Game News The Broken Hourglass - The Feyborn of Tolmira

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Tags: Planewalker Games; The Broken Hourglass

This week, <a href=http://www.planewalkergames.com/>Planewalker Games</a> goes into the lore of their project, <a href=http://www.planewalkergames.com/content/view/32/46/>The Broken Hourglass</a>. Titled <a href=http://www.planewalkergames.com/content/view/66/1/>The Feyborn of Tolmira</a>, the article talks about the Feyboran - a cross between humans and elves which face all kinds of discrimination for their magical abilities and madness.
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There are already a considerable number of obstacles to a human and elven pairing. Many if not most members of each race find the physical differences in skin tone, facial structure, body proportions and hair coloring displeasing in the other. Culturally, Verai are forbidden from fraternizing with non-Verai (even other elves) and Cellans, while perhaps open to the occasional dalliance, rarely tolerate humans in their caravan communities. In the cities where assimilated Ilvari are most common, many would rather pair among their own number, and some humans frown upon elven admirers, believing that they are looking only for social advancement. Officially, humans and elves are forbidden permission to marry, ostensibly to discourage the birth of Feyborn.
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Those dirty elves.
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Thanks, <b>jcompton</b>!

 

[Zomg]

Oh shit some foo' done throwed a bucket of creepy Otherkin fantasy on Broken Hourglass.

 

[FrancoTAU]

Well, this game will have no shortage of lore going around. Hopefully they put as much effort into making the combat interesting.

 

[Higher Game]

I just went flaccid.

 

[Bradylama]

So Feyborn are like flipper babies, right?

 

[dagorkan]

Real-time with pause now this. They're desperately trying to attract the BG crowd.

 

[no]

Yeah, I'm sure they decided to go for RTwP just to attract the BG crowd.

The game seems very neat this far. I just hope they won't go too far with the "BG modding community contributions mish mash" thing rather than keep most of the game concept under one lead guy (jcompton). If the mods give any indicators, it seems most of the community is still attracted to cutesy hamsters and erotic elf fan-fiction.

 

[suibhne]

I'm impressed with the lore created by the team, particular its focus on social, cultural, and political issues. Might just be me, but I think those angles are far too often ignored by game writers/developers, and it's damn difficult for a game to feel realistic or compelling without any treatment of such considerations. (This is one of the least-discussed areas where I think Oblivion really falls down, for example.)

Definitely still interested.

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

There are already a considerable number of obstacles to a human and elven pairing. Many if not most members of each race find the physical differences in skin tone, facial structure, body proportions and hair coloring displeasing in the other.

Bullshit. Anorexic elf chicks with plastic boobs are hawt and make games a guaranteed purchase.