The term has always existed for a long time iirc. Even the old, somewhat outdated Arcane Lore Encyclopedia mentioned them as such, and the statement is dated at 2019. Here’s the statement:
“Some curses just augment the user’s abilities rather than turning them into an element. These types of curses are extremely rare because they were the first experimental curses, but were deemed defective because they caused a lot of strain and weren’t effective. These are known as External Curses.”
The earliest mention of Creation as an entity was also in 2019. So I’d assume a lot of the lore regarding this subject hadnt changed much, just got transferred from WoM to AO.
Since these Curses were created as experiments, they were called Experimental Curses. If your fan-made Curse doesnt have this origin, then just call it an External Curse.
Gotcha, it would probably be just an external curse since I’m thinking of having it made after the war. I’ll make a topic at some point so people can help me build it further, but for now I’ll just say the curse I’m making is called the The Knowledge Curse.
There is this small tought that came to my mind, what if absorption curse having spirit energy was the main factor that made durza develop dead revival magic?
Spirit energy, the energy of creation and life, being mixed with the huge amount of chaos energy could have created something so powerful that could revive anyone and make them a perfect puppet
no, spirit energy is just what the gods used to make experimental curses and spirit energy is how those curses use their powers, it didn’t give him the ability to use spirit energy attacks or anything like that
yea ideally i want everything to be explained ingame but it has to be paced in a good way, don’t want to just dump the entire lores verse onto the player in the first 2 seas
experimental curses are “external curses”, idk where that term came from but I’ve always called them elemental and experimental curses, not internal and external
Yeah they were called external curses on the old AA trellos. Until now I honestly thought the external curses being experiments by the gods was supposed to be secret lore, lol.
I think they were named like that because they were created as experiments by the Gods. Even if they’re dead, the Curses are still defective with their powers, and it feels like youre basically using something that isnt exactly well put together and was just made whenever. I think the name still works.
We only know two, and those might be the only well-functioning ones, we dont know about other Curses, and they might suck in comparison.
The way i see it, due to Durza having to use a different method to drain a Curse from someone compared to a Magic, Curses use a unique form of magic energy thats fundamentally different, but similar.
