx 1 hr+]	MISSION-STYLE
CHAPTER 3: THE NIGHT WISH	50%	TBA	MISSION-STYLE
CHAPTER 4: INTO THE SHADOW	TBA	TBA	MISSION-STYLE
CHAPTER 5: THALNORA’S EMBRACE	TBA	TBA	RPG/MISSION-STYLE
CHAPTER 5.5: SHADOW OF SYLTHARA	TBA	TBA	RTS
CHAPTER 6: FIGHT FOR AEDERRON	TBA	TBA	RTS/MISSION-STYLE
CHAPTER 7: WEEPING DAWN	TBA	TBA	MISSION-STYLE
EPILOGUE	50%	CINEMATIC	CINEMATIC

ENDING NOTE

Also, the main reason why I made this forum page is because I'm looking for people who'd like to join this passion project of mine, anyone is welcome, and I use the latest editor. The only thing to note is that this is purely a hobby, and I can't give money lol as I just started uni this year. If you're still interested, and would like to see this work finished with me, DM me here or at my discord! @goblins_are_trash. Thanks for taking your sweet time checking out this project!

 

[deepstrasz]

Ugh, I think you've made two threads about this already?

[Campaign] - Detached Tales: The Grim Prophecy

DETACHED TALES: THE GRIM PROPHECY "My vision chose you for a reason." NOTE! Heyya! This is a hobby campaign I made in the past months or so, after being inspired by a campaign named "Aliza's Journey". But as a student still, I haven't really gotten the time to flesh out this little campaign...

www.hiveworkshop.com

[Role Playing Game] - Detached Tales Whispers: Her Lullaby (DISCONTINUED)

Just a doodle I've been working on these past weekends. Figured that the effort wouldve been put to waste If I were to not post it xD. A little background info: This map remains unfinished (as seen by the horrendous terrain (Im gonna fix that soon)) :L and I hope some day I'll return to...

www.hiveworkshop.com

 

[GoblinTRASH]

Ugh, I think you've made two threads about this already?

[Campaign] - Detached Tales: The Grim Prophecy

DETACHED TALES: THE GRIM PROPHECY "My vision chose you for a reason." NOTE! Heyya! This is a hobby campaign I made in the past months or so, after being inspired by a campaign named "Aliza's Journey". But as a student still, I haven't really gotten the time to flesh out this little campaign...

www.hiveworkshop.com

https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/detached-tales-whispers-her-lullaby-discontinued.348264/[/URL

Yeah, but I'm trying to shift my focus into a different perspective in my story in The Grim Prophecy. Her Lullaby was like a whole new idea that I had to scratch because my laptop broke and needed to factory reset so I lost almost half the work I did at that time.

The Grim Prophecy was like a wayyy more ambitious project I had where I'd cover all the three main characters I had planned, but instead I decided to cut the two ones and remade the campaign to only focus on one hero, which is Alyssae. I promise I'm trying to really finish this xD as I already made good progress.. I recently got back into developing this because of a certain inspiration and I'm planning to finish this by atleast until 2026. Also that thread was like really old, and I said some things that I refuse to see again. So I hope this new one is allowed to stay! I reconsidered trying to reopen that old thread but decided to create this one instead because the story changed so much overtime ..

 

[PurgeandFire]

Looks really beautiful, and I like the overall atmosphere you set up with the ambience and terrain. Looking forward to seeing updates!

 

[GoblinTRASH]

Just to update this thread, I can't believe the first map took me this long to finish, maybe because its.. approxximately 1 hour and 45+ min to finish.. yeah maybe I went a little bit too hard on this map for all these months.. some of my friends playtested the first map and told me while it was very immersive, it felt like a different game lol. It's on the polishing stages now and its done technically, but there are stuff I would like to expand on (for eg. more dialogs when encountering cultists etc.)

 

[puck]

Very potential campaign

 

[GoblinTRASH]

Looking for playtesters for my first two maps . Gameplay is approximately not more than 2 hours of the two maps combined. If anyone is interested, come DM me here or at my discord @goblins_are_trash

Reason would be I need to see if the story's pacing is right, and to determine if the 2 important choices in the first map is too obvious of a choice or not (both of them are yes or no choices, but heavily impacts future maps)

 

[puck]

Looking for playtesters for my first two maps . Gameplay is approximately not more than 2 hours of the two maps combined. If anyone is interested, come DM me here or at my discord @goblins_are_trash

Reason would be I need to see if the story's pacing is right, and to determine if the 2 important choices in the first map is too obvious of a choice or not (both of them are yes or no choices, but heavily impacts future maps)

send message

 

[GoblinTRASH]

Can you see GOBLINS as trustworthy allies? And why is the answer yes?

 

[GoblinTRASH]

goblins

 

[IceLurk]

It was really beautiful. Can you tell me how you made the animation? I'm also planning to learn.

 

[GoblinTRASH]

It was really beautiful. Can you tell me how you made the animation? I'm also planning to learn.

Thanks If by animation you mean the statue thing, I just did animation - play unit spell, but I'd reccomend just looking at the tutorials here.

 

[puck]

a INTERLUDE for 30＋min？

PROGRESS BAR

AS OF.. 12/15/2025

CHAPTER TITLES	PROGRESS	TIME ESTIMATED TO FINISH	GAMEPLAY
PROLOGUE	100%	CINEMATIC	CINEMATIC
CHAPTER 1: THE OATH	100%	1 hr 30+ min	MISSION-STYLE
INTERLUDE: RESTLESS NIGHT	100%	30+ min	MISSION-STYLE
CHAPTER 2: A WAR SHARED	100%	1 hr 10 min+	RTS
INTERLUDE: WHAT DREAMS CONCEAL	50%	TBA	MISSION-STYLE
CHAPTER 3: TRAITOR AMONG THEM	TBA	TBA	MISSION-STYLE
INTERLUDE: BONDS BEYOND DIFFERENCES	TBA	TBA	MISSION-STYLE
CHAPTER 3.5: SHADOW OF DARETH	TBA	TBA	MISSION-STYLE
CHAPTER 4: THALNORA’S EMBRACE	TBA	TBA	MISSION-STYLE
CHAPTER 4.5: SHADOW OF SYLTHARA	TBA	TBA	MISSION-STYLE
CHAPTER 5: FIGHT FOR AEDERRON	TBA	TBA	RTS/MISSION-STYLE
CHAPTER 6: WEEPING DAWN	TBA	TBA	MISSION-STYLE
EPILOGUE	50%	CINEMATIC	CINEMATIC

 

[GoblinTRASH]

For some reason inserting images, as well as the other editting tools is greyed out on my end. But heres some stuff from my 2nd interlude (w/o fog).

EDIT: nvm i just haven't toggled BBCode xD

 

[GoblinTRASH]

Updates all moved to Detached Tales: The Convict.