Torchlight II World and Lore expansion. (TL2 Discord?)

Torchlight II World and Lore expansion. (TL2 Discord?)
Posted by AwesumPawsum on 04 Oct, 2016 04:21
As most of you know the world of Torchlight exists beyond the town of Torchlight, and the regions of Estheria, Zeryphesh and Grunnheim.

I have been playing around with ideas in my head about this since I originally found out the game was a lot more massive than I thought it was, seeing these two images I will share below.

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/torchlight/images/8/89/Vilderan.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130721010511 - Continent of Vilderan

http://i.imgur.com/qkA9gKA.jpg Full world of Torchlight

I have been a "world-builder" and writer of a personal story setting for close to a decade now and have an extreme passion for this game. I'd be interested if this idea sounds interesting to you all and what you think.

I don't have any experience with GUTS but I do have experience in writing Lore and World-Building.

So... how does this sound? I can provide replies to my original post with a lot of ideas I've already come up with in the future, this post is just to see if there is any demand for this sort of thing.

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<-- I thought I'd include this Discord server I recently made, since I feel the community is split between all of the forums and there isn't a central place in which the community that is left can actively and directly speak to one another. Won't be able to work on it until later but... it's there if any of you are interested.

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Posted by lolesch on 04 Oct, 2016 10:19
Hey there @AwesumPawsum !

I really like your Post! "Once upon a time" I was interrested into that topic like you but from the Modders perspective... I was researching the Forums looking for Lore till I figured out there there is not much detail about things outside the game. However, this might be interesting! since we found some Lore that didn't make it into the game (for example the name of the second continent: Auberon).
I've lost all my modding stuff thanks to a PC crash so I never finished the LoreDatabase...

I'm still pretty interested in something ongoing in that direction as an inspiration for new Content. Currently I'm working on a classless concept reworking the skills system, attributes and some other stuff. In my imagination the mod has the opportunity to get some kind of stand alone. But to become there it needs much more content such as a story line!
Back in those days I was thinking of a pre sequel Mod, covering up the Alchemists process of getting corrupted by the ember blight (a mechanic I want to implement into the game - corrupted items or NPC interaction based on your characters "corruption").
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I'd like to see the expansion as a gap filler between the 2 games taking place deep in the mines to highlight to support the lore of lost civilizations, prepairing the alchemists way out. Meanwhile the Destroyer and Vanquisher could prepare for his arrival, calling out for heroes (our 4 tl2 classes) to prevent his dark way. The plot should include characters from both the games and be told from the perspective of a new character (classes will ofc be added).
Otherwise it could be an "act 5" going ahead after the defeat of the netherlord... much like the diablo series :?
I'll stop here so you are free to imagine on your own.
To get some community Input I also started a discussion on Steam (you might need to log in to steam to make this work) with the same topic and a few ppl had some funky Ideas to implement...

Well, I'm looking forward to further progress!

Cheerio,
lolesch

edit: this is the Link to the table containing all ingame lore on Items - the source of the LoreDatabase