[SUBMOD]{WIP} "Periphery of Pendor": Progress reports. <BETA available>

[Liamar]

WiP of what I settled on for Radiant Cross. They'll follow the style envisioned for the Kingdom of Ethos 'fallen' faction I'll make. Part of Empire lords will have Ethos troops and two new Ethos KOs will wage perpetual war against the Empire and hate Radiant Cross for being 'traitors' since they provided protection to medics and wounded of both sides of the war. Those KOs will deal in gold and skulls.

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Very early, experimental Ethossian Death Sworn Knights and Golden Knights/Knights of the Chalice. The sub-lore of Ethos is that it was a wealthy Trade-Kingdom first ravaged by the plague and later by a Snake Cult insurgency/conspiracy, followed by the recent invasion of the Baccus Empire which ended up being successful due to a civil war.

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Death Sworn Knights V0.2
Like the shoulders, not sure what to do with the chest.

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V0.3

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[MitchyMatt]

The skull on the helmet looks way off, the visor slit distorts it.

 

[Liamar]

Indeed. I was thinking I'd need to model the skull in, but that'll come later.

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Lots of time going into tedious txt files work. Graphical stuff is slowly nearing completion and I should be releasing an alpha soon after.

WiP second Death Sworn variant with warhorse.

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[MitchyMatt]

I don't think releasing an alpha of a submod is a good idea. People have to constantly paste this into their game files and especially with no save game compatible changes.

Once you create a changelog and feel its stable for a test release then maybe.

 

[Liamar]

We'll see how it goes, but I also forgot I haven't even touched the KO sergeants at all so I won't be done for a while yet. 
And since the balancing will take a long while after that (I've already re-done 90% of troop trees) maybe I'll just release KO visuals only version for vanilla pop.

Another try with Radiant Cross. I wanted them white due to the saturation of black armors already but that isn't working out all that great so here's a black variant. What do ya think?
It also ties them a bit with the Death Sworn as a splinter group and should work better with the future Kingdom of Ethos troop tree.

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[Lag'ier Barlida]

We'll see how it goes, but I also forgot I haven't even touched the KO sergeants at all so I won't be done for a while yet. 
And since the balancing will take a long while after that (I've already re-done 90% of troop trees) maybe I'll just release KO visuals only version for vanilla pop.

Another try with Radiant Cross. I wanted them white due to the saturation of black armors already but that isn't working out all that great so here's a black variant. What do ya think?
It also ties them a bit with the Death Sworn as a splinter group and should work better with the future Kingdom of Ethos troop tree.

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This time is a bit better than before.

 

[Archon1963]

Loving the themes you have going with these armors.  Big question.  Will they have cloaked versions like the armors in the base mod?

 

[Liamar]

Will they have cloaked versions like the armors in the base mod?

If the original armor had them then yeah, they already have cloaks.


I've been busy working on Kingdom of Ethos items. It'll share elements of the greater Pendorian culture with a Mediterranean twist based on Italian trade republics. The Kingdoms symbol will be a golden chalice representing their great wealth accumulated from maritime trade and good climate for farming. It'll only be a 'fallen faction' consisting of roaming rebel bands across Empire until the player decides to reform it. Assuming I can actually make that happen. 

It's made me want to go back and do something for Sarleon and Ravenstern as well. 

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[MitchyMatt]

Some of those would look great on Mettenheim troops

 

[Liamar]

I was thinking about turning Mattenheim orange in honor of the Netherlands ;D
Being Islanders lore of land-reclamation with world-wonder dams could be neat, no?

 

[Leonion]

Somebody pls ban me from this thread so I could no longer see the updates and feel bitterly jealous. 
Why no volunteer artists want to work on Perisno... as if PoP wasn't perfect already. 

 

[Liamar]

Thanks Leonion 

Experimental WiP Veccavian female tree. They be black, which goes well with purple and unicorns. 
Got something planned for the male, slave foot troops. Wouldn't it be cool if player could choose Veccavia as their kingdom culture? 

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^{This is what I do on my birthday...} 

 

[MitchyMatt]

Way way too naturally bright purple. Looks bad.

 

[Gorvex]

Not if you drenched that horse into an ink well

 

[shoshuro]

^{This is what I do on my birthday...} 

Happy birthday and keep up the good work (the last ones though are a bit off to be honest, too bright like Mitchy said)

 

[Liamar]

Tried to make the color match the banner on that round shield. Is it better?

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[Gorvex]

It's the same still. That purple is too bright and unpleasant for the eyes (too girly/homo imo)

How about this color instead? https://www.color-hex.com/color/483d8b

It still has some violet in it.

P.S.: Happy birthday!

 

[Liamar]

(too girly/homo imo)

 

I guess it's perfect then. 

 

[Evelyn]

Those later screenshots are better, just be wary of fluorescent colors.

 

[Liamar]

An Easter Egg incubated, I've made Spectral Army. Still adjusting the shader. (Courtesy of Burspa)

Lore wise - it's the last Ethos King and his fallen knights. Before battle he had his men swear that they would fight the Empire and for the reclamation of Ethos until their very deaths. Due to treason of Radiant Knights and Ethos nobles who made a deal with the Emperor, the King and his entire army was slain. In tribute to the fallen a new order called the "Death Sworn" formed.

Ideally it would be a boss for a quest for the Death Sworn KO. Lay the fallen to rest, claim the spectral Kings crown and re-forge Kingdom of Ethos.

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