Here is a new section in the blog, "** Lorebuilding **", in the current perspective that I have of a game designer, is involved with all the work teams of the game. Surely it has multiple discussions with the narrative team and the loremaster so that the lore adapts to the mechanics of the game and that represents the world within the limitations that the budget can cover.
In lorebuilding will be uploaded stories that I have created to complement designs of mechanics for games, ideas that have appeared in other sections, and are not suitable for people who prefer short texts !, of course the first will be about the Phantom Knight, now , let the story begin.
I'm going to tell you the story of my first phantom knight. 23 years ago in this land divided into 6 by its biomes and inhabitants, two babies were abandoned in an orphanage of the khymeria lands.
A boy and a girl who were named as Akun and Aki, grew up as childhood friends, protected themselves from bullying, played together, bathed together and all those things that childhood friends do. But nothing lasts forever, when they reached the age of 11 a silvershield order examiner came to look for children with special abilities, after reviewing all the children, he took to aki from the orphanage, a few months later, Aki was sent to war as one of the heroes of the silvershield, in that war she ended countless lives and earned the name of sword dancer.
Akun on the other hand without talent in magic or fencing had no choice but to join the silvershield as a priest, but the hatred he had for that order never allowed him and ended up being expelled from the orphanage at age 16 .
Aki did not stop making heroic actions for khymeria in the name of the silvershield, becoming a celebrity for the nation and Akun who worked in construction as a worker was despised and barely earned enough to eat, although he sacrificed several lunches to buy old books of alchemy and So make your job easier.
When Aki reached 18 years, she was allowed to leave the order for a day, accompanied by an escort of course. from which she easily escaped and looked for Akun in the orphanage, as soon as she heard about his expulsion she started a search throughout the isle.
As night approached, she felt disconsolate, she did not find Akun anywhere and she only cried on the handrail of a bridge, in her vision blurred by tears she saw a boy fishing just below of her, she recognized him immediately despite the years.
Akunnnnn!
She lunged at him from the bridge, falling on him and they both fell into the shallow river soaking. Then she started crying over Akun disconsolately.
Aki, you must have suffered a lot all this time.
Akun hugged her without saying any more words and they stayed there soaked for several minutes.
After a while Akun invited her to his house, which was the bottom part of the bridge
And there they told each other a summary of the experiences they had in those 7 years while the sun went down and night took place.
Even so Akun, you are very talented, living under a bridge is something I can not approve.
Tell that to all people in khymeria , not being a member of the silvershield seems to end instantly with any job that I try to get.
But why do you reject the silvershield order? If you were a member of the clergy, you would be doing much better.
When you came back from the first war, I went to your welcome parade. as soon as I saw your face I realized all the horrible things that happened to you Aki, sincerely from that moment, I could only feel hatred for the silvershield order that I snatch your smile
...
...
marry me Akun
yes
If you marry me I will be able to support you and you will have access to ... What did you say?
I'll marry you Aki, I'm in love with you, I do not need any more reasons.
Aki's face blushed completely and she started crying again, throwing herself to hug Akun.
Shortly after dawn Aki returned to the silvershield order with several demands which they had to comply with reluctantly or risked losing their precious sword dancer.
So Aki and Akun got married and started living together, and Akun's hatred for the silvershield order became mutual.
During the following months looking for that they were separated, the order assigned to Aki missions constantly doing that they could be together only half a week of each month, this generated irritation in both.
Akun already had a plan prepared to escape from khymeria without being persecuted, he only had to wait for Aki to return from the last mission and everything would start to improve for both.
toc.. toc..toc..
¡is she!
He thought and hurried to open the door of the house. But no, it was a man, a soldier from silvershield, He wore silver armor and had a redhead beard.
Sir Akun?
yes i’m
I have this letter for you…
Akun snatched the letter from the soldier's hands, broke the seal and began to read without paying attention to the words of the person in front of him, having read all the content. Akun squeezed the letter in his hand, his face had paled, his expression expressed great regret and pain.
The funeral will be in a week when the body arrives from the dungeon
Said the soldier, but akun just looked at him with an empty look.
In any case you can not have the honor of being there, you are formally exiled for the crime of rejecting the silvershield order, you have until tomorrow to ...
Akun closed the door on the soldier's face without letting him finish with his words, and spent the night alone with his misery, in total darkness.
5 months later, in the distant lands of Mortis, a young man was crossing the fading forest, a place where many souls belonging to those who do not overcome submerging in the tar pits of Creation, tend to be very noisy until they become extinct , so the inhabitants of mortis avoid this area and it's not a well-known place.
After several days entering the depths of the forest the young man sees a large metal house with a fluorite sign that says ** Nona's **
The young man decides to enter the place without touching the door, which I consider very discourteous. As soon as he enters, he is whipped by a storm of black smoke that does not allow him to see the interior.
A fire?
It's not a fire, it's results!
I said clearing the smoke and showing my beautiful body covered in soot.
I guess unsatisfactory results
shut up kid, did you bring what I asked?
Akun takes off the hood and scarf that prevented him from seeing his face and puts some containers that emit a foul stench of death on the counter.
Three jars filled with the smelly tar of the creation directly extracted from Tar Pits of Creation.
Well, with this I can make your request perfect, you will not refuse to use it right?
It's too late to say anything, right? I hope it does not end up with results like the ones I found when I entered.
Who do you think you're talking about kid, I'm Nona The best dark enchantress of the Lord of Darkness.
I said angrily because I was being underestimated.
That she was stripped of her privileges for the crime of doing experiments on the eternals of that lord
uhhg
Alchemy books also describe that part too, even so, I trust you Nona, your pride will not let that thing fail.
ha, Even when I reject it at the time for being the work of a simple blacksmith, I must admit that everything that passes through my hands becomes a masterpiece.
That makes me happy
He told me with a face full of sadness, due to my uncontainable curiosity, I decided to deceive him in order to know the cause.
Now the next step is to tell me your life kid.
...
It gave the impression that he wanted to refuse at all costs.
I have to know everything about you kid, so there will be the greatest possible synchronization, in addition you signed the contract, there is no chance of you retracting.
Yes, as I said, too late ...
7 days later, Akun is facing the dungeon of the giant hydra just in the botton of jodjar, wearing a jet black armor that is somewhat fit for him, but nothing to impede his movement.
I on the other hand was many meters away from the dungeon, with my newly created henchman Ritus and could see everything despite the distance with one of my fabulous creations.
After having been walking for a while through the pit, the bones around Akun begin to move and reveal that beneath them are the multiple heads of this immense monster.
They were too many heads, I could not even count them all. This is the result of his regeneration after many warriors have come to confront her only to perish here, no wonder that he killed Akun's wife.
And there really was not time to repent, the heads attacked akun and just as I expected with his lack of talent for fencing he could only block one of them, the rest went directly through his abdomen and the left side of his head, the armor just it served to make the heads cross it a few centimeters apart.
Then, Akun fell to the ground, generating a pool of blood and without doing more movements that made the hydra think that he could be a threat.
It's much weaker than I thought
What are we doing now, Lady Nona? we are leaving?
What do you say ritus? the good part is about to start
There is a lot of blood, I knew I would not beat a monster that managed to beat aki under any circumstances, but this hurts too much ..
I never really wanted to take revenge on the hydra, I just wanted to die as close as possible to where you did Aki .. so maybe, our souls can love each other forever, yes, all I need is to love you forever aki, I know this It will help me with that, just a little more.
and so my heart started to stop beating, everything felt cold and heavy and very painful, so I decided to sleep ...
It's taking a long time for him to die, I'm kind of sad for him.
But suddenly a strong light came from the armor, Akun's body had begun to be consumed by a purple flame and the pieces of armor watered began to join using the flame as its axis.
The armor joins itself again and starts walking towards the hydra slowly. Without knowing what to do due to her lack of regeneration, she decides to attack with all her heads at the same time so as not to give the armor room to escape, but again the hidra was surprised, all her heads went to different directions than she had anticipated, failing the attack.
From there it was only a fight of wear in which the hydra ended with each and every one of its severed heads.
I predicting these results had brought me closer to the battle area to claim my reward.
It was an awesome battle Knight
The armor did not flinch from my words
Lady Nona does not seem to hear you.
It does not matter ritus, It is a better result than expected, melting the obsidian in the tar of the creation not only accelerated but also perfected the creation of an dark eternal, is much more powerful than those eternals that follow the lord of darkness and the best thing is that they are completely obedient because of the contract, now you belong to me knight and with a army like you, i will take utopin for me and the Prophecy will began.
No ...
I and ritus turned surprised towards the armor that spoke with a voice that had some metallic echo and no emotion. It did not sound like Akun but it could be ..
I do not .. I do not belong to you .. I belong to someone else
It can not be knight, for the contract 2.0 that I designed your soul belongs to me once you have fulfilled your last will and the hydra is dead, you have already fulfilled your revenge.
revenge? ... I just feel like ... I'm looking for someone ... I do not know who... I need to find ...
Instantly I understood that Akun planned this from the beginning, it did not go as I suppose not as expected because there are only vestiges of his conscience, but he made sure that loving that woman was his last will and thus be immortal with the armor, I understand why he signed the contract despite having read it carefully, but, I can take advantage of this …
Knight, don't you remember anything about this world or that person right? for the eyes of the majority you are an abomination, someone powerful could eliminate you.
If you pledge allegiance and you serve me, I will help you find that person.
the flames in the left eye of the armor shone brighter.
You just have to kneel before my Knight
The armor knelt, you could see some doubt in his gesture. I must be careful from now on with him, his weakness is that person .. but while I am the only one who knows that he will be the best servant.
It seems like it was a fault, Lady Nona
It is not a failure ritus, are results! and there are still many experiments to be done and results to be achieved ...
That's the whole story, will you join me to overthrow the lord of darkness with my phantom knights?
What did you think?
Do you understand the dialogues?
Are the characters interesting?
Do you want to know how it continues?
My intention with this is to demonstrate my skills and try to be a master lore for some expansion of steem monster, I know that is unlikely, since there are many better people writing for them already, but dreaming is easy.
If I am lucky that someone who knows about this happens here I would like you to leave me all the advice you want, I know there are many mistakes in writing, grammar and others, I will be very attentive to your opinion to learn and improve.
All images are inspiration and belong to their respective authors, they are only for me and you readers have an idea of how to imagine the characters.
already with that I say goodbye players
This is a translation of the spanish version of Lorebuilding La historia del primer Phantom Knight make by myself using google translate and my own english knowledge. You can also check the spanish version clicking the original post name.