Obviously this wouldn’t be real due to Vetex being firm on suggestions that have to do with the storyline but since the Nimbus Sea won’t be out for awhile I thought I may as well spark some interest. I’ve started off so far with Wotan and his two sons, Vidan and Heimdan (Their names are Odin’s son’s Vidar and Heimdall, if you didn’t know Wotan is actually named after Odin). The one son Heimdan I’m giving him twins that are one boy and one girl. The twist I’m making though is that Wotan isn’t really the big bad, but his sons. In my storyline I want to make Wotan seem like the big bad for the entire story making false hints of him being in the Order of Aesir, but in reality it’s his two sons. I’m not really that crazy about writing stories, but I do think it’s cool when in movies where you think one thing is going to happen but the complete opposite happens.
If you like this small snippet or have some ideas feel free to add your ideas. I don’t really mind if this flops because I’ll still write it up and see if my predictions were right or not. Thanks and I hope to see if anyone comments, (or the post gets taken down )
Here’s something I just got started on for Wotan if you want to give your opinion on it.
Wotan the Conqueror : In most eyes he’s supposed to be the big bad villain of the story but I want him to instead be a puppet for his two sons. In my storyline he’s taken advantage of by his age and his sons clearly take the full 100% of that. In his younger days it could be said that he was feared by all and that’s how he got the title of Conqueror. Most people think that he is strong and I would like that to be instilled into the players head at the start just to realize later that it’s mainly his sons that are strong. Only a few people really know that Wotan isn’t the man he used to be due to his age or a disease he picked up from the dark sea (writing this off because of General Argos, dude was like 70 and strong but we won’t talk about that…). Warren is one of those few people due to him stating that he could fly over and beat Wotan, but doesn’t want to because that would endanger his kingdom. So basically you wouldn’t know until towards the end of the part of the story that Wotan is realistically weak and you
The idea of him getting a disease from the dark is kinda tacky I admit it, but I don’t really know what can put him down. Mainly because of Argos since as I said in the description Argos is mad old yet he still pack’s a good punch.
I like everything BUT the sickness. Instead, I’d like for Wotan to actually still be pretty strong, but he overtrained his sons due to him wanting them to be like him. His sons had extreme potential, but they used it against Wotan and held their strength over his head.
Or:
His sons are very powerful, and together they could nearly beat Wotan at 70% strength, but instead of aspiring to work hard to catch up to their father, they poisoned him with concentrated Dark Sea water. Wotan had the willpower to overcome the insanity, but he became unable to use Energy and he was still weakened even more than before. Accurately he’s probably strong enough to hold his own against someone like Lord Elius, but would run out of stamina and lose near the end of the fight.
Maybe it would be more stereotypical, but a Dark Sea illness doesn’t make sense.
I definitely like the idea of them poisoning the father. It’s an unpopular opinion but I don’t think every single king should be the final boss at the end of each sea or story. Also some people may not like this idea as well but I don’t think the Order of Aesir should be every single boss as well. I think a good way to go is that yes the Order of Aesir is evil, but people that are evil don’t have to be in the Order to be evil if you know what I mean.
Definitely like that idea. I actually planned on the brother’s having different mothers as well because I wanted Wotan to be similar to Endeavor when he was younger. How he tried to find someone to create the strongest child. So maybe he tried to find a lady that had a type of strong blood or innate magic power to have kids with.
Woah. That actually sounds like a good idea. I’ve honestly been going on off the stereotype that Wotan would be the big bad of the Nimbus Sea, but your fan story could be plausible, since Wotan is intentionally made out to be the main villain, but one or more of his sons could be the true villains, if not High Lords/Barons of the Order.
That’s even better! Wotan’s strength and vigor being irreversibly damaged to the point where he’s only a slightly above the level of a young nobleman with weapons and Lightning Magic, but inevitable, he’ll just end up like another Argos; Slow and old, but unlike Argos, his strength was artificially reduced by his own flesh and blood.
There could also be a big brain move on the brothers where they try to bait Wotan and the MC party with trying to find a cure for the poison in Wotan’s blood, but leading them to a trap where they have to try and find a way out or fight a Norse monster to escape.
Ngl, I thought you were gonna make it that Wotan’s sons would be bastard children because Wotan had many affairs or multiple wives as a result of polygamy (even though Roblox doesn’t like they’d be okay with adultery nor polygamy in a kids’ platform). Though I think that sounds worse because if the mother didn’t produce good enough children, she’d be tossed aside and replaced by a stronger woman.
Actually this idea just popped up into me, but imagine if Wotan had a sea curse and that was the reason why they were poisoning him. You could say he had the lightning sea curse and the sons were plotting to slowly poison him and use a curse bane to take the curse for themselves because they want to rule this. For example there could be two boss fights. Vidan where he only really uses a fighting style (maybe impact or radius fist.) and he doesn’t have a magic. Then the 2nd fight would be him using the lightning curse and his fighting style.
The 2nd son Heimdan’s children are meant to actually be mistakes. Well technically 1/2 of a mistake. I specifically chose for there to be one girl and one boy because I had the idea of the boy trying to continue in his father’s footsteps being a strong viking and the girl being discarded as a housewife or a maid because she was “a mistake and should’ve been a boy”. I don’t want to make the son weak like Prince Revon (the dude who had 400 health at the end of ravenna) but a redeemable character. He views his father as a great viking who conquers all and is always in the right, but in reality he’s a terrible person. So at the end I want the son to join the main characters group as a journey to redeem himself. His sister will stay under guard by the loyal vikings of Wodan. (I actually want to make that his character arc.)
I’d say that a plotline where you think wotan and his brothers did some stuff like kill their parents except they actually didn’t do anything bad and are instead really good people would be more funny interesting
Wotan being like the long haired “king” in AoT or God Emperor from 40k sounds cool, both being status symbols that are mainly exploited by a group of people for their own benefit.
I feel as though Wotan shouldn’t be a vastus but like you said has vastus sons (Odin isn’t a giant but he married giants and had giant children). Wotan should also just be failing through old age, he shouldn’t be extremely weak like Lord Elius, he should more so be Calvus level where he is a threat to most people but not the the main group. His sons would obviously be stronger, but due to Wotan’s lack of battle appearances and former reputation people believe him to be stronger than his sons currently.
I was gonna say something else but it left me because I was thinking about Mortars
This sounds like such a fun idea! Are you going to use a theoretical map of the Nimbus Sea for your story? Which kingdoms are even in the Nimbus Sea? I think I remember Sameria and Keraxe being some, but I can’t remember if there’s any others.
This whole Nimbus Sea storyline I want to be about betrayal and lies. When you first go into the story I actually think it’s best to introduce Vidan and Heimdan in a way as allies, convincing you that their father is truly evil and they want to work together with you to kill him. You do some busy work for them beating bandits and helping out people to gain trust just to wind up meeting Wotan. At first you would probably be scared thinking you’re about to get into a boss fight, but you wind up meeting a sickened veteran. You learn more about his past and realize he isn’t that bad of a guy. He realizes that you’re a “viking” or a “warrior” (he calls you a viking since he admits they’re way cooler than some knights in silly armor. Mocking King Calvus). He then bids you a farewell and to continue the good work. With this knowledge realizing that he isn’t even really that bad of a guy you go to Heimdan in a secret hideout that him and his brother had since they were children. After pressing him for awhile he admits the truth and spills that Vidan was the whole mastermind of this plan. You try to leave to tell this information to the others but Heimdan shoots a wooden pillar causing the exit to be blocked off. A fight between you and him ensues, once you beat him he shoots the top causing the entire hideout to fall to pieces and you have a timer to find a way to escape or you’ll be crushed. Once you regroup with Morden and Iris, planning on what to do next. You obviously raid the kingdom to try to stop what Heimdan is about to do and the vikings that are guarding it aren’t happy and swarm you three. Morden and Iris hold them all off (there are about 50 of them at least.) and you confront Heimdan. Go down for further info.
I plan for there to be two boss fights with Vidan. If the radius or impact fist style is implemented into the game I would probably suggest using one of those since it’s a more destructive fighting style, but Vidan has no magic power as of yet. Why I say as of yet is because after he loses he runs away and you have to follow him. You wind up in Wotan’s room where he is resting in his bed and he is dead while Vidan is glowing a light blue color. The next thing you know you’re blinded and knocked outside. You can consider this his second phase of some sort and if you had trouble with him before, well enjoy trying to beat him now with a stronger form of lightning magic.
Here was my crazy ass idea for the final boss fight of the story. This goes to everyone obviously, but please give me your opinions on this.
I’m probably going to use the theoretical one that was shown somewhere in the forums, but as of right now I’m only focusing on the information given so far and shaping it. Most of this is going to be used for probably the Middle-End of the Nimbus Sea storyline. As of right there that is actually the first rough draft for the finale of it all. When the final storyline gets published I’ll go more into depth with Heimdan’s son and daughter, but I wanted to make his son be the redemption of the family. Since like I said at the top I wanted this story about to be about betrayal and lies, I want to be the son’s future character arc to be about redeeming himself. His sister will act as the current head of Keraxe and will try to form an alliance again with Sameira, maybe even Azura if Warren appears at the end.
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