Welcome one and all to the Developers Log of LokaMC: Renatus Char
The date is January 1st, 2025, and the world of Char is about to change forever. Over the past year, starting in October of 2023, a series of events would eventually catch up with the world. Back on that fateful day, October 13th, 2023, a simple, relaxing Friday morning, turned chaotic, with the failure of the resource isles. All three resource isles have failed to regenerate, nothing too major for most towns and alliances, after all, by this point they had stockpiled enough wealth to see through this disaster. Cryptite could fix this right? RIGHT???
Well, he indeed, did not fix it. At first, it was heart breaking to see all of the small towns get eaten up by the wilderness, however, wars of conquest still had to occur, and grinding of gears went back to war after a short intermediary break. Ganking still occurred, towns still sold diamonds, gold, lapis to Neven. Neven still made bank, the man doesn't really care about the news, he just cares about one thing, money. Well, for the first time in Neven's lonely life, he read the newspaper.
Shortly after reading the paper, Neven was reported to having said "Well then, I'm broke", and left Aladra, this left Char in a state of panic, as they could no longer gain shards. A year long manhunt started looking for Neven, but he was never seen again. With this, the final straw broke the camels back, and most towns made ganking a bannable offense, and all wars of conquest ended. However, this didn't stop towns from building up impressive military stockpiles, as March 2024 broke April 2024, the final hammer would kill the camel.
This event led to the collapse of the Shard, as over 874 million shards existed on Loka, leading to it being worth close to nothing, beacons are now worth more than some towns. Melchiott went out of business, Frodii's tourney's ended, Lenrith couldn't afford to keep AI's at 32, they exploded to almost 2000 shards a pop. A great economic collapse his Loka, the economic spiral kept going further and further down as towns could barely to afford the basics. Major towns began to die off, nearly every town had to drop territory, those who held onto territory would die off. Shard Sinks were implemented, however proved futile due to the scope of the entire disaster.
On April 2nd, Black Tuesday hit Char. The Artifact, imploded, in a sense at least, no one knows exactly what happens, but the Artifact after imploding, exploded afterwards, sending a killer wave of shrapnel that left the mountains jagged, and dirt crystalized. The Artifact went into overdrive, instead of keeping people alive, it harbored something, what we know is that all who died, had their souls sucked into the Artifact, where they would never escape. This was discovered when three Aladrans whom relied on Melchiotts donations, starved to death. This led to a panic that hit every town.
In June of 2024, Dhanri won the election, however, more of Aladra became more radicalized as propaganda by Lenrith & Frodii convinced them of a better life. The elections of 2025 were going to be tough for Dhanri. However, on the continents, a completely different story began to brew
Hearts of Sylvis
With Loka being driven to chaos, including Sylvis itself, two radically different ideas for the future of Sylvis took hold. The first was to continue down the current path of sail, another, would slowly take root in the Northern Counterpart. Over time, Lower Sylvians grew a superiority complex, and began to practically ignore the needs of its counter part, which of course grew hatred between the two. The Lower Sylvians began to mainly focus on their own town, to prevent it from dying, this was made apparent, when at a meeting, FoxyBearGames asked for everyone to donate to a fund with their last saved Shards, to keep the towns alive. However, FoxBad pulled the old switcheroo, and sent all the shards into Lower Sylvis. Leaving Upper Sylvis in a state of Economic Crisis.
With boundaries clearly crossed, an underground group in Sylvis would erupt into the limelight, earning the respect and admiration of all Upper Sylvans, including seeping into the Uppers Governmental Branches. The Eagles Guard would keep Upper Sylvis above all else, including the liars of their Southern Counterpart. War will break out soon, how soon will be anyone's guess, however, it will lead to the end of the unwanted peace, that is on the Lokan World. After all, the debts Lower Sylvis incurs from the Trident Powers will surely come back to haunt him.
Race For The Dragon
With Loka occupied with the issues of Aladra, a race for a superweapon begins. It all started in the End, which was a puppet of Aladra, along with the Nether. One day, the Ender Dragon Egg, the very last one, went missing. Now this is a big issue, as whoever controls the last dragon, can become all powerful, the entirety of Char will bow to their knees, or unite against them. The End, Nether, Volterra, Tartooine, & Silverhand are the most interested, leading to espionage upon espionage upon espionage, to locate, capture, and tame the dragon, to hopefully gain total hegemony over the world of Char.
Collapse of Aladra
With the World of Char embroiling itself into its cauldron of hate and fire, Aladra watched from the sidelines. Currently, Aladra is led by a peaceful, neutral, isolationist leader, Dhanri. However, a lot of his recent actions are leading to his removal from office, a four way split, between Dhanri, Lenrith, the towns blacksmith and populous leader, Frodii, the CEO of Frodii's Fishing Enterprise and communist Revolutionary, and an unknown candidate that goes by "The Harbinger". All four candidates have 25% of the voting base, it will be a very close mayoral election.
The domains of Aladra have pledged to support different candidates, however, this may be a ploy to declare independence from Aladra the moment a Civil Conflict erupts. The elections are in 6 months, what happens between then and now is decided, what happens afterwards, is up for war to decide.
The War For Potatoes
Kalros, a continent of cold dread, which got a whole lot colder over the 2024-2025 Winter, and is shown to get colder over rest of the decade, led to a mass exodus of people down to southern Kalros. However, most towns in South Kalros didn't accept these refugees, they had barely enough potatoes to hold off for the rest of the year, they couldn't afford these refugees. So in response, the Northern Defense Council was formed, to protect the refugees. Due to Southern hostility, a set of war plans were created, in case they're citizens were denied Potatoes.
The towns of the south in response built up their defenses, to prepare for war with the Northern Defense Council, this would lead to a divide on the continent, with the coming December deciding whether Peace would be an option.
Economic Crisis
With the collapse of the Lokan Shard, many towns fell. However, not all fell, some are close. These towns will have to do something to prevent the deletion of their towns.
- Stromgarde: A fortress in the North, short of Cash, may find that although its the Continental capital, swallowed up by their neighbors
- Upper Sylvis: A counterpart to Lower Sylvis, who got swindled out of its last penny, its on its dying legs, will the town live to see the horizon once again?
- Loraxia: Kingdom of the West, surrounded by nothing but an impenetrable forest, and an ocean. However, this leaves it stranded from resources, leaving shards hard to find.
Militarization
Many towns found themselves militarizing post collapse of the Shard, lets looks at a couple
- Sandsete: Ever since the raid on their library, they're on a desperate search for the culprits, they are planning to make them suffer, all over some books.
- Hilo: Long considered the Sick Man of Kalros, is about to show the world that they still got some punch in them, just got to deal with their neighbors first.
- Eldritch: With Loka seemingly no longer peaceful, and a continental war on Ascalon about to break out, this town began a massive defense program to keep it from falling.
The Great Ascalonian Scuffle
After the fall of the shard, Ascalon suffered 2 years of peace, with most towns attempting to stabilize their own towns. During this time, Helian League collapsed, leading to once more a Covenant Victory, for how long? That can't be said as a new alliance, the Grand Imperium, is prepared to fight Covenant, will the Covenant last through this threat as well? Or will the Covenant fall into the History Books once and for all. Only time will tell
The Garaman Order
With the rest of Loka occupied, Garama remains relatively peaceful, barring the incident every now and then, however, the corruption which plagued the alliance at the beginning of 2024 is becoming more and more obvious. A Civil War in BITS is inevitable, however, a major event will have to unfold for this occur, whatever that will be, will be determined in due time, in the mean time, lets intervene in the other events of Loka, after all, nothing bad will happen to us, right? RIGHT???
The Trident Powers
With war seemingly imminent, the powers of Sandsete, Vinovia, and Volterra signed a military alliance promising to join all wars of the other. No nation wants war, however, if this is how peace should be determined, then it must.
Thats all well and Good, but whats this for?
Hello everyone, Zachary_N_Kaleno here with this small side project. You might have a few questions, and I'd be glad to answer them.
To quite simply start, I'm creating a mod for Hearts of Iron IV, which is a Grand Strategy Video Game set during WW2. I will be using the above story to translate into a hopefully fun war story. I will be using this thread to update the community with how far the Mod is, any updates, and answer any questions. Keep in mind the stories told above are stupidly condensed down, and will have more lore in the mod itself, don't want to spoil everything now do I? Either way, I hope you enjoyed the read, any questions, ask, and most importantly, have a great day. If anyone would like to help with the story some bit, or with some of the coding (Should all just be easy), Direct Message Zachary N. Kaleno#0380, or ask me on the forums.
The Towns involved (Keep in mind, this map was designed in February, still being worked on, can easily remove and add towns)
The date is January 1st, 2025, and the world of Char is about to change forever. Over the past year, starting in October of 2023, a series of events would eventually catch up with the world. Back on that fateful day, October 13th, 2023, a simple, relaxing Friday morning, turned chaotic, with the failure of the resource isles. All three resource isles have failed to regenerate, nothing too major for most towns and alliances, after all, by this point they had stockpiled enough wealth to see through this disaster. Cryptite could fix this right? RIGHT???
Well, he indeed, did not fix it. At first, it was heart breaking to see all of the small towns get eaten up by the wilderness, however, wars of conquest still had to occur, and grinding of gears went back to war after a short intermediary break. Ganking still occurred, towns still sold diamonds, gold, lapis to Neven. Neven still made bank, the man doesn't really care about the news, he just cares about one thing, money. Well, for the first time in Neven's lonely life, he read the newspaper.
Shortly after reading the paper, Neven was reported to having said "Well then, I'm broke", and left Aladra, this left Char in a state of panic, as they could no longer gain shards. A year long manhunt started looking for Neven, but he was never seen again. With this, the final straw broke the camels back, and most towns made ganking a bannable offense, and all wars of conquest ended. However, this didn't stop towns from building up impressive military stockpiles, as March 2024 broke April 2024, the final hammer would kill the camel.
This event led to the collapse of the Shard, as over 874 million shards existed on Loka, leading to it being worth close to nothing, beacons are now worth more than some towns. Melchiott went out of business, Frodii's tourney's ended, Lenrith couldn't afford to keep AI's at 32, they exploded to almost 2000 shards a pop. A great economic collapse his Loka, the economic spiral kept going further and further down as towns could barely to afford the basics. Major towns began to die off, nearly every town had to drop territory, those who held onto territory would die off. Shard Sinks were implemented, however proved futile due to the scope of the entire disaster.
On April 2nd, Black Tuesday hit Char. The Artifact, imploded, in a sense at least, no one knows exactly what happens, but the Artifact after imploding, exploded afterwards, sending a killer wave of shrapnel that left the mountains jagged, and dirt crystalized. The Artifact went into overdrive, instead of keeping people alive, it harbored something, what we know is that all who died, had their souls sucked into the Artifact, where they would never escape. This was discovered when three Aladrans whom relied on Melchiotts donations, starved to death. This led to a panic that hit every town.
In June of 2024, Dhanri won the election, however, more of Aladra became more radicalized as propaganda by Lenrith & Frodii convinced them of a better life. The elections of 2025 were going to be tough for Dhanri. However, on the continents, a completely different story began to brew
Hearts of Sylvis
With Loka being driven to chaos, including Sylvis itself, two radically different ideas for the future of Sylvis took hold. The first was to continue down the current path of sail, another, would slowly take root in the Northern Counterpart. Over time, Lower Sylvians grew a superiority complex, and began to practically ignore the needs of its counter part, which of course grew hatred between the two. The Lower Sylvians began to mainly focus on their own town, to prevent it from dying, this was made apparent, when at a meeting, FoxyBearGames asked for everyone to donate to a fund with their last saved Shards, to keep the towns alive. However, FoxBad pulled the old switcheroo, and sent all the shards into Lower Sylvis. Leaving Upper Sylvis in a state of Economic Crisis.
With boundaries clearly crossed, an underground group in Sylvis would erupt into the limelight, earning the respect and admiration of all Upper Sylvans, including seeping into the Uppers Governmental Branches. The Eagles Guard would keep Upper Sylvis above all else, including the liars of their Southern Counterpart. War will break out soon, how soon will be anyone's guess, however, it will lead to the end of the unwanted peace, that is on the Lokan World. After all, the debts Lower Sylvis incurs from the Trident Powers will surely come back to haunt him.
Race For The Dragon
With Loka occupied with the issues of Aladra, a race for a superweapon begins. It all started in the End, which was a puppet of Aladra, along with the Nether. One day, the Ender Dragon Egg, the very last one, went missing. Now this is a big issue, as whoever controls the last dragon, can become all powerful, the entirety of Char will bow to their knees, or unite against them. The End, Nether, Volterra, Tartooine, & Silverhand are the most interested, leading to espionage upon espionage upon espionage, to locate, capture, and tame the dragon, to hopefully gain total hegemony over the world of Char.
Collapse of Aladra
With the World of Char embroiling itself into its cauldron of hate and fire, Aladra watched from the sidelines. Currently, Aladra is led by a peaceful, neutral, isolationist leader, Dhanri. However, a lot of his recent actions are leading to his removal from office, a four way split, between Dhanri, Lenrith, the towns blacksmith and populous leader, Frodii, the CEO of Frodii's Fishing Enterprise and communist Revolutionary, and an unknown candidate that goes by "The Harbinger". All four candidates have 25% of the voting base, it will be a very close mayoral election.
The domains of Aladra have pledged to support different candidates, however, this may be a ploy to declare independence from Aladra the moment a Civil Conflict erupts. The elections are in 6 months, what happens between then and now is decided, what happens afterwards, is up for war to decide.
The War For Potatoes
Kalros, a continent of cold dread, which got a whole lot colder over the 2024-2025 Winter, and is shown to get colder over rest of the decade, led to a mass exodus of people down to southern Kalros. However, most towns in South Kalros didn't accept these refugees, they had barely enough potatoes to hold off for the rest of the year, they couldn't afford these refugees. So in response, the Northern Defense Council was formed, to protect the refugees. Due to Southern hostility, a set of war plans were created, in case they're citizens were denied Potatoes.
The towns of the south in response built up their defenses, to prepare for war with the Northern Defense Council, this would lead to a divide on the continent, with the coming December deciding whether Peace would be an option.
Economic Crisis
With the collapse of the Lokan Shard, many towns fell. However, not all fell, some are close. These towns will have to do something to prevent the deletion of their towns.
- Stromgarde: A fortress in the North, short of Cash, may find that although its the Continental capital, swallowed up by their neighbors
- Upper Sylvis: A counterpart to Lower Sylvis, who got swindled out of its last penny, its on its dying legs, will the town live to see the horizon once again?
- Loraxia: Kingdom of the West, surrounded by nothing but an impenetrable forest, and an ocean. However, this leaves it stranded from resources, leaving shards hard to find.
Militarization
Many towns found themselves militarizing post collapse of the Shard, lets looks at a couple
- Sandsete: Ever since the raid on their library, they're on a desperate search for the culprits, they are planning to make them suffer, all over some books.
- Hilo: Long considered the Sick Man of Kalros, is about to show the world that they still got some punch in them, just got to deal with their neighbors first.
- Eldritch: With Loka seemingly no longer peaceful, and a continental war on Ascalon about to break out, this town began a massive defense program to keep it from falling.
The Great Ascalonian Scuffle
After the fall of the shard, Ascalon suffered 2 years of peace, with most towns attempting to stabilize their own towns. During this time, Helian League collapsed, leading to once more a Covenant Victory, for how long? That can't be said as a new alliance, the Grand Imperium, is prepared to fight Covenant, will the Covenant last through this threat as well? Or will the Covenant fall into the History Books once and for all. Only time will tell
The Garaman Order
With the rest of Loka occupied, Garama remains relatively peaceful, barring the incident every now and then, however, the corruption which plagued the alliance at the beginning of 2024 is becoming more and more obvious. A Civil War in BITS is inevitable, however, a major event will have to unfold for this occur, whatever that will be, will be determined in due time, in the mean time, lets intervene in the other events of Loka, after all, nothing bad will happen to us, right? RIGHT???
The Trident Powers
With war seemingly imminent, the powers of Sandsete, Vinovia, and Volterra signed a military alliance promising to join all wars of the other. No nation wants war, however, if this is how peace should be determined, then it must.
Thats all well and Good, but whats this for?
Hello everyone, Zachary_N_Kaleno here with this small side project. You might have a few questions, and I'd be glad to answer them.
To quite simply start, I'm creating a mod for Hearts of Iron IV, which is a Grand Strategy Video Game set during WW2. I will be using the above story to translate into a hopefully fun war story. I will be using this thread to update the community with how far the Mod is, any updates, and answer any questions. Keep in mind the stories told above are stupidly condensed down, and will have more lore in the mod itself, don't want to spoil everything now do I? Either way, I hope you enjoyed the read, any questions, ask, and most importantly, have a great day. If anyone would like to help with the story some bit, or with some of the coding (Should all just be easy), Direct Message Zachary N. Kaleno#0380, or ask me on the forums.
The Towns involved (Keep in mind, this map was designed in February, still being worked on, can easily remove and add towns)
| Ascalon | Kalros | Garama | Other |
| Volterra | Vinovia | The Sylvi (Upper & Lower) | Aladra |
| Valyria | Silverhand | Southern Valyria | End (Dominion of Aladra) |
| Western Rivendale | Stromgarde | Sandsete | Nether (Dominion of Aladra) |
| Euphoria | Hilo | New Lindis | Rivina (Dominion of Aladra) |
| Eneria | Imperial | Tartooine | Balak (Dominion of Aladra) |
| Ionia | Valador | Noobville | Gank Isle Question Mark? (Dominion of Aladra?) |
| Loraxia | Possibly More | Edgewind | Possibly More |
| Valentia | Yaddas | ||
| Wastia | Valmas | ||
| Gotham | Cornerstone Canal | ||
| Eldritch | Possibly More | ||
| Western Fruitopia | |||
| Amanita | |||
| Al Raltah | |||
| Possibly more |
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