Chaos Legion is a deep-dive into the Lore
With the arrival of Chaos Legion, we already saw a lot of improvements within the game - and also around the game. One of my favorite things about these improvements is the way more detailed character descriptions and with that, the Splinterlands lore.
With the alpha and beta cards we had a slight knowledge of monsters, summoners and their history, but it was more like some guidelines letting us use our imagination to create backstories for these characters.
We had some vision of the world of Splinterlands, but not a Tolkien-like detailed story, more like a taste of what this imaginary universe is like.
Chaos Legion gave us a totally different way of storytelling, showing us some real in-depth backstories and character descriptions, connecting pieces of the Splinterlands universe and the atmosphere of it.
I started to read lores of each individual monster, and I started to wonder how dark these stories actually are. They are not really Tolkien-like, which I was expecting them to be.
They give me chills and goosebumps the way Stephen King’s and Lovecraft’s novels.
A bit more like Lovecraft’s, I guess. And as I look back to the cards, it starts to make sense why we got Cthulhu from the Dice, for example.
Kind of a zombie-apocalypse brought by Doctor Blight
If you read the story of Radiated Brute, you’ll see the real terror of a mystical infection spreading around, turning normal people, friends, mothers, children into uncontrollable monsters of the darkness.
For me it was shocking but at the same time amazing to read the story of Radiated Brute, a mother and wife suddenly experiencing symptoms of an unknown illness, slowly turning into some sort of madness with the urge of attacking loved-ones and a total loss of self control.
The way she felt the first signs of being a threat for her family, the painful state between consciousness and unconsciousness, and the decision to give up fighting the disease and letting go of who she once was. Leaving behind family, to save them from the monster she became.
Burning, madness, mutation
I was wondering if the story of the radiated ones was inspired by the Chernobyl atomic plant tragedy in 1986, where many people living nearby towns got sick by radiation and died a few months or years after the incident.
If you saw the HBO series about the accident, maybe you can remember the scenes of the firefighters being in the hospital after getting way too close to the atomic plant when nobody exactly knew it yet what happened there.
Blogs to Follow:
Splinterlands: https://peakd.com/@splinterlands/
Monster-Curator: https://peakd.com/@monster-curator/
1Up (#OneUp): https://www.1up.zone/
Discord Channels to Join:
Splinterlands Discord: https://discord.gg/Tw7KjNsQGs
Monster Market Discord (Monster Curator): https://discord.gg/DR3J9rfRFV
PeakD Discord (PeakMonsters as well): https://discord.gg/7mQmzZeugE
NFT Studios Discord (aka 1UP Discord #OneUp): https://discord.gg/4VYBcNuVQd
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