ESSENCEBLADE'S PROFILE

The party rests at a lodge and finds that one of their party members falls ill. The lodge owner says that the illness can only be treated by a now extinct herb.

The lodge owner says that the wizard who used to brew the potions hasn't left his house on the other side of the forest for ages.

Party seeks a wizard who died of old age recently. They have the idea to travel to the past and try and approach him in his earlier years.

They go to the past, and find the wizard in his former time (with obvious terrain and area changes).

The wizard speaks to you, and tells you that he cannot to anything because he lacks a certain flower which is thought to never exist in this region.

You head back to the present and let's say, you head to the "Far East" and locate that specific flower. This region wasn't even heard of in the past era.

You travel back to the past and relocate the wizard. He is baffled at how you found it, but creates it into a herb anyway.

You travel back to the present with the herb and return to the area your companion fell ill. They recover and the optional quest is complete.

This influences say things like, Bazaar goods, or the chances he offers your assistance later in the game / story or a mini quest is flagged.


That, is a crude example of it but it is a base explanation.

Now for storyline terms, I have taken this idea into further use and used it as a necessary part of the story. Whereas you go to the past by accident due to an enemy casting a spell on you. You are separated from your party and you find yourself in an area you re-know well. But this time it is differently coloured, the monsters associated there are vastly more powerful. You find that the terrain (as rocks and caverns, which were blocked or removed in the present,) is now drastically changed and you have more access to the area. The music is also different and the atmosphere is just totally different.

Now I'm thinking of making this a mid to low priority, and rather I see it as a "mini expansion" for quests and missions. It only appears as a essential part of the game a few times., and after that the player can freely explore between eras whereas they please.

My idea was about the civil war and the discovery and struggle of a resistance. This is purely optional, but if complete, you uncover something say, valuable, and a worthwhile piece of information. Further exploration in the past allows you to access more areas which you could normally access in the present.


My idea of a past is several years ago, 30 years ago, was my idea, and time travel is rather more limited, where you must walk up to, say a "Maw Rift" which sucks you in by accident. You are put into the past of that area, and you can only access the present by re-approaching that Maw Rift. So for now, only that area alone you have access to.

To access other areas you need to explore more areas by walking to them manually forsay. And within those areas you need to locate a Maw Rift in those specific areas. Activating rifts in the past allows them to flow in the present, allowing you to access the past area of that specific location once activated from the past.

Areas such as towns and cities for example, play a major role in the storyline of the past. As you find out there is about to be a war between civilization and monster. I plan on it being set into the Medieval Era, so there are swords and shields ect. You have the option to join forces of a specific nation. (Which I would call a campaign battle for example.)

I also plan on making classes unlocked exclusively for accessing the past. Locating a city say, is a rough journey, but worth it, allowing you to trigger quests in that city. Some of those quests require you to travel outside the city again, but you are able to teleport to areas you've activated by speaking to Allied Reunion Sappers at outposts in specific areas. The outposts serve as strongholds while monsters--or beasts, rather--try to take over them. Battles take place there and you try and fend them off, this is how you do your part as an Allied Campaign Soldier for example.