Hello All! My name is Drakonfire, but you can just call me Drak. I recently read a series of Books called The Codex Alera by Jim Butcher, author of the Dresden files. The Codex Alera is a fantasy world filled with elemental magic, clashing armies, and struggles with nightmarish enemies. Of course there are mods being made for Elemental:WoM in the vein of LotR and Dragonlance/DnD/Forgotten Realms. I believe that The Codex Alera deserves to stand beside such titans, but I have only seen one post about the Codex Alera. Originally this mod was proposed by Arentol, but he has since gone MIA another modder, Drasnov, and I have taken over the creation of this mod.
Our goals are relatively straight forward, if not terribly simple. Drasnov does all the XML stuff for now (yes, we would love help) and I'm attempting to organize our thoughts and keep us focused, because Alera is a vibrant world filled with lots of history we could (and later intend to) take advantage of.
This Mod will feature:
Custome factions based on Major Citiies or High Lords from the Codex Alera books. The goal with these factions is for them each to have semi-unique bonuses, possibly units, and even technology.
A Fury based magic system; In Alera all elements (of which there are 6, Earth, Air, Water, Fire, Wood, and Metal) are inhabited by a "Fury" which other fantasy settings would describe as an elemental. These Fury's can be anything from a simple candle flame to an ancient volcano.
From these basics we hope to craft a mod that is true to Butcher's world and as exciting to experience as the books were to read. Specifically we are currently working on making one faction playable, with faction based bonuses. From there a redone tech tree will be next, followed by redoing the combat units (Alera is heavily influenced by Rome, as Butcher as acknowledge links to the Legio IX Hispana). After these are done the new furies and questing will be put in, and finally balancing will occur. Of course from this base will come the factions and customer tech trees. For more of our ideas as we discussed them back and forth, check the original thread started by Arentol.
If anyone is interested in helping out, please contact me, or post here in the thread. If you haven't read the Codex Alera series but it still sounds interesting to you, we don't mind, but we definitely encourage you to read it, it is awesome!
If you HAVE read it and your wondering why we aren't including any of the other races, that is further explained in the original thread, but I'll sum it up here: It would be really complicated, but we want to do it. We're doing this mod first, and if successful will expand upon it later with a new mod, Codex Alera: The Aleran Age.
More info to come as I have it!