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Xareh's universe and books (LAW etc.) discussion
« on: January 19, 2013, 01:13:04 PM »

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Some history on this - my universe began in late 2009, in the form of the book Wicked Wanderer, covering the titular ship based on Sabre fighters from Project Sylpheed with a wicked time freezing twist. It was bad. Very bad. But from it I began creation of my universe.
I began SW, and if you hunt you can find the old remnants of an argument with WarStalkeR (Let's do that again with the reworked lore, eh?) which really sucked.

Then, someone along the line (and I don't know where) around the time of writing up the idea for my Overworld mod, the entire lore went under redesign. Like, nothing survived except two characters and Wanderer. And even those didn't resemble the originals at all.
Currently, there are four books in writing (TM, LAW, BFHW, F) abbreviated to maintain secrecy. This is the first time anyone else has EVER seen any of this work. I've just finished The Tenth Machination in LAW, so the previous few are going to be fleshed out entirely.
« Last Edit: February 08, 2013, 08:30:34 AM by Xareh »
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Re: by popular demand
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2013, 03:54:16 PM »

??? i am so confused

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Re: by popular demand
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2013, 03:57:00 PM »

??? i am so confused

Trust me - I've got a lot to fill in.
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Re: by popular demand
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2013, 03:58:59 PM »

By the by, that's a heavily edited variant with roughly 2/10ths cut.
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Re: Xareh's universe which plenty of people hate
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2013, 01:58:59 PM »

Bump - how'd people like it?
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Re: Xareh's universe which plenty of people hate
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2013, 02:33:17 PM »

I can't make any content out in this thread. What is this about Xareh?
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Re: Xareh's universe which plenty of people hate
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2013, 10:33:17 PM »

I have gathered all the clues Gothars and i....
I think he posted a story here which has 2/10 cut out of it
meaning it used to be so small that when 2/10 got cut out nothing remained


clues:
- The divulged LAW story finally arrives.
- heavily edited variant with roughly 2/10ths cut.


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Re: Xareh's universe which plenty of people hate
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2013, 08:41:03 AM »

Sorry Gothars, I yanked the .odt from the OP for personal reasons. This is discussion now.

Some history on this - my universe began in late 2009, in the form of the book Wicked Wanderer, covering the titular ship based on Sabre fighters from Project Sylpheed with a wicked time freezing twist. It was bad. Very bad. But from it I began creation of my universe.
I began SW, and if you hunt you can find the old remnants of an argument with WarStalkeR (Let's do that again with the reworked lore, eh?) which really sucked.

Then, someone along the line (and I don't know where) around the time of writing up the idea for my Overworld mod, the entire lore went under redesign. Like, nothing survived except two characters and Wanderer. And even those didn't resemble the originals at all.
Currently, there are four books in writing (TM, LAW, BFHW, F) abbreviated to maintain secrecy. This is the first time anyone else has EVER seen any of this work. I've just finished The Tenth Machination in LAW, so the previous few are going to be fleshed out entirely.
« Last Edit: February 01, 2013, 11:00:37 AM by Xareh »
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Re: Xareh's universe which plenty of people hate
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2013, 11:22:32 AM »

We're done on the tenth machination! Nearly. Then it'll be reworking and filling out the previous ten and reuploading an updated and uncut file here! HUZZAH
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« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2013, 01:26:38 PM »

ah who cares

dl and enjoy
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Re: Xareh's universe which plenty of people hate
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2013, 01:44:14 PM »

Good boy! ;D
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Re: Xareh's universe which plenty of people hate
« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2013, 01:48:02 PM »

Love what I have read so far, reminds me of Dune a bit and I like the setting :) very well done, I can see why you kept changing stuff, for the "sovereignties" placeholder maybe call them the diadects?

Also the warfiend, why not relate it back to the name of the house and call the Kraww's?

Do you have any concept art for lance or the others as that would help especially with the armour and weapons (all the odd names!!!)
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Re: Xareh's universe which plenty of people hate
« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2013, 02:16:29 PM »

The Warfiend is used by a lot of different people - it's more a noble mount than Kraww. :P

For concept art - my drawing skills are atrocious, but I have some ideas rolling around in my head, but I'm not completely sure. Xikuzu's for instance - they'll be built on later in the book and I've got some ideas about how they are.

Plus it gets quite a lot cooler from the 10th onward, because of what I worked into that.

Right at the end, however, there is an incredibly awesome bit. Like, as in it's the most awesome thing ever. EVER! If you can guess what it is, then you are winner and I will give you exclusive access to write ship with me and such. It leads into the next book perfectly, ish. It sets up half of it, and the other half is pretty up to me to figure out how this gets here and such and then I've gotta figure out EE... urf.

Current progression: TM(?)-->LAW-->?/BFW-->F (abbreviated ;)
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Re: Xareh's universe which plenty of people hate
« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2013, 01:04:38 AM »

do you mind changing the title to something that tells us about whats in it?
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Re: Xareh's universe which plenty of people hate
« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2013, 07:58:09 AM »

I do mind actually, because it does make sense. If you read the book, you'll understand where LAW comes from.
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