https://loresraat.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=User%3AAn_Adventurer%2FBlog%2FThe_Death_of_LoreUser:An Adventurer/Blog/The Death of Lore - Revision history2026-04-22T02:52:07ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.3https://loresraat.org/index.php?title=User:An_Adventurer/Blog/The_Death_of_Lore&diff=580151&oldid=previmported>An Adventurer at 04:52, 18 September 20122012-09-18T04:52:07Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We find out the Apostates are really the pawns of Geraine! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdhhQhqi_AE What a twist!] Oh yeah, Geraine has been awake for a while now, brooding in his citadel like some cheap knock-off of emperor Palpatine. The writing for Geraine has been utterly terrible. And while I can forgive some of it (these are game devs not professional writers) the underlying plot makes zero sense. From what I understand, Geraine can see the future and has been trying to alter the AC2 future by tampering with current events, in an attempt to stop the Isparians and allies from having their Golden Age of peace that preceded the Devastation. Now, in AC2's story, Geraine played a huge <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">roll </del>in tampering with the battle of the kings and the first arc or two of the game. Geraine's AC2 arc ended with him defeating the undead who challenged him, entering a rift into another plain, finding and destroying an aspect of the book of Eibhil, and setting off to become an author of his own book of power.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We find out the Apostates are really the pawns of Geraine! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdhhQhqi_AE What a twist!] Oh yeah, Geraine has been awake for a while now, brooding in his citadel like some cheap knock-off of emperor Palpatine. The writing for Geraine has been utterly terrible. And while I can forgive some of it (these are game devs not professional writers) the underlying plot makes zero sense. From what I understand, Geraine can see the future and has been trying to alter the AC2 future by tampering with current events, in an attempt to stop the Isparians and allies from having their Golden Age of peace that preceded the Devastation. Now, in AC2's story, Geraine played a huge <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">role </ins>in tampering with the battle of the kings and the first arc or two of the game. Geraine's AC2 arc ended with him defeating the undead who challenged him, entering a rift into another plain, finding and destroying an aspect of the book of Eibhil, and setting off to become an author of his own book of power.</div></td></tr>
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</table>imported>An Adventurerhttps://loresraat.org/index.php?title=User:An_Adventurer/Blog/The_Death_of_Lore&diff=580148&oldid=previmported>An Adventurer: typos :P2012-08-03T19:01:50Z<p>typos :P</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Speaking of Empyreans, this was the worst handled race addition when it comes to the lore. First, their physcial appearance is entirely from AC2, where Empyreans floated around and had glowing, pupiless eyes. In AC1 they were never described or portrayed in this way. [[:File:Asheron (NPC) Live.jpg|Asheron]], [[:File:Gaerlan (Live Event Character) Live.jpg|Gaerlan]], and [[:File:Lady Aerfalle (135 Creature) Live.jpg|Aerfalle]] never looked like this in game, and the Empyreans in [[:File:2001 Artwork Emperor Kellin II and the Cerulean Throne.jpg|concept art]] and the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75iwpsH5MPA original intro video] didn't either. There was no reason to make the Empyreans look different <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">form </del>how they have always been represented in AC1 other than to make the game seem more familiar to old AC2 players.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Speaking of Empyreans, this was the worst handled race addition when it comes to the lore. First, their physcial appearance is entirely from AC2, where Empyreans floated around and had glowing, pupiless eyes. In AC1 they were never described or portrayed in this way. [[:File:Asheron (NPC) Live.jpg|Asheron]], [[:File:Gaerlan (Live Event Character) Live.jpg|Gaerlan]], and [[:File:Lady Aerfalle (135 Creature) Live.jpg|Aerfalle]] never looked like this in game, and the Empyreans in [[:File:2001 Artwork Emperor Kellin II and the Cerulean Throne.jpg|concept art]] and the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75iwpsH5MPA original intro video] didn't either. There was no reason to make the Empyreans look different <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from </ins>how they have always been represented in AC1 other than to make the game seem more familiar to old AC2 players.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But more important than their appearance is their reappearance. The return of the Empyreans should have probably been the single most important thing to happen in Asheron's Call's lore. The entire game is based around this mysterious, long-vanished race and the ruins and relics they left behind. If they returned, would they be happy with these less advanced races inhabiting the only Olthoi-free area on their entire world? Would they be happy with us using their relics and their magic without actually fully understanding what we are doing? Would the Emperor or the Nali see us as equals? Would Nuhmudira start a war against them like she's been promising?</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But more important than their appearance is their reappearance. The return of the Empyreans should have probably been the single most important thing to happen in Asheron's Call's lore. The entire game is based around this mysterious, long-vanished race and the ruins and relics they left behind. If they returned, would they be happy with these less advanced races inhabiting the only Olthoi-free area on their entire world? Would they be happy with us using their relics and their magic without actually fully understanding what we are doing? Would the Emperor or the Nali see us as equals? Would Nuhmudira start a war against them like she's been promising?</div></td></tr>
</table>imported>An Adventurerhttps://loresraat.org/index.php?title=User:An_Adventurer/Blog/The_Death_of_Lore&diff=580147&oldid=previmported>An Adventurer at 19:01, 3 August 20122012-08-03T19:01:19Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The answer is because the lore is not important. the current era of 'lore' has been entirely to explain new mechanics and recycle AC2 content, probably in an attempt to get old AC2 players to subscribe. The Gear Knight plot doesn't really make much sense, especially when their war against the humans abruptly ended. They were really only there so we could get fightable and playable Gear Knights. Geraine's early Ley Line stuff was only there to explain Aetheria. The two Bael'Zharon plots (one near Samsur and the other in Tou-Tou) are purely there to exploit nostalgia and attempt to bring back old players by waving around the Hopeslayer. Geraine's tampering with Asheron's rescue of Empyreans was only there to add playable Empyreans.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The answer is because the lore is not important. the current era of 'lore' has been entirely to explain new mechanics and recycle AC2 content, probably in an attempt to get old AC2 players to subscribe. The Gear Knight plot doesn't really make much sense, especially when their war against the humans abruptly ended. They were really only there so we could get fightable and playable Gear Knights. Geraine's early Ley Line stuff was only there to explain Aetheria. The two Bael'Zharon plots (one near Samsur and the other in Tou-Tou) are purely there to exploit nostalgia and attempt to bring back old players by waving around the Hopeslayer. Geraine's tampering with Asheron's rescue of Empyreans was only there to add playable Empyreans.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><br /><br /></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><br /><br /></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Speaking of Empyreans, this was the worst handled race addition when it comes to the lore. First, their physcial appearance is entirely from AC2, where Empyreans floated around and had glowing, pupiless eyes. In AC1 they were never described or portrayed in this way. [[:File:Asheron (NPC) Live.jpg|Asheron]], [[:File:Gaerlan (Live Event Character) Live.jpg|Gaerlan]], and [[:File:Lady Aerfalle (135 Creature) Live.jpg|Aerfalle]] never looked like this in game, and the Empyreans in [[:File:2001 Artwork Emperor Kellin II and the Cerulean Throne.jpg|concept art]] and the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75iwpsH5MPA original intro video] didn't either. There was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">n </del>reason to make the Empyreans look different form how they have always been represented in AC1 other than to make the game seem more familiar to old AC2 players.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Speaking of Empyreans, this was the worst handled race addition when it comes to the lore. First, their physcial appearance is entirely from AC2, where Empyreans floated around and had glowing, pupiless eyes. In AC1 they were never described or portrayed in this way. [[:File:Asheron (NPC) Live.jpg|Asheron]], [[:File:Gaerlan (Live Event Character) Live.jpg|Gaerlan]], and [[:File:Lady Aerfalle (135 Creature) Live.jpg|Aerfalle]] never looked like this in game, and the Empyreans in [[:File:2001 Artwork Emperor Kellin II and the Cerulean Throne.jpg|concept art]] and the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75iwpsH5MPA original intro video] didn't either. There was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">no </ins>reason to make the Empyreans look different form how they have always been represented in AC1 other than to make the game seem more familiar to old AC2 players.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But more important than their appearance is their reappearance. The return of the Empyreans should have probably been the single most important thing to happen in Asheron's Call's lore. The entire game is based around this mysterious, long-vanished race and the ruins and relics they left behind. If they returned, would they be happy with these less advanced races inhabiting the only Olthoi-free area on their entire world? Would they be happy with us using their relics and their magic without actually fully understanding what we are doing? Would the Emperor or the Nali see us as equals? Would Nuhmudira start a war against them like she's been promising?</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But more important than their appearance is their reappearance. The return of the Empyreans should have probably been the single most important thing to happen in Asheron's Call's lore. The entire game is based around this mysterious, long-vanished race and the ruins and relics they left behind. If they returned, would they be happy with these less advanced races inhabiting the only Olthoi-free area on their entire world? Would they be happy with us using their relics and their magic without actually fully understanding what we are doing? Would the Emperor or the Nali see us as equals? Would Nuhmudira start a war against them like she's been promising?</div></td></tr>
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