- About this
guide...
What's the purpose of this fancy
smancy getting started guide? Well, this guide shows you what you need to know
about this role-playing world and how to role-play in this
role-playing world so that you and everyone else who
role-plays in it will understand each other's stories without any confusion. Yes,
your probably thinking that I'm trying to kill you by making you read this whole
guide, but by doing this, we can easily understand what characters everyone is playing as, what land their in, and other stuff that we may come
across because we're all following this guide. It's not hard to follow or even time consuming, all you do is read
though the rest of
this guide and you should be on your way in ten minutes or less.
This guide is broken down into four different parts so you can get through this pain in the butt guide and start role-playing in
this role-playing world in no time.
(1) About:
The
explanation of the purpose of this guide, the introduction of the world that
this role-playing world takes place in,
and of course, some
history of what inspired the creation of the End World.
(2) The Rules:
The rules that follow for
this role-playing world, which keeps it in order without any problems.
(3) Getting Started:
Shows you how to
start your own story or joining in a story for the first time and how to setup your
character(s) in this role-playing world.
(4) Role-Playing:
The last part of this guide, which shows you how to role-play in this role-playing world and different ways you can role-play. If your new at this, this would be a good page to read, but for advanced users, they can just glance over it.
That's it and that simple. Once you read through this guide, you probably won't need to see it ever again, unless you forget about
something and want to look it up,
have a question about something, or just like to play with the guide's animated buttons. Um,
lets forget about that last part...
- Overview of the
world...
Researchers and scholars found that in one point in time, the End World was connected to a larger
land mass, but some how separated and drifted away. Over periods of time, the land
that has been broken off from a larger land mass has broken off into six main lands,
not including others that haven't been discovered, and became the only known
lands of the End World today. No one knows of what lies beyond the lands, except
for endless sea. Nothing can seem to travel beyond the lands to discover what
lies beyond for the sea swallows anything that tries to leave, which isolates it from the rest of the
world.
Supposedly, the lands reach the ends of the Earth,
which is why it's called the End World, for it's a world of its own,
isolated from any other existing lands and lies at the ends of the Earth. For
being a world of its own, it's advanced for its time. Yet the time takes place
in the mid medieval ages, its advanced civilizations
make it an unique world. The world contains races that were only myths that today's
world wouldn't even believe.
The lands, that once were one, are different in everyway, for they all have their
own climates, races, and cultures. Towns and large cities cover the lands and
under the seas. Yet the world has similar food, clothes, and languages in today's world,
but modern weapons, vehicles, and technology didn't exist for they didn't exist until a later
time, which would be today's world. The buildings are made from stone to even glass or metal. Its weapons usually range from swords that
shoot out beams when swung to pocket sized
pole cannons. Magic also is used as another weapon, which can be quite powerful
and dangerous. There is also machinery, which is used to build robots, and types of transportation, like hover boards and tank-like hover
crafts. The lands are ruled by it's own government, but its wars are part of its survival,
which brings up the question about the land's destruction
and loss of its advanced civilization...
(NOTE:
For those of you who don't know, the End World is supporting the Continental
Drift theory,
meaning at one point in time, all the lands of the world were one super continent
called Pangaea, which was supposedly 200 million years ago and then 135 million
years ago it separated into more lands called Laurasia and Gondwanaland. Over
periods of time after this, the lands separated into even more lands that we know today,
but somewhere in the process the End World was created, but it was invisible to
the rest of the world since it has drifted far from the rest of the lands. Of
course the End World wasn't really real, but to make this role-playing world
possible, it's got to have a theory behind it.)
If you would like to learn more about this role-playing world, look at the map below.
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The
End World Map -
- What inspired the role-playing
world...
The End World
ideal was thought up in the summer of when Lair of Blades was first created. Because
of the lacking members in the very beginning, we had to do something quick, so
while playing addicting games such as Dungeons & Dragons,
Zork, Ultima, and many other RPGs out there, we thought of a
role-playing world that we could make that might draw some more members and keep
us alive. The
role-playing world was planed to be where people can make characters and make up adventures where their
characters and other people's characters can join in. The adventures would be of
exploring the world and discovering new places and meeting new faces. This would
be a great ideal since everyone can join in and have fun, which would probably definitely
gain us some more members, so we created the lands, maps, and other
stuff needed to make the role-playing world. Although, it was originally planned to have character
stats like an actual RPG,
but instead it was made into a role-playing story thing because of the
complications, but was an ideal to use as something else down the line.
(Hint: the arena.) Of
course it did gain us a lot of members, but it was all short-lived when after
Lair of Blades went down because of the server our site was hosted on went down
and out of business. Now, the End World is back, thank god, and we can
continue our adventures once again...
Now, what is the story behind the End World? It has been asked many times. This
world couldn't of been created over night, something inspired it. Yes, there are
several stories behind the End World. The stories are the ones that created the
lands, but they are considered "Myths" in this world now. This world
is actually a continuation of the stories where we can create our stories and
adventures in this unique world. Maybe some day those stories will be exposed...