The Saga of Lochnar Roleplaying Campaign

The Saga of Lochnar is an Warcraft 3 Roleplaying Campaign brought to you by Hurricane Creations.
In this huge Campaign/RPG you can get a job, a wife, or become an evil assain, or even become king of the country.
You will experience a whole new way to play Warcraft, for example you can simply walk forward to any NPC and talk to them.
Read more about Races and features down the thread =)
**We're currently searching for an skilled modeller**


Downloads

• TSoL Main Preview
  Including 6 Screenshots from TSoL
  Download it here!
  
  
• Evil Side Trailer
  Take a look of the Evil Side of TSoL
  Download it here!

TSoL Summary
The Saga of Lochnar is a singleplayer Warcraft 3 Roleplaying Campaign, you will be able to choose from six races; The Trolls, The Orcs, The Humans, The Dwarves, The Elves and The Drounahs. TSoL hasn't got a particular storyline for you to follow, you decide it for yourself =)
From each race you will be able to choose 3 villages to start in.
From the moment you start, you will also start your own story.
You will be able to explore a huge dymamic world with oceans, forests, mountains, plains, djungler, coral reefs and much more.
There will also be a whole bunch of skills and talents for you too try out at the start.
As you play throughout TSoL you will also be creating a story of your own, every player will see that nobody will have the exact same ending of the campaign as someone else, because every action you make is part of the story, even if it's just to deliver a letter to the nearby village.
Of course there will be a loading/saving hero system to.
Playing TSoL will letting you experience a whole new way of roleplaying!

Features

• Exploring
  A whole new way of playing – you can go were you want in the world – if the terrain allows you to, for example, when you start following a road, and you get to the end of the map, then when you start to walk to the end of the map the game will automatically load the new “area� (map) you are entering, by that way we can reduce laggings, at the same time you don't have to load every step you take.
• Build up your own story
  Each campaign will allow you to build your own story – as the way you play.
  For example:
  You enter a town, directly you start to kill everyone around you, after that everyone that has relatives in the city will start to hate you and you get wanted in every nearby village, but if you instead are polite you might get a work as policeman or guard.
  But you can also become an hero, or an evil minded guy who likes to do mass murdering =P
• Quests
  Get over 200 Quests witch you find scattered all over the world, both hard and easy ones.
  And some quests will only be available att higher levels
• Gameplay
  Experience a new way to roleplay Warcraft 3.
• Interface
  A more user-friendly interface and skill system, icluding all Classes. (Not decided yet)
• Jobs!
  Join the Army, become a local chef, or become an eremit who lives alone on a small ocean in the sea, you can decide it for yourself!
• Faction based battles!
  Ohh, this is funny! :P.
  Faction based battles, were you can lead your own platoon (if you work for the army)

More info to come as we advance!



Races
The World of Lochnar is habitated by six Races;

The Elves

Summary:
The honorful, heroic race witch was the first to study the magic of nature, they commonly live in big, deep forests, but many elves are great explorers and have got settlements all around the world.
The Elves trust on their magic, focusing everything around it.
While the years have passed The Elves have suffered from many great Wars.
If you choose to play as the Elves, you choose the way of Nature, what the elves call: “N'e Suma'ril ed Renoeh� or The Way of Nature.

The Orcs

Summary:
The Orcs are the wanderers of Lochnar, since they were driven away by the Humans in The First War, they haven't really found a place that fits them.
Although their biggest settlement is found in the vastelands that the Orcs named “Dorun'gul Ghor'k� witch can be translated to “The Everlasting Heat�.
The kind of magic that the Orcs have learned while wandering around the land is commonly summoning and ritual performing.
If you choose to play Orc, you can expect many “Explorer Quests� and may have to wander miles if you wana complete the quest, but of course there will be regular quests to get, too.

The Humans

Summary:
Peaceful and Quiet.. well, that's two words that could fit the Humans, the Humans have not been to lots of wars, or actually not a single one since The First War against the Orcs.
Most of the Humans live in small villages, working as farmers, but many of the Humans also train as priests, or sorcerers.
They have outpost scattered everywhere across their land – Etahar .
The outposts (Were you can work if you join the army) are used as local peacekeepers.
If you choose to play as Human, you can expect lots of forests and vast plains, as the first you see =)

The Drounah (Seapeople)

Summary:
The Drounah are the keepers of the sea, they live in big underground villages and on small, tropical islands. They used to live in an Underwater palace called Houn'Dhaga but was attacked by a vast army of Morl'nags. The Morl'nags are mutaded Drounahs, that were banished from the city along time ago.
The Drounahs couldn't hold back the Morl'nag invasion and were forced so flee away deep into the oceans. Rumors say that the Drounahs are rebuilding a old empire deep in the oceans but nobody really knows. Drounahs stands on nobody's side, and don't care about the other races' fights and battles.

The Dwarves

Summary
Lives in the cold, icy areas of Grohk'Nohmol, and are known to do worldwide treasure expeditions. The Dwarves are known as “The Warriors of Snow� and everytime a battle is in the horizon you can be sure that the Dwarfs will be there.
Most large Dwarven villages is found underground.
Enemies are often tricked by Dwarven villages, because what look like a small village over the ground could be an huge metropolis under the ground, by that way the Dwarves are good in defending themselves. They are also the most technical race, and scientists and engineers are always working for new solutions.


The Trolls

Summary:
The trolls are known as one of the best scouts in Lochnar and they can easily find their prey. Hunting is very important for the trolls, and the leader of small tribes are often decided by a competition – were the one who catches the largest prey wins. Trolls like to live in warm, wet areas as djungles.
Trolls and Orcs have formed an alliance together, the alliance is called “Krhuz'Mzoan� and means “Brothers of Steel�.
Trolls like to train in Shamanistic magic, and are the best potion-makers of Lochnar.
They collect rare herbs from the djungles and sell them expensive in open markets.

Footnote: We may also add races as we advance.

Religion
Religion is a very big important part of many Lochnar's lifes, each race has got a god that they believe in, though not everyone still believe in them.
The gods are:

Nathan of the plains God and Leader of the Human, many priests still pray to him.

Gohmodahn of the sea Is the Drounahs god, though Gohmodahn is captured deep, deep, deep in the sea, were the Trolls and the Orcs different gods drove and sealed him after a battle between the three gods.

Grohk of the deserts Warchief of the Orcs. Most of the Orcs believe that Grohk has left them since he ignored them in The First War, were the Orcs had to fight on their own.

Otholaen of the woods Otholaen, the god of the Elves has got the form of a tree, and is the one that thaught the Elves the arts of Nature Magic, large monasterys and temples in honor of Otholaen is found in the Elven lands.

Rhoz'Khan of the djungles Still leads the Trolls. He has decide to take mortal form and is watching the Trolls build up their empire from his throne in the Troll city called Nzhahk.

Ghor'Tok of the mountains Is the god of the Dwarves, he is a good friend of Nathan, and together they are forging plans in secret.

Current people working with this project is:
Vagabond - Terrainer, Cinematicer, Leader
Blizzball - Spell Maker, Modeller, Triggerer, Leader
Maxvlad - Voice Actor, Terrainer
Ora|cle - Terrainer
Morty - Icon Designer
Athelas - Terrainer, Triggerer, Cinematicer
Samuraipanda - Voice Actor
Whitedragon - Unit Creator

First Preview Trailer coming in a sec :D

Damned, file size is 5 MB, what shall I do to make it smaller? =(

Yes!
I got it to work!
This is the first preview trailer, showing of 6 screenies in it :D
Btw, I will add more screenies later today =)

Well... any feedback? :(

It sounds really good, but isent 2005 a lil late?

btw, cool trailer...

I can agree Summer '05 is abit late, but even if we work as fast as we can I don't think we can get it done earlier, because of all triggers, spells, terrains and quests.
Image if it will be like 20 Maps or more, it will take loads of our time, but we do everything to get it released earlier

Ok, it's time for the first screenie, don't be to harsh because it is still in the making.
It is one of the 3 villages you can choose to start in if you play as human - the village is called Sunfall

Oh, ho ho :P
Heres the screenies from the trailer, all from Sunfall and surrounding areas :D

very good vaga i will take to you onAIM later :) but got to go eat now great job

and if you haven't figured im Admin in this camp to :P me and vaga and a voice actor called Max so we are open for new members to just pm me or vagab0nd and we answer as soon as we can...and BTW a new trailer is coming up and 6 more 1 for each race!

Ok Blizz :D
What can you recomend to use as walls inside buildings?
Because you will be able to enter every house the walls inside must look good too =)

Oh, I forgot, we are also looking for an experienced JASS editor :D

Hi guys!
Really nice screenies of Sunfall, wanna try the map now. :\

Well.. you could beta test if you want to :D