[RMXP]Wendia: Silentium Of Ventus

[Black Shadow 14]

In memory of Lena Bergqvist (1957-2008). Love you mother

Awarded second place in Project Of The Month May 09 on RPGrevolution.

 

Story

 

For the generation, the Wind Castle Of Wendia has been the main source of the winds that blews through the worlds. Their priestess constantly prays to their oracle, Oracle Of Wind, to keep the winds in place. The Oralce only shows for certian people, and isn't visible for ordinary people.

The wind is an important source for the worlds balance. Without it, the world will slowly turn into a desert. With the power of the Oralce, and the written words in the Wendian Arcs, the wind will slowly blew through the world, and keeps its balance.

 

Tamina is one of the new generation of priestess. She's just turned 20, and is now able to visit the Wendian Arcs with the Oracles permission. She lost her mother during an illness, and has been gursade by the other priestess during this time. Her best friend Zabath, one of the few male priests, has protected and supported her during all this time, and stands close to her, which she is thankfull for.

Taminas life is commited to constant praying, but she can't stand to go an lifestyle like that. But she has no choice. Her mother used to be Head Priest of Wendian, and as her daughter, Tamina needs to show a good example to the other priestess.

 

One day, the Oracle suddenly appears on the roof of Wendian Castle. This is the first time in years that she shows herself. It's a bad omen. She demands to meet a certian girl..without telling a reason to the others. The girl she wants to see is Tamina.

 

When Tamina finally meets the Oracle, she's told that something is about to happen. Something that will disturb the balance of the world. She tells Tamina that she will appear again in 4 days, and give further information for her.

With alot of questions, Tamina returns to her room.

 

4 days later, Tamina wokes up by by an complete silence. This is not normal, since the winds always blows outside the castle. Tamina heads up to the roof, and as the Oracle said 4 days earlier, she had return to the roof.

The tells Tamina that during the night, the wind stopped, and the sounds of the wind has silenced. The Wendian Arcs has been stolen! During the night, a thief broke into the libary, and stole the Wendians Arcs. The Arcs is one of the reasons that the wind exists, and it needs to return to the castle at once. The Oracle says to Tamina that she needs to head out to the world, to find the Arcs, before the world turns into a desert of death.

 

Now, Tamina needs to find this thief, and take the Arcs back to Wendian. As assistant on her journey, the Oracle gives Tamina a Wind spirit, called Ongria. Ongria has an ability to sence the aura from the Arcs, and will be helpfull on this journey. Together with Ongria and Zabath, Tamina heads out to find the Arcs, and stop the creation of the desert.

 

Characters

 

 

Tamina

Age: 20

Tamina is the main character. She's the new generation of Wind Priests. She lost both her parents(Mother in illness, father suicide) and has been guarded by the rest of the priests in Wendia. She is specialiced in Wind Magic, and also knows how to heal people. The Oracle gave her the mission to return the arcs to Wendia, before the world turns into a desert. Skeptical to take such an important quest, Tamina decides to return the Arcs to Wendia. to prevent this disaster to occure. Together with Zabath, she heads out in the world to find the arcs, and return the arcs to were they belong.

Zabath

Age: 21

Zabath is Taminas best friend. He's a very wise young lad, and is one of the few male Wind Priests. He was once raised to use a sword, but moved to smaller weapon types like daggers and short swords, because he like smaller weapons more. He ran away from his parents when he was a kid, and was found by one of the Head Priests of Wendia, Suriz. Sincde then, he has been raised to be a priest.

Marica

Age: 18

Marica lives in a village called Mist south of Wendia. She owns an alchemist shop along with her father and brother. While searching the woods after new ingrediences for a new potion, she ends up being attacked by a gang of bandits. Extremly out-numbered, she's willing to give up against the bandits. Luckily, Tamina and Zabath spots this attack, and succesfully saves Marica from the bandits. In order to show her gratitude, Marica joins Tamina to follow every step Tamina takes, even if Tamina dosen't really want to drag around with a teenager on such a important mission as this.

Marche

Age: 25

He's the thief who stole the Wendian Archs. He sold it shortly after he stole it, and while heading to get his money, he was ambushed, and later woke up in a forest. Suspecting that his client hired someone to get rid of Marche, he's determed to give revenge to the one he sold it to, but accidently cross paths with Tamina, and is now forced to give the Arcs back to Tamina, no matter if he want or not.

 

Catty

Age: 20

An old friend of Marche, but are now enemies. Catty used to search for treasures and plunder with Marche. It is said that she was in love with Marche, but after a betrayal of Marche, they enemies. She is a thief just like Marche, but she's using knives as weapons, and her speed in battle is breathtaking.

 

Patty

Age: 22

Patty is a warrior, who lives in the town of Mist. One day, while takning a walk she saved Marica from a wild beast, and after that, she's been protecting her from danger. She uses the spear, and it is said that she once beat 20 bandits, without any help.

 

Screenshots

 

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Credit List

 

Program used: RPG Maker XP

 

Scripts

Cogwheel: RTAB Battle System

Ccoa: Message System(Universal Message System)

Blizzard: Party changer script

Falcon: Edited the RTAB for me.

Jens009: Ongrian Save system.

Kendore: The CMS Im using.

Nera Fantastica: Anti-Lag Script

 

Graphics

Enterbrain

Strawberry Quarter

Myself

Venetia

Cbas

Sithjester

Mack

WeaponOD

Euphony

Ellenor

Rye

 

Support

Theory

 

Music

Enterbrain

Paradelous

 

Art

 

People are free to do fan-art for the game if they want to :)

 

 

Art by ellenor

 

 

Logo made by Axerax

 

Art by Social Damage

 

Art by coyotecraft

 

Logo by me

 

Demo: None yet!

 

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What do you think so far?

[solshadow 0]

Game looks good! I like the thief already cuz his name is Marche :D tis my birthday month and I named my cat that

[Black Shadow 14]

Don't you mean March? Lol..

 

Thanks for the comment anyway^^

[LovePhoenix 3]

I am honestly in love with this game. The story is nice and original although with some very minor cliches, but the great mapping and lovely characters make up for those cliches making us totally forget about them. I am looking forward when you release a demo. I'll sure play it! ^^

 

Btw, I believe that the site where the characters are from is called "Strawberry Quartz" not Quarter. ^^;

[Black Shadow 14]

Thanks for pointing that out. I always spell it wrong XD

 

Here's a puzzle from the game. The puzzle was made by Dalton on RMXP.org, so credits goes to him for the help :)

[LovePhoenix 3]

Looks nice. Dalton looks like he did a good job with it. ^^

[Black Shadow 14]

Okay, nearly a month has passed, so maybe I should give an update on the situation.

1 month ago, my computer chrashed, so I haven't been able to work on this. My father and I took a look on it yesterday though. So now, my computer works somewhat. The CPU level is always up on 57% or something, but I can use the computer. Other from that, it pretty much works, but Im planning to fix a new computer soon.

RPGXP is up and running now, and the project works . The only thing I need to repair is 2 autotiles that I can fix in 3 seconds or something. Other from that, the project is alive again