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I've been able to translate some of an ancient text Erik found
in his recent travels. He now understands some more of what happened
to him a little while ago in Nihon and shudders at the thought
of the magnitude of the plots underway.
The ideas contained within are a work in progress. Contributions
are welcome but please do not be offended if they are not adopted
in their original form. In time each of the gems will appear in at
least one ballard. I'd prefer (but have no way to enforce) that I,
though not neccessarily Eirk, am involved in each story. I have
no wish to claim the lego gem peices for my own, I'm sure there
are many many other magical gems out there, please go on using any
ideas you've had regarding these. I am setting up a major story
arc for my stories in castle world, after all every writer needs
somewhere to go. Having the gems means I can set up corrobrations
e.g. Franklin already has Eltanin due to the Nihon adventure(1))
with myself and one the gems are 'out there' they can be traded
back and forth in the same way as realms, heirs, fortunes, spells,
etc... might be. I'm aiming for them to be a stimulus (not that
anyone really needs more inspiration) to stories told within
castleworld. I've delibratly said that Billund created more gems
than there are currently available colours (I hope!) In order to
stop anyone (so far, you never know..) from claiming all the gems
and hence controlling everybody's lego creations. Anyway, I
apologise for the length of the ramble; on with the translation.
As always, any feedback is appreciated and welcomed.
<Translation/>
From: The Lapidarium
...And so it came to pass that the mighty craftsman Billund did
create gems from the raw material of the universe. Each had
their proper hue and virtue, Twelve they were. Over time they
have been scattered to the far ends of the worlds. All have
gained grand histories and long names, all have been sought,
found, used and lost but never all brought together.
It is prophesied that when all the stones are gathered
together and set in their proper order then the powers shall
be released from the gems endowing the gatherer with a might to
match Billund, to be able create (or destroy) all that has been
built and recorded...
Fragments of the aspects of the stones.
Proper Stone Name Properties
Red Ruby Eltanin, Rastaban Prowess in Battle
Antares (The Dragon's heart)
Light Blue Topaz Aquilla Opus, Alshain Vision (of other places/times)
Clear Diamond
Dark Green Emerald
Orange
Anti-freeze
Yellow Citrine
Purple
Dark Blue Sapphire
Pink
</Translation>
Note:The kinds of stones don't have to be real, fantasic
names may do just as well.
James (who has too many ideas and not enough lego...)
(1)The Nihon adventure will be released soon I promise,
I've got holidays coming up, I'll do it then!
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In lugnet.castle.org.cw, James Howse writes:
> ...And so it came to pass that the mighty craftsman Billund did
> create gems from the raw material of the universe. Each had
> their proper hue and virtue, Twelve they were. Over time they
> have been scattered to the far ends of the worlds. All have
> gained grand histories and long names, all have been sought,
> found, used and lost but never all brought together.
> It is prophesied that when all the stones are gathered
> together and set in their proper order then the powers shall
> be released from the gems endowing the gatherer with a might to
> match Billund, to be able create (or destroy) all that has been
> built and recorded...
Wow. This is kinda bizarre, because it's very similar to a storyline that
I myself was going to do before Castle World got started. (I've more or
less set that one aside to bring a tighter focus onto the Sain/Batu
storyline).
The plot involved a great magitechnical "engine" that was concentrating
the world's magic into crystalline form. It was designed and operated
centuries ago by a now (nearly) extinct pre-human race...however, the
power struggles over the resulting gems destroyed their continent and sank
it below the oceans. The engine never ran long enough to drain all of the
magic from the world, but it sucked enough that the people who posessed
the gems were powerful wizards, and very few other people could use magic
at all.
When CW started, I decided that the plot I had planned would be too
difficult to coordinate, and of course, I didn't want to try to force
other CW members to agree with the way magic needed to work for this
story. So that plot got set aside.
Parts of it did get recycled, though. Originally, one of the last
surviving members of this ancient race was going to be Sain's companion,
but the character evolved and changed into Batu somewhen before I did my
first storyline. The idea of the sunken continent and the nearly-extinct
ancient race is still around (as Arjan and I could tell you). Some of the
other ideas might be showing up later (in altered form) as well.
J
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Wow, James, that sounds intriguing...
I'd love to hear more. In fact, I just made up some more.
I have a feeling that one of my magicians (not in the present; at least
seventy years back) had gained his amazing power (either directly or
indirectly) from the six gems that were in his possession. When he realized he
was growing old, he knew he must not leave the gems unattended lest they fall
in the wrong hands; so he took under his care 5 young apprentices, and trained
them well. On his deathbed, he divided the gems among them. The last and most
powerful gem - the true secret of his powers - he took with him to the grave.
The magicians became later known as the Big Five.
(I hope you don't mind, I just reevaluated my Big5 history (all in my mind
till now) and saw how much the gems fit in... so this is a renedition.
Whaddaya think?)
-Shiri
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In lugnet.castle.org.cw, Shiri Dori writes:
----8< snip snip
> The magicians became later known as the Big Five.
>
> (I hope you don't mind, I just reevaluated my Big5 history (all in my mind
> till now) and saw how much the gems fit in... so this is a renedition.
> Whaddaya think?)
I think it sounds like a fine springboard for a series of stories. One of the
apprentices could find his master's tomb (which they all thought was
impenetrable) has been disturbed and the 6th gem has been stolen. Extrapolate
from there into a big mystery, the apprentices all accusing each other of the
deed, and so on.
There is only one other thing, the idea reminds me of the chain of sporting
good stores that we have here on the west coast named Big 5. I guess it keeps
making me want to think that one of the apprentices is an expert in camping,
one in bicycling, one in tennis, etc...
(grin, duck, run, jump, parry, thrust, =])
Tony
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In lugnet.castle.org.cw, Tony A. Rowe writes:
> In lugnet.castle.org.cw, Shiri Dori writes:
> ----8< snip snip
> > The magicians became later known as the Big Five.
> >
> > (I hope you don't mind, I just reevaluated my Big5 history (all in my mind
> > till now) and saw how much the gems fit in... so this is a renedition.
> > Whaddaya think?)
>
> I think it sounds like a fine springboard for a series of stories. One of the
> apprentices could find his master's tomb (which they all thought was
> impenetrable) has been disturbed and the 6th gem has been stolen. Extrapolate
> from there into a big mystery, the apprentices all accusing each other of the
> deed, and so on.
Ho wow. I didn't even think of such a thing.
In my "at the present" CW story, the apprentices have been magicians for a
long time (no, I won't tell you who they are! But you can guess a few,
maybe...) and altho' their stories are unknown, the results are pretty clear
(because you know who's alive now, who's not, who is in exile, etc :), at
least to the minifigs... of course I won't tell CW the story OR the results
until the right time comes! Mwahaha!
> There is only one other thing, the idea reminds me of the chain of sporting
> good stores that we have here on the west coast named Big 5. I guess it keeps
> making me want to think that one of the apprentices is an expert in camping,
> one in bicycling, one in tennis, etc...
>
> (grin, duck, run, jump, parry, thrust, =])
Well, my bicycle apprentice made me a bike; you can run, but I can ride faster!
;-)
-Shiri
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