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The world maps are temporary, and will be replaced by proper art in the full book. We'd have liked to have the full maps ready at this point, but it was just not possible.

More greens on Friday

~ Age of Creation ~
Before the world existed, the six gods had created their own worlds, around stars far from Terra. Numina, the goddess of Light, made worlds of truth and peace, with civilizations enduring for aeons. Salamandros, the god of fire, made worlds of high adventure, heroes and villains creating legends for the ages. Undinite, the goddess of water, made worlds in constant flux, where everything flowed and changed. Titanark, the god of earth, made worlds of static order, beautiful to behold, but timeless and unchanging. Sylphane, the goddess of air, made worlds of arcane energy, wizards weaving the aether into spells of incredible power. Wiggoth, the god of darkness, made worlds of chaos and war, with monsters and armies fighting endlessly.

Tired of endless iterations of similar worlds, the gods came together to create a shared world. They discussed the universal laws of the world for centuries, eventually deciding to each state a rule of this new world. As they stated their laws, each attempted to trump the others, creating a law to enforce their influence.

Numina’s Law – All things have a capacity for good.
Salamandros’ Law – All things have a capacity for greatness.
Undinite’s Law – All things change.
Titanark’s Law – All things have substance.
Sylphane’s Law – All things have a connection to aether.
Wiggoth’s Law – All things end.

Each of their laws was given substance, as per Titanark’s Law, and so in addition to the world of Terra, the six gods created six moons, each a representation of the god and their law. Before they ended their influence on the world, the Gods created two species in an attempt to create guardians in their image: the Beastmen and the Trolls.

Each god wanted a servant on the world, to embody their ideals, but as with their laws, they could not come to an agreement. The Beastmen were gestalt creatures, put together from a dozen ideas, and were given a dozen ideals. This conflict of interest led to their free will, and unlike the Trolls, the Beastmen heeded no gods. Instead they sought out to test the ideals of the gods in others. The Beastmen became the first dungeon builders, creating the ancient places where heroes were tested before their great quests, to prove their worth and ability.

The Trolls were the gods' second, and last, attempt to create life with their essence. The Trolls were blank slates, with little identity or feature, but Sylphane’s law connected the Trolls to aether, the stuff of magic and the elements. So, each Troll became attuned to an element, taking on features, abilities, and ideals of their god.

Fire Trolls became wreathed in fire and fought alongside the earliest heroes, slinging fire spells at the wicked creatures of the void that crawled across Terra in its earliest days. The Humans were their creation.

Water Trolls fractured into many smaller tribes, the Deep Trolls creating majestic cities below the waves, the Ice Trolls migrating to the mountainous lands of Iksor and mastering the creatures of that land, and the Storm Trolls, traveling the world and bringing rain from the sky to create nature. The Water Trolls have created many creatures, and altered others.

Air Trolls became lithe creatures, subsisting on magic instead of the mundane. They were the first to share their skill in magic with the other creatures of Terra. To many, they are still known as the children of mana. The Elves were their creation.

Earth Trolls became large, hump-backed creatures, moving stone and metal to create mountains, canyons, and caves. When their world sculpting tasks were complete, they joined the Beastmen and became dungeon builders. The Dwarves were their creation.

No “Holy Trolls” or “Dark Trolls” came into existence in the Age of Creation. Numina and Wiggoth agreed to let creatures with free will determine the dominance of their ideals over the world.

In these early days, magic was not as it is now. While a single sorcerer after the Crystal Fall could cast combat spells with the same effort as a knight could swing his sword, in the ancient days, spells were cast by circles of wizards, focused together in a cloistered chamber, drawing magic symbols in arcane blood and chanting for hours. While these spells were several magnitudes stronger than any modern spell, a mage was as defenseless as a child outside their circle.

Some very interesting stuff.

I'm liking some of the fluff, but I want more greens!!!! Need to see more awesome models.

 Alfndrate wrote:
I'm liking some of the fluff, but I want more greens!!!! Need to see more awesome models.

Greens for the Adept, Archer, and Squire will be shown on Friday.

 Cyporiean wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:
I'm liking some of the fluff, but I want more greens!!!! Need to see more awesome models.

Greens for the Adept, Archer, and Squire will be shown on Friday.

Very cool, I'm definitely looking forward to it. How many classes(or characters?), should be expect in the first wave of models (I think so far we've seen info for the Adept, Archer, Knight, Sorcerer, Priest, Thief, Squire, and Dragoon)? Or is that contingent on the kickstarter (and thus the amount of sculptors/ concept artists/etc that can be hired)?

I'm very much looking forward to Friday!

I don't think we've previewed the thief much more than the scale comparison shot, but like Miskatonicalum said, that pose was going to be redone (I like it too btw ). So we've seen art for Adept, Archer, Cleric, Dragoon, Knight, and Sorcerer and seen the sculpts for dragoon and sorc.

CAN IT BE FRIDAY YET?!

 Sabotage! wrote:

 Cyporiean wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:
I'm liking some of the fluff, but I want more greens!!!! Need to see more awesome models.

Greens for the Adept, Archer, and Squire will be shown on Friday.

Very cool, I'm definitely looking forward to it. How many classes(or characters?), should be expect in the first wave of models (I think so far we've seen info for the Adept, Archer, Knight, Sorcerer, Priest, Thief, Squire, and Dragoon)? Or is that contingent on the kickstarter (and thus the amount of sculptors/ concept artists/etc that can be hired)?

I'm very much looking forward to Friday!

Its very much contingent on the Kickstarter's success. We've used our small budget (mostly from sales of Brushfire and Historia Rodnetia) to get a handful of greens and artwork done, but without a successful Kickstarter we won't be able to do much more beyond this. The basic goal of the Kickstarter will go towards the molding costs for the first 6 models, along with paying for a small amount of art for the book, units, and items. As we progress through stretch goals we'll be adding in more models, and more art in the rulebook, and gain the ability to have a printed full color hardback edition of the rulebook done, but mostly more models (There is only one stretch goal that isn't more models atm).

Very understandable, I can't imagine that this type of endeavor (or really any into miniature war gaming) would be easily funded, that said I wish you great success with the Kickstarter Cyporiean (along with everyone else at On the Lamb), and know I will definitely be backing it. I hope we can knock those stretch goals out of the park and see some new concepts for the Thief (the old one was awesome too!), the Dark Knight, and everything else you guys are going to surprise us with!

 Sabotage! wrote:
Very understandable, I can't imagine that this type of endeavor (or really any into miniature war gaming) would be easily funded, that said I wish you great success with the Kickstarter Cyporiean (along with everyone else at On the Lamb), and know I will definitely be backing it. I hope we can knock those stretch goals out of the park and see some new concepts for the Thief (the old one was awesome too!), the Dark Knight, and everything else you guys are going to surprise us with!

Aye, it takes a lot of blood, sweat, tears, and money to make a game (especially a miniatures game). We've learned a lot from producing Brushfire, about both what to do and what not to do, and we want to make sure Endless' retail release is awesome.

Now for a little bit of a teaser... We have 19 generic 'classes' written up for the Endless core book, anyone want to guess at what they are?

Adept
Archer
B*****
B********
C******
C*****
C*******
D*** ******
D*** ******
Dragoon
G*******
Knight
P*******
R*********
R*** ******
Sorcerer
Squire
S*******
T****

This list of course doesn't include named folks, or monsters that are also included in the book.

Ooh oh! I know these!

for 50 bucks I'll guess them.

I'll try my best at this from what I've gathered from this thread and On the Lamb's page.

Adept
Archer
B*****
Berserker or Barbarian ??
Chemist ??
Cleric
C*******
Dark Knight
Dark Priest
Dragoon
Guardian ??
Knight
P*******
R*********
R*** ******
Sorcerer
Squire
Summoner ??
Thief

I think that's all I have for now, it was worth a shot though.

One of those is wrong

Its like Mastermind! I love that game.

Hahaha, it is like Mastermind! My guess would Guardian or Summoner would be the wrong call, but it is just that, a guess, haha.

 Sabotage! wrote:
Hahaha, it is like Mastermind! My guess would Guardian or Summoner would be the wrong call, but it is just that, a guess, haha.

You've guessed right

Okay, revised list:


Adept
Archer
B*****
Berserker or Barbarian ??
Chemist ??
Cleric
C*******
Dark Knight
Dark Priest
Dragoon
G*******
Knight
P*******
R*********
R*** ******
Sorcerer
Squire
Summoner ??
Thief

I'll have to give this some more consideration at work tomorrow. At the moment I'm stumped!

Meet the Monsters Part 3! It's Thursday, which means that the kickstarter goes live AND we get to see new greens tomorrow

Meet the Monster Part 3

Dwarves
As the Earth Trolls moved mountains and sculpted caves, they found they needed a creature to inhabit these places. Stocky and heavily bearded, the Dwarves were left to their own devices once the Earth Trolls moved on to building other features of Terra. Before they could learn magic from their creators, the Dwarves were abandoned. They would eventually develop Runes, funneling magic into symbols of power, as an alternative to normal magic.

The Dwarves built great underground transportation systems, utilizing runic machines to connect their residences across Wugin. During their expansion, the Dwarves came into contact with the Arganeans, and their initial interactions were not favorable. Their mutual distrust and plans to expand into the same territories instantly set the two nations against each other. The Dwarves reinforced their cities with traps and runic barriers, making invasion nearly impossible for the Elves. Using their runes to create sentient weapons, the Dwarves armed the first human Rune Fencers to fight the Arganeans and their magitechnology.

Relations between Dwarves and humans continued into the Age of Mages, as mage circles required soldiers to defend them while they cast their spells. Rune Fencers became common in these roles, and rune weapons were sought after by the rich and powerful. Rune weapons have become incredibly rare after the Crystal Fall with the largest Dwarf city, Mechinrah, becoming sealed away from the surface and underground tunnel network. At Deepgate, the unlucky dwarves caught on the outside set up a massive mining operation to dig up the Iron Crystal and open a passage back into Mechinrah.

Kirin
Fast, four-legged creatures, the Kirin were created by the Air Trolls as mounts for the Elves. Blessed with magical celerity, the Kirin move faster than any other creature across the land. When the Arganeans moved their capital to Wugin, they brought thousands of Kirin to the mainland, setting up Kirin farms and stables. Since that time, the Kirin have become the standard ride of the Knights of Halleford, and any traveller across the world.

Their horns even grant increased speed to those that wear them, and poachers are known to cut off the horns and sell them to alchemists. Kirin are able to defend themselves, casting air elemental spells taught to them by the Air Trolls, but only War Kirin, trained for the Knights, actually attack poachers. Kirin are not actually killed in the process of having their horns cut but the loss causes them to lose their unnatural speed and magic abilities.

Behemoths
Bipedal, ape-like monsters, Behemoths roam the icefields of Iskor, destroying any structures they come upon. Only the temples of the Ice Lords, their creators, escape the swath of destruction. Nomadic human tribes still share the land with the Behemoths, able to tame young Behemoths and use them to cross the wide snow plains. These nomads would sometimes attack the city of Ineb, seeking to pillage the more prosperous nation, but the cave systems to reach the valley are too small for the Behemoths to travel through, severly crippling the nomads' fighting strength.

When the Dark Lord began building his army, some of the nomads joined his force, bringing along their Behemoths. With armor built specifically for the giant beasts, the Behemoths were used during the first Dark Lord Invasion. Unfortunately, the climate change wore down the behemoths quickly, turning them into weapons of terror more than effective siege weapons.

Demonites
Once, demons clawed at reality, trying to break through from the aetheric realm. The rare few, that came through portals created by wizards, quickly found the plane of existence caustic and unable to keep them anchored for any periods of time. The demons’ worshipers and those seeking to dominate them searched for ways to bring these powerful beings permanently into the world of Terra.

The solution, that was found, was the Demonite. Channeling the spirit of a demon into a specially constructed fetish or construct allows the demon to interact with the real world. Demonites are directly under the control of the dark mages that create them, forcing demons to do their bidding. Expert Demonologists create better constructs to house more powerful demons, ensuring they can survive in combat to use their magical abilities.

Demonites are particularly popular amongst the followers of the Dark Lord, where they can summon demons in peace, unlike in the Sundrenched lands where the Crusaders and Church of Numina hunt down demonites and their masters.

about 24 hours till the Kickstarter goes live... not that I'm counting or anything. >.>

We've had several requests to add a 3rd unit to the Quickstart Rules to help with party balance, and so we've instead added 3. The Quickstart Rules now include a full 10 Crystal party to give the game a try with.

You can download them from WargameVault.

I'm excited to give the game a try with a full party, should be pretty fun!

Unfortunately I did not have a stroke of brilliance at work and was only able to deduce one more class (Rune Fencer), mainly because of today's update.

Adept
Archer
B*****
Berserker or Barbarian ??
Chemist ??
Cleric
C*******
Dark Knight
Dark Priest
Dragoon
G*******
Knight
P*******
R*********
Rune Fencer
Sorcerer
Squire
Summoner ??
Thief

I'm definitely liking the fluff more as it's expanded upon. Is there any chance we'd get to see trolls in the game (or is there power level too high for what we are looking at?), or even some art, I'm really curious to what the different types look like.

Now you've got 6 of 7 right!


Earth Trolls we already have the sculpts for just waiting to get them cast as a stretch goal. All the trolls are stat'ed up, so you'll see them in game. Points wise, they are equivalent to unique heroes in power level (Cost 3 Crystals). As the kickstarter goes on we'll release art and images of the sculpts.

We've talked a bit about how we designed EFT to be playable on RPG Battle maps, and any other gridded surface and you might be saying 'But Emily, I'm insane determined and have access to Hrist Arts molds, what would a 3D EFT board look like?'

Well here ya go, our WIP board for The Warstore Weekend. Needs paint and what not, but its a good foundation.

Awesome, I can't wait to see what they end up looking like.

Looks like Summoner must have been the wrong call rather than Guardian.

Adept
Archer
B*****
Berserker or Barbarian ??
Chemist ??
Cleric
C*******
Dark Knight
Dark Priest
Dragoon
G*******
Knight
P*******
R*********
Rune Fencer
Sorcerer
Squire
Summoner
Thief

That's a really cool looking board. Is that made from plaster of paris blocks, or another sculpting putty? I'd really like to attempt to put something like this together at some point (though I am a big fan of being able to use RPG mats for their modularity too).

No Summoner was correct, I think Matt was commenting more on you being undecided about Berserker or Barbarian.

I used a type of plaster, was a powder mixed with water. It was a really simple build, it just took me like 3 weeks to do all of the casting.

It looks really good! I've seen some really awesome things from plaster casting, but everyone I've seen use it says it takes a long time to cast. On the plus side, it looks great and is considerably more affordable than pre-made terrain in most cases.

Good to know about the Summoner, I've always thought that was a cool concept. Hopefully he/she can summon up some elementals! I just updated my earlier list as not to flood the thread with a million estimate lists, haha.

Really excited about tomorrow!

The Summoner should be alot of fun, but it'll be a later (and larger) stretch goal as what good would the summoner be if you didn't have the summons as well!

I wanna play! I'll tag on to Sabotage's list...

Adept
Archer
Binder
Berserker or Barbarian ??
Chemist ??
Cleric
Commando (underpants optional?) or Cavalier
Dark Knight
Dark Priest
Dragoon
G*******
Knight
Pugilist
Runepriest
Rune Fencer
Sorcerer
Squire
Summoner
Thief


For the "G", I keep going to Gladiator or Geomancer. But both of those are too long! Gonna keep thinking on that one...

You got 1 right Gym

Hrm... Guess I'll have to look for more!