Time Periods ...?

[Teal_Blue]

Perhaps you aren't able to talk about this now, but it piqued my interest when i heard you say characters and different time periods...?

Perhaps i missed this if you explained it.

Or perhaps you didn't want to say it and it slipped?

Haha, or maybe you wanted to see who was listening?




Anyway, sounds intriguing, though i have no idea what it means.

-Teal

[Magos Mechanicus]

I think you mean the time periods mentioned in the new opening text crawl (as seen at the AVwW features page)

It is the year 2888.  Wind-blasted snowfields have covered earth for centuries.  Survivors in this ice age are few and isolated, caged by the bitter cold.  Most rely on newly-discovered magic powers to stay alive, though a few bastions of high technology still remain.

Now the glaciers have begun to recede, and a few brave souls venture forth.  What they discover is something no one expected:  Cities from America in the twenty-first century lie in just-abandoned ruin, next to towns from ancient China and Rome, near enclaves of skeletal robots from a time after people.  Most people from those fragments of other time periods are dead, but some live on despite periodic scouring windstorms and roving monsters.  These people are as lost and confused as the refugees from the ice age.

This is a deadly new world, and we must work together if we wish to stay alive.  We must thwart the wind, the monsters, and the would-be tyrants popping up.  We must explore and scavenge these time-shards to find the materials we need.  And we must enlist the other survivors to help rebuild civilization.  If we can find out what happened to our world as we explore, so much the better.  Such massive damage seems irreversible, but we can still build what all now dream of:  A home free of fear and death. A "valley without wind."

I get a bit of a Rifts feeling from it, if you've ever heard of it. I'm certainly interested in learning more.

[x4000]

Yep, that's exactly what I'm referring to with "time periods."

Beyond that bit of detail would be getting into spoiler territory, though, so there's not really much more to say just yet.  Someone else in another thread had asked some about how regions fit together, etc, and there was a bit of talk of super-regions which are related to this topic -- you could look that up -- but overall it's something we want you to discover as you play.