THUNDERDRACO'S PROFILE

Lamor'dae

Basically a general name used toward any undead being that follows the dark arts. Most undead typically attempt to study the ways of necromancy, although there are a few who chose not to. No one is certain how the undead are born; it simply happened (what with a biblical explanation in the game which I wont waste time with here) and soon undead were rising everywhere. When a human dies, he is buried. Other undead usually go grave robbing to gather human corpses for their experiments, and with uncovering some graves they find that some of the rotted corpses still have life, and can walk, as well as do much anything with free will. So simply, it is assumed that the undead are randomly spawned among dead bodies, albeit not all corpses reanimate.

Humans

Your common man. The human is considered ignorant and far below the superiority of an undead being, at least from the eyes of a Lamor'dae. The humans struggle with their own issues; war, resources and the like. Their knowledge of the undead and their abilities and intentions are non-existent, and observation of an undead typically leads the human to think it is only a common monster. Interaction with humans other than harvesting is considered a crime to the undead, as keeping the undead's secrets safe is top priority. The undead don't want to have hordes of humans outside their city the next morning because of some idiot's mistake, and thus political action in terms of crimes as these are high.

Reapers

Usually when we hear the word “reaper” we think of the one and only Death, but reapers are many in Nagalia, and are as much visible as any other existing being. The reapers are gifted with the powers of guiding souls into the Nether World by order of the “nether demons” (more on them later). When a human dies, his soul, the collection of all his mentality, what makes him who he is, is separated from his body. Reapers have jurisdictions over all matters concerning guiding, uncorrupting, and helping souls. They also search for lost souls; souls ripped from a human body prematurely or if the body is utterly decimated in an instant. Their job might seem easy, but by the strict demand of the nether demons, they are required to search for souls 24/7, and monsters also seem to enjoy gathering around the illustrious illuminations that souls seem to emanate.

Undead Government

The main form of government of all things undead. They manage the main income of human corpses for consumption (yeah I forgot to mention this, the undead require human bodies as food, to continue living) as well as for distributing for necromantic practice. They manage the society's laws and practices, as well as the laws concerning human interaction. Generally the government doesn't have too high or too low of an opinion concerning humans, rather in the middle between love and hate, as they need to gather from the humans for the sake of the undead population.

Nether Demons(Also known as the Nen'Em Auis)

Only some information is known about the nether demons, at least from the perspective of an undead citizen. The nether demons are like the “2nd layering” of government, in that the undead government must do as they say or else they will kill every undead in the city. Their demands are quite small, although intriguing. They only request that human souls be guided to them. Although, they do request non stop transportation of these souls, but it is still a rather simple request. No one knows for sure just what the nether demons do with or need those souls, but it isn't really a concern for the undead populace. Nether demons typically don't wander around in plain sight either of course, but it's said their monstrous forms are so hideous it can cause any human mind to break upon visualization.

Deathdancers (They also go by several other aliases)

The deathdancers are a secret organization formed despite the hatred and detest of many other citizens. The deathdancers have a strong connection to their past living existence. They have a deep focus to want to aid humans, as well as learn of their own undead pasts, as well as, most importantly, turn themselves back into humans. While its not illegal to have such beliefs and ideals, many citizens detest and hate this form of thinking, as they have grown hatred for humanity and its flaws through their years of unlife. They believe their existence has shown them the true errors of man kind, and that what they currently live as now is man's true, peaceful form.

Warlocks

Warlocks are like an alternate version of necromancers. They utilize necromantic knowledge for usage in their sorcery. Their arts might not rely directly with human parts, or mangling, but it is still a dark evil. Warlocks are despised by many, having a large government and sect; they are despised for their disrespect of the way of necromancy and the immoderate usage of human corpses. It is unlike the traditions of old. They are at war with the undead, trying to acquire their knowledge to further expand their powers. They say the warlocks have become corrupt, and strive only for power and world domination, who knows if this is actually true, but their actions surely show their intentions.

Summoning

Summoning is your bread and butter skill, albeit lacking in flair. There are numerous amounts of monsters that you can create, and through their creation you can create a scroll or an orb for that respective monster. Scrolls lets you summon that monster in as many battles as you want, but cost a lot to make, and you can only carry a few summoning scrolls with you at once. Orbs let you summon that monster only once, though it costs less to make orbs. Summoned monsters can also be dismissed with their scroll.

Monsters level up normally, and get stronger through them. To add to the importance of monsters, each one has a “Skill Tree”. A Skill Tree consists of several “skills” usable or passive, which can be bought to further upgrade and harden your monster. A Life Essence is required to purchase these skills, which are gotten from battles, as treasures or rewards. Blood is also needed, which is fed to the monster and acts as a prerequisite for some skills. Blood is always obtained through battle or as treasures and such. Each monster is unique and different in many ways, whether they are combat oriented or magic based etc. I try to make every monster useful and make their skills interesting.

Ingredients

Of course, one of the more potentially entertaining things in being a necromancer. Gather your ingredients to make your monster allies. There are four forms of ingredients: Corpses, Primary, Secondary and Life Substances. All are needed to properly create a monster, and work in a certain way. (Which you'll learn) Gathering corpses is probably the more entertaining aspect. Head to a human town and stealth fully kill humans, or go on a rampage and kill everyone. Lure children with candy, or help with a carnival of death.

Healing items are a bit in depth too. Medicine is the cheapest yet most ineffectual form of healing; potions are greater, but more expensive. Corpse items are the greatest form of healing items, but are rare.

Speaking of corpses again, corpses can also be stowed in the freezers, to increase their capability. The better the corpse, the more you can yield from it. If you want the organs within the corpse, you can have it shredded at the City's Tear-O-Matic, which will allow to receive the strong healing items, as well as a few miscellaneous ingredients. Corpses can also be used at the soul trap, where they be used to form a spirit, a very rare item that can permanently increase statistics, give you life essences or be used in strong equipment.

Souls

Souls are equippable items of immense power. Sometimes you will receive non specific souls such as: common soul, less common soul, ordinary soul, rare soul, artifact soul, legendary soul. These can be in turned in to the fortune teller to be converted into an actual soul (which can be equipped) of a value equal to its name. Souls are a sort of typical “dungeon treasure” item that is a nice find though not so common.

Honor

While most humans do not know the existence of the undead, there are some who do. The ones who do know take it for granted. They try and take advantage of this knowledge and earn themselves some cash. By communicating with these secret, incognito humans, you can spend Honor on weapons, armor, ingredients, and other things. You earn honor by helping humans, instead of hurting them. (Hurting them earns you dread which is used for certain things) But having high honor can be dangerous and can cause necromancers to attack you and the like. If you think your honor is too high, you can present yourself to the leader in the metropolis and have him strip you of all your honor for a modest fee.

Upgrading Malaeus

Malaeus can learn his necromantic skills and spells by purchasing them with dread. The spells and skills require that you have a high enough skill level in that appropriate class, (skill level max is 33) which can be leveled by using a life essence. Whether or not the skill level can be upgraded depends on Malaeus's current level. Every 3 levels, Malaeus can upgrade his skill levels by 1. A higher skill level obviously means you can purchase better spells. Purchasing the actual spell costs dread, which is gotten from killing humans or relinquishing spirits to the great beyond. Higher level skills also sometimes require a certain reputation rank. (which is explained below)

Necromancer's skills are broken down into classes:

-Assassination
-Affliction
-Curses
-Insectism
-Corpse Art
-Seals
-Sorcery
-Nether
-Imitation

You can have two classes worth of spells with you at any time. Each class varies in spells, and has different purposes. Find the ones you like and stick with them.

Malaeus upgrades his stats not through leveling but through battles. At the end of every battle, you receive blood. You use this blood to create blood gems, which can be enchanted to hold spells. But, you can further the ability of these blood gems by enchanting them with a life essence. Once they are enchanted, they become “Hearth Blood Gems” which upgrade a statistic of your choice.

Reputation

The Reputation system is a way of showing how effective you've been to the undead community. The reputation consists of several ranks that you achieve through collecting reputation from doing quests. Reputation is also earned from the total amount of dread you collect. Reputation has many benefits, such as more items being available to shops, being able to enter better dungeons and areas, more quests become available, achieving the next rank nets you a lot of cash, and higher reputation ranks allow you to purchase more and better skills for Malaeus.

Dungeons

As far as dungeons go, I'm trying to experiment with a more randomized creation system that allows dungeons to be more innovative and have more replayable value. No treasure will be in the same place, or be the same item; every puzzle will be slightly different or perhaps be in a different place. I believe the more interesting ideas I have for the dungeons are the implementations of the Spirit Skulls, and Fire Torches.

Spirit Skull: Skull of a spirit. When all monsters in the dungeon are dead, and all chests have been opened, this skull will turn into a spirit. (rare)

Fire Torches: When all of these are lit, (a fire is lit by activating things in the dungeon) a chest will be revealed containing decent treasure. (The torches are all gathered in one room) You will also receive a treasure room key, which opens a chest located past the boss of the dungeon to give you one rare item. The key is removed from you when you leave the dungeon.

Also on a random note since I didn't no where else to put this, the battles in my game are touch based, no random battles. You must get close to the monster for them to detect, and once they detect you, they will start to chase you. They will stop chasing you once you leave the map.