At first trying to describe this persistent world, is daunting. To be honest, I could say a billion words on it and miss something.
However, it is a unique realm, set in a unique setting and universe/alternate reality.
I think it's unique history tends to describe it best:
"The world was like any other , progressing in a medieval age. At the height of it's glory, and discoveries such as gun-powder came into focus, a great cosmic event happened, that changed the world as we know it.
The key government of most of the known world, was that of a Great Empire named Glorian. It was a relative time of peace, discovery and prosperity for all.
Scholars and primitive astrologist, had predicted a cosmic event of the heavens, of which the Empiric Over-Lord had widely ignored.
When this event happened, it changed our world forever, and irrevocably. The Glorian Empire, though still intact in a much lesser degree, was more or less shattered from with-in.
This cosmic event was called Star-Fall. Literally, the major stars seen in the night sky, shifted their locations quickly, and one... a close Red-colored star, shot towards the world, exploding close, and sending fragments of it's body, and energy to bombard the world.
What caused this phenomenon is still a mystery at best, but scholars studying the event, along with historians, have agreed the Red Star, wasn't a Star at all, but a small planet , that reflected the red light of our Sun in the sky.
As the energy and fragments bombarded the surface of the world, vast changes started happening. The first notable changes, was that of magic, and powers developing from normal every-day people. Though, most of these people, quickly became ill, both physically, and mentally... there was no denying the things they could do.
Secondly... the appearance of Dragons, and other monsters. Somehow, these strange energies from the fallen star, created these creatures. What they did not kill... these energies changed.
This went on for thousands of years, as the world adjusted and adapted.
The Red Star, was labeled " The Demon Star", for it was later known it's energy caused the source of the magic, and power that changed our world, but.. it was inherently poisonous, and thus why people died, became infirm, or went insane that manifested it's powers.
Eventually it was discovered, that beings that manifested the Powers and magics, simply collected the raw energy from the Demon Star energy still in our atmosphere and embedded in our earth. To escape the illnesses, and other horrid fates it caused, our peoples learned that by using this energy and power up, purged us enough that our bodies can maintain decent health, but always, always.. the cycle repeats itself, inevitable it is, the poisonous Demon Star Energy, soaks into us no matter what we do.
There are those that are immune to the energy, what causes this is unknown, and to this date, it cannot be duplicated even by magic.
This is the state of our world now. Bombarded by cosmic energy, we either harness, use and purge, or face extinction , giving the world to the monsters, creatures, abominations and dragons of the world.
In this age, the Glorian Empire barely is held together, what's left of it. More like an allied collection of independent city-states than an Empire, since the Over-Lord was slain.
It was said the Over-Lord was immortal, and had existed for thousands of years. This changed when a unknown swordsman appeared one day, carrying a blade, forged from the metal of the Demon-Star, from fragments that penetrated our world when it exploded.
Driven mad from the corrupting energy in the blade, it was never found out who forged the vile weapon, or how it came to the hands of the unknown swordsman.
The blade was named the Genisis Sword, for with one mortal blow, started a chain reaction that shook the Glorian Empire, and further changed it forever.
Since the Over-Lord's demise, no other Over-Lord has stepped into his place. At best, the Empire has elected an acting Emperor at times, but such person is more a figure head, that tyrant ruler.
After the Over-Lord was slain, the swordsman flung the weapon off the great cliffs, into the sea. After he was caught by the remaining Imperial Guard, questioned, tried and executed him, no other information about the Genisis Sword , or it's origins have ever surfaced.
During our age here, in these desperate and dark days, as our Empire crumbles around us, a new Empire is rising across the Seas. They call themselves the Psarsym, and are evil, cruel, malicious.. and seek to conquer, or destroy our Empire utterly. Psarsym are masters of magics, powers, and mind powers. It is rumored, it was their ancestors that created the Genesis Blade, and sent it to our lands to destroy our glorious Empire. The Psarsym ally themselves with vile creatures, evil dragons, demons, and devils alike, nothing is sacred to them. Their lands are as black as their hearts, and their plague is slowly consuming the world under their rule, or obliterated in their wake.
Welcome to our World, the changed world. Welcome to the last days of our glorious Empire.
Lest heroes rise up, and ... combat the inevitable dark tide, about to crush down on us all.
~ Written by Anonymous Scholar and Historian~ "
That being said, Glorian Empire boast a fair amount of new and exciting aspects, such as new abilities, powers, and class additions not standard in the original NWN content.
Going beyond level 40 , unlocks new content and things to partake in.
It's a big world, with tons of areas to explore, adventure , and role-play in.
We ARE a communal role-playing server, that actually does have it's fair share of combat as well.
It is NOT cannon material, not Forgotten-Realms, Not Grey-hawk... it's it's own unique world and Universe.
It's.. for a lack of any other way to describe it.. different. Very different, yet ... familiar as it is a DnD game on NWN... as much as it fits into that category. As such.. not everything is set in stone, and along the way there will be decisions, plots, and things added to make it a more "solid" world.. as it unfolds to the community.
Hopefully, you'll enjoy the mod, and stick around for countless hours of fun, and RP.
Look forward to seeing you IG.
Some features:
-Special combat options resembling console RPG.
-Deep "Tech" combat system, including martial techs, special summons, stances, Spell Art, Divine Sorcery, Demon Seals, etc.
-A real-time sailing system
-Muskets and cannons
-Special combat events, like Weapon Locks and movie-styled Instant Kills.
Some additions:
-"Raid" and "Hydra" scenarios when you go sailing.
-An improved Arena system in Adrian.
-The rare "Flash Chain" combat scenario.
-A "bloody finish" for you corn syrup freaks out there who can get a monster below -50HP.
-High elemental damage also causes secondary effects.
-Upgraded firearm system
-The "Fame" and "Reputation" system is also added
I forgot to mention.. i'm classifying the new hosted version as an RP/Action PW.
RP coming first, and meaning..., role-playing. The development of a persona, both imaginative and fictional, that reacts, changes, and grows ... and exist with-in the plots and environments set forth. Player to player interaction, is a must to get the full enjoyment from the game.
Action being secondary only to RP... lets face it, the staple of any DnD game is lots and lots of combat. This module, could very well be played, with-out a hint of RP in it, granting hours and hours of mindless combat and grinding. I'd rather not have it as such... so, stay in character, and take time to interact with others when given a chance to please.
I think, the combination of the above... makes for a great PW.
With the additions of powers , maneuvers and abilities... , there's just so much more to this PW than almost anything else out there. Lots of content, doesn't even unlock, or isn't possible with-out being level 40.
There's no illegal combos of classes here, you may opt to power-build if you choose to. With the additions, it seems anyone and everyone will be some sort of powerbuild anyways... , there's nothing wrong with having a strong character.
Though, like with any RP PW... I'd want to see players creating a character, and sticking to their concepts from level 1 all the way beyond to 40.
You may have as many PCs as you wish to play.
The server has to be direct connected , it does not show up in game spy.
Last one, for some reason the Vault was wonky and left out a few...
All these portraits are optional, but recommended if you desire to see the other player's portraits.
Ten minutes ago, out of the whim, I decided, "Hey, self! Didn't you do a module way back when? Didn't you put it up on that site, what's it called... NWVault or something?" So a quick search for, um, myself, leads me to this, and had I known about this server earlier, I definitely would've loved to dropped in and see you guys taking things to a whole new level!
Either way, I just want to take the chance and thank everyone who thought the mod was worth the time playing, and here's to everyone who dreams of making games for the world to play!
~Web
Posted by azak30 at 2010-03-02 17:21:46 Voted 10.00 on 03/02/10
such a shame your not hosting it anymore, i visited for a bit the other day and was looking forward to going back on. you could always take the existing mad and create your new story and server using the systems GE offers. that is something that might really interest me
Posted by sdragonblood at 2010-02-25 16:41:51 Voted 10.00 on 01/27/10
Anyhoo...
we've kinda decided as a server not to host GE anymore. Just simply the novelty of it has worn off, and there was like 4 other Glorian Empire servers that were put up around the same time we went live. I think even though we made changes to ours, having so many kinda detracts from what we had planned to go with ours...
So as of March 4rth...
Our Glorian Empire will not be online and hosted anymore.
Posted by sdragonblood at 2010-02-25 16:39:16 Voted 10.00 on 01/27/10
Switch Blade...
I think you have our GE mod confused with another that's been up since we've had ours. We actually have a very quick leveling server... it's not extremely rapid, but is very fast compared to most hard core RP servers. I know starting out the low level baddies grant 30-60 xp per kill , dropping down to a min of 6xp when you reach around 10th level. Of course around the challenge level of 10 CR at those levels, the xp again grants alot.
Posted by SwitchBladeSisters at 2010-02-16 13:31:25 Voted 5.00 on 02/16/10
I have been playing there for awhile now and I find that with what I have noticed throughout other servers and modules that if you want a good RP base then Exp gains should not be so difficult I mean if you want to Spend your time Rping why would you wwant to Grind for hours and hours to build up your character stats.. Leveling increases what you can and can't RP.. high levels opens more RP ability.. I am not saying it should be EASY to level but it is the second most difficult of non Hardocre servers I have been too since NWN came out.
Posted by Glyve at 2010-01-27 15:50:33 Voted 10.00 on 01/27/10
The main draw for me is the sub-classes and new powers. I've always been hooked by character development, both through rp and through customization of skills, feats, spells, etc. And as stated, the options for such are truly unlimited. Also, I don't think that the two (rp and leveling) need to be mutually exclusive as they seem to be on a lot of other servers.
Posted by Edge-of-Oblivion at 2010-01-27 11:21:01 Voted 10.00 on 01/27/10
This vote is here in terms of potential.
The module is fantastic. SDragon is not the original creator, that honor goes to Web who did an excellent job with the building and scripting - my one complaint would be that many of the areas are large and take a long time to load, but we're working on that. The EP/AP combat system is an interesting and completely new tweak, and gives NWN a feel of some of the later 3.5 D&D expansion material - especially "Tome of Battle", which happens to be one of my personal favorites. The level of options is dazzling: eighteen trainers whose skills you can mix and match as you please, almost guaranteeing no two characters - no matter their race, class, alignment, feats, or skills - will ever be exactly alike.
What SDragon and the rest of us who jumped on board when this project started is expanding on Web's world. Writing a new fantastical setting and giving players new areas to explore even once they've managed to find all of this massive mod as it is is one of our first goals, including an Elven homeland... that actually is one of my favorite parts of this world, that Elves are enemies of humans and kept at a distance at best, hated and despised at worst, rather than venerated as the greatest example of perfection as they tend to be in most settings and most server worlds. Snobby stuck-up arrogant Elves? BLEH! Give me these xenophobic ranger-assassins any day over another bloody "Better Than Thou" Sun Elf. Well played, Web. Well played.
All the server is lacking to go from "good" to "great" is players. The staff is only myself and SDragon at the moment, and there are less than ten active players... doesn't make for very exciting interaction except when all of us are on at once, and schedules aren't always so kind ;) Adding an active player base with people interested in having fun through exploration and laid-back roleplay - no elitist punks or hardcore haters please, we're here to have fun folks - to this amazing campaign world is all that's needed to give it that boost up into awesome.
That was way longer than I intended but I hope it gets my point across. Hopefully anyone reading this will feel it worth checking out. We look forward to seeing you.
Laterz!
~Edge, AKA Axioanarchist
Posted by sdragonblood at 2010-01-27 09:01:04 Voted 10.00 on 01/27/10
Shameless plug here... I give it a ten myself, lol. Just because it's mine!
Seriously though, it's not perfect, nor as beautiful as many PW worlds out there, but it makes up for it in fun!
Has a great imaginative staff, and it's players are really great RPers and contribute just as much to the world and server as I do as administrator.
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