I should start with the background.
It's a Medium-genned world to year 550 that uses Genesis. With it comes a lot of variations from vanilla; orcish empires being one of them. The Poetic Empires is one of two orcish civilizations, I think. I started out as a demigod katana-wielding Orc and toured the countryside for quests of fame and glory. The Poetic Empires lie in the south-west corner of the world, a sunscarred peninsula of prairies. As I travelled Id' learn that the peninsula was hardly only under orcish control. "Keepers", i.e. common humans, controlled a large part of it, and the only real tangible orcish presence was several hamlets and some towns on the isthmus of the peninsula. There were also some ezrakim elf civilization on the southern edge of it, and the northern part was a wasteland. (Where I happened to find a proper cave with connection to the underground! Yoy!)
Talking with the keepers who I quickly got friendly with, I learned that their capital didn't even lie on the peninsula itself, but far east on the mainland. Hm... Wierd. That they would expand so unexpectedly. But anyways, I digress!
A lot of stuff is strange in this world, I'd learn as a made it east to the mainland. On the mainland there is supposed to exist a demonic (goblin-esque) civilization that the orcish Poetic Empires have warred against ad infinitum. Really, the Legends tell only of incredible victories on the orcish side.
I don't think I saw a town, hamlet or village that wasn't completely devoid of life. Ghost towns, really! There were fortresses, though. I remembered that one was empty of sapient life, but that warthogs and other animals lived inside the walls. One was full of naked wrestlers that kept spawning ex nihilo, but that wasn't unique for that region. I saw a fortress like that on the peninsula, but with keepers. Some fortresses had been overtaken by a snakeman civ with its capital far to the north. They were very happy to give me assassination quests on the other snakeman lords in the area. I think they said something about "Sometimes animals just get out of control." Nice.
After looking through Legends and world sites.txt. it seems as if the demon civ have been attacked and pillaged over 9000 times, much owing to The Poetic Empires. If I'm reading the txt. correctly, there is only 25 demons left in this civilization. And I think I've already killed three of them in one of their hidden dark fortresses.
One peculiar thing popped up. The Poetic Empires are apparently holding two prisoners. Both of them demonic. I made my way back to Steamward, a fortress that held one of them. Seemingly normal fort. Orc warriors abound, I made my way into the main building. One orcish axeman, one orcish lord, and one... dark elven prisoner! Cool! But she flashed the same way that the lord did, oddly enough. I talked first to the lord, who behaved as an orc of his stature should. Return quest, get another, yay. The prisoner told me that her name was Ozud Wickedcontain, Prisoner. When I asked her about her profession she told me she was general. *The* General of The Poetic Empires, who've warred against the demons since time immemorial. The irony was tangible. She also asked me for help to get away from here, to which I responded by running out of the fortress as quickly as I could. To my surprise, she stood outside of the fortress entrance, as if waiting for me. I shit you not, it was as if she teleported! I think she want me to take her with me...
I saved and jumped into Legends mode. She was born roughly 100 years ago. Because of the demonic law-givers incapability to survive for longer than five seconds she became the law-giver 20 years ago. The same year her home fortress got attacked by a dwarven civilization. She led the defenders, and lost. She was imprisoned by The Poetic Empires though, also in the same year. They were 5 leopards, 5 black bears and 200 orcs...
The demonic civ has been at war with the dwarves and orcs for 450 years.
So, uh, yeah. I'd hoped it'd be a pretty cool story, bro. Then again, it's not exactly verbous nor fictious. Hm. Well, further input on what I should do now is greatly appreciated!
If anyone's interested I'll post the seeds and params (Y)
Author
Topic: Probably the best companion I'd dare to ask for. (Read 2241 times)