Wheel of Time Campaign (update)

Because of Copyright laws, the old project got scrapped, so now we are starting a new one that is allready well under way, and we are looking for more people to join.

I'm writing to invite just about everyone to take part in the Trolloc Wars Mod that I am involved in right now. We're four guys so far, and we have the following talents:

triplej(me): Team leader, design, map design, triggers, writing

slinky: Design, triggers/cinematics consultant, writing

woopie: Modelling, skinning, probably CG cinematics, too.

wolf: Triggers, trigger-cinematics

We're writing our own campaigns based on the (vague) characters and events of the Trolloc Wars, described in the Wheel of Time books.

Just because you aren't familiar with the Wheel of Time books, that does not mean you can't take part in the mod. Actually, our modeller/skinner isn't completely familiar with it, but through quotes from the book, descriptions, and a large pile of online concept art, we manage to show him what we want from him. Keep in mind also that this storyline deals with events/characters that happened THOUSANDS of years before the book series even starts, so a lot of the details we're drawing off of are hard to find in the books, and a lot of the stuff is just plain made up! So even though someone who's read the books will be a lot more familiar with some of the terms, (examples: Myrddraal, wolfbrother, and Band of the Red Hand) the story will be new to most of them, too.

For those of you familiar (and even those who aren't) with the Wheel of Time series, we're going to create a mod based off several wars with the shadow that is mentioned in the Wheel of Time series's history. The Trolloc wars took place between 1000 AB (after breaking) and approximately 1300 AB.

The mod will start with a prologue campaign (covering the massing of the trolloc armies and the fall of Barsine, which was a borderlander city that fell immediately after the Trolloc Wars began) and 4 full-sized campaigns (the full-sized campaigns will start in 1150AB and go to the Battle of Maighande, at the end of the wars.) For those of you familiar with the series, this period of time covers the fall of manetheren, two of the sacking attempts of the white tower (although the books are very vague around these... anyway, there's going to be the one successful sacking attempt and one of the unsuccessful ones...), the trollocs being slaughtered inside Shadar Logoth, the period of time when Rashima Kerenmosa (known as the Soldier Amyrlin) was amyrlin seat, the reign of Kirukan (a legendary heroine of Kandor's history, she was a queen during the trolloc wars), and also one of the periods of time in which Gaidal Cain and Birgitte were alive. In short, some pretty fantastic stuff.

There will be four fully-modded "races" (The Shadow, Manetheren, Borderlanders, and the White Tower). Currently, we're in the design phase of these races, but the Shadow and Manetheren are both finished (as of last night), and we're about to start designing the Borderlanders. A tentative storyline is finished, although the details are being laid down as we go.

We are not going to simply have modded units with new models. We're recruiting voice actors for main characters in cinematics and the stuff that units say when you click on them or direct them to do something (as well as the amusing things they say when you click on them too much, but that's not as important...)

Here are the following people we need. If you're interested in any of these, send email to [email protected] and/or [email protected] (me)

First off, we need anyone with a decent voice at all and a microphone hooked up to their computer to give us their email for the possibility of being a voice actor. Once again, we have lots and lots of characters and units that need voices. Unsure if you're good enough? Drop us a line anyway! We need all sorts of voices. Young. Old. Deep. High-pitched. Male. Female. (ESPECIALLY FEMALE! It's hard to find females who will do voice acting for a warcraft campaign/mod, as you can probably imagine. If you're even REMOTELY interested, drop us a line. Chances are, you're the only female who'll email us, so you'll be REALLY useful, even if you're totally devoid of talent.) So come on and email us!

One of the other things we need is another modeler. We already have one, but we have four races worth of stuff to create, and one isn't enough. It is not enough that you know HOW to model, you definitely need to be talented at it, too. This is because (especially in the case of The Shadow), there will be a lot of difficult modeling to be done. We'll need SEVERAL different types of monsters draghkar (sort of like a monstrous human with bat wings), myrddraal (some of the more formidable shadowspawn, they look like men, except with disgusting, pasty white skin, no eyes, and armor that is so black, it reflects absolutely no light. They also have swords made of darkness), and giant worms ('nuff said), as well as custom building models. (NOTE: Yes, we have trollocs, but they're being done by our modeller currently. Heheh.) Anyway, lots of stuff is the point. If you're talented and like a challenge, I expect that you'll appreciate this one. Reading the books is always a plus, of course, but we could always find you a picture of what we're talking about. Which brings me to my next bit:

Don't have any particular talents in modeling, skinning, map building, voice acting, or triggering, but like to draw? Are you actually good at it? Got a scanner or something? Then why not do concept art for us? Concept art makes me happy, especially when it tells our modelers/skinners what they're doing.

By the way, we have one skinner already, but it could easily turn out that we need more. If you're interested, drop us a line...

Lastly, we need a (TALENTED) map-designer. Once again, we have one of these already (team leader), but since we're probably going to end up with 40-45 maps all in all, another good map-designer or two could speed things up. We have two triggerers (myself and team leader) already, so we don't really need those BADLY, but if you're obsessed with this project now and have no other talents, why not drop in? Couldn't hurt.

Umm... oh, also. On the off chance that someone with musical/sound fx talents is reading this (although these people are rare), your talents are longed for. Custom music/sound fx would definitely liven things up! Drop us a line.

Thanks and please message or e-mail me!

come ON guys, this is much more organized than it was a while ago, even if you dont know about wheel of time and have some voice acting, modelling, or skinning talents, please contact either me or slunk at the e-mails above! It will be a rewarding experience.

I might be interested in doing some music for this project when it is a bit farther along. It sounds solid, but it needs to get off the ground.

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It allready is off the ground, we have our forum up at wc3********. the direct link is

http://www.wc3********.com/forum/for...s=&forumid=143

We are going to post the solid info we have so far, but most of our conversations will take place on MSN messenger. Music would be a great bonus.

Please e-mail me at [email protected] or my right-hand man [email protected]

If you have any questions comments, blah blah blah, e-mail me

Thanks for you interest!

Erhm... pwned by the censor.

LOL funny stuff, o well, e-mail me for a link to the forum if you didnt allready see it or figure out the forum.

P.S. That wasnt very nice considering Dorelian is in both.

I hate to do it, but I really need people to help out :D

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try that on for size censor jerk.

Uuuuuuuuh is this project still going.......im really interested if it is and ill help if ya want. Im actually making a Wheel fo Time Map for B'net at the moment. Hope to hear from ya.

*bumpz0rs*

You can find this project somewhere in the subforum as I recall... at least, that was also a "wheel of time" project.

...it's been some time since I've seen someone say "*bumpz0rs*"...
-Fladian

My sister has read all the WoT books and says "sure" for being a VA. :D

- Z

By amount of reaction, I don't think this is very alive anymore. I don't know if it is the same, but you could try this thread: http://www.wc3campaigns.com/showthread.php?t=66784

You can always send the Janc. a PM.
-Fladian

Like i said Im making a Wheel of Time map for B'net....and that happens to be it ;) Nice to know someone important read it and remembered it.

Ah stupid! I forgot to look who actually asked it if this project was still going. Sorry As.

And also, the Wheel of Time is hard to miss ;)
-Fladian

No worries. I make stupid ass mistakes ala time ( like that time i ate the 3 year old ham.......trust me u dont wana do that...)

O well Cyas