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Bestiary

Posted: April 9th, 2007, 10:15 pm
by Saxon1974
Hello,

Have you all considered posting some renders of some of the creatures in the game? Or does that violate your policy of not revealing to much about the game?

Posted: April 10th, 2007, 8:00 am
by BasiliskWrangler
Monsters, eh? You're right- we don't want to give anything away, but we can talk about a few creatures we've already shown in screenshots or have previously mentioned in an interview:

Fanged Salamander
A common menace throughout the land. Dangerous in numbers.
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Bloodsipper
A winged fiend from the underworld. Found above ground near dungeon and cave entrances.
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Acid Grubb
You think they're dangerous when they're alive? Wait 'till you kill one of them...
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Timberland Giant
600 pounds of berserker rage coming at you! Slow but very lethal.
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Fungal Sludge
A crawling, spitting blob of digestive terror!
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Giant Arachnid
It's a big spider. 'nough said.
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So, there may be a couple creatures here that some of you haven't seen before. The remaining lineup you're going to have to discover on your own!

Posted: April 10th, 2007, 1:47 pm
by Saxon1974
Excellent thanks for posting!

Im interested in the Giants. For some reason, I have always found Giants interesting. Any background info on them that you would be willing to reveal? Where do they come from, do they have a purpose in the game?

Posted: April 10th, 2007, 2:14 pm
by Vennor
I hope we will be able to find some basilisks in the game world :).

Posted: April 11th, 2007, 9:51 am
by Rune_74
Lookin great guys....I check you guys every day, gettin excited now:) Tell me you have some sneaky goblins too;)

Posted: April 11th, 2007, 9:58 am
by GianMarco
Sweet, thanks for the info - keep more of it coming dude we're dying here! :wink:

Posted: April 11th, 2007, 10:01 am
by screeg
Those look fantastic! Especially considering the tiny resolution (or my huge monitor at work).

Nice to see you've got original creatures with original names.

Posted: April 11th, 2007, 3:21 pm
by Elveronion
Aces! Classic old-school line up. :wink: Awesome!

Posted: April 23rd, 2007, 7:09 pm
by Saxon1974
So I guess no more info on the Giants? Oh well :cry:

Posted: April 23rd, 2007, 8:54 pm
by BasiliskWrangler
Oh, sorry Saxon, didn't mean to ignore you.

The giants do have a bit of back story within the context of the game world, but their history doesn't have much to do with the storyline so we really don't cover it in the game much. However, there are a couple side quests dealing with the giants and we are still filling in that area of the game, so I'll make sure we get some more info on the giants thrown into the narrative text.

But since you asked and we're feeling generous, we can say that the giants are not native to Thaermore (the region that the game takes place in). They were enslaved and brought there centuries earlier, but now live freely in the Timberland Plains, which is where they derive their name from.

Posted: May 2nd, 2007, 10:33 pm
by Saxon1974
BasiliskWrangler wrote:Oh, sorry Saxon, didn't mean to ignore you.

The giants do have a bit of back story within the context of the game world, but their history doesn't have much to do with the storyline so we really don't cover it in the game much. However, there are a couple side quests dealing with the giants and we are still filling in that area of the game, so I'll make sure we get some more info on the giants thrown into the narrative text.

But since you asked and we're feeling generous, we can say that the giants are not native to Thaermore (the region that the game takes place in). They were enslaved and brought there centuries earlier, but now live freely in the Timberland Plains, which is where they derive their name from.
I like it, the story of being enslaved and brought to Thaermore give you alot of different options with their background, attitudes etc.....Thanks!

Posted: May 3rd, 2007, 7:38 am
by Gallifrey
I'm wondering how the heck you enslave a race of giants! :shock:

Posted: May 5th, 2007, 2:45 pm
by Dragonlady
Gallifrey wrote:I'm wondering how the heck you enslave a race of giants! :shock:
Probably by magic spells. :D

Posted: May 5th, 2007, 3:25 pm
by Rune_74
whips and chains I heard but hey thats just hearsay.

Posted: May 5th, 2007, 4:10 pm
by Gallifrey
Rune_74 wrote:whips and chains I heard but hey thats just hearsay.
No, no, you're confusing that with employee motivational tools at Basilisk HQ.