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This is the campaign that I'm working on, that is when I can find some spare time to do it.


Features:
- Start your journey on what will (hopefully) be an epic -
adventure in the land of Dothnia.
- Set in an original fantasy setting, with a vast amount of lore.


Notes (Will be updated).



The map:
- Map of Dothnia

The Shadow Shields (lore):
- Lore

Campaign narrative:
- Introduction to Escape from Ocgar Island

Please, when you read the material, bear in mind that english is my second language and creative written is not something I usually do.

Cheers everyone

P.S. I hope you find the easter egg that I hid in one of the two texts.

Looks interesting. I'm liking the lore, seems well thought out with plenty of depth. I'll help you with the English if you wish although it's pretty good already

Will be interesting to see how this develops.

Oh and the map is very cool . I'm going to be making something similar for my campaign.

Oh there is plenty more lore, about 60-80 pages.
It could actually be nice to have someone proofread some of the longer lore entries, that I plan to put out eventually.

I got two more maps, still under construction though, you can see. The first focused on the kingdom of Dothnia where the campaign is to take place. The second is the current world map and the third one is of Thydoria a group of ancient cultures whose land froze over during the Cataclysm about a millenium ago.

- World map
- Thydoria

Again any kind of help, feedback or question are more than welcomed.

Hey bro - really nice! you started with scripting that beast (quests) ? - Also how did you create the worldmap and how will you implement it?

Thanks brah.
No, I haven't started scripting the quest, but since the level is going to be pretty linear, I hope it won't be to cumbersome.
I used a free painting program called Paintbrush for Macs.

I don't intent to implement it to the game, it is rather just a reference point for NPCs in the game.
"Hey my name is ..... and I come from this far of land, whose history is this and that."

Update:
If everything goes as planned the project will enter initial testing phase by this weekend.

Sounds good. Always nice to get some kind of closure . Is this a stand alone or a GM?

Stand alone story. I wouldn't really call it a closure, after this is done I will begin working on the next stage.

Another update: I'm proud to announce that it was possible to enlist the aid of premier mapmaking expert Tiqon, who is now onboard with the project!
Also, everything is coming along nicely and we hope to be open for the general public soon.

:Blush:

Thanks MAHak, but I'm just adding a rock here and there, I'm just splattering paint on the world your building .

Another update.

I've just finished the first succesful editor-playthrough of the mod, with no game breaking issues. Only some minor bugs and stuff, plus some tweaking left now

I've also come up with a new overall name for the mod; "Shadow's Reflection".

The prologue act is called "Escape from Ocgar Island", this is the one close to release. The one after that has the working title "Swords Drawn".

Any ETA on when the prologue and chapter 1 will be available to play?

The prologue within a week I hope, you never know what stunts the editor can pull off.
You will probably have to wait at least a year for the next act, although I'm planning to release a demo teaser within the foreseeable future.

Hey again all, time for a little update, dare I be so classy as to call it a development diary.

I haven't had the editor open in over a month, my gaming preferences can be compared to a pendulum swinging back and forth from RPGs to strategy games, with a little detour towards FPS every now and then, and now it is swinging back to RPGs.

That doesn't mean that there hasn't been made any progress in the last month, Tiqon has been busy making a map that is coming along very nicely and I've writing 16 pages of dialog for the upcoming demo release of the next act.
Better sheath thy weapon and put on your reading glasses, there won't be any (intended) combat in the demo, but rather a lot of dialogs meant to provide a good deal of lore and insight to the setting of the city of Garl, so much that a writer for Pillars of Eternity would be saying "Less yakking, more hacking".

Hopefully I will be done with all the writing at the end of Easter and then I need a couple of evenings to set up the dialogs and some few scripts properly.

Here is a slight story spoiler, revealing something you will found out a minute or two into playing the next act, however if you haven't played the prologue this will be a big spoiler!.

Hey again.
I couldn’t make my self imposed semi-deadline of being done with dialogs by the end of Easter and scripts plus level building by the end of this week.

The main issue here are the dialogs, they take up the larger part of this release and are loaded with lore and NPCs background histories. Furthermore, I have a habit of making ever expanding background stories (hhhhhmmm this guy needs to have a cousin with a story as well and the cousin needs to have a dog with a background story as well).

The good news is that I got my creative drive back, I was kinda burnt out after releasing the prologue act, and I’m making progress everyday now. So hopefully I can be done with this release sooner and not later, as the whole of May ( and April as well) is exam season, which will consume most of my time in that period.

Glad to see you back at this. How long do you think the playtime will be once you finish this next chunk?

Thanks master Wind. It actually mostly depends on how fast people read, as there is no combat in this 'chunk', only a tsunami of lore and character background dialogs, which is supposed to peak the player's interest in the mod and the underlying fantasy world I've created for it.
In the 'chunk' after this, people will be set loose in a city, so the workload for this 'chunk' coincides with my real life time schedule. Meaning that I should have time to finish it, perhaps in a weeks time*, before exam season which ends abruptly at May 31 for me. After this I have a summer** to create the city and its surrounding areas (which is sort of Tiqon's part).


*MAHak is under no circumstances legally obligated to fulfil any content by the deadline. Shadow's Reflection©, owned by MAHak, a subsidiary to MAHak Group, which is a division to MAHak Holding, an asset of the MAHak Worlwide company, is in no way liable to any existenial crisis, time wasting or general nausea cause by the mod.

**By looking at weather data from Denmark this coming summer, one could be able to predict the rate of progress on the mod. The rainier the weather, the further the mod will be developed.

True, we might be ready in June then :D, if we get the same weather as last year! :P.

True dat. I don't recall more than 2 consecutive days of sunshine and the total days of sunshine could probably be counted on 2 hands.

Hallo again everyone, small update here.

Everything is going as planned and I've made good progress in all the three workfields of this next part, world building, story writing and scripting (no less thanks to Laughing Leader who, contrary to his name, has no laughed even once at my noobish scripting questions).
This means that the non-binding planned deadline of 'sometime next week' is still within reach.

Here are some photos of the next part of the adventure.

Garls cityhall



"You call that a dialog node tree? This is a dialog node tree, mate!"

Sorry, we won't be able to make the deadline for today. I should really stop being so optimisttic about time schedules.

I downloaded and played the teaser for Shadow's Reflection a few days ago and now I am really looking forward to the whole campaign. It's really awesome that you have so much background lore.

Thanks SaintJohn. I actually started to create the game's universe some years ago, it was only when I started playing with the first original sin's editor that I thought "why not make a mod based in this universe".

Development update.

At the moment I'm making the level of the city Garl which is the center for the next act. Tiqon is working on a wilderness level, for the same act, as well.

Garl is divided into three parts the Citadel to the east, the old town in the middle and the new town to west. As you can see in the picture below, I've made the terrain and placed the city-walls, but only placed about half the buildings in the old town. If you've played the demo teaser you can see that area in the lower right part of the picture.



Here are some other pictures of the city in its current condition.



The idea is to place all the buildings in the city first and then afterward paint more layers on the terrain and decorate the interior of the houses. However most of the houses won't be accessable (thus won't require any interior decoration) and are only there for immersive reasons.

As mentioned above I started making this mod for the first game's editor, but decided once Original Sin 2 was announced that I'd wait for the second game and it's editor to come out and then just 'port' my work.
Also the unstable nature of the old game's editor, which would suddenly just ruin a week's worth of work seemingly from on load to another, did not make for a mentally healthy work environment .

However I recently found some screenshots of the D:OS 1 version of Garl that you can see if you like .


That's it for now and feel free to comment or ask as you like!

I love the old pictures! Thanks for sharing .

Hmm when you have shown what your working on, I better show a bit of my part. Remember, very much work in progress.

Those screengrabs all look incredible, it's gonna be an epic campaign. I played DOS1, and I knew about the editor, but I didn't try it. I'm glad you saved your ideas for DOS2, I think people are going to be playing it for a while, and they are going want more content.