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caostotal_2000
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posted January 09, 2006 08:54 AM |
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ICTC: High Mountanins(the sacred)
Proposal for ICTC, (international Create a Town Contest), for “ Heroes of Might and Magic V ” videogame
"We are the sacred, the children of the skies, our blood is divine, and because of it is our right to rule over all”
ID Card:
Race: The sacred, (the winged men).
Orientation: Evil, balanced between might and magic.
Associated colors: Cyan and brown, like the sky and the mountain
Worship: The Sacred, don't worship to any deity, they worship they king as unique existing deity, this King called SEMED, is one of the 14 renegade angels and archangels that founded this civilization
Core philosophy: The superiority the blood
Country/kingdom  Caelum, the empire in the high mountains
Some images of how I wish to the landscape look like:
Capital city Lux Caelum, the divine light of the sky.
I like to think on something more barbaric, but this picture give us an idea of how look a city in the mountains
Key symbols:
Sacred sun (inherit from its angelic blood):
The eagle (symbol of purity):
Unique Race Skills
Campaign Recruit
* Basic: Allows the hero recruit each week few “Bersequers” and “Nomads” for his armies at double cost outside the castle, this units are not part of the weekly grow of the city or cities
* Advanced: Allows the hero recruit each week several “Barbarians”, “Mercenaries ” and a few “Winged Champions” for his armies at double cost outside the castle, this units are not part of the weekly grow of the city or cities
* Expert: Allows the hero recruit each week several “Barbarians”, “Mercenaries”, “Winged Champions” and a few “Pegasus” for his armies at normal cost outside the castle, this units are not part of the weekly grow of the city or cities
Unique Avilities
Recruiters: Doubles the amount of creatures that could be recruit by the hero each week, but this creatures create a cost on gold each week as salary. (Require advanced camping recruit)
Messiahs: Allow you to recruit rocs and Nerafins at double cost. (Require Expert camping recruit).
Fanaticism: Due to its fanatic beliefs there is no moral penalties for this race.
Evasion: The winged creatures have a small percentage of possibility to evade ranged attacks from the enemy.
Regeneration: During the combat the units on the army, regenerate some held point each turn.
Advantage: Very fast race based on winged units.
Disadvantage: No ranged unit on kingdom creatures
Description:
This race is result of the cross between barbaric men and the 14 renegade children of Elrath, their civilization this conformed by this new race of winged men and their barbarics human servants, they are a strange mix between barbarism and civilization. Their society is based on castes, which are the base and reason of their interactions. It doesn’t it matter who you are or how much do you know, what is important is your blood, your ascendance. The lowest caste is composed by pure humans, they are considered servants, their lack of angelic blood does them inferior, they are dedicated to the more humble works, and not receive any education, they are a little more than slaves. The following caste, the warrior caste, they are composed by the descendents of the 14 renegades, whose blood was mix with human several times, they take charge of works such as; low level warriors, guardians, blacksmiths, and general works that require some education. They are more similar to the humans than the rest of the castes. They are taller than normal humans and have one pair of wings. The third caste, the sacerdotal caste, is composed by the pure descendents of 13 of the 14 renegades, this caste has a special particularity, the women of the species are the ones that rule on of the caste, by its supposed superior purity, they perform the works on the temples, palaces and managements of the empire. Nevertheless also are trained as witches and some times they enter in battle. They have more angelic appearance with blond hair and blue eyes one pair of wings. The ruler caste or, the sacred, direct children of Semed, the only surviving of the 14 after of the civil wars occurred during the creation of the empire. They rule over the empire with his father and have the more pure blood off all the castes, but his father made them stronger with his magic. They are different to the rest of his people. They have two pairs of wings and are gifted with magic and have a surrounding aura.
BRIEF HISTORY
The origins
221 YSD: The rebellion of the 27
After the creation of the falcon empire the children of ashan shared the land with the human, they lived together they battle together and share pins and glory’s, and, as a result of it they were worshipped by their beauty and their power, in some cases as Gods, there was so much adoration on the part of the settlers of the cities, who saw the Angels like their guardians and protectors, that some of the children of ashan began to Believe that they were the deities, and not just the representation of the fundamental dragon of the order. After all they were the ones that protected the towns and the people of the empire. Among some of the strongest archangels and Angels, desires of power began to appear. 27 of these Angels and archangels guided by two of the oldest and wise archangels named Semed and Asbel rebelled against their master and against the empire. This rebellion was crushed easily, and just 14 of 27 Angels survived, and they were expulse of the falcon empire and from the grace of the dragon of the order, and they fled to the high mountains inhabited by barbaric humans.
230 YSD: The conquest of the barbarians
After to be expelled, the 14 fled to the high desert mountains to the south of the seven cities, these mountains were found inhabited by humans that lived in the barbarism its lands were too high and desert to be worth something for nobody, and they were maintained living according to traditions of hundreds of years ago. Arriving at these lands, the renegade, full of avarice and thirst of revenge, guided by semed, attacked to the tribes and they took the control, be coming their rulers. They divide the lands among the 14 and founding the 14 tribes
273 YSD: the birth of the first hybrid
As the rulers, the 14 began to enjoy the human pleasures, and soon also of their bad habits, they drank wine, they ate excessively, they envied, and finally they took human women as wives, and of such mixture children arose. These children half human half angel possessed wings. They were the first winged men and these they continued being reproduced. After some centuries a new race had arisen.
689 YSD: The wars of the supremacy
The barbaric customs continued contaminating more and more the minds of Semed and the other angels and archangels filling them of thirst of power, avarice and lust. Soon fights arose between the 14, Asbel, since years ago realize the error in which he and its companions have fallen and no matter the efforts of him, the disputes become unsustainable. Any reason was good for the battle, skirmishes happened continuously but no battles of great scale. And during years thus was maintained
The other kingdoms saw with diversion and curiosity these barbaric wars and they were maintained unworried.
–“While they fight among them, there is noting to worry about.”
–“after all they are just barbarians.”
These kinds of things were mentioned constantly in the palaces and in courts. But Semed, the most ambitious and intelligent of the 14 planned something.
He believed that his blood was superior and that is his right to rule over the other kingdoms, and to be become the unique god of this land. But he was just the king of a tribe, if he wanted to reach his ambition, he need to control, all the barbarians. A war it was begging.
He attack without clemency, tribe after tribe, destroying all, and eliminating any that opposed to him. The civil war extended for all the tribes, alliances were forged, they conspired treasons, and no more than death happened during the following years.
The modern ages
756 YSD: The end of the civil wars
After years of fight and death just one obstacle remain between Semed and his ambition to govern to all the tribes, Asbel, the one that, was its companion and brother. He had been maintained far from the fights, but wise of the depravity that Semed was able. He and his people, march to confront an army very superior to theirs. It was the last hope. If he won, his people at last would know the peace; if he lost the shadow of semed would extend through the lands.
The battle was terrible. And in spite of the superiority of the army of Semed, Asbel seemed to be raised with the victory. But the ambition of Semed was too strong. Semed full of fury fly directly against Asbel and the two starts an epic battle that prolonged during hours. Their chipped swords seemed not resist one more blow. But Semed In a certain blow crossed Asbel by the chest and without clemency cut their head off to show without place to doubts his superiority. Wend the tribe of Asbel saw his leader fall, all hope was lost, and they surrender to Semed.
771 YSD: Foundation of the castes
Because of his sickly obsession with the superiority of its blood, Semed, now ruler of all the tribes, found the system of castes and under the same one he declare himself emperor, and thus the empire of the sky arose. The empire grew and become stronger, more organized, and it was ready to follow his leader and emperor to the battle. All happened according to the plan.
1000 YSD: Statement of War
Now with an empire supporting him, Semed, declare all rest of the Kingdoms of this world, what became the main belief of his own people dictating thus:
"We are the sacred, the children of the skies, our blood is divine, and because of it is our right to rule over all”
Creatures
Level 1
Berseker:
They are barbaric humans that attack without control, fast and mortals to short distance, but disorganized, they attack the nearby enemy without importing their force.
Abilities:
Berseker
Double Strike
Upgrade to
Barbarian:
Fasted and stronger they are trained warriors, they follow the orders of their leader without hesitancy
Abilities:
Double Strike
Dire hit
Level 2
Nomads:
Barbaric Humans riding a horse don’t use armor, but they are able to attack quickly with their scimitars.
Upgrade to:
Mercenaries
Humans riding a horse with light armor, attack quickly with its scimitars, cutting the heads off from their enemies.
Abilities:
Head cutter
Level 3
Winged warrior:
They belong to warrior caste of the Sacred. They are winged men with great agility, that attack with their spears so fast that the enemy don’t have time to react.
Abilities:
Not retalion
Upgrade to:
Winged Champion:
With better training and better weapons and armors are more resistant to the enemy attacks but they attack with the same intensity
Abilities:
Not retalion
Level 4
Pegasus:
These winged horses are considered by the sacred as its equals in purity therefore are a creation of the dragon of the light, they attack from the skies crushing the heads of their enemies with their hooves
Abilities: stunning
Upgrade to:
Divine Pegasus:
Divine: These horses hauled are you considered by the sacred as its equals in purity therefore are a creation of the dragon of the fast order, they attack since the skies crushing the heads of their enemies with their hooves
Abilities:
Wild wind
Stunning
Divine
Level 5
Roc:
Trained by the barbarians these titanic birds are the symbol of the purity for the sacred. Besides a powerful ally in the battles.
Upgrade to:
Tunderbird:
These titanic birds, are able to invoke electric storms to hit his enemies
Abilities:
Lighting Strike
Level 6
Nerafin:
The pure descents of Semed. Strong and powerful in magic, are gifted beings of two wings, they are the fasted creature of this land, but they rarely use it because they attack with their magic from a sure distance.
Abilities:
Spell caster
Magic resistant
Upgrade To:
Nerafin Guardian:
The pure descents of Semed. Strong and powerful in magic, are gifted beings of two wings, they are the fasted creature of this land, but they rarely use it because they attack with their magic from a sure distance.
Abilities:
Spell caster
Magic resistant
Divine inspiration
Fortune
Level 7
Chimera:
These creatures live in the same mountains that the sacred, and during years were scourges of their populations. Until the barbarians partly domesticated them. These creatures are powerful in battle no matter the fact that they do not fly. The attacks of their 3 respective heads (bull, lion, snake head tail) can be devastators
Abilities:
Savage
Three head attack
Upgrade to:
Chimera of fire:
The chimeras of fire have a four head of dragon, and use his dragon breath to attack
Abilities:
Savage
Four head attack
This chimera has wins. I’m proposing one unable to fly, to make it more balanced. and it have a snake head tail
List of especial abilities
Berceker: The unit attacks by it self the closer enemy unit
Double Strike: Unit hit twice
Dire Hit: Small present of possibility to hit with double strong
Head Cuter charge: small percentage of kill one unit on the stack attacking from long distance.
Stunning: Small percentage of possibility of stunning a stack that is attacked by the Pegasus, the stack loose one turn.
Wilde wind: Attack with 75% of normal damage but blow all the units in two hexes in front of the Pegasus three hexes back avoiding to retaliate. (thanks to chesire_cat)
Divine: the Pegasus isn’t affected by curse spells
Magic Resistance: reduce the effectiveness of spells on the unit
Fortune: increase by one the fortune of all friendly units
Divine Inspiration: Retail magic attacks from enemy units
Savage: Some times, depending of hero’s level, this unit attacks without control the enemy stack closer to it. (Low level heroes more chance to lose control, hi level heroes very low chance).
Three Head Attack: the chimera attack with one of his three head randomly, each head have a small percentage off cause different effects, Lion head (men eater), Got head (stunning), Serpent tail (poison).
Four Head Attack: The chimera attack with one of his four head randomly, each head have a small percentage off cause different effects, Lion head (men eater), Got head (stunning), Serpent tail (poison), Dragon head (dragon breath)
City Buildings:
Dwellings
1. Conclave : this is the place where all the barbarians thrives gather and the best point of recruit them.
2. Tends : In the outside of the cities nomads and mercenaries camp waiting for a opportunity to come to battle.
3. Cliff Arena: In this arena the winged warriors and champions are trained with the most exhausting methods. (Thanks to Oakwarrior)
4. Plains : In the deserted mountains there is no much plains and the few of them are used to train the Pegasus for the battle.
5. Nest : In the higher picks of the mountains the rocs have their nests, and there they get training for the battle.
6. Sacred Palace : The palace of the king Semed is at the same time were the Nerafins train next to their father and master.
7. Silver mountains -> Gold mountains : this mountains are made of skulls of the victims of this terrible creature.
Special buildings
Altar of Holy Blood : In this temple the priests of Semed use their magic to bless their troops
Effects: all the sacred units get + 1 of held and +1 of attack. (Tanks to rldragon)
Temple of fog : this building invocate a fog that surrounds the city and help on defend it
Effects: Any enemy heroes attacking this castle reduce their Attack by 2 and ally heroes defending the city get defense raised by 1
Tanks for all the sugestions
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gwyndolium
Known Hero
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posted January 09, 2006 09:42 AM |
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There are indeed some mistakes..
Like beserker, roc and seraphim. But don't worry, seems nice.
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~I came down from heavens, to bestow the people under me, with hope and knowledge~
-The angel of judgement, Gwyndolium.
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caostotal_2000
Tavern Dweller
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posted January 09, 2006 04:16 PM |
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Quote:
There are indeed some mistakes..
Like beserker, roc and seraphim. But don't worry, seems nice.
Thanks for the advice, I already corrected all, except for the NERAFIN name, that is the true name of the creature. In some angelic mithology, the NERAFIN is the son of a Seraphim and a human woman, there is no translation for the word, so is in spanish.
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gwyndolium
Known Hero
Ancient citizen
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posted January 09, 2006 04:18 PM |
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Quote:
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There are indeed some mistakes..
Like beserker, roc and seraphim. But don't worry, seems nice.
Thanks for the advice, I already corrected all, except for the NERAFIN name, that is the true name of the creature. In some angelic mithology, the NERAFIN is the son of a Seraphim and a human woman, there is no translation for the word, so is in spanish.
Sorry, didn't knew 
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~I came down from heavens, to bestow the people under me, with hope and knowledge~
-The angel of judgement, Gwyndolium.
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TheNordicKing
Adventuring Hero
Dark Lord of the Smith
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posted January 09, 2006 09:00 PM |
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Sounding great so far, and I especially like the idea of the seraphim and the nerafin. I had once heard a story of them, and they would make a nice offensive unit, or so I'm thinking. Great work!
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Cheshire_Cat
Tavern Dweller
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posted January 09, 2006 09:04 PM |
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Looks like a nicec team , I like your ideas alot, but I do question the inclusion of the sky attak, because that is alot like the divebomb that the armored griffins have, and that makes his ability non-unique. Still a good idea, but you might want to think of an alternative as well.
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caostotal_2000
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posted January 10, 2006 05:38 AM |
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Looks like a nicec team , I like your ideas alot, but I do question the inclusion of the sky attak, because that is alot like the divebomb that the armored griffins have, and that makes his ability non-unique. Still a good idea, but you might want to think of an alternative as well.
if you have a sugestion is very welcome....
what about a tornado attack. Some kind of magic that blow some units on the enemy stack depending on units for the pegasus.
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caostotal_2000
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posted January 10, 2006 05:55 AM |
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this is the link to the page where I will put all the updates. By the way I add some pictures of some units. This pictures are just a reference of how they look like. Again any sugestion is very welcome
http://mx.geocities.com/caostotal_2000/we_are_the_sacred.html
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Mad_Hatter
Tavern Dweller
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posted January 10, 2006 06:27 AM |
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A blowback attack would be nice, like, the attack only does 75% damage, or maybe lower, but it immiediately knocks the stack back a couple hexes, making it impossible for them to retaliate, and also possibly freeing a ra nged stack, or putting them into range for slower units, or meteor shower, or a breath attack... etc etc. just an idea (this is Cheshire_Cat, can't seem to sign on, so had to make a new one)
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caostotal_2000
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posted January 10, 2006 07:21 AM |
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Nice idea, I will include it soon......tanks
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rldragon
Known Hero
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posted January 10, 2006 11:22 AM |
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I have one building on mind.It is called Altar of (Holy) Blood.When built in "sacred" town,this alter improves health of all it's units.It also improves damage of "Sacred" units if they fight against other factions.
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caostotal_2000
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posted January 10, 2006 08:39 PM |
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I don't know if we need to desing the town buildings too. but i will have it in mind is a good idea.
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Mad_Hatter
Tavern Dweller
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posted January 10, 2006 09:01 PM |
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rldragon, I think the building you speak of sounds good, but wouldn't it be pretty darn awesome in comparison to what other buildings do? Adding even one hp to each unti is pretty impressive, especially for the 1-3 units. And how would it work with multiple towns? If you have four of these towns, would all the units get a bonus of four health, and then ALSO a damage bonus? That just seems way better than +1 knowledge if you visit the town.
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gwyndolium
Known Hero
Ancient citizen
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posted January 10, 2006 09:37 PM |
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Hit points are something else than death points..
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~I came down from heavens, to bestow the people under me, with hope and knowledge~
-The angel of judgement, Gwyndolium.
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rldragon
Known Hero
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posted January 10, 2006 10:49 PM |
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It could be done as you would rarely find more towns of your faction than 3.So,let's not overpower it.Let's say it adds one health and one damage for every town in which is created.
And Caos it isn't directly said that buildings also must be added,but in my opinion it will only increase your chances
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caostotal_2000
Tavern Dweller
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posted January 11, 2006 01:58 AM |
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It could be done as you would rarely find more towns of your faction than 3.So,let's not overpower it.Let's say it adds one health and one damage for every town in which is created.
this way sound betther, but still a little unbalance so I will work on the idea.
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And Caos it isn't directly said that buildings also must be added,but in my opinion it will only increase your chances
you are rigth and im working on it.....
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rldragon
Known Hero
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posted January 11, 2006 02:00 AM |
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I should start doing that,too
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caostotal_2000
Tavern Dweller
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posted January 11, 2006 05:37 AM |
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I finaly upgrade the page with new images and the new abilities of the pegasus and a modification on the Chimera.
Also I add the name of the duelings and some buldings
you can check it on this page [url=http://mx.geocities.com/caostotal_2000/we_are_the_sacred.html]the sacred[/url]
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caostotal_2000
Tavern Dweller
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posted January 14, 2006 05:24 PM |
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Whath happend, no one make good or even bad coments. plese help me to make this town betther or at least tell me if s*****ks. If i doing someting in wrong plese tel me...
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Oakwarrior
Famous Hero
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posted January 14, 2006 05:28 PM |
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Well... You could post some of the arts
Level 3 dwelling... Hmm...
How about...
Cliff Abode?
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