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Post by Elk on Jun 21, 2015 14:54:25 GMT -6
Post here your ideas for the history of the VS world.
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Thor
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Post by Thor on Jun 24, 2015 18:24:58 GMT -6
Humanoids have lived on this planet of birds for centuries, dating back to cave drawings in (wherever there may be caves), and have coexisted peacefully with the birds, even taming some to keep as pets.
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No one knows when humanoids first came to this planet, but when they did, things changed. It was no longer a planet that belonged to the birds, it now was shared with the humans, who tamed some of these glorious creatures to keep as pets.
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The planet was recently discovered by a satellite and thought to be able to sustain life. With life on Earth getting a bit crowded, a group of colonists were sent to set up a life here, and when they did, they discovered the birds.
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Post by Elk on Jun 24, 2015 19:10:50 GMT -6
Nice ideas!! I like all of them. The third one makes me think of Felisfire some, so I probably wouldn't want to go with that one (even though I like it). I think either one or two could be great too depending on how they're fleshed out. c:
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Post by Thor on Jun 24, 2015 19:15:11 GMT -6
Yeah, I was leaning away from the third as well, but the first two are a bit more original and could be fleshed out nicely. I'll try to work on them a bit more tonight and see if I can't get them into more detailed, functional thoughts.
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Post by Loki on Jun 25, 2015 20:17:09 GMT -6
I have a little bit maybe?
It'd be a bit of a mix/twist on Thor's first two ideas.
Humanoids have lived on the planet for centuries, though they lived in very secluded clans/territories due to a threat (perhaps some species of large predator that also happens to have lived on the planet). Therefore, interaction with the more active avian species was scarce. However, as things changed as they are oft to do over decades and decades, the humanoids slowly began moving into more avian-populated areas. The humanoids and avians began to realize that they could have a mutually beneficial partnership. The avians could spot the predator coming from a distance away and perhaps warn the human somehow (if they're not that intelligent, then they would only be giving a warning call to other avians in the area to alert them of the threat).
The avians stuck around the humanoids because the humanoids would often feed them or offer some protection of a kind in return. Over the years, the predator population slowly began to decline (due to human construction/weapons/hunting or something natural like a disease or decrease in the main food source). Eventually they neared extinction/became extinct altogether. However, the humanoid-avian partnership remained, and many humanoids took to taming them as pets and companions.
That's pretty much just the same basic idea, I just took to fleshing it out some. My current two cents. I can probably develop some other ideas.
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Post by Elk on Jun 25, 2015 20:21:10 GMT -6
That sounds awesome!
Right now we only have one town that's holding all the shops and NPCs, so maybe we could do something that focuses in on this group of people for now? I think it'd be cool to expand upon that history later on in a plot (or something) to find another town of people with their own avian relationships later on (or something). I'm not sure exactly how that'd work or how it'd influence the rest of the game, and it might not work anyway, but maybe it could.
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Post by hisdeer on Jun 25, 2015 20:25:09 GMT -6
What about if the birds were once sentient beings, and some large meteor hit and they kind of... devolved to survive and became primitive birds again, and alerted by the meteor hit, a big corporation funded a space expedition to explore and they decided that this would make a great profit, taming and selling the birds as pets?
Maybe something could happen later, like an enemy company wanted to make the birds like... weapons or something and there are super birds now?
I don't even know right now xD
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Post by Loki on Jun 25, 2015 20:30:51 GMT -6
Yeah, I think you could do something like that. There's one main town where everyone kind of is, and maybe as things go on, explorations are made and new territories are found? And each territory has their own avian relationships, like you said. For that matter, that's an easy way to introduce new things in the future: new territories/settlements being found and such.
There could also even be a sect that maybe worships the birds in a way? These humanoids always worshiped a god/pantheon of gods, and they somehow thought that the avians were physical manifestations of the gods' spirits and divine-ness? Therefore, they would treat their avians not as pets but as life companions of a sort, and they are to be treated with respect. Mistreatment or neglect of the avians would then be a huge offense. (Then of course, this could be tied in as a general history instead of just a private territory being this way or disregard this as a whole).
I'm thinking. XD
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Post by Elk on Jun 25, 2015 20:37:28 GMT -6
hisdeer I like to think of mythological avians being sentient still. The premise of the site, too, is that each player is a falconer who trains, explores, battles, and hunts with their birds. Loki That sounds really awesome! I like the idea of having an easy way to add new things. I think it opens up a lot more possibilities being able to expand a map like that. In my imagination I think of the birds being treated as mystical beings who aren't fully understood. So this could be a general theme, and maybe when we find new areas it could be expanded upon like you said with the worshiping.
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Post by hisdeer on Jun 25, 2015 21:34:23 GMT -6
Perhaps a part of it could be unlocking the locked memories, like they vaguely remember once being a thriving population but had to move to territories to survive and the humans can unlock it?
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Post by Elk on Jun 25, 2015 21:49:42 GMT -6
hisdeer I'm don't think I understand what you're saying. Why are there locked memories and what are they?
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Post by hisdeer on Jun 25, 2015 22:19:35 GMT -6
So they could cope with the loss of their great civilization, they went primal, with the help of humans they can "unlock" the repressed memories to become once again great creatures in a great and dynamic civilization. I mean, if you have to tame them, they must be feral, because I don't think bird with their own sentient minds would want to be pets? Maybe more as companions and partners, but pets would be degrading, no?
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Post by Elk on Jun 25, 2015 22:43:50 GMT -6
Taming a bird doesn't make it a pet. Birds that falconers work with in real life aren't pets like cats or dogs. They're still undomesticated animals, but tamed and trained.
Taming an avian in our case would be the player trying to "harness or control; render useful, as a source of power" (dictionary.com). So essentially taming for us just means that we're taking a wild/untamed avian and interacting with it in a way in which it will want to work with us.
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