Prologue
The Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the age that gave its birth comes again. In one Age, called the Late Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.
Leaning over the balcony, the figure had been looking at the frozen fountain for some time when the wind broke his musing.
Something was wrong. Or, at least, different.
Angluk knew it immediately, though he would have been hard pressed to explain how. Or what.
Though many felt he was destined to be a powerful Angakot – some said maybe the most powerful in a thousand year – most of what he already had achieved had been mere luck in his opinion. Too much of what he did and felt about magic still asked for an explanation, when it was not a trial just to do it again.
All too often was he reminded of the slow decay of everything related to magic since the Age of Legends, the Early Age as some called it. Be it spells or ways to craft items of Power, so many things had been lost in time than people often regarded magic as mere myth or trickery. Like this old fountain his teachers had told him had been a site of Power eons ago. Who would have believed it now that it was crumbling under the burden of time ?
For no apparent reason, Angluk suddenly felt really excited. Something was at work, of that he was sure. Something deep.
Staring once again at the old ruin, his eyes widened as surprise stole his breath and left him gaping in the wind.
The fountain !
While some untrained eyes would have passed by without a second look, he could now feel the Power rising through the ice, with a bluish light growing by the minute. A few moments later and he could have swore he saw some brilliant gems beneath the ice.
Excitement quickly changed to exhilaration as he understood what he had felt in the wind. Magic. Raw Power pouring out of the very air. His smile broadened as he extended his hands. The atlantian knew he could master it.
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Farewell R.J., wherever you might be. The dragon still lives in us.
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This game epitomizes the end of the Late Age, when magic finally returns in force to this world after a long decay. This is a prologue to the next turn of the Wheel of Time, the next Early Age, an Age of Legends.
My most heartful thanks go to Llamabeast for graciously hosting this game and...well, for everything he does for the community. Day after day after day.
Server : Llamaserver (see FAQ here :
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com//showthread.php?t=35160 )
Era : Late
Map : Alexander (no sites)
Mods : CBM 1.3
Special :
Magic site frequency 75
Pretender Design : drain scale is not allowed (Magic is everywhere !)
Research difficult
Hall of Fame 15 (Age of Legends !!!)
Renaming allowed
All other settings to default
12 players
List of Players :
1/ Kheldron – Atlantis
2/ Don Pablo - Caelum
3/ Apsophos - Marignon
4/ Deadnature - Pythium
5/ Archaeolept - Jomon
6/ DonCorazon - Agartha
7/ Firewalker - Patala
8/ Nihil - Mictlan
9/ Kim - Gath
10/ Kuritza - Bogarus
11/ vfb - TienChi
12/ Hoplosternum - Utgard
Any comments or suggestions are welcome. I know a lot of players don't want to play if there's Ermor or Rlyeh in LA. I honestly don't care. We can submit it to vote if someone wants to play one of these and it bothers others.
24H timing with quickhost for the first 20 turns then 48h until 40th turn, then 72h. 2 stale turns in a row without warning and I turn you AI.
Wheel of Time - LA CBM Llamaserver - FIGHT !
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