What Lore Would You Make For Sky Islands?

Skylaar · Dec 16, 2020

The area was chill
Big meteor hits
Big boom
Sky Islands are created

Greedus · Dec 16, 2020

TrapinchO said: ↑

Quest "UnderAir" that give Breathing Helmet III
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I'm still waiting for a corkus quest 'Understeam' to come out

TigerYaisou · Dec 16, 2020

Skylaar said: ↑

The area was chill
Big meteor hits
Big boom
Sky Islands are created
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is this how mage was in 2014? thank god that got nerfed

GreenTheMeme · Dec 16, 2020

Supposedly the Cataclsym that broke the Sky Islands was caused by the weapon cataclsym. In cataclysm's lore it states: "Despite the existence of the Nether Portal, few believe that it is possible to open such rifts with sheer force alone."
In a previous iteration of Cataclysm's lore it also stated that it fell on Sky Islands and broke it.

What I really wanna see expanded upon is the fact that there are angels on the sky islands. There are no angels anywhere else, and this is confusing. What are the angels there for? Is there a divine realm, like a pantheon? Are they real angels or just creatures that look like angels?

Also why is there such a high concentration of divine beings in the Sky Islands? Dragons, weird fae creatures, more dragons, beasts that embody the elements, etc. I know it's just because endgame should have cool mobs, but there should be a lore reason too.

shtnck eyh ckhhe · Dec 16, 2020

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The Sky Islands ruptured a thousand years ago, yeah, but we still don't know why.

We know that it was a cataclysmic event, and that it had something to do with the "villagers' desire for wealth." Probably something to do with the Decay, then, especially as the timeframe matches up. Weird that it happened in the far east, though. Interesting weird.

We know that the void is really, really freaky. It's apparently the buffer zone between the physical realm and the capital-r Realms that exist through the game, and has its own properties, which warp denizens long-term. The Shattering was apparently strong enough to tear open the physical realm badly esunough to access the void, a wanton disregard for the fabric of reality only equaled in the direct presence of the Dark Beast and its influence. This speaks to The Shattering being full stop the greatest cataclysm ever to befall anywhere in Wynncraft's physical realm, with the only other cataclysm that compares being the genocide of the Olm and creation of the Silent Expanse. Even then, the expanse is implied to have warped gradually, unlike the Shattering's "all at once" deal.

Gavel, throughout its second half, makes fast and loose reference to all manner of divinities. From From the Bottom to mythic lores to all the madness of the molten heights, Gods & Demons and their ilk have had a massive impact on the history of Eastern Gavel. We know that they were mortal, since Garaheth died, but nearly every other major entity mentioned in lore is MIA by the time Wynncraft's story comes about.

Add in the "Fallen Protectors" teaser, which may or may not have any bearing on all of this, and it almost paints a vague picture of what might have gone down 1000 years ago.

Almost.

If I was on lore team, I would add a secret discovery in the void near a fallen villager's remains, remains that when a sufficiently spiritual condition were fulfilled would rasp out a warning:

"Human."

"It watches you, even now."

"It approves of what it sees."

"Just as it approved of us."

[Discovery Found]
A Tool, Deftly Wielded
One thousand years ago, the greed of the Villagers was enough to shatter the Ahms region, as well as unleash a curse onto the Realm of Light. To this day, greed remains a fundamental bedrock of Villager society.

The discovery would answer some questions, but it would more importantly tie in the region's tragedies to the greater conflict that looms over the game, as well as tie in to the Silent Expanse that the player is to soon visit. It also hypes up the Dark Beast even more than its already hyped up, and heavily implicates it in the conflict surrounding Gavel.

A discovery about the villagers' greed slowly ramping up starting maybe ~2000 years ago and leading to a slow death of their gods would also be absolutely blessed, but that doesn't seem like Sky Islands-specific lore.
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Gods and demons. Apocalypse is nearly synonymous with "cataclysm". Apoc is said to be forged from the tooth of a Fallen One. One of the dwarves in From the Bottom seeks to reclaim relics of the Fallen Ones. They are located in the Bazaar. In a bazaar, you seek profit. Profit leads to Greed. Perhaps it isn't just the greed of the Villagers?

the drink · Dec 17, 2020

GreenTheMeme said: ↑

Also why is there such a high concentration of divine beings in the Sky Islands? Dragons, weird fae creatures, more dragons, beasts that embody the elements, etc. I know it's just because endgame should have cool mobs, but there should be a lore reason too
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the reason is that we made the mistake of letting darknessfalls ever touch a mob file and he didn’t care about lore at all

Furry · Dec 18, 2020

I want a lore thin where Ahmsord falls into the void and doesn’t exist anymore. Ahmsord is too sky island capitalish

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