Soulstorm Legacy
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[edit] Story
Soulstorm Legacy's storyline has changed significantly as the project developed, although it's core has always revolved around underdog hero Choler Bygonne's quest to stop Anchein from achieving apotheosis by wiping out humanity and absorbing the magic energy contained in their souls with the Soulstorm Shards.
[edit] Project History
[edit] Versions
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1.0 |
Version 1.0 was the first version of Soulstorm Legacy ever created. The project began while Abyssal was first learning how to use the console version of RPG Maker. It had only the most preliminary narrative for a storyline. The story followed the adventures of likable underdog and aspiring knight Choler Bygone as he undergoes his trial for entry into the knights who guard his hometown, Vistatus. When he returns from his mission, he finds that a crazed lunatic with god-like powers has burned Vistatus to the ground. The arsonist introduces himself as Storma and has apparently killed everyone in the village. He reveals that he intends to do similarly to the entire kingdom of Bathall, before teleporting away. Choler and his allies vow to avenge Vistatus and stop Storma from laying waste to Bathall before setting out on a journey to the capital to warn the king about Storma's plans. Development on this version was canceled due to the accumulation of graphics errors that interfered with gameplay. | |
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2.0 |
Version 2.0 was started as a corrective revamp of numerous graphics errors made in created the various "dungeons." The storyline became longer, but was still simple. | |
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3.0 |
Version 3.0 was a short-lived generation that never got any bigger than a few maps. It represented the game's transition to the PC with my discovery of the RPG Maker 2000 platform. I though the move was a clear choice because I knew that if I ever finished the project it would be much easier to distribute through the internet than a console game would be. I also had reason to believe that RPG Maker 2000 had more technicale capabilities than its console counterpart. | |
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4.0 |
Using RM2K | |
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5.0 |
Quest for good graphics | |
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6.0 |
RPG Maker 2k3 | |
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7.0 |
college | |
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8.0 |
final |
[edit] Cancellation
Soulstorm Legacy
A depressive young man leads a small group of allies in a desperate bid to defeat the leader of a shadowy cabal that is hell-bent on opening magic portals in order to restart an apocalyptic interdimensional war.
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Choler Baigonne is weak, cowardly and miserable. The only thing keeping him sane is his life's dream of leaving his hometown and becoming a knight. Despite his weaknesses, when his hometown is invaded Choler somehow manages to find a new inner strength... at least temporarily. He spontaneously learned the great magic spell Hadespyros in battle and became a small-town hero. This ability catches the attenion of some very influential people, and Choler is given a duty of immense importance, thus giving him a shot at his dream. However, will he be able to recollect and control a skill he learned spontaneously? And will this power be enough to save him from the shadowy figure that haunts his nightmares? 1
Choler Baigonne is a weakling and a coward. Everyone in the village of Vistatus looks down upon him. Until an unprovoked invasion forces him to find a new power within himself. Where did this power come from? Why did the Giraunian forces attack? Who is the Broken Man who haunts Choler’s nightmares? What are the strange beings that are intent on killing Choler? In the beginning there are only questions. Answers will be found, but at what cost?
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The Atelds are loyal to each other and the crown, right? Why then will they have to fight over who continues onward to assassinate Zadok? Who is Theron and what is his connection to Mezdarch? Will the mission succeed?
[edit] Soundings
See main article Events of Soulstorm Legacy
[edit] Ambition and Grief
1. Choler contemplates suicide 1 2. Choler cuts his own wrist 3. Choler has a vision and decides to live 4. Choler searches for Lution Root 5. Choler fights and is defeated by Nisroc 6. Intro 3 7. Choler has a conversation with Wayland. 6 7 8. Choler goes to smithy. 9. Choler has a flashback of Michael telling him to make a sword. 10. Choler explains blacksmithing system. 11. Choler has conversation with Lori. 11 12 12. Choler has conversation with Varsden. 4 15 16 13. Choler looks for Lori. 14. Choler has conversation with Chamuel. 15. Choler goes to beach path. 16. Choler gets beat up by Zreig. 13 17. Choler returns home. 18. Choler has a strange dream. 19. Anchein makes armor and sword. 20. Vistatus attacked by Giraunians 14 21. Choler Learns Hellfire. 22. Choler faints 23. Regroup. 24. Choler and Lori sit at beach. 25. Choler Lori and Rolun Talk. 26. Rolun scene 9 10 27. Choler scene 28. Experienced fighters leave for Dellaset 5 29. Choler, Lori Rolun argue. 30. Go south into forest. 31. Navigate forest. 32. Runaway from Rolun 33. Gytrash battle 34. Meet Ramic 35. Bossfights. 36. Forest night scene with Ramic. 37. More forest stuff. 38. Arrive at Dellaset. 39. Stealth. 40. Taken prisonor. 41. Climb up through ceiling. 42. Attempt to let loose prisoners. 43. Prisoners try to free town. 44. Choler, Lori and Varsden go to ruins. 45. 46. Return to Vistatus 47. Choler fights with his dad and Lori 2 8 48. Choler Leaves Vistatus with Varsden 49. C+V help travelers to Etrafield 50. Bossfight. 51. Arrive at Behthall city 52. Choler is given position in Atelds because of Hellfire ability 53. Varsden sent on secret mission 54. Choler goes north to fort Dokand for assignment 55. Meena, Lekkan and Faolan introduced 56. Atelds go to Margann city 57. Board the SS Manticore to cross to Giraun 58. Barfight 59. Get caught by guards, flee city 60. Go northward 61. Boss Fight. 62. Meet Theron 63. Meena gets supplies 64. Cave in the Northern divide 65. Attacked by Phul 66. Boss Fight. 67. Teleported to Honshuko
[edit] Allegience
1. Separate from Lekkan and Faolan 2. Meet Miyuki at a bar 3. Agree to help her with her town gang problem or what not. 4. Travel South 5. Help her with problem 6. Go to Tresovia 7. Boss fight. 8. Miyuki leaves 9. Meena and Choler go spend the night in a prison. 10. Choler is all freaked out and has memories of the place. 11. Choler leaves in the middle of the night 12. Meena must go find him 13. Finds Choler in Ramic’s hometown 14. Choler acts like he doesn’t know her for a bit, but in mid-conversation regains his memory,, but forgets that he ran away. 15. The two go to a port city. 16. Sail to Giraun 17. Meet Roe 18. Joined up by Theron, who wants to find his father at the capital city. 19. At capital city, C+M and T+R form two separate parties 20. C+M try to find a way to break into the castle 21. T+R try to find out about Mezdarch 22. T+R learn he’s in the castle and want to break in 23. Catch C+M trying to do the same thing 24. Group up and have to swim into the sewers to access dungeon 25. Need Theron to be able to transform into a water monster to do this 26. Group breaks into Castle 27. Go through Dungeons 28. Get caught 29. Fight Mezdarch 30. Theron has to kill his own father 31. Theron gets soul of the beast 32. Group flees to a port city 33. Sail back to Behthall 34. Theron and Roe become citizens of Behthall and sign up for military 35. Cutscene of Josiah’s vision of Vistatus, and Varsden returning 36. Meanwhile Choler goes back to Vistatus 37. Finds Lori dying, Varsden dead, and it occupied with troops
[edit] Those Who Live by the Sword
1. Choler taps into Anchein’s power and kills the belials 2. Anchein wants to kill Choler but can’t 3. Choler goes back to Behthall city 4. Choler is assigned to go rescue Immer and Josiah 5. Choler busts into the thieves fort in Tarnel and rescues Immer, Josiah and Benjamin 6. Choler returns to Behthall city 7. Choler, Immer and Josiah meet Eliana 8. Eliana joins the military 9. Battle the Giraunians 10. Eventual retreat of Behthallis 11. Choler, and Eliana go to ask Tresovia for reinforcements 12. They meet up with Ramic along the way 13. Meena, Theron and Roe go to look to Honshuko to get reinforcements 14. There they get help from Miyuki 15. Choler and Eliana learn from Ramic about the Indres goup 16. Ramic can’t visit their hq 17. The group gets help, but learns they are hunting Ramic 18. Maybe some conflict with Indres, I dunno 19. Another battle in Behthall involving Immer, Josiah, and Benjamin 20. Groups return to Behthall 21. Giraunians driven northward 22. Mebbe some partying (great chance for character development) 23. Afterwards get attacked by elementals 24. Josiah says that maybe The leader of his guild would know something 25. Take leave and go to the mage’s guild 26. The guildmaster tells a little of the history of the world 27. Telepathic dialogue between Josiah and Guildmaster 28. Josiah realizes Guild Master isn’t quite what he seems to be 29. Guildmaster says he wants to show them something further 30. Takes them to temple thing 31. A demon resides there, and it attacks the party
[edit] Locus of Control
When the demon is defeated, Zedekiah absorbs its soul. The party then fights Zedekiah who is defeated, but still living. After the fight is over, other members of the Black Dragon Clan scramble to protect their master. Most of the clan is killed, but eventually the party is repelled.
Afterwards is the final battle against the Giraunians, who are defeated. When the war is finished, Josiah is discovered to be missing, and the group returns to the headquarters of the Black Dragon Clan, to learn that Josiah is probably heading to the Spire of Gehenna. The party pursues him northward, with the others sneaking up from behind.
After traveling northward for a long while the group arrives at Beithall's border with lands owned by a minor feudal lord named Varidus. The guard at the checkpoint refuses to allow them entry. The group is granted access on the condition that they help Varidus kill some monsters that have been terrorizing the villages. They agree, but find that it would take at least two parties just to reach the monsters' lair.
Fortunately, Theron and the others have arrived and can give assistence. This leaves Choler and the others free to continue the hunt for Josiah. They travel over cold desolae terrain before reaching a ghost-town/graveyard. They then make it to the Spire and climb to the top.
There they find Josiah attempting to open the Gateway to Sheol and release the souls of the deceased. He hopes that doing this will stop people from dying. Really what's happening is that Anchein is manipulating him into giving him all the souls of the dead for power. Choler begs Josiah to quit. Josiah refuses. Choler is forced to kill Josiah. Immer, Josiah's best friend is furious at Choler, and attacks him. Choler counters in self defense and Immer is knocked from the tower.
Despite failing to open Sheol, Josiah has managed to create Gateways that keep appearing in an out of control chain reaction. Choler, Eliana and Ramic are sucked into one, Anchein is sucked into another.
[edit] Crystal Coccoon
After getting sucked into a Gateway, Choler, Eliana and Ramic find themselves deep in an underground cavern. After finding their way out they discuss recent events. They are overheard by an Indres mercenary, who recognizes the name Choler as being the man who killed Zadok. The mercenary gathers some allies and the group is pursued into Tarnel, where they find Varidus attempting to instigate a revolution.
Meanwhile, Anchein finds Kynar sealed in the crystal coccoon he put around himself in Soulstorm Ages. Anchein awakens Kynar, who is charged with finding the remaining Soulstorm Shards. Kynar does a little research about what has happened in the past few thousand years and decides that there are probably shards in Giraun. Kynar then crosses Beithall and into Tayle to reach Giraun.
Meanwhile, Choler, Eliana and Ramic return to Beithall City, where the first two of them get married.
[edit] The Unleashing
The Unleashing, the sixth sounding of Soulstorm Legacy chronicles the beginning of the Second Realm War. The story starts as Immer, who has just returned to Beithall City, recounts the events surrounding his survival of the event at the Spire of Gehenna to Choler and the others. He explains that Miyuki had fled the Spire when Josiah was killed and Immer knocked out of the tower. She finds Immer dying at the base of the tower, but manages to save him with magic. Unsure of what to do, they both return to Beithall City, where Josiah gives them a vision in order to help prepare them in case Anchein gets the upper hand. He says that there are two last resort Keys that will open the Gateway to Salem and that they could receive help from the Salemites. Immer and Miyuki then sought the artifacts, but Miyuki was killed in the temple by demons. Now that Immer is back, the group decides to seek the Urim and Thummim together.
Meanwhile, Theron and Roe have arrived at Giraun and witness the devastation left by Kynar's army as he moved northward towards the capital. Theron's family is dead, as is Roe's. Their relationship becomes even stronger as they move northward. When they finally arrive at the capital, they lead a guerilla insurgency against the occupying forces. They succeed in driving out Kynar, but King Ahitub has been killed. The people of Giraun pronounce Theron and Roe to be their King and Queen.
[edit] Oblivion's Game
Prince Benjamin has just been killed by Kynar, who is quickly approaching the group stationed at the Gateway to Salem. When Kynar arrives they are forced to fight him. He is defeated and retreats to inform Anchein. The failure of Kynar to prevent the heroes from reaching the Gateway to Salem enrages Anchein and finally gives him an excuse to kill Kynar, regardless of Upelo's wishes.
However, the heroes are still in a predicament, because the troops led by Kynar are still approaching with the intent to kill them. The heroes finally put their plan into action, hoping to recruit help from Salem, they open the Gateway with the Urim and Thummim and finally get the reinforcements they need. However on such short notice the Salemites are able to provide only a small number of soldiers.
Eliana, Immer, Meena and their reinforcements manage to hold off the opposition for a while, but when the troops Anchein had recruited from Belial arrive along with their Daevas, it becomes obvious that they are facing an uphill battle. When things begin to look bleak Theron and Roe arrive along with a sizable army from Giraun.
The new reinforcements are enough to turn the tide of the battle, and the Belials are defeated. In the wake of the defeat, Eliana, Immer, Meena, Theron and Roe are free to follow Choler, who had left previously in pursuit of Anchein. When they arrive at the Gateway to Belial they enter the Gateway and find themselves in a void.
[edit] Former Titles
[edit] 1
- Ambition
[edit] 2
- Betrayal
- Loyalties Won and Lost
- Allegiance
[edit] 3
- Revelations
- Those Who Live by the Sword
[edit] 4
- Manipulated
- Locus of Control
[edit] 5
- Bad Omen
- Anchein and the Sleeper
- Scattering
- Crystal Coccoon
[edit] 6
- Desolation
- The Unleashing
[edit] 7
- Apocalypse
- Oblivion's Game
