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A Mad Hatter
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An Aviansie said :


I'm confused. I thought you WERE Godless, given your signature.

I am (if only for purposes of the faction system and MQC reqs associated with it), but there's 2 things going on here....

1) I truly didn't know what the other factions had for dialogue during that part. Never checked any transcripts or anything to see for myself, so for all I know that one scene could've just been a case of lazy jagex writing happening and the whole "I oppose the gods and what they do to people but this isn't the way to do it" thing turned out to be from a World Guardian perspective rather than a Godless one. It's not like I can just change factions and replay the quest to double check for myself without having to read it on the wiki :(

2) My signature is...complicated. I don't exactly feel like going into a real long discussion on it, but the tl;dr version of it is: The Draculesti and our motto are part of something that has next to no basis in rs lore beyond having Gielinor as a setting. We can technically be described as Godless, but that's selling the whole thing short and glossing over a lot of details that ultimately make us different from the faction.
^+^ Antediluvian of the Draculesti Bloodline ^+^

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18-Feb-2016 03:56:32

A Mad Hatter
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^ Seems like you're full of surprises if you can remember that. :O

Wrong masquerade though :(
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18-Feb-2016 05:45:58

Cybernet377
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A Mad Hatter said :
^ Seems like you're full of surprises if you can remember that. :O

Wrong masquerade though :(


I cheated and just logged in to copy from the lore because I couldn't remember off the top of my head. :P

18-Feb-2016 17:40:02 - Last edited on 18-Feb-2016 17:40:45 by Cybernet377

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Balustan said :
Further proof that Bandos shouldn't have been killed off.

Not so quickly, no.


I would've like a quest lead in to tbatb, where he tries to attack Dorgesh-kaan. It still doesn't make sense to me that he let them slide away- their ancestors left him long ago, and then he tried to reclaim them again. Now that he was actually on Gielinor, he could have enslaved them again. "We call it being a hero"
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18-Feb-2016 18:13:28

A Mad Hatter
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Cybernet377 said :
A Mad Hatter said :
^ Seems like you're full of surprises if you can remember that. :O

Wrong masquerade though :(


I cheated and just logged in to copy from the lore because I couldn't remember off the top of my head. :P

For what it's worth I would've had to do the same. Been a while since I've had the chance to play that game outside the holidays and I forgot a lot of what those entries said :'(

Half Centaur said :

I would've like a quest lead in to tbatb, where he tries to attack Dorgesh-kaan. It still doesn't make sense to me that he let them slide away- their ancestors left him long ago, and then he tried to reclaim them again. Now that he was actually on Gielinor, he could have enslaved them again.

Tbh I would've liked a quest that led right up to WE2 and one set during the event that showed how the different factions were reacting to it. Besides giving potential newcomers some important context on what led to Bandos dying, it never made sense to me how both factions could wage open warfare in the streets of Falador and Varrock like they did and nobody seemed to care. O_o
^+^ Antediluvian of the Draculesti Bloodline ^+^

^+^ If the Gods see fit to curse us with the Blood, then we shall raise ourselves above them ^+^

19-Feb-2016 00:59:14

Bandosian
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A Mad Hatter said :
Cybernet377 said :
A Mad Hatter said :
^ Seems like you're full of surprises if you can remember that. :O

Wrong masquerade though :(


I cheated and just logged in to copy from the lore because I couldn't remember off the top of my head. :P

For what it's worth I would've had to do the same. Been a while since I've had the chance to play that game outside the holidays and I forgot a lot of what those entries said :'(

Half Centaur said :

I would've like a quest lead in to tbatb, where he tries to attack Dorgesh-kaan. It still doesn't make sense to me that he let them slide away- their ancestors left him long ago, and then he tried to reclaim them again. Now that he was actually on Gielinor, he could have enslaved them again.

Tbh I would've liked a quest that led right up to WE2 and one set during the event that showed how the different factions were reacting to it. Besides giving potential newcomers some important context on what led to Bandos dying, it never made sense to me how both factions could wage open warfare in the streets of Falador and Varrock like they did and nobody seemed to care. O_o

Haha, I will admit this to be true. The event itself was cool, but decisions such as a powerful character like Bandos dying, would have been better off in a single person experience during a quest. We can't always control what happens in a quest (look what happened to Guthix) but those who were gone one month would have come back confused and lost. One month to the next based on the players of that single month decided a factor that would affect the story line of the game. Those who missed taking part in such an event can't do anything. Compared to Guthix's death, we get a memorial each year and those who missed out can simply go and do the quest.
"I see a world where there is no need to flatter and deceive: where power is there to be taken by those with the strength to do so." - Bandos

19-Feb-2016 05:25:09

Bandosian
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AttilaSquare said :
This is great! I hope Jagex sees the unified support of the lore hounds for making each faction respectable like this!

I did not expect this thread to go as far as it has been going, but it is amazing to see the respect from all sides. Jagex is indeed stepping in the right direction with dialogue and overall questing. I really appreciate everyone supporting the idea that all sides matter and equally deserve a part. If Bandos is dead, and Jagex is still going to make us Bandosians a part of the game, then other sides are surely to come into the light as well!
"I see a world where there is no need to flatter and deceive: where power is there to be taken by those with the strength to do so." - Bandos

19-Feb-2016 05:31:54

Lego Miester
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Bandosian said :
AttilaSquare said :
This is great! I hope Jagex sees the unified support of the lore hounds for making each faction respectable like this!

I did not expect this thread to go as far as it has been going, but it is amazing to see the respect from all sides. Jagex is indeed stepping in the right direction with dialogue and overall questing. I really appreciate everyone supporting the idea that all sides matter and equally deserve a part. If Bandos is dead, and Jagex is still going to make us Bandosians a part of the game, then other sides are surely to come into the light as well!


I tend to like to quote Zaros on Bandos:

Zaros: [Bandos] He had a brilliant strategic mind and an innate ability to expose the truth in any situation. If only he could have curtailed his eternal desire for war, he might have proven useful.

But it keeps going.

I have more interest in the one who defeated him, and in those who will succeed him.

Player: Succeed him?

Zaros: The god may die, but the philosophy is eternal. In time, another will grow to take his place, be they a god or not. Headcanon Haven, where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
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19-Feb-2016 07:35:29

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