[Campaign] Tales of Silventria

[deepstrasz]

Because this has gone terrifyingly off-top:
Disk Lasers image - Red Alert Synergy mod for C&C: Red Alert 3

 

[Rem]

I helped so much with the project and yet my character lacks lore u guys needs to fix this!!

 

[Blake8]

Really sorry Rem, here's a brief bio, I will write more and can modify it if you're not happy, let me know what you think:

Rem is an energetic and smart young mage from the Arcane Guild of ███, one of the magic guilds of Silventria. She is very gifted in healing magic as well as in summoning spells and although has yet to see any real combat is considered one of the most battle-ready mages within her group in ███.

 

[Colonel Aster]

You really messed some stuff up man, might wanna re-write that

 

[Blake8]

@Colonel Aster Fixed!

 

[Naze]

Alright instead of moving the off topic part to a separate place, I just renamed this thread.

 

[deepstrasz]

Alright instead of moving the off topic part to a separate place, I just renamed this thread.

Here: Yuri and Tales-> Yuri Lowell - Wikipedia

 

[Razorfang]

interesting stuff about dioneves character. anything on the minor enemy general which we had to face in the beta missions

 

[Blake8]

Which ones? I don't recall if I gave them proper names or used generic editor ones?

 

[deepstrasz]

dioneves

Did you by any chance get inspired by this?

Spoiler

 

[Razorfang]

@Blake8 the enemy archmage who had lots of dialect lines in the forest mission

 

[Blake8]

@deepstrasz lol, no, Dioneve was just a name me and a buddy created when we were trying to make up names for various characters

@Razorfang You mean Idin right? Well basically he's the rebel strategist and adviser, the reason he has lots of lines is because the player is meant to have a sort of rivalry with him on some missions, at least that was my intention

 

[Razorfang]

hmmm, u def need to write more lore, otherwise the characters are just heroes that you control in the game without really any backstory

 

[Blake8]

Yea, I know I just haven't had a lot of time as of late, and speaking of characters I had written this whole list of good name off this forum that now got deleted, but idk what happened to the damn list :/ guess I'll just have to be creative and make some more names up if more characters are needed

 

[Lord Aiden]

There are list of names for characters which you can choose a good name from, this should make things easier for you, I can provide a link if you like

 

[Blake8]

Thanks, but at this point I dont need it, I'll let you know if I ever do

 

[Cherrymage]

There are list of names for characters which you can choose a good name from, this should make things easier for you, I can provide a link if you like

Hey, I think this can be of use for me, I'm writing a story saga by the way... can you give me the link please?

 

[Lord Aiden]

Here are the lists:

Fantasy name generators. Names for all your fantasy characters.
Fantasy Style Names - 168 name list by PyrateQueen86!

 

[Cherrymage]

Here are lists:

Fantasy name generators. Names for all your fantasy characters.
Fantasy Style Names - 168 name list by PyrateQueen86!

Ahh...

Thanks, but I already know the first one. But the second one is really helpful btw, thanks!

 

[Blake8]

Damn, 168, that's a huge list

 

[Rem]

@Blake8 I think my character deserves a longer bio lol

 

[Colonel Aster]

Blake definitely needs to write more lore, but then again giving too much away sometimes takes away from the story

 

[Blake8]

@Rem what your character lacks in lore she makes up in abilities

 

[Lord Aiden]

@Blake8 : Tales of Silventria has an awesome world map, so how many countries are there in your tale?

 

[naha]

woaaaa....................give ...................give some noble prize to you all.

everyone is fit for noble prize lol. i dont know why only those scientists are getting it ?


perhaps everyone should get it.

 

[Blake8]

The major nations on the main (still unnamed) continent are the Kingdom of Silventria, the State of Milrein, and the Dukedom of Nesmene, however there are a dozen or so smaller nations, some on other continent, most of which are not yet named, for instance here is a map of another continent which shows 3 unnamed nations

 

[Lord Aiden]

Good mapping skills, which continent are those on?

 

[Blake8]

 

[naha]

lovely answer kell8

 

[Blake8]

well a picture is worth 1000 words right?

 

[Lord Aiden]

Okay.

I see that its part of the larger continent to the east of the main one

 

[Blake8]

Yes, I really need to come up with some names for those continents

 

[Lord Aiden]

What's naha's problem?

 

[Blake8]

@Lord Aiden

Spoiler

Naha is really MouMou in disguise

 

[ArchDuke]

Interesting campaign you had planned Blake, hpefully you'll resume and finish it this time

 

[ArchDuke]

@MouMou are you Naha in disguise?

 

[Lord Aiden]

@Azarus1 : That's the real question, right

 

[MouMou]

@MouMou are you Naha in disguise?

What do you mean NAHA?

 

[DevZ]

@MouMou I think he's refering to the use Naha, his replies are on the top of this pg

 

[Lord Siler]

@DevZ I think you meant to spell "user" not use

 

[Blake8]

How's this for a more extensive bio?

Rem is an energetic and smart young mage from the Arcane Guild of ███, one of the magic guilds of Silventria. She is very gifted in healing magic as well as in summoning spells and although has yet to see any real combat is considered one of the most battle-ready mages within her group in ███. Rem dislikes the conflict and the unnecessary bloodshed that comes with it. She strongly believes that it is not Silventria's duty to help other nations in wars caused by their own actions simply because the countries are on good terms with one another, and have certain trade agreements.

 

[Lord Aiden]

Better than the original.
But you need to remember that the point of these bios or whatever you wanna call them is to present a character's background and personality to the player.
You need to think "what am I trying to convey to the player about this character's background or traits" and then convert whatever it is into a short paragraph, I think you began writing without thinking this much here

 

[Blake8]

You're right, how would you start on writing these bios ?

 

[Lord Aiden]

Well I would ask myself
1. What does the player need to know about this character's personality, background, place in the story, etc. ?
2. What's the best way to convey this? (sometimes its not in writing but rather in a cinamatic, or even in a mid game event)

Then let's say I want the player to identify certain traits with a character, I would make a list of the traits then make up a story of these characters displaying the traits
Let's say you got traits like these
*optimistic
*dedicated
*helpful

You write a bio where it describes every trait for instance for the dedication you could write something like :

Although (character's name) has served the army for many years and has seen just how bloody and brutal a war can be, he still believes that the war can be won and still will himself and his soldiers to fight with their full force in order to achieve this goal.

 

[Blake8]

Thanks for the advice!

 

[Rem]

Very good advice Aiden! Now hopefully @Blake8 will write much better bios & lore material =)

 

[Blake8]

I Promise

 

[Lord Aiden]

Just practice and you'll get really good at both bio and lore writing

 

[Colonel Aster]

You know when we were still developing this, I think was Blake spending more time having fun chatting with Rem than he spend on various aspects of the campaign such as Lore, and cinematic

 

[Blake8]

@Colonel Aster Listen there was a hell of a lot I did actually accomplish, and you know this to be true cause you've seen it, I just wasn't very good at lore writing, and making cinematics is a bitch, I was supposed to have someone else do it anyway before they flaked out on it.