Official Road to Purgatory-Beta Forum

Heracles, Official Pantheon Moderator

Greetings, dear Traveller

This thread is for the discussion of the latest vision-shard that managed to cross the world from Mundus into our world, showing parts of the Adventures for a young Firn-Elf named Morgana.

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Jeanyra, confirmed Beta-Account

Ho, boy. That was intense and it makes me seriously curious.

Do we know what Class Morgana is playing? I’m a Sorcerer and supposedly those are the most varied and versatile spellcasters, at least that’s my understanding. But I haven't the slightest idea how half of what she used would even begin to work and the rest is a little over my head, but I use fire, not wind, ice/mist and whatever else she had mixed into that spell.

In addition, I guess I have to rethink my opinion of ritual casting, when I heard that it takes from ten minutes to multiple hours, setting up an using a ritual, I just thought, ok, those are useless in combat, moving on. But I guess not every combat is head-on and hidden in the darkness, she had more than enough time to prepare.

But most of all, I want to know what that transformation was. Magical Girl goes Gothic? Now, I want to get wings, I should have rolled a Valkyrie.

Yuthos, confirmed Beta-Account

Excuse me, but before we go into enthused screeching about the awesomeness of the magic used, could we look at what she did? I mean, she just murdered a village and turned them into some sort of friggin zombies who then proceeded to make sure her murdering was complete.

That part before, sure, she shows some bandits attacking her and they were the same species as the villagers, but still, that’s some messed up shit.

-Harms, confirmed Beta-Account

Yuthos, we have no idea what happened between the clips shown, so calm down. It’s a short advertisement-clip, not the full picture.

That said, I wouldn’t want to mess with her, not with what we have seen already.

-Tarrin, confirmed Beta-Account

@Harms,

Yeah, no joke, just from looking at the old scenes, you can see an obvious progression. At first, she used mist and it killed her enemies. Then, she apparently tried something new but I’d guess she was not happy with it, maybe letting ice rain upon her foes was too boring for her, or something like that.

The next time we saw her, she and her party were insta-gibbing someone before running under the cover of mist, she used a cloud of snow and mist to hide from an ambush and she used mist to attack a few wolves.

Now, she uses mist that turns her foes into zombies?

Ghost-noun squad, if I were you guys, I’d stay inside on misty days. Or you might get shat on, again. Just maybe not literally.

-Goliry, confirmed Beta-Account

Oh, burn. You may want to apply cold water, Ghost-squad. Or, you know, maybe use the water to wash the bird-droppings out of your hair.

-Do’rodra, confirmed Beta-Account

Whelp, if there was ever any question to the rating this game would get, it’s now answered. The only question remaining is how restricted the sales will be, neither Pantheon nor anyone else has said anything official in that regard.

-Howardlight, confirmed Beta-Account

I am calling for a holy crusade to slay this foul creature before it can spread its influence any further! This abomination is a blight before all that is holy and we need to hunt it down!

DEUS VULT!

-Harms, confirmed Beta-Account

I’m seeing Zombies in Howardlight’s future, but it is somehow obscured by a dense mist…

-Snydervine, confirmed Beta-Account

Harms, that’s awfully brave for someone in Crusading Distance.

-Harms, confirmed Beta-Account

Oh, you know, I’ll just need to find Morgana before you. Then, I can get some popcorn and watch the show, I’m a fan of Zombie-Apocalypse movies, and guess what? I’d bet that you’ll be the star in one, if you try to go for her.

-Palda Hengar, confirmed Beta-Account

Howardlight is the new Smoky - Only you can prevent Zombie-Plagues!

Or maybe, in case of Zombies, break glass?

Oh, no, Uncle Howard wants YOU!

-Ghostblade, confirmed Beta-Account

Tarrin, I won’t dignify that with a response.

But I’d like to raise the question of balance again. The sheer scope of havoc shown here is two or three levels above anything a martial class can hope to achieve on a good day, just imagine that stuff against an army or something similar? There’s a reason Necromancer’s make such great villains, they need to be defeated or bad things will happen.

And as such, for Howardlight: Not sure when the clips were made, but she seems to be heading south, or maybe south-west, not sure. We first encountered her in Yaksha, in northern Aretia, and since then, she moved in that direction, visiting the city of Kolyug, just in case you want to meet her.

-Howardlight, confirmed Beta-Account

I call upon the forces of Light in Aretia, cleanse the world of the abomination!

-Bycackle, confirmed Beta-Account

What I’d like to know is, how did she get the footage? I mean, unless she had someone in the village while she zombiefied it, she would still be on that hill, using her ritual, right?

So, why does she have the footage from inside the village?

-Harms, confirmed Beta-Account

Snydervine, I guess not quite in crusading distance, eh?

But, if she’s moving south-east, I think she’s coming towards the area I’m playing in.

Morgana, if you find yourself in the area of the Sunderfist-Orcs, visit the encampment, I’d love to invite you to a mead, just for your style.

-Morgana, confirmed Beta-Account

Seems like the Advertisement did what it was supposed to do, make people talk about it.

To answer a few, but not all, questions:

Harms, I might look you up, depends on my plans at the time.

Bycackle, I had a little support for making the Advertisement; those viewpoints were recorded by Panthon, after I placed markers where I wanted the cameras.

Ghostblade, getting smart(er), eh? Having others do the dirty work. I doubt it will matter, the world is far too big for something as simple as a cardinal direction being enough to intercept someone. And that’s before going into such nifty things like disguises, magical or mundane.

Howardlight, seriously? The Light? In a world where the major religions are under the leadership of a Death-God (Odin) and a God of Thunder (Zeus), you call upon ‘The Light’? Can anyone even name the God of Light in either Pantheon? Anyway, if you want to come after me, feel free, there are a few more things I want to try against Travellers, ask the Ghostnouns how fun it is when someone explodes you from miles away.

And yes, while that particular trick was reported and hopefully fixed, I have a few more hidden in my sleeves.

Do’rodra, I doubt that my little advertisement would influence that. Just consider what happened in Tobiuno’s clip, or rather, in the cut scene that was made into a Highlight-reel. It was pretty much the same, an action against bandits. Just that I don’t have the mounted combatants to ride them down, I need to apply a magical solution to a mundane problem.

Yuthos, there are over two ingame-days between the clips used in the Advertisement, so you simply didn’t see that we followed the bandits to their camp and further to their village. In addition, you were unable to see that the villagers were dressed in far too well-made clothes for a normal village and that a caravan recently vanished in the area.

What I’m trying to say is, Bandits are a scourge and need to be eradicated. That includes those that stay behind to hold down the base and those that support them in their ways. At least in my opinion and in the opinion of all locals I’ve asked.

Jeanyra, I’m feeling generous, so I’ll give you a hint: I’m a Sorceress as well. And, to paraphrase the Sorceress that taught me quite a bit: Your magic needs to suit yourself, not what anyone else thinks it the right way to use magic.

I think you mentioned that you went to the Guild, to get taught some. That magic is not yours, so it won’t work as well as what you could do by experimenting and researching on your own.

For the magic used in the Advertisement, I won’t go into details, just that the main-part was Death-Magic, carried by Wind and Ice-Magic and that the ritual took multiple hours all in all.

-Hammasce, confirmed Beta-Account

Cool, questions are answered.

Mhm, a few hours for the ritual? Now I’m curious, unless the villagers were on a much higher level than the caster, that’s some horrible mileage, thinking purely in damage-over-time aspects. Maybe the secrecy makes up for that, or the zombification afterwards, but I don’t know, it feels more like a cool gimmick, not something really useful.

Jeanyra, confirmed Beta-Account

What, seriously?!

Ok, now I’m jealous, I have a couple of spells but hell, what you can do with the class seems so much more awesome. Can you at least tell me how you got that Raven we saw in a few scenes and how that feathered form works?

And you said a Sorceress trained you, HOW?! I tried to find a sorcerer-trainer but no luck, I still only have the one active class-skill I had from the start.

-Morgana, confirmed Beta-Account

No, I’m afraid I’ll keep that to myself, but I’ll tell you that it’s not a class feature, I don’t have any more active class-skills. It is a case of the number of skills being less important than what you do with them.