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Hazeel

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Saradomin is an angry control feak who, ironically, has no self control. Armadyl is a trigger happy maniac who sucks at diplomacy. Bandos is a wuss who can't fight. Zamorak is an unskilled fighter with a bleeding heart. Nobody is happy.

Garlandia didn't move to a different island. She was left, assumed to be dead, but survived when the others migrated back to the island. She disguised herself as a soldier and snuck through the portal. Because it was thought impossible to survive, nobody suspected her. Runescape doesn't need a hero...it needs a villain. An all encompassing force of evil that will remain ever-threatening and use chaos to make the peoples of Gielinor tolerate each other, grow strong together, and fight side by side against this evil. I am that villain.

30-Nov-2016 01:31:08

Chaos Lupus

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Raxxess said :
Hazeel said :
Garlandia made it to another world via portal...she just snuck in with the others. Not too hard. That said, she was poorly timed. Why are we hearing about Saradomin in a Armadyl vs Bandos event? Why not instead show us a group of Godless Aviansie who want to save their people from Armadyl's warmongering? Or perhaps some Goblins who feel that Bandos is unfit for rule and keeping them from their true potential as a warrior race?

That still doesn't make any sense how did she sneak into a portal? How did she get off the island she was deserted on?

It doesn't really make sense why she was in World Event 2 but then again as the mod quotes and then the podcast on Saradomin indicated, she wasn't put in to make sense, to have a real story that gets expanded on, or to be of anything other than a balancing act to balance out Saradomin in world events. Seeing as her faction did the best in WE3 and the faction she was created to reduce did the worst so in truth her character was a complete success on what the intention of putting her in was for , it sounds like from the podcast though they get that people didn't like it and they are going to give Saradomin better treatment, but anything they promise on Saradomin has to be taken with a pretty large grain of salt.

1.) Saradomin has always been less popular than Zamorak and Armadyl as far as god emissary alignment goes.

2.) The Godless faction may as well have been the "other" option in that event. And they had Vorago.

3.) The average player has no idea who Garlandia is.

The strength of the pack is the wolf and the strength of the wolf is the pack.

30-Nov-2016 02:49:38

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Kemtros

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Really, a lot of this started with "We need something big to usher in RS3", and that's why we have the Fifth Age / Sixth Age disparities. If they had delayed the Sixth Age, then that's fine, but we could have at least gotten something pertinent to the main storylines instead. Maybe Plague's End would have been a good one? While it is set in the Sixth Age, that doesn't really do too much other than explain why Lathas rules out Zamorak as a potential identity for the Dark Lord. Plague's End is still the wrap up to the Fifth Age part of the Elf storyline, so RS3 could have been promoted with the idea of actually finishing the Fifth Age storylines.

01-Dec-2016 15:57:38

CD_Paladin_C

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@Chaos

Oh stop it the average player does know, there's a reason why a certain faction last placed 29 out of the 30 days during world event 3. "Your god's dead next time he's in a world event. "
-The Lore Community to our Saradominist Friends, Said During World Event 2, Proven During World Event 3.

#StopSaradomin

01-Dec-2016 17:07:44

Chaos Lupus

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CD_Paladin_C said :
@Chaos

Oh stop it the average player does know, there's a reason why a certain faction last placed 29 out of the 30 days during world event 3.

You seriously overestimate the average player. Go talk to random people out skilling, bossing, etc. They're clueless. Most people don't even know what an icyene is in the first place.

And yes, there is a reason. There are more Zamorakian and Armadylean players than there are Saradominists, and everyone else joined the Godless.

The strength of the pack is the wolf and the strength of the wolf is the pack.

01-Dec-2016 17:17:12

CD_Paladin_C

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Chaos Lupus said :
CD_Paladin_C said :
@Chaos

Oh stop it the average player does know, there's a reason why a certain faction last placed 29 out of the 30 days during world event 3.

You seriously overestimate the average player. Go talk to random people out skilling, bossing, etc. They're clueless. Most people don't even know what an icyene is in the first place.

And yes, there is a reason. There are more Zamorakian and Armadylean players than there are Saradominists, and everyone else joined the Godless.

Last time I was told that I overestimated the average player the context was, was that Saradomin was going to win the sixth age due to ignorance of the average player and we saw how well that went during World event 3. Infact it was that exact comment why I work as hard as I do to dispel that ignorance. "Your god's dead next time he's in a world event. "
-The Lore Community to our Saradominist Friends, Said During World Event 2, Proven During World Event 3.

#StopSaradomin

01-Dec-2016 17:36:33

Chaos Lupus

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CD_Paladin_C said :
Chaos Lupus said :
CD_Paladin_C said :
@Chaos

Oh stop it the average player does know, there's a reason why a certain faction last placed 29 out of the 30 days during world event 3.

You seriously overestimate the average player. Go talk to random people out skilling, bossing, etc. They're clueless. Most people don't even know what an icyene is in the first place.

And yes, there is a reason. There are more Zamorakian and Armadylean players than there are Saradominists, and everyone else joined the Godless.

Last time I was told that I overestimated the average player the context was, was that Saradomin was going to win the sixth age due to ignorance of the average player and we saw how well that went during World event 3. Infact it was that exact comment why I work as hard as I do to dispel that ignorance.

Was anyone actually expecting for Saradomin to win a world event while competing against three other factions? And if so, I don't see how that pertains at all to the complete ignorance of the average player.

The strength of the pack is the wolf and the strength of the wolf is the pack.

01-Dec-2016 17:41:42

Hazeel

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CD_Paladin_C said :
Chaos Lupus said :
CD_Paladin_C said :
@Chaos

Oh stop it the average player does know, there's a reason why a certain faction last placed 29 out of the 30 days during world event 3.

You seriously overestimate the average player. Go talk to random people out skilling, bossing, etc. They're clueless. Most people don't even know what an icyene is in the first place.

And yes, there is a reason. There are more Zamorakian and Armadylean players than there are Saradominists, and everyone else joined the Godless.

Last time I was told that I overestimated the average player the context was, was that Saradomin was going to win the sixth age due to ignorance of the average player and we saw how well that went during World event 3. Infact it was that exact comment why I work as hard as I do to dispel that ignorance.

If the sixth age was purely dominated by 1 vs 1 popularity contests, rather than Jagex intervening and just saying "Zaros wins!" then yes, Saradomin would easily "win" the sixth age. Runescape doesn't need a hero...it needs a villain. An all encompassing force of evil that will remain ever-threatening and use chaos to make the peoples of Gielinor tolerate each other, grow strong together, and fight side by side against this evil. I am that villain.

01-Dec-2016 18:05:16

Solanumtinkr

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So a Giant Space pig comes to eat Gielinor? World Event 3.

Armadyl - BirdMan, represented by Kamiee for Armadyl.
Saradomin - Easily trigged bearded dude , represented by Bree for Saradomin.
Zamorak - Demon lookalike pyromaniac, Moia for Zamorak.
The Godless - Giant Rock monster and top flight boss represented by Scopulus.

Arma certainly had a better rep at that point, though Zimzam made a weak start, he did pick his pace up. Sara made a poor showing, though against that line up...well that Giant Rock Monster (Vorago) stomped his way to victory to perform the very reason for his creation by Gilienor's Anima Mundi; to protect it from threats.

That at least opened the door to a potentially interesting story of Vorago's inclusion in Sliske's Endgame. The gods are now also aware that Vorago can and has killed a god. Which takes a theoretical threat that the Maul of Omens was created for, and made it far more tangible. The purpose of adventure is to shine light into dark places,
Poke monsters with a sharp stick, Then steal anything that isn't nailed down!
To the Manor Born QFC 185-186-367-65788716

01-Dec-2016 18:20:31

A Mighty

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Hazeel said :
CD_Paladin_C said :
Chaos Lupus said :
CD_Paladin_C said :
@Chaos

Oh stop it the average player does know, there's a reason why a certain faction last placed 29 out of the 30 days during world event 3.

You seriously overestimate the average player. Go talk to random people out skilling, bossing, etc. They're clueless. Most people don't even know what an icyene is in the first place.

And yes, there is a reason. There are more Zamorakian and Armadylean players than there are Saradominists, and everyone else joined the Godless.

Last time I was told that I overestimated the average player the context was, was that Saradomin was going to win the sixth age due to ignorance of the average player and we saw how well that went during World event 3. Infact it was that exact comment why I work as hard as I do to dispel that ignorance.

If the sixth age was purely dominated by 1 vs 1 popularity contests, rather than Jagex intervening and just saying "Zaros wins!" then yes, Saradomin would easily "win" the sixth age.

That's another thing. If Jagex was going to go down the World Event route, they should have made all the factions participate, not stupid 1 vs 1 contests. And they should have designed it so it wouldn't be purely a popularity contest. It should have been something truly multiplayer, like NWO Sharum's amazing idea for a second god wars that was so much better than what actually happened, which was 1v1 popularity contests that Zaros couldn't participate in because he was "too important" to be killed off. Oh, and we got a nice teaser for Raids mixed in too, or something like that..

To those cursed by war and pest, Come into the light of Armadyl and rest. This is the law of Armadyl.

02-Dec-2016 23:40:35

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