No this is not a clan ad, this is an idea for a faction in the game which draws from one of my favorite tropes in fiction. I’ve noticed that every faction in the game struggles over the power of the sea curses, obsessed with their magic power. But then I stopped to think… what if rather than obsess over sea curses, or at least rather have it be their main priority, a faction focused on a different kind of power? One of my favorite tropes in fiction is magic vs technology, which I thought would be a cool concept to highlight in arcane odyssey. I thought of a faction called “The Mecha Vanguard” (name possible to change of course). The Mecha Vanguard are a faction that rely on technological advances, obviously with the assistance of magic (mainly plasma, metal and lightning magic). They create high tech artisan and arcanium weapons and create powerful iron ships. Imagine a questline later in the game where you upgrade your ship using Vanguardian technology, like the ironclad from Deepwoken. What do you guys think?
Sounds interesting at the very least. I dunno how well advanced magi-tech would fit in the setting, but even having a faction that’s figured out basic coal-powered steam engines would be a cool concept.
Honestly, a sea curse powering a proto-armored core would be sick.
I have this character in the works (I’ll probably draw him when I learn to actually draw well) who’s a warrior who has an ironman-like armor suit as an artisan weapon, downside is that it’s powered by atlantean stuff so the more he uses it the more insane he slowly becomes
That’s sick, probably the best character I’ve seen come out of AO (except Elius). How does the atlantean stuff power it? Does it use the extremely high amount of magic energy that’s corrupted them, or is there a different way it manages to power the armor?
He has three artisan weapons
Licht, a sword of light which is basically a giant arc welder
Blitzregen, dual guns which are inspired by Ebony and Ivory from dmc
and Sternjeager, the suit powered by an unholy amount of atlantean essence. Just like how a single atlantean essence can increase the stats of armors, with the amount that Zack puts into the sternjeager it’s incredibly powerful, at the cost of making him insane so he uses it very scarcely
This has actually just inspired a character of my own-
Awesome to hear
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The profile i made for this inspiration is at lvl 120 rn, then I’ll get a story set up for em in a bit (After i finish a story with my knight file, which will prob be soon)
Though note: the character/profile made from inspiration will be a lil less advanced
Finally got a part for that out-
link?
This pretty much just shows how the character has built it
Actual combat will come out later (working on a diff story atm then I’ll continue with this)