Devblog #2

September 2nd 2020 | Authored by Churrin

5 minute read

Following a recent doll up on the species, their stats and their subspecies, there are now many more playable options for our players. Not too many, I hope! There are now 25+ species available to beginners, with more exclusive species for higher level players on the way, and some slightly more exciting overhauls coming in the future in regards to new locations, new and updated lore and some slightly more polished mechanics and changes approaching. I look forward to sharing it all with you!

Firstly, I apologise for this taking so long to come out. Due to a recent error in regards to Google Sites as you've probably heard already, I had to completely rebuild the website by scratch. I'm hoping to move to a different hosting platform, or possibly even make a wiki for the sheer amount of lore the world holds to prevent this issue from happening again in the future. That being said, I hope everything looks as fresh and good as it feels! Working on it was a hinderance to my progression in the server so hopefully the more I complete, the easier it will be to progress there as well.

I plan to add even more, bigger updates as soon as the species update is done. For now, only 1 of 2 updates are complete! Next on my agenda is the addition of both Epic+ and Loremaster+ species respectively, hopefully with even more additional lore which I wish to slowly introduce for ALL species, not just them. This provides everyone with the necessary details for making their own characters of a species, but also prevents everyone from being overloaded with choice.


The New Species Changes

The arrival of this update has brought about, as you may know, the main attraction of this update: new species information and changes! All of these can be found below:

- Moved Sorcerers to Humans
- Added 2 new subspecies of
Gnomes:
- Added 3 new subspecies of
Goblins
- Reintroduced the separate species of
Orcarus
- Moved Oni from Malevolent to Orcarus
- Renamed Succubus to Larelli
- Changed Familiars and Ketu to have their own unique pages, outside of Malevolence (Now called Demons)
- Separated
Elemental Ghouls from Spirits and added 5 new subspecies
- Separated the chimera into different pages to make it clearer what's what
- Most species have an additional biology section for extra details, located beneath the tables
- All species have a new information table


Changes to the new website

While my initial plan had been to only focus this update on the species changes, unfortunately the errors of Google's ways sprang upon me and changed my plans, which is why we're now on this new website! Thankfully I do think this website looks and feels better, especially with the new browsing and categories on the side bar.

- Added new divider pages (all of which hold no content) which distinguish the three sections of server info, character info and world info
- Added a new
Terms of Use page (recommended to read first)
- Separated all off the information pages for ease of access
- Added new character and roleplay
Guides
- Added a new world summary,
The World of Quiazal
- Removed universal and corruption lore (Don't worry, they'll be returning soon!)


Plans for the next updates

My hope is to completely pack the next few updates with content. My main focus or now is going to be getting all of the species cleaned up and prepared, and after that I'm possibly going to move on to working on finishing any incomplete location based pages and adding the remainder of the organisations which have yet to be included on the website. It could take anywhere between one month all the way up to Christmas depending on how my ability to write lore goes, and after that I plan on opening applications for custom content!

I look forward to seeing what everyone can contribute to the world, and I'm super excited to begin progressing the story with all of my lovely players!