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So, lets do some brainstorming for Senaria's factions. I'm thinking having around 6 is a good ammount. These factions will be like Morrowind's where they don't follow so much story, and more or less just give you random jobs. Also, you can't be a part of two factions that hate eachother, so that means you can't be a Paladin and Necromancer at the same time.

Personally I would like to have an order of paladins. They have castles scattered around the land, with huge spires the claw at the sky. When you reach a higher rank in the order, you get a pegasus to ride (yes, it will fly). Quests center around chasing down bad guys, slaying massively overgrown monsters, saving damsels in distress, ect. As a reward for progressing in rank, you gain new, sweet looking Paladin suits of armor. Perhaps you start out like an apprentice, and when you become a really high rank you get an apprentice of your own?

The other thing that would be sweet is a tournament faction. Its largley arena/gladiator battles, but not always. Sometimes there could be horse races, obstacle courses, or labyrinths. There could be tournaments in each town, each a little different from the one in the next town, that are only held at certain times, and you have to complete the lesser tournaments to advance to the the higher ranked tournaments.

Lastly, people seem really interested in a Necromancer faction. The Raptor Men are into human sacrifices, I think that we could tie necros in with them somehow. If we don't have the Raptor Men burn the sacrifices, but rather just burry them in some kind of tomb, then perhaps necros could sneak into there and sneal the bodies. At the same time, maybe the necros are supplying the Raptor Men with the slaves that get sacrificed? I need some ideas though on neat perks for the necros and how to make them unique.

Other ideas:
-Pirates
-Highwaymen
-Mafia
-Chivalrous Order (i.e. knights not about being good guys, but about wealth and noble birth; serve a King)
-Legion/Military/Army faction
-Druids
-A Joinable Tribe
-Mercenaries (real mercs, not fighters guild sissys)
-Secret Service (spies/government assasins)
-An Explorer's Guild
-A Temple/Church type faction
-Terrorist Faction
-Rangers
-Merchant Faction (negotiate deals, sail your ship with its goods from one port to the next, open new businesses in new cities)
-Vigilante Group (could think they are like medieval super-heroes)

Personally I see a ton of potential with the merchant idea, and I think I know how to make it work.
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-Mafia

That is something all the mods need.
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Chivalrous Order (i.e. knights not about being good guys, but about wealth and noble birth; serve a King)

I like that to, probably a new name.
Also, in the HighRock HighRock music thread, we started talking a little about jousting. That would be good for a tournament faction.

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I like the mercenaries idea and the druids are cool too.
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Yes indeed, I'd love to see jousting. Hmm, the only thing is if we go with a Chivalrous Order, is that it kind of steps on the toes of both a Tournament Faction and the Paladin Faction, but I'm not ruling anything out.
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Enslaving faction... yes its evil but...
say Raptor men need some extra sacrifice... or elves don't have enough laboroer for a massive building project... or one human group simply wants to capture and enslave several of another group's I dunno
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Yes an enslaving faction! that is a great idea Chaos
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I sense a demonic necromancer cultist assassin slave trading mafia comming here Brew

About the elves though, they've totally severed connection with the outside world, and now hide away in their forests. So they wouldn't purchase slaves, plus their architecture is magically "grown".
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Split the elven discussion into a new thread, as it warrants its own.
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Split the elven discussion into a new thread, as it warrants its own.

good decision...

also another idea for factions...
what about an alchemist faction? the main goal is to find a cure for a strange sickness someone important has and so the royal folks organized a large guild just to find the cure, and you must rise through the ranks and get better and better at it and use your alchemy to also defend yourself (maybe other alchemists are your rivals and want to cure the sick person first and get the rewards) and at the end you find out the head of the alchemy guild made to cure the ailing person is actually poisoning the guy and had this all organized so the he could use the competition to weed out weaker alchemists, then take loyal alchemists and then kill all the talented ones that he didn't like and then monopolize the medicinal trade....
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Hmm, very interesting idea Yes
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Hmm, very interesting idea Yes

Cool yeah I know... Lol "NO, I don't love my own idea... I don't have any ego problems...." :lmao:

well I just tried to put in a less used skill of TES into importance thats all.... I mean most guys wanna shoot fire, or be stealthy or have a big sword.... most don't wanna be nerdy and making potions and be a doctor.... hahaha, but doctors are tough in this guild... or they die! Eek 1
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also another idea for factions...
what about an alchemist faction? the main goal is to find a cure for a strange sickness someone important has and so the royal folks organized a large guild just to find the cure, and you must rise through the ranks and get better and better at it and use your alchemy to also defend yourself (maybe other alchemists are your rivals and want to cure the sick person first and get the rewards) and at the end you find out the head of the alchemy guild made to cure the ailing person is actually poisoning the guy and had this all organized so the he could use the competition to weed out weaker alchemists, then take loyal alchemists and then kill all the talented ones that he didn't like and then monopolize the medicinal trade....


And don't forget the original goal of any alchemist... turning base metals into gold! There could be a hidden questline (only available after a certain rank or from a certain person) that would lead you to finding the recipe for turning lead (or other common metal) into gold (coins?). Perhaps a further questline would see rivals trying to take it from you...

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Yeah, that would be cool. So, are there any factions that I threw out that we can rule out?
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I guess it might be possible to group some together.. like pirates, highwaymen and terrorists could be "Outlaws" or something similar.

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I guess it might be possible to group some together.. like pirates, highwaymen and terrorists could be "Outlaws" or something similar.
the Golden Swords Company
....I dunno just sounded nice to me...
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I like the enslaving one. What about one that sorta resembles Native Americans (not going to be called that though. Maybe the people of the Hawk).
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I like the enslaving one. What about one that sorta resembles Native Americans (not going to be called that though. Maybe the people of the Hawk).

Hmm, that could work, the undecided beast race could have an American Indian theme.
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what about a Courier Guild?
and as you become better and better at delivery.... it become more dangerous...
like... like Dodge Ball!


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I like the enslaving one. What about one that sorta resembles Native Americans (not going to be called that though. Maybe the people of the Hawk).

Hmm, that could work, the undecided beast race could have an American Indian theme.
hahah.... beats shave to be native americans.... Eek 1

I dunno I just wanted to point out that somehow...

elves are the perfection of society and harmonizing with nature....
men tend to be the bane of nature and struggling to survive
orcs tend to be 'hunnish' barbaric semi-troglodytic folks along with goblins
beast-folk tend to be tribal and native american/african/island ish...

I dunno I got nothing against it but seeing trends thats all
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I like the enslaving one. What about one that sorta resembles Native Americans (not going to be called that though. Maybe the people of the Hawk).

Hmm, that could work, the undecided beast race could have an American Indian theme.


How about a bird-like race? Could have feathered heads (American Indians?), face paint.

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I like the enslaving one. What about one that sorta resembles Native Americans (not going to be called that though. Maybe the people of the Hawk).

Hmm, that could work, the undecided beast race could have an American Indian theme.


How about a bird-like race? Could have feathered heads (American Indians?), face paint.

Sure, I'm all for it. Better than having monkeys, and more fitting for mountains. Making beaks work in face gen will be complicated though.
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