Drenai Mod

[knoddy]

DRENAI MOD

This mod was inspired by The Wheel of Time mod which is currently under development. After trying to come up with a time period to mod RTW to i decided it didnt have to be a real place and time. And so i have decided to recreate the world from David Gemmell's famous Drenai series of books. So all u Gemmell fans out there put on your thinking caps and lend me a hand. Any ideas anyone may have please post them.

At the moment the game is looking like having about 8 factions which is only a small amount but it is not final(ive prolly missed some) they include:

The Drenai
The Nadir
The Saluthi
The Ventrians
The Vagrians
The Chiatze
The Lentrians
The Nashites

also, although at the moment i am not planning to try and get people to join a modding team if any Gemmell fans out there have ideas about skins, models or anything like that, that they wish to send me then please do. I may also make requests at times for people to help with specific things. In no way do i intend to take this mod on by myself but for the moment time restricitons would limit me too much to work with a group.

Cheers all please post feedback and let me know wot u think and stay tuned for updates.

[dark_shadow89]

WHOA!!!!I had this idea, but i thought that no one would've even heard of David Gemmel...I love his books, especially the Rigante ones. If u can get some more ppl to join, i'm in!!!

also, how about the Angostin? Mashrapur? Kydor? Skathia, Gothir, Tantria, Opal, Panthia, Dospilis, Sherak, Kiatze, Pelucid? I've got lots of maps if u need them...

maybe the Drenai could be a republic (as it was in Legend), with 3 families (Egel, Karnak, Dakeyras - Waylander's real name)

come to think of it...count me in!!!

i've also got some ideas about what the cultures should be like (Drenai = hellenic-ish culture? due to their use of spearmen, sort of hoplite-ish, red cloaks (spartan?))

cheers, dark_shadow89

also, by nashites, i think u mean Nashaanites...

[Armchair Athlete]

A Gemmell mod, this would be awesome! You could have werebeasts created by Nadir Shamen as well. Great to see more Gemmell fans out there! Anyway, I own just about every Gemmell book made, so if you need info, I can help too!

[knoddy]

lol i didnt expect to get such enthusiastic replies thanx for the support guys. lol as for all the factions u listed, like i said i probably forgot about half of em so i will do a revised faction list soon. I am currently looking at creating the campaign map based on the map out of the Skilgannon novels. I need just a bit more practice in fact if someone could tell me exactly how the map_regions.tga and map_heights.tga interact that would be great. ie wot the different coulours r for the different heights. as for those eager fans out there if any of u would like to come up with some skins and ideas for unit rosters that would be great i will prolly post a full faction list and unit roster within the next couple of days and ask u all to comment. cheers and lookout for more updates!!

[Armchair Athlete]

There is a list of most of the interesting interview questions asked here;

http://members.lycos.co.uk/punchbag/

Some interesting points that come out interviews here are;

As you may of guessed, Gemmell pictured certain factions as paralleling real life cultures, eg the Nadir are fairly obviously the Mongols, Chiatze being Chinese, and interestingly he said he pictured the Drenai as being more 'middle ages' or medieval, with the Naashanites being more Arabic (The swords of night and day are based on scimitars). He also said he is a big fan of the total war series, and mentioned numerous times his playing of MTW and RTW, so its possible he may even play this mod! No pressure or anything Knoddy!! The final main important note is that he said he doesn't like fan fiction, so I think that not too much stuff should be made up, it should try and be as accurate to the books as possible, although obviously with some factions that do not feature in the books much stuff would have to be made up.

Unfortunately I cannot do much actual modding, and until more modellers sign up, it is probably best to keep factions to a minimum, or else the mod will never be released! But I think that some of the ones Dark Shadow posted should be included, the Gothir and Angostin are very major players in the novel, the other ones maybe if you have time. I keep all my books at my parents house, so I wont have access to them until end of next week, maybe I can post some stuff then.

[Lord Shand]

Count me in – a drenai mod was something I had plans on doing way back when MTW came out, just never got round to finishing it. I too am a massive fan of gemmell

Ill post later tonight with more thoughts on what you could add.

On a similar note does anyone here read the Malazan series by Steven Erikson – they would also make an awesome mod

- MAlazan Marines
- The BRidgeburnes
- The Crimson Guard
- Segulah!!!!!!!
- Tenescowri
- Toblakai
Just to name a few of the units/nations you could have.

The more I think on it – the more I would love to see mods based on these worlds