Story

In Game

Characters, Animals, and Monsters

Asgard has characters, both playable and non-playable, both good, evil, and ambivalent, which are outlined on the People page. Certain animals are also outlined on the Animals page, animals being non- (or semi-) sentient creatures that may be used by the party or simply around for decoration. Lastly, Monsters contains all of the baddies that might be encountered by Hand and his group.

• People
• Animals
• Monsters

Geography, Geology, Biology

Brant, as well as Asgard, has a wide variety of flora that grow on its equally varied landscape. Geography contains an introduction to the layout of Brant and Asgard, and is intended as a place to essentially place down geographically all of the different story ideas that start to take shape. When it comes to actual individual maps, the kind of tile used for each space is defined by its own unique Geology, essentially a range of values for each of the forms. Based on these characteristics, certain Plants grow on different kinds of tiles based on that plant's own tolerance level of each form (cacti on desert, grasses on dirt, trees on loamy soil). Finally, using the fruit from some of the plants, drinks can be made that act as potions to alter the performance of the character.

• Geography
• Geology
• Plants
• Drinks

Phenomena and Statuses

The Forms can be combined in order to bend the fabric of space and time to produce a Waveform. A well-constructed Waveform will produce a phenomenon which can be used as a weapon against your enemies or as an aid to your allies. Some phenomena can inflict statuses on the target. The following (not yet complete) table summarizes each of the phenomena.

Phenomena Name	Effect	Vethr	Pyromania	Grace	Whimsy	Ferrum	Robos	Urth	Alector
Drizzle	A slow drenching rain	15
Blast	A short burst of high heat		15
Integrity	Can remove confusion from target			15
Confusion	May inflict confusion on target				15
Fortify	Caster resists physical attacks					15
Healing	Restores Form balance to the targeted						15
Sandstorm	Barages target with sand							15
Amber Arc	Short, high voltage eletric arc shot at target								15

Status	Description
Frozen	Unable to move do to cold
Choking	Asphixiating and losing health
Asleep	Unable to move due to sleep
Cloudy-Headed	Making decisions slowly
Hyperactive	Making decisions quickly
Furious	Making decisions out of anger
Clarity	Making decisions with a decisiveness
Nirvana	Making the best decisions possible

Philosophy

This section is a catch-all for interaction between story-writers, gameplay-discussers, and code-programmers. Expect discussion pages to be used here and frequent changes occurring as the ideas contained in each article are slowly integrated into or rejected from the final project.

• Philosophical Goals
  • Non-Repetition
  • Violence and Drama
  • Reward the Gamer
  • Fantasy and Reality
  • Bend and Break Traditional Narratives
• Gameplay General Discussion
  • Stats
  • Magic
  • Waveforms

Narrative

The first few chapters of the narrative outline Hand's introduction to battle, getting to know other characters in the party, and encountering Vear and his minions for the first time. Eventually he is whisked away to his original home, Asgard, where he is introduced to the Laucopids and returns to Brant to complete eight stories with various plots ranging from the most simple (defeat the main boss of this dungeon) to the most complex (chase a certain character around the entire globe). At the end, a yet-to-be-determined catastrophic event happens either reversing everything Hand has done or ensuring its completion, but either way there will be lots of shiny graphics, a few plot twists, and a really long final boss battle, keeping in mind Sephiroth's Rule: final boss battles are always longer than you expect, even taking into account this rule.

• Chapter 1: The Beginning
• Chapter 2: Trouble on the Road
• Chapter 3: The Training Begins
• Chapter 4: Trouble on the Front
• Chapter 5: A Greater Evil than That
• Chapter 6: Home
• Story of Vethr
• Story of Pyromania
• Story of Grace
• Story of Whimsy
• Story of Ferrum
• Story of Robos
• Story of Urth
• Story of Alector
• The Collapse

Mythology

This section is all of the lore: all of the old stuff that has to be taken into account to make sure that the rest of the story falls into place. It doesn't define how the plot will be laid out, but should be introduced at various fitting times in the plot to enlighten both Hand and the person playing Hand.

• Before the Sealing
• Forming the Seal
• The Exodus
• The Two Kingdoms
• A Hero Is Born

The Seal

• Seal Lore
• Bandas
• Forms of the Seal

(Note: Outline, for planning purposes only, is officially deprecated but may be potentially valuable)