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From The Ruins

From The Ruins


In forgotten places the daughter of the Celestial lies in chains. Within her are the secrets of the Light of Celestia. A power that can destroy the world, or save it. Man and demon plot in secret of impending doom by the opening of the Demon portals that seal away cursed lands as the world of Geaura slowly falls to darkness.

And so a young man in search of his father finds destiny, the worlds destiny, in the light of his soul.

This project is being converted into the Tyke template!

The World of Geaura

For the most part a lush and beautiful planet, with a fastlly developing civilization and quicklly advancing technologies. A magical world with lose religious ties and a militant mages guild ran by the king of Kal-Roan, The Lord. But this world still contains many underdeveloped regions and rebelious contries, specially against the tyranical monarchy of Kal-Roan.

Kal-Roan - The so-called superior lands. A large monarchy ruled by a tyranical king who remaines nameless except for his self-given title of The Lord. The cities of Kal-Roan are considered to be of noble appointment and are quicklly advancing in technology. The once beautiful plains have slowlly been consumed by the greed and lies of the Kal-Roanians and it's king.

Psycobia - A jungle island that holds many an unkown region. The tribal legends and tales of pirates have kept this land mostlly unexplored and undiscovered.

Intian - The home of all things sacred in the eyes of the Celestial. A land full of wonder which has long been the home of many magical civilizations.

The Mountains of Atlantis - The largest mountain range in all of Geaura which shoots straight out of the Northern Seas. It is said that within it's hallows lies an ancient and great civilization, yet it's only discoveries are of barbarians.

The Desert Sumtra - A huge land covered in barren desert. The extreme and harsh conditions of this land have spawned some of the greatest and strongest warriors of all times. These lands are slowlly being taken over by the Kal-Roan nation in the form of a "friendlly" technological program and because of this a rebelion has risen from the more tribal people of this land.

The History of Geaura
The Pre-Societal Era
The time of hunters and gatherers, living off the land in constantly moving tribes. It is the true beginning of the advanced world. Without it's events the many wonders that became of Geaura may have never been possible. It was during this era that the Celestial Energy of Geaura were discovered and harnessed. Though their was many instances of unexplained celestial experiences and happenings now was the time that the living beings of the world realized the potential of the energies within them selfs. Soon the tribes of the world flourished with shamans. People grew more interested and started to study the different aspects of the Celestial, eventually discovering that the celestial was very similar to a spirit that lived inside of the planet, sometimes branching out into the land above and into it's living beings. About twenty years went by until the effects of releasing the spiritual energy of The Celestial started to take effect onto the rest of upper world. The animals changed, even gaining some limited abilities in the celestial arts. The sky started to radiate with color, which was named the Celestial Radiance. Then on a night the world can never forget the Celestial Radiance gathered, and in a bright flash of cosmic energies a girl was born, the Daughter of The Celestial, Celstia.

The Celestial Overflow
So began the times to later be known as The Celestial Overflow. With the birth of Celestia came a time of extreme Celestial use. The people had found a goddess, and paganistic principles swept the lands. Through rituals, prayer, sport, and other magical practices Geaura was filled with celestial energy. But the energy began to be to much for the upper world to handle. The animals were heavily effected, some turned beastly, some grew at great speeds. But more importantly they began to development more complex celestial powers. The weather became erratic and increasingly dangerous. The people gathered and began building cities to fortify themselves from the increasingly more dangerous outside world. Civilization colonized Geaura. Great wounds began to split the lands, letting out extreme amounts of The Celestial spirit. They were named the Wounds of Geaura. Then she appeared again, the goddess Celestia, and as she radiated in the sky lights shot from her in all directions. The world was gripped by an immense blue field, and soon it was all that could be seen. When it faded the world was changed. The vegetation grew, and the land healed. All that remained of the desecration was the Wounds of Geaura. The lights were dubbed the Lights of Celestia, and they fell into the great wounds. The energy expulsion stopped and Geaura stabilized.

Years of Calming Tranquility
The civilizations of Geaura thrived. In the land of Intian the people founded the Celestial Guild. They regulated and taught The Celestial arts. They slowly grew and expanded into the rest of the lands of Geaura. The people fell in love with the new found beauty their world had acquired. So began the Artistic Revolution. The people began to change their world into a beautiful artistic masterpiece. The buildings turned into miraculous sculptures. With this peaceful time the Wounds of Geaura began to heal more, becoming no more than caves that no one dare go near. Soon the world em massed itself into an advanced civilization. Mechanics started to appear. Advanced weaponry and metal works came to be. Society moved from a trade system to using "paper" currency threaded out of gold. Slowly kingdoms grew and became rich, and soon territory complications arrived. Fighting began, and the kings became consmed with greed. The times of peace ended.

The Age of Oblivion
The virus of war covered the land. The grounds were scorched and stained with blood. Nature was scarred beyond repair. Many towns were destroyed, but the most notable was the city of Ze-Yrol. The jewel of Geaura, a place of orgasmic beauty. Never before has their been a city of such artistic majesty, and never will their be again. This was the city of the Drow. A city of neutrality that fell victim to the war. Yet the drow refused to bear arm against the world that would destroy them. There city fell in ruins around them. The drow disappeared over night. Nobody knew where they had gone. Occasionally a drow will enter the world, boosting their hope for existence. The people of Geaura lost connection with The Celestial. The land corroded and decayed. The world had become savage once again. Years asses and the world eventually appeared to die. But The Celestial would keep the world alive, saving it once again from the faults of man. The world of Geaura once again became encompassed in blue spiritual light, and it restored the land. But this time humanity would be left with a consequence, and everything man created disintegrated into dust and blew away. Men were left naked cradled in nature, and the celestial re-entered into their life's.

Time of the Righteous
Life began anew. Civilization was rebuilt. This time around practicality took precedence. People were no longer mystified by beauty and art. New kings were risen. The first was the Celestial Spirit Mage of the Celestial Guild, Reol Usoph, the king of Intian. Then came Rogen Eh'Vix the king of the Sumtra Desert. The last to gain a new king was the Kal-Roanians. He was The Lord of Kal-Roan, and goes by no other name. That is until he shortened to simply "The Lord". The Lord of Kal-Roan grew corrupt, or perhaps he started that way. While the other kings had small defense forces the Lord of Kal-Roan built a massive military. He remains the king of the Kal-Roanians to this day. Using non-aggressive action he has slowly taken control over many aspects of life all over Geaura. The Lord of Kal-Roan then started Technological Revolution by creating a technological study program in the Celestial Guild. His empire soon integrated new technologies into the world, gaining himself more power, even in the other continents of Geaura. But not everybody held a blind eye to these happenings, and as The Lord moved into the Sumtra Desert and an uprising grew. Revolution now grows in the land of the Sumtra Desert, and only time can tell it's course.

The Technological Revolution
There comes a time in every world where it passes through a technological revolution, and so the world of Geaura has entered into such times upon the dawn of the Time of Righteousness a little less than 30 years ago. It all started with the Kal-Roan Empire and the integration of the Tech Program into the Guild of Mages. By experimenting with a technique known as the Cross-Theory things such as basic gear mechanics we?re spliced with magic. The first breakthrough was the Crystal-Router, in which celestial energies were channeled through an irrigation system made of Lunet Crystal (A medium rarity gem that naturally holds it?s own small amount of celestial energy) and Eadious(A common, soft mineral much like our worlds platinum that is extremely receptive of celestial energies [though it contains none of it?s own])-lined channels. This quickly led to the discovery of non-fire lighting, mage-less barriers (a barrier that no longer needs a celestial user to maintain), and with the use of gears and belts they eventually harnessed the power of what they called Mechalestial. This combination of mechanics and magic formed ethereal beings. They could be ?programmed? by placing celestial glyphs on the core crystal, a far off equivalence of the human brain. Though only the most advanced and spiritual Mechalestial Constructors can achieve a humanistic Mechalestial brain structure that could compare to an actual human. This new technology also led towards more advanced weaponry. Before the possibility of endowing a weapon with celestial properties was unable to reach a permanent state, wearing of after only a short while. But with the discovery of the Lunet Crystals natural celestial energy it was now possible to make them permanently enchanted. They also began to add on things such as ?Celestial Boosters? which can be commanded by the weapon users celestial energies to expel a magical force that would increase the thrust and/or speed of the weapon beyond the users own strength and will. Adding these to swords, and more importantly, arrows, made for devastating weapons. There were more such add-ons such as celestial energy expulsers, which would send ranged and radius attacks from the weapons. Many other things were created upon these principles. Current developments are being concentrated on vehicular mechanics. Though these call for much more intense celestial energies and a larger supplemental crystal of pure celestial energies, which can only be created through the process of converting a human life force into such a crystal. The human sacrifice must of course be of very high celestial powers.

PCs

Anarch - Main Character
Age - 19
Class - Avenger
Weapons - Daggers
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The son of the historian Yoseph. He grew up in the capital of Kal-Roan (Cosia) and has lived a middle class lifestyle.

Draos
Age - ??
Class - Cosmic Knight
Weapon - Sword (heavy)
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A former hero for The Lord and the nation of Kal-Roan, he has refused any more quests because of the corruption of the king. One of the last of the Drow race known in greater Geaura.

Chels
Age - 16
Class - Pirate
Weapon - Sword (light)
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At the age of 11 both her parents killed by The Lord for political reasons. Originally from the Sumtra Desert she left with her uncle, a pirate named Luye. Tough as nails but still childish and playful.


Zig
Age - 20
Class - Seer
Weapon - Crystal Ball

A man gifted with the sight of what's to come. Growing up in the land of Intian he has much knowledge of the Celestial. He has a twin brother and his mother is a witch that lives in the forests of Psycobia.

There are more main protagonists, but I have chosen not to post them. Their will also be a great deal of optional and secret PCs.

FEATURES

  • A large array of PCs (30-50)
  • SVBS (coming soon)
  • Original Graphics (once I find a good spriter and graphic artist)
  • Many optinal side quests and extras
  • MORE TBA

Legendary Weapons

In the birth of civilization one kingdom stood out from the rest, the race known as the Drow. These were a highly celestial race of elves that?s purple skin radiated in celestial energies. Ahead of all society in forms of society, they we?re truly of noble purpose. They were not only in touch with Geaura?s celestial energies but also of those of the cosmos. And from this forged the elite Cosmic Knights, warriors that used the energies from the heavens to leave their foes demolished in single blows. And so special weapons were forged for these knights, the most renowned was the Kagirinai Kosumosu. A sword combining far advanced technologies with cosmic celestial energy. But as a failsafe, the blade was made to only heal those it struck without the powers of cosmic energy connecting from itself and it?s bearer. Though it contained the powers to decimate a civilization only those select few of the Cosmic Knights could harness such abilities. Some say the sword grew a mind because of the immense celestial energy it held and went on to limit only those IT choose worthy and of a kind soul to use it. In it?s existence it has seen few battles, and even less has it used more than twenty-five percent of it?s powers. But soon with the rise of civilization so came the rise of corruption and the ancient race of the Drow left the known world sailing north, never to be seen again but a few. Along with them went the sword, never to be used again, never to be heard of again. It has all but been forgotten and so it disappears in a blur of history to long to remember. But as time wears the world old tomes and scriptures have appeared from time to time that bring forth it?s mention. Those who know of it?s existence say it lies waiting, unstirred and undisturbed. Waiting for it?s time of true purpose.
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SCREENSHOTS


DEMO

Rapidshare Demo
One major bug: I'm having problems with some tiles being walkable when they shouldn't.. If anybody has any idea what's going on and can help please do. That would be appreciated.

WARNING! - This game contains mature content (Language/Drug References)

CREDITS

Tilesets-
Flamerfox's Steampunk Airport
Tana's Jungle and Dock
Ccoa's Waterfall autotile

battlers and characters-
???'s female pirate (if you recognize it and know who please tell me)
Nemessis's pirate
Avadian's thief(edited by Urchin)
Julius Tinker's gryphon rider
Kikut's Centaur
Tana's Witch, Shiva, Elementals, Machine, and lots of characters

Scripts-
Moghnter's Treasure window
ccao's universal message system
lambchop's anti-lag
Sandgolem's New Characters have highest level
(SG_DontLevelHighest_Switch = 0)
MoMoMo's Status Change Indication
Legacy's CMS

Sandgolem's Icons
 
Says its unable to open the audio, the first one being "18 Temple"...I think you might have forgotten to include the audio folder. I think RMXP Packs everything except the audio.

As for the issue with the walkable tiles, open up Database under Tools...and click the Tileset tab. Open the tileset you're using and click on all the tiles you want to block so that an X appears.
 
Well I took out the audio, i didn't realize I sed that one. Must have missed it. If you open up the game (its not enycripted) change the title-BGM to a rtp audio. And the tiles are x'ed, i dont know why they're not working.
 
So I finished the new demo which is a lot better in my opinion but then my free trail ran out before I could compress it. AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Someone help! i could send someone my game folder and they cold compress it maybe?
 
Well not really, it's easy. I just make em up as I go, by the end of the demo yo can have a total of 4 pcs, right before you get the fifth and theirs a 6th in that part too I haven't added it yet though.
 
Well your gonna have to give me something better than that, on the fact I'm not gonna pay money I don't have to upload things. What's the problem with megaupload? I couldn't find any other free ones that would upload such a big file. I'll add some screens, I've been meaning to but just to busy because I kinda had a deadline with the hole free trial thing.
 

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In regard to your passability problem, you may have used a blank tile to erase something, and the blank tile had open passability and was on a top layer. I know I have this problem a lot, but usually in reverse. I also sometimes run into a problem where trees cause a nearby cliff to be passable, probably due to the same issue. In that case I just go to the topmost layer and put a blank, impassable tile on it which seems to fix the problem.
 
I can't wait to double check that, because I believe your right. Thank you for showing me what was blind to my eyes... Never even thought of that.
 
hmm... Maybe point out the genericness because I honestlly don't see it. Have you actually read any of it? Generic is a term that means plain, it can't even be plain with the amount of story around the world. I haven't really explained any of the game itself though.

EDIT: Uploaded some concept art;
Anarch
Chels
Legendary Weapons
(check sections on main post to view them)
 
Apologies. Generic is not the right term. I just see some overly used concepts. Tech v. Magic(nature), ancient civs - a couple in fact, evil tyrant trying to take over the world.

But like I said, you're off to a very good start, so when all is said and done you may be able to take these 'generic' (imo) concepts and turn them into a great game.
 

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