Post by Toccs on Nov 13, 2017 2:30:18 GMT
With the move to the new forums completed, I thought it would be a good time to release a dev diary. We have a lot of exciting things in the works at the moment so here is a brief glimpse into just some of those things.
Through a series of companion submods, (in a similar vein to the Century of Blood submod) the AGOT mod will be greatly expanding the timeline of playable starts. It will now be possible to play as First Men petty kings, Essos based Andals and yes an intact pre-Doom Valyrian Freehold.
Each of the submods covers a roughly 300 year period of time featuring many canon events all painstaking correlated across worldbook chapters in order to present a reasonably accurate timeline of Planetos' history. The event and character dates are all consistent across the submods and the main mod. If you look up say Theon Stark in the family history of the main mod, that is the same dates you will find him playable in the relevant submod.
So, here is a preview of some of things coming up.
The Andal Invasion
A time when Westeros was still dominated by the kingdoms of the First Men and the Andals still ruled in Essos. Beginning with the Scouring of Lorath in 6478 and continuing on to cover the events of the subsequent Andal invasion of Westeros. Several new bookmarks are added which include many famous canon characters. During this time provinces on the Eastern coast of Westeros will be plagued by seaborne Andal invaders.
The Rhoynish Wars
A time long after the Andals have conquered Westeros, this submod focuses on the series of wars between the Rhoynar and the Valyrians which resulted in Nymeria's eventual arrival in Dorne. This time period includes Garin the Great's defiant war against Valyria and of course Nymeria and Mors Martell's conquest of the petty kings of Dorne.
Valyrian mechanics
The Valyrian Freehold operates quite differently to other merchant republic titles in the mod. I will leave it to Knuckey to further expand upon the mechanics in a later dev diary but here a some glimpses.
Dragons are obviously an important part of Valyria and they are handled through a series of events. Rulers (and realm characters with sufficient martial) of the "high_valyrian" culture have an event on startup which spawns them a dragon and Valyrian Steel sword. Being a dragon rider allows them certain things such as the ability to be appointed as Archon of a conquered province. Provinces in Valyria also carry the chance of randomly spawning dragons similar to the Shadowlands provinces.
The Free Cities are tributaries to Valyria and thus effectively rule themselves while titles that are directly sworn to Valyria such as the Ghiscari cities are ruled by Dragon Lord Archons who are appointed from Valyria.
Through a series of companion submods, (in a similar vein to the Century of Blood submod) the AGOT mod will be greatly expanding the timeline of playable starts. It will now be possible to play as First Men petty kings, Essos based Andals and yes an intact pre-Doom Valyrian Freehold.
Each of the submods covers a roughly 300 year period of time featuring many canon events all painstaking correlated across worldbook chapters in order to present a reasonably accurate timeline of Planetos' history. The event and character dates are all consistent across the submods and the main mod. If you look up say Theon Stark in the family history of the main mod, that is the same dates you will find him playable in the relevant submod.
So, here is a preview of some of things coming up.
The Andal Invasion
A time when Westeros was still dominated by the kingdoms of the First Men and the Andals still ruled in Essos. Beginning with the Scouring of Lorath in 6478 and continuing on to cover the events of the subsequent Andal invasion of Westeros. Several new bookmarks are added which include many famous canon characters. During this time provinces on the Eastern coast of Westeros will be plagued by seaborne Andal invaders.
The Rhoynish Wars
A time long after the Andals have conquered Westeros, this submod focuses on the series of wars between the Rhoynar and the Valyrians which resulted in Nymeria's eventual arrival in Dorne. This time period includes Garin the Great's defiant war against Valyria and of course Nymeria and Mors Martell's conquest of the petty kings of Dorne.
Valyrian mechanics
The Valyrian Freehold operates quite differently to other merchant republic titles in the mod. I will leave it to Knuckey to further expand upon the mechanics in a later dev diary but here a some glimpses.
Dragons are obviously an important part of Valyria and they are handled through a series of events. Rulers (and realm characters with sufficient martial) of the "high_valyrian" culture have an event on startup which spawns them a dragon and Valyrian Steel sword. Being a dragon rider allows them certain things such as the ability to be appointed as Archon of a conquered province. Provinces in Valyria also carry the chance of randomly spawning dragons similar to the Shadowlands provinces.
The Free Cities are tributaries to Valyria and thus effectively rule themselves while titles that are directly sworn to Valyria such as the Ghiscari cities are ruled by Dragon Lord Archons who are appointed from Valyria.
Might want to look at dragonrider adventurer behaviour when making sure the Valyrians don't blob out of control.