Log Horizon: Create Your Own Character

[agetreme]

Originally Posted by Lazgrane

Then just post it here.

Honestly I was able to make up a goal but is now lacking idea on what to do next.

runewords

For Adventurers, just think in MMORPG term because even if it take place in real world, some players just went on doing what they had been doing before Elder Tale became real (like raid...etc).

Or to put it simply: What would you as a player would do?

Based on the information you posted, the character is probably a player who is interested in the game story.

So, how do you go about looking for lore and storyline?

Answer: Questing and talking to the Landers for clues to piece together. Probably in exchange for doing certain quest/favours, the Landers will provide some information to point the character toward the next ruin for exploration.

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How do I know that you can find out the story through NPC?

(Because I remember reading about somebody managing to pieced together a story out of old Maplestory through a list of quests (even before the formal introduction of the Black Mage).

Nobody even notice it because they skip through the conversation with the NPC.

[HasuMasu]

A coincidence. I've been trying to work out another character who happens to be a <<Single Wielding>> swashbuckler as well.

It's a problem that I'm not sure what <<Aristocrat>> and <<Vampire>> do, though.

[agetreme]

Originally Posted by Masuzu

A coincidence. I've been trying to work out another character who happens to be a <<Single Wielding>> swashbuckler as well.

It's a problem that I'm not sure what <<Aristocrat>> and <<Vampire>> do, though.

I don't think an Adventurers can choose Aristocrat because it is a Lander subclass.

Edit: Not sure, need to check with source.

Probably bestowed by the King.

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As for Vampire....probably Stats bonus for fighting at night with HP drain ability but has penalty for fighting during daytime? Probably receive extra damages from monsters who deal light damages?

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Edit: Considering that only a Chef subclass can cook.... what would happen to players who write without a Scribe class? Does that mean that they can't write a lot of things on a piece of paper?

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Masuzu

A coincidence. I've been trying to work out another character who happens to be a <<Single Wielding>> swashbuckler as well.

It's a problem that I'm not sure what <<Aristocrat>> and <<Vampire>> do, though.

Elder Tales being an American MMORPG, you may want to look at Ann Rice's vampires or those from World of Darkness for pointers (but let's keep the crazy powers like Temporis out of the way tho).

Also WRYYYYYYYYYYYY

[agetreme]

Originally Posted by Sheba

Elder Tales being an American MMORPG, you may want to look at Ann Rice's vampires or those from World of Darkness for pointers (but let's keep the crazy powers like Temporis out of the way tho).

Also WRYYYYYYYYYYYY

I don't think Ann Rice's Vampire is accurate enough....

For more accurate description, I suggest looking at Tabletop RPG such as D&D's description of vampire.

Since Role-Playing Games (especially Western) are still ultimately based on tabletop RPG and are technically Tabletop RPG but on electronics.

Edit: To put things very simply, MMORPG are tabletop RPG, played online, replaced dice with random number generator, automatically calculate hit and damages for the players and has actual graphic rather than imagination.

Second edit:
In fact, if you studied programming, all computer games are essentially the same. They are all number games.

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Again, the strong emphasis on MMORPG so thinking along that line.

Things like stats bonus/penalty and additional skill must to taken into consideration.

Edit: Overskill are more like implanting game mechanics into real life

[HasuMasu]

That's the thing. I have to hold out a bit before the manual is translated if ever.

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by Masuzu

A coincidence. I've been trying to work out another character who happens to be a <<Single Wielding>> swashbuckler as well.

It's a problem that I'm not sure what <<Aristocrat>> and <<Vampire>> do, though.

According to the Gdocs (which, mind you, is all red text apart from the name and therefore nothing beyond the name is official) Aristocrat was originally a Lander only class later released to the player. At low level you would gain a noble title (the right to be called "sir"), which would increase as your subclass level went up (Baron, Viscount, Earl, Marquis, etc). In-game benefits were subclass specific quests and reward. Post-apocalypse, it seems the subclass gives you the benefit of a higher amount of respect than the average Adventurer would get.

Original text:

Spoiler:

■〈貴族〉
その名の通りセルデシア世界における貴族の称号を得ている（貴族階級の一員である）者を表現するロール系サ ブ職業。元々〈大地人〉専用サブ職として設定されたものであるが、ユーザーの要望や地域運営会社からの提案 などによってプレイヤーにも解放されたものである。
初期レベルにおいては卿（サー）の称号を名乗って良い程度であるが、レベルがあがるにつれ称号も準男爵・男 爵・子爵・伯爵・侯爵など（これまで公爵・大公以上の称号を〈冒険者〉が取得した例は世界でも知られていな い）へと変化する。
〈大地人〉の貴族階級の耳に入るようなクエストやコンテンツにおいて「名誉ある行動（詳細はクエストにより 異なる）」や「貴族らしい振舞い（やはり詳細は時と場合により異なる）」をとったり、あるいは宮廷の関係す る（日本サーバではほぼウェストランデ斎宮家絡みの）特定のクエストやコンテンツの選択的な報酬として取得 したり経験を積むことができる。
〈大地人〉が〈冒険者〉の貴族を自分達の「仲間」だと見做しているのか「一代限りの名誉称号」のように思っ ているのかは〈大災害〉以前は判然としなかった。彼らがどう思っていたかはともかく、この称号には、下位の 貴族（もし充分にサブ職レベルが高ければ）に敬意ある口調で接してもらえるとか、普通は然るべき貴族でなけ れば入れない特殊なフィールド（宮中や古王家の特別な儀式の間など）に入れるとか、〈大地人〉の街の衛兵に よる検問をフリーパスで通れることがあるとか、社会的信用と特権を表現するいくつかの特典が付 随していた。

[HasuMasu]

Hmm~ I see. I didn't think of something like that.

I'll take the third option and make him a <<Sailor>>.

[WhiteJoker]

Originally Posted by agetreme

Edit: Considering that only a Chef subclass can cook.... what would happen to players who write without a Scribe class? Does that mean that they can't write a lot of things on a piece of paper?

I'd think more in game terms as in "did anybody think to program/design this in?" and the answer is probably no; the limits of the game systems seems to be based on the rule set of the MMO as opposed to a general catch-all. Provided they aren't trying to write up an item, such as a skill scroll or what have you, it'd probably ignore what they do. If they were to write stuff that somewhat intersected with producible scribe items though then I imagine there would be a problem.

[Ridwan]

I was bored, so I wrote down some ideas for original characters out of whim

Spoiler:

Majah Gada
Level : 44
Race : Elf
Class : Lakshamana
Subclass : Tracker
Server : Trowulan
Personality :
Reckless easy going dude with mean if intelligent sense of humor. He picked his name from a review video of Civilization V in which the reviewer wrongly pronounced the name of “Gajah Mada”, which sent him to joyful breathless laugh. A first year college student in real life, he’s perhaps someone who doesn’t really watch how he behaves, or looks that way at least. Relatively recent in the game, but his level has been progressing pretty rapidly. He’s most well known for being that annoying friend of a member of the famous member of PKS(Partai Kami Sesat) group, a non-guild country-transcending circle of players who like to go for crazy impossible quests (the local Debauchery Tea Party, basically). Woke up in Trowulan server with Alsidecias, MalingCroc, Lynzyne and Ibrazac at the day of the Apocalypse, he was the one who hit it on others the fact that they were thrown into the game to stay, and saying that it might be a good idea to start something big in the world of Elder Tale.

Alsidecias
Level : 90
Race : Human
Class : Monk
Subclass : Vrijeman
Server : Trowulan
Personality :
A veteran player in the game of Elder Tale and one of the founding triumvirates of PKS, and the inside connection to that group for Majah Gada. Represents the Tarot Card “The World”. A man seemingly calm, nice and reliable, he is quietly a schemer with agenda cloaked in a state of art façade of natural upbringing. For a seemingly calm man, he’s one with constant appetite to achieve, though he can manage it well most of the time. So well, that it worries those who see through him. Even the “Crazy Old Man” Oey Yok Su quietly fears him (a fact likely didn’t escape his notice). Now stranded in the world of Elder Tale and indirectly encouraged by Majah Gada, he seems to have something up his sleeve about the chaotic situation he is genuinely concerned over.

Lynzyne
Level : 90
Race : Human
Class : Swashbuckler
Subclass : Woodcrafter
Server : Trowulan
Seemingly quiet but actually passionate girl with cool, dashing sense of style. A friend of Sarah Setchan and Alsidecias from the same anime forum. Her taste in things she watches and reads is arguably reflected in her overall demeanor. She is so cool and aloof that some suspects she is inagitable and some even say lacks any drop of femininity at all, but evidences to the contrary are not that hard to find. The later is easy if you are familiar with the cool females in western police dramas and the like. While the former is easily shattered when something violates her tolerance border, revealing how rather uptight she can be. For example, she initially took great offense of the original triumvirate’s mercurial, anarchic irony-filled sense of humor. That she would later adapt to it and take some part in it, she’s still quite restrained and more deliberate in her approach to the PKS’ general flow. To summarize, she is compassionate, dedicated, straightforward and the most prominent voice of normalcy in the circle. You don’t want to get to her bad side though. It really doesn’t mean she restrains her worst words at all when she’s facing a person she deems at fault. She’s big into woodcraft engineering in real life, obviously reflected in her subclass.

Maling Croc
Level : 90
Race : Human
Class : Assassin
Subclass :
Server : Trowulan
The joker of the club, as indicated from his character’s name. Has several other characters in the game, all leveled over 50. In fact, he changes characters at almost every occasion. But this is his oldest one and the one he used at the time of Apocalypse. He met PKS by chance in a dungeon quest and circumstances led him into joining the party. And he ends up loving it. As the joker of PKS, he of course, upholds the spirit of PKS ever consistently. In fact he’s the most enthusiastic about PKS idiosyncratic douchebaggery. Many members of PKS aren’t particularly popular among the noobs, the uptight, and the irony-unfamiliar, but he’s perhaps the most infamous, topping even the Crazy Old Man Oey Yok Su himself. He’s not all that bitter though, only enjoying his own wittiness in mocking everything that he discovered after hanging around with the PKS group in its infancy.

Ibrazac
Level : 30
Race : Half Alv
Class : Sorcerer
Subclass : Merchant
Server : Trowulan
The poor noob of the party. He only got to know the others recently, just a couple of weeks before Apocalypse. He was introduced to Alsidecias by a friend of his who was also Alsidecias’ internet buddy in a history enthusiast forum after he quit his previous guild after a fight. He’s a first year highschooler in real life. His username is a stylized acronym of his real name.


Partai Kami Sesat (tentative name)
A non-guild group of adventurers which gradually grew into their current number through their shared interest for crazy adventures, and secondarily, intelligent discussions and rough humors. Oey Yok Su was the one who came up with the idea. They met in Something Horrible, a western forum known for its spirit for semi-literate anarchic social culture, in a fateful encounter where his thread for gathering Indonesian members only attracted two fellow Indonesians, that were Alsidecias and Yavuz Sultan Effendi. Since then, they’ve been active in many forums as inseparable trio. Later, they also jumped into the world of MMORPG as well. “Groomed” in the most intellectual and rebellious internet communities, all three have developed a taste for idiosyncratic inclinations, perennial dickishness, ironic humor, pompous elitism, and general disregard towards anything internet mainstream culture and mentality, granted them something of a reputation across the South East Asian Elder Tale community. They are famous, not only for completing a number of high-difficulty raids with such a small amount of members (the most infamous being the dreaded “Borneo Outback”), and their anomalous behavior, but also for their unrestrained mouths or sharp perceptions over controversial issues, depending on who you ask, and thus they have made as much admirers as they have enemies. They are mostly jolly witty, sociable, sharp people, however, so they’re never short of friends. The other important feature of this group is that its members are not only not restricted in Elder Tale, but they also commute beyond Indonesian internet community, hence why they have members from other South East Asian countries. When this circle reached its current number, it was declared an “official” group in which each member is represented by an Arcana Major.

Members of PKS :
1) Oey Yok Su (original triumvirate) (INA)
2) Alsidecias (original triumvirate) (INA)
3) Yavuz Sultan Effendi (original triumvirate) (INA)
4) Lumina Ignis (INA)
5) Sarah Setchan (SNG)
6) Maling Croc (INA)
7) Lynzyne (INA)
8) Roderick (SNG)
9) Melinda (SNG)
10) Hiroki (PHL)
11) Terria Venta (INA)
12) Gober Zemeckis (INA)
13) Yuu Issei (SNG)
14) Doctor Why (SNG)
15) Daisy (SNG)
16) CaoCao (MAL)
17) Xnyrax (THA)
18) Rikka (PHL)
19) Madoka (PHL)
20) Kirika (PHL)
21) Savoy Truffle (PHL)

[agetreme]

Originally Posted by WhiteJoker

I'd think more in game terms as in "did anybody think to program/design this in?" and the answer is probably no; the limits of the game systems seems to be based on the rule set of the MMO as opposed to a general catch-all. Provided they aren't trying to write up an item, such as a skill scroll or what have you, it'd probably ignore what they do. If they were to write stuff that somewhat intersected with producible scribe items though then I imagine there would be a problem.

Skill Scroll and contract aside (or anything that have effect on game), what about map?

Maps appear to be one since Shiroe can draw it in great detail, does that mean other can't draw a map as well as a scribe or does that mean they can't produce a map at all?

If others can produce map as well, does Scribe automatic draw a map like Etrian Odyssey and then add detail to it while others had to manually draw everything out?

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Ridwan

I was bored, so I wrote down some ideas for original characters out of whim

Spoiler:

Majah Gada
Level : 44
Race : Elf
Class : Lakshamana
Subclass : Tracker
Server : Trowulan
Personality :
Reckless easy going dude with mean if intelligent sense of humor. He picked his name from a review video of Civilization V in which the reviewer wrongly pronounced the name of “Gajah Mada”, which sent him to joyful breathless laugh. A first year college student in real life, he’s perhaps someone who doesn’t really watch how he behaves, or looks that way at least. Relatively recent in the game, but his level has been progressing pretty rapidly. He’s most well known for being that annoying friend of a member of the famous member of PKS(Partai Kami Sesat) group, a non-guild country-transcending circle of players who like to go for crazy impossible quests (the local Debauchery Tea Party, basically). Woke up in Trowulan server with Alsidecias, MalingCroc, Lynzyne and Ibrazac at the day of the Apocalypse, he was the one who hit it on others the fact that they were thrown into the game to stay, and saying that it might be a good idea to start something big in the world of Elder Tale.

Alsidecias
Level : 90
Race : Human
Class : Monk
Subclass : Vrijeman
Server : Trowulan
Personality :
A veteran player in the game of Elder Tale and one of the founding triumvirates of PKS, and the inside connection to that group for Majah Gada. Represents the Tarot Card “The World”. A man seemingly calm, nice and reliable, he is quietly a schemer with agenda cloaked in a state of art façade of natural upbringing. For a seemingly calm man, he’s one with constant appetite to achieve, though he can manage it well most of the time. So well, that it worries those who see through him. Even the “Crazy Old Man” Oey Yok Su quietly fears him (a fact likely didn’t escape his notice). Now stranded in the world of Elder Tale and indirectly encouraged by Majah Gada, he seems to have something up his sleeve about the chaotic situation he is genuinely concerned over.

Lynzyne
Level : 90
Race : Human
Class : Swashbuckler
Subclass : Woodcrafter
Server : Trowulan
Seemingly quiet but actually passionate girl with cool, dashing sense of style. A friend of Sarah Setchan and Alsidecias from the same anime forum. Her taste in things she watches and reads is arguably reflected in her overall demeanor. She is so cool and aloof that some suspects she is inagitable and some even say lacks any drop of femininity at all, but evidences to the contrary are not that hard to find. The later is easy if you are familiar with the cool females in western police dramas and the like. While the former is easily shattered when something violates her tolerance border, revealing how rather uptight she can be. For example, she initially took great offense of the original triumvirate’s mercurial, anarchic irony-filled sense of humor. That she would later adapt to it and take some part in it, she’s still quite restrained and more deliberate in her approach to the PKS’ general flow. To summarize, she is compassionate, dedicated, straightforward and the most prominent voice of normalcy in the circle. You don’t want to get to her bad side though. It really doesn’t mean she restrains her worst words at all when she’s facing a person she deems at fault. She’s big into woodcraft engineering in real life, obviously reflected in her subclass.

Maling Croc
Level : 90
Race : Human
Class : Assassin
Subclass :
Server : Trowulan
The joker of the club, as indicated from his character’s name. Has several other characters in the game, all leveled over 50. In fact, he changes characters at almost every occasion. But this is his oldest one and the one he used at the time of Apocalypse. He met PKS by chance in a dungeon quest and circumstances led him into joining the party. And he ends up loving it. As the joker of PKS, he of course, upholds the spirit of PKS ever consistently. In fact he’s the most enthusiastic about PKS idiosyncratic douchebaggery. Many members of PKS aren’t particularly popular among the noobs, the uptight, and the irony-unfamiliar, but he’s perhaps the most infamous, topping even the Crazy Old Man Oey Yok Su himself. He’s not all that bitter though, only enjoying his own wittiness in mocking everything that he discovered after hanging around with the PKS group in its infancy.

Ibrazac
Level : 30
Race : Half Alv
Class : Sorcerer
Subclass : Merchant
Server : Trowulan
The poor noob of the party. He only got to know the others recently, just a couple of weeks before Apocalypse. He was introduced to Alsidecias by a friend of his who was also Alsidecias’ internet buddy in a history enthusiast forum after he quit his previous guild after a fight. He’s a first year highschooler in real life. His username is a stylized acronym of his real name.


Partai Kami Sesat (tentative name)
A non-guild group of adventurers which gradually grew into their current number through their shared interest for crazy adventures, and secondarily, intelligent discussions and rough humors. Oey Yok Su was the one who came up with the idea. They met in Something Horrible, a western forum known for its spirit for semi-literate anarchic social culture, in a fateful encounter where his thread for gathering Indonesian members only attracted two fellow Indonesians, that were Alsidecias and Yavuz Sultan Effendi. Since then, they’ve been active in many forums as inseparable trio. Later, they also jumped into the world of MMORPG as well. “Groomed” in the most intellectual and rebellious internet communities, all three have developed a taste for idiosyncratic inclinations, perennial dickishness, ironic humor, pompous elitism, and general disregard towards anything internet mainstream culture and mentality, granted them something of a reputation across the South East Asian Elder Tale community. They are famous, not only for completing a number of high-difficulty raids with such a small amount of members (the most infamous being the dreaded “Borneo Outback”), and their anomalous behavior, but also for their unrestrained mouths or sharp perceptions over controversial issues, depending on who you ask, and thus they have made as much admirers as they have enemies. They are mostly jolly witty, sociable, sharp people, however, so they’re never short of friends. The other important feature of this group is that its members are not only not restricted in Elder Tale, but they also commute beyond Indonesian internet community, hence why they have members from other South East Asian countries. When this circle reached its current number, it was declared an “official” group in which each member is represented by an Arcana Major.

Members of PKS :
1) Oey Yok Su (original triumvirate) (INA)
2) Alsidecias (original triumvirate) (INA)
3) Yavuz Sultan Effendi (original triumvirate) (INA)
4) Lumina Ignis (INA)
5) Sarah Setchan (SNG)
6) Maling Croc (INA)
7) Lynzyne (INA)
8) Roderick (SNG)
9) Melinda (SNG)
10) Hiroki (PHL)
11) Terria Venta (INA)
12) Gober Zemeckis (INA)
13) Yuu Issei (SNG)
14) Doctor Why (SNG)
15) Daisy (SNG)
16) CaoCao (MAL)
17) Xnyrax (THA)
18) Rikka (PHL)
19) Madoka (PHL)
20) Kirika (PHL)
21) Savoy Truffle (PHL)

I like how you managed to catch that "geeks trapped inside another world" bit, down to their nicknames.

[WhiteJoker]

Originally Posted by agetreme

Skill Scroll and contract aside (or anything that have effect on game), what about map?

Maps appear to be one since Shiroe can draw it in great detail, does that mean other can't draw a map as well as a scribe or does that mean they can't produce a map at all?

If others can produce map as well, does Scribe automatic draw a map like Etrian Odyssey and then add detail to it while others had to manually draw everything out?

It'd probably depend on what the system calls a map. There are ways to get around it though, for instance instead of just drawing a map you could write out a list of direction ala "Turn left at the badger shaped boulder. Walk 10 feet. Jump down the hole hidden behind the tree" and so forth. Log Horizon seems to be about finding not just where the system differs from reality but also how to take it's limitations and abuse them to your benefit; if that doesn't work then circumvent the limitation by doing something the system can't comprehend. If the system takes drawings as maps then don't use drawings.

Mostly though, given Shiroe's explanation on contracts, it seems that scribes imbue what they create with Adventurer magic (i.e. automatically do things magic) and can mass produce and crank out things with insane detail. So while a non-scribe trying to produce a crude map would probably be out they would probably still be able to write things and even make documents; whatever they make though would likely just be normal world things such as all those forms that were flooding in during the Libra Festival. I'm also fairly certain we saw the production guilds writing in ledgers and the like.

[agetreme]

Originally Posted by WhiteJoker

It'd probably depend on what the system calls a map. There are ways to get around it though, for instance instead of just drawing a map you could write out a list of direction ala "Turn left at the badger shaped boulder. Walk 10 feet. Jump down the hole hidden behind the tree" and so forth. Log Horizon seems to be about finding not just where the system differs from reality but also how to take it's limitations and abuse them to your benefit; if that doesn't work then circumvent the limitation by doing something the system can't comprehend. If the system takes drawings as maps then don't use drawings.

Mostly though, given Shiroe's explanation on contracts, it seems that scribes imbue what they create with Adventurer magic (i.e. automatically do things magic) and can mass produce and crank out things with insane detail. So while a non-scribe trying to produce a crude map would probably be out they would probably still be able to write things and even make documents; whatever they make though would likely just be normal world things such as all those forms that were flooding in during the Libra Festival. I'm also fairly certain we saw the production guilds writing in ledgers and the like.

Yea... planning to do those thing. (e.g. Acii-art for map) and use spell-error to evade the system. (Just like how some people deliberately evade the censorship in game by changing the a letter).

Considering that the game has become real, I think Enchanter has the potential to use their skill to disrupt enemies skill (but need to be fast and time it right) or just use it for torture.... (Brain Vice got to hurt.....a lot).

[WhiteJoker]

Actually, maps would probably be fair game since most MMOs either give you a map with everything on it already or don't bother with one. What Shiroe was doing with the map was probably the "gaming the system" bit by applying his scribe skills to reproduce things a scribe could that the game previously didn't bother with. However the general theory of what we were talking about previously probably still applies, just replace map with whatever producible item you care to. Food is probably the way it is with the chef class because anything edible that you mess with is likely to end up being classified as food if only because the base ingredients are food objects as well; also every character has 1 level in chef by default so it's probably influencing things.

[Ridwan]

Originally Posted by Sheba

I like how you managed to catch that "geeks trapped inside another world" bit, down to their nicknames.

Thanks. They're inspired by a number of most intelligent mercurial online communities I have ever run into on the internet. I just love imagining what they will do once unleashed in a highly populated community like an MMORPG

[HasuMasu]

Originally Posted by Ridwan

I was bored, so I wrote down some ideas for original characters out of whim

I had to laugh at the Pinoys' names. True to life.

[JediNight]

An official Twitter account has been opened recently for the Log Horizon Tabletop RPG books:
https://twitter.com/loghorizon_TRPG

The Enterbrain site now lists them with a Feb 2014 release window.
Also, there is newly posted info about it on Mamare's site here:
http://mamare.net/topics/3107/

[agetreme]

Decide to work on SEA server story, since I have a clearer goal now... need to adjust characters accordingly.

My take on South-East Asia Server

Elder SEA Server:
Just as its name suggested the region is based on South-East Asia. Unlike other Server, it is actually more fun (Fun is subjective though) doing sea exploration thanks to the many hidden secrets, as well as a few region-exclusive high level dungeon that can only be reached by ships.

This feature give an overall Explorer/Pirate feel to the Adventurers.... and with some quests that feels like epic voyage to explore distant land.

Has micro-transaction for speeding up game-play(easier time than grinding for materials)

Traveling to other Server:

Traveling by sea is actually the faster method than on land (since you don't need to go through dungeon or climb mountains) and can cover more area than on air since there is no time-limit for being on a ship. But there is always the risk of meeting a randomly spawn Sea-monster.

Fairy Ring used to be the alternative method to using ship but you don't know where you would end up in this new world

Special NPCs:
South-East Armada (Also known as: Undying Armada/fleet or simply, zombie pirates.)

An Ancient Order that safe-guard the region against invaders from foreign land. In order to get to other (Country) server by ship, you need to buy a pass using real cash.

However it is still possible to go through them without a pass by challenging them to a duel and defeating them (Not an easy feat because of the new patch in America and Japan, their current level is 100 while players are still struck at level 90 cap).

Another method is to have a ship fast enough to outrun them but similar to the previous method, time is needed to grind for material to make such a ship.

Doing Naval Battle with an undying Armada is just as epic as it sounds. but you still need a good fleet(Alliance of Guild) for that....

Unlike your usual NPC, if they are slain, they will respawn again somewhere in the sea. Which leads to player speculating that they are actually undead zombie pirates who was cursed to guard the border forever.

But of course, with their race listed as Ancient, they are not weak against magic that deal light damage....

If you are chased by a Sea-monster (which randomly spawn), you can count on their help to take down the monster....just try not to take advantage of their kindness.... If they see you again, you are going to "drink with the fishes".

And yes an Armada.... it is a pretty intimating sight if you encounter them.... It is almost like a wall of ships.

Situation after Disaster:
Surprisingly peaceful compared to other servers. Food is cited as the ultimate demotivator.

There is just simply no reason to rob somebody...when all you can buy is really tasteless food.

Also.... Victory feels really hollow without good food that await you at the end.

But desperation eventually lead to discovery of food with actual taste and after that everything start progressing really fast.

Situation is bipolar at the best, depending on which area you are at, things can either be oppressive but calm or chaotic power struggles with Pvp-ers running wild.

Griefer/Pirates
Sea-bounded Pvp-ers tend to act pirates who attack any ship on the sea. So long as you stick to the sea route and avoid venturing too far, you would be safe from them but that also means you can't do any exploration without encountering or fighting them.

Governments in new world:
Equivalent to Round-Table

In the midst of the Chaos, a new group rise up suddenly. They are called the Seven Sea Coalition which is a very powerful group consist of different guilds.

They marched into Starting towns and make people to obey their law by force. Those who refused to obey are thrown into the sea by force and drown. Although they manage to keep some server under their control but there are still servers out there that they are trying to take over.

The closest to UN in the new world, decisions are made through voting but if no decision are reached, they do what they used to do best: Guild War with the Winner deciding the out-come of a proposal.

Punishment for breaking their law
Firstly you will be exiled..... or rather banned from entering the port... which means your ship can't make port to replenish itself and basically forced to wander the sea forever....

Just like the Flying Dutchman.

But that doesn't affect Criminals on land.... not like it matter once you die because.....

If you are killed, you will be trapped inside the cathedral (now a makeshift prison) until the Guild (that rule the server) decided to either forgive your crime or throw you back to the sea to drown or get killed by sea monster and other pirates. Rinse and repeat until you learn your lesson.... (Number of times depend on severity of the crime)

Being Drowned or getting killed by pirates was not that bad once you get used to it but the Sea Monsters is another thing.

Experience with Sea Monsters is best described as harrowing even on ship let alone face-to-face....Mostly due to the monster having the appearance of monstrous Sea Creatures such as Colossus Squid and their attack which was meant to attack ships rather than players, hurts like hell.

People of the Land
Localization team was not hard working enough to make the NPC's race diverse. They all looked European.

In fact, the NPC are basically the same as other Region... with only a few exclusive NPC here or there.

But probably due to environment, they tend behave quite differently from their foreign counterpart, with different dream and personality.

Opinion on explorers are mixed at the very best. Some welcome Explorers (who can provide rare materials harvested from monsters) while others see the Adventurers as evil Pirates (Basically barbarians but on sea).

Seven Sea Coalition may appear intimating but People of the Land soon learned that life is as usual.... since the Coalition preferred to ignore them.

As far as Seven Sea Coalition and Players are concerned, People of the Land are not humans but NPC....

And most players chooses to ignore NPC.

If you talk to a NPC for too long, Other players will give you a funny look..... it is the special kind of look.... To cut things short: They pity you for being a loser with no friends and had to resort to talking to NPC for companionship.

Life for a player is simple, stick to the routine/rules and you will be fine. But where is the fun in doing that?

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Edited to make sure I don't overlap with another person's story.

[aohige]

Might as well post it here too.

Mamare is setting up a page to take ideas for unique classes around the world!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1W39...yZx5o/viewform
In Elder Tale, each server has 1 to 3 classes that gets replaced to match their native culture.

You can choose the class and send your idea on what class should replace it in certain country.
Go doooo iiiit