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Robo Hobo

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Hello, story readers and writers of the RuneScape forums. This is an unfinished group project that me and some friends have been working on together for the past several months.. Slowly but surely. It will be incomplete for quite some time, but we'll use this thread as a way to communicate ideas and build it together.
Additionally, for anyone interested in the story, I've written a summary of the backstory we have so far. When we fully decide on the storyline progression, I can begin to post that as well as it goes along. It's a work-in-progress however, and only a summary, so it won't be it's best in story-telling as it's intended to be much more in-depth with dialogue and other quest-like features, and it won't have a proper ending just yet.
Regardless, feel free to read it and give feedback if you wish, I hope you enjoy it :D
We also have the first quest in the series actually written in the quest format, rather than story format, posted in the Suggestions forums if you wish to check that as well, however it's an old version which is currently being re-worked now.

QUEST: The Avian Seas
185-186-439-62429637

Lastly, as I said, I'm not the only one writing this. Everyone else involved is as follows:
Amascut
Djjulien
CaptainLime
Freolin

Also, I guess I should say. This story is written so that it fits with the currently known canon lore of RuneScape, however it also intends to connect and reveal a lot of unknown parts of history in the 2nd and 3rd ages on the timeline.
So, if you find any descripencies, feel free to point them out. :P You can only fully appreciate a story when you experience it through the eyes of one of its characters.

23-Sep-2011 06:07:35 - Last edited on 23-Sep-2011 06:27:07 by Robo Hobo

Robo Hobo

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~The Avian Sea Backstory~

In the age that the gods walked, the god Armadyl's influence spread over much of what is now known as Kandarin, during the 2nd Age. This much we know. Logically things didn't go by their names we know them as now, such as Kandarin. They were called by other names. The body of water north of Kandarin was named after the Aviansie, due to the ruling of Armadyl in the area, and named, the Avian Sea.
This is where the story takes place... Above and beneath, the Avian Sea.

Still during the 2nd age... Within this ocean there was an island of great sorcerers, known as Dessunaeu. The mages of this island were very advanced, and contributed quite a lot to the human factions of this time, through their experiments. The land was very prosperous. However, during the Rune Wars that ignited in the second age, due to the supply going low, this made them a target by raiders looking for runes which were like treasure due to their scarcity. When the raiders attacked the city, the mages were able to fend them off for awhile, but it soon became apparent of their fate, if they did not act rash, and if they did not act now. Together with the remaining mages they cast a powerful spell over the city, creating a barrier preventing anything from entering or leaving. They then shifted the land itself, bringing the island under the waves, submerging it beneath the Avian Sea... Where it was never seen again, lost to history. You can only fully appreciate a story when you experience it through the eyes of one of its characters.

23-Sep-2011 06:07:54 - Last edited on 23-Sep-2011 06:18:19 by Robo Hobo

Robo Hobo

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They escaped the wars of that time.. They were safe... Or were they? No one knows what happened to the inhabitants.
With the God Wars later, much of the city was lost to history, as was many other things that happened in the 2nd age. Only myth and legend keep the cities name still alive, and only the most foolhardy sailors or treasure hunters ever believed them and went looking for it, in search for the riches rumored to be there. None have found it, however. You can only fully appreciate a story when you experience it through the eyes of one of its characters.

23-Sep-2011 06:07:56 - Last edited on 23-Sep-2011 06:18:56 by Robo Hobo

Robo Hobo

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The next mystery to this story takes place in the 3rd age, the God Wars.
With all sides in constant warefare there was a battle during the end, before the battle of the Godsword, beween Armadylian and Zamorakian factions. Two groups were transporting the Godsword, and when Zamorakians attacked, they split up.
The stronger group went without the godsword while the faster yet weaker took it and escaped. The Zamorakians went after the stronger ones thinking they had the sword, and chased them. They flew west, trying to evade them but they couldn't stay too far ahead of them. It ended up near the shore much west from were they were initially, and they decided to fight. Their flight gave them a significant advantage against their foes, however they were still outnumbered by the much more powerful Zamorakians. They had then discovered their ruse - they did not have the sword at all! In their anger their mages gave them a worse fate than death and defeat.
The Aviansies were cursed so that their wings would turn to fins, and their beaks to gills. They would not be able to breathe air, and any contact with the surface would further mutate them. They would no longer be able to fly in the sky proudly for Armadyl, but they were forced to abandon that and retreat to the ocean. Where they could only watch and do nothing for their Lord. You can only fully appreciate a story when you experience it through the eyes of one of its characters.

23-Sep-2011 06:07:58 - Last edited on 23-Sep-2011 06:20:20 by Robo Hobo

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They were forgotten by Armadyl. Trapped under water, they went further west, to escape any more assaults the Zamorakians may launch. They discovered a settlement inhabited by strange, grey creatures. In their rage from their defeat on the surface, their torture of the curse, and their loss of faith in their lord, they attacked, taking over the settlement and forcing the inhabiting race to leave. They gave no mercy to them, for they did not care... The last they remember of those creatures was that they went above land. But for what?
The mutated Aviansie, now appropriatly calling themselves the Aviansea would have isolated from the rest of the world from then on, forever. Through the end of the god wars, the entire fourth age, and until this current day... They thought the wars destroyed all life above land, and they kept no contact with the outer world. As time had moved on, they grew used to their state of being, and built society under water with little struggle. The grey creatures, which they had called the Greybacks in their breif time together, had never returned or been seen by them again, and there was nothing else there to threaten them. You can only fully appreciate a story when you experience it through the eyes of one of its characters.

23-Sep-2011 06:07:59 - Last edited on 23-Sep-2011 06:21:07 by Robo Hobo

Robo Hobo

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In the current day and age, with the adventurer helping the Fremmeniks in their various conflicts, has once and for all defeated the Daggermouth, with the help of the nations nearby on islands. The Daggermouth have retreated to the ocean now with their Mother trapped and unable to command them any longer.

With that out of the way, things have been boring in the Fremmenik province lately, but Olaf seems to have found something interesting... Something about an old map from one of his ancestors, of a city beneath the waves...
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And then the Quest Series starts.. Which the storyline will be added when we can all agree on how it will go. :P You can only fully appreciate a story when you experience it through the eyes of one of its characters.

23-Sep-2011 06:08:01 - Last edited on 23-Sep-2011 06:23:08 by Robo Hobo

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