Update #18

Been almost a month since the last time I posted something. This is the bad news update. We're in a situation where we need to just sit back and wait. After a few events and unpredictable obstacles, we decided to put the project on the ice.

I will update as soon as I get news.

-Frogy

Update #17

Time for some organization!

RP jobs/characters:

As said before, RP jobs will be available in town. I made a long list without any kind of organization earlier and it's now time to fix that.

Some jobs are easily available, some are not. Since the town will be organized around social classes (player status), some jobs will only be available for nobles and some only for mid class (bourgoisie, if you will).

Note that it's possible to upgrade your social class. Players will gain a higher social class depending on the work he did for the town, and the trust we have on him.

Note that all jobs are paid.

Low class jobs (New members):
-Farmer's assistant
-Miner
-Sailor (Captain's/Fisherman's helper)
-Traveling merchant's assistant
-Squire (Adventurer's/Knight's assistant)
-Student (Mathematician's/Astronomist's/Alchemist's/Mage's assistant. Lives at the academy)
-Delivery man
-Gladiator

Bourgoisie class jobs (Trusted members, must create a RP character):
-Blacksmith
-Librarian
-Bartender
-Doctor
-Tailor
-Engineer (factory owners)
-Mining company owner
-Gardener
-Carpenter* (Buildteam)
-Florist
-Courier
-Guard/Soldier
-Mapper/Adventurer/Explorer
-Fruit seller
-Butcher
-Artist (Sells painting)
-Writers (Sells stories he writes)
-Herald
-Farmer (Own and manage a farm)
-Priest
-Ship Captain/Fisher man
-Musician (Disc and noteblock shop)
-Mine Company owner
-Gravekeeper

Noblety jobs (Assistants and VIP players):
-Knight (Elite PvPers)
-Royal Ship Captain
-Air ship captain
-Butler
-Astronomist/Mathematician/Alchemist
-High Priest (Cathedral owner)
-Theater Master (Own the arena, organize events)
-Ambassador
-Councilor

*Carpenter: You must be accepted in the town's buildteam.

The list is better that way.  :)  Note that to become noble, you need to make a donation to the town. A huge ammount of yora, for example. Each classes have their own advantages. And note that you cannot jump from low class to noblety.

Enough for this morning!

-Frogy

Update #16

Small update. Just to post some pictures of my church.

-Frogy

 Update #16.1

Aaaaaand here's the graveyard that goes with it. :)

Update #15

Hello people of A'therys. Here's a small update about what is being organized in town. I'm actually writting a very detailed RP rule chart with Redninja. Some kind of very structured code on how to RP act in our town. A bit complicated to memorize, but still awesome.

There's also a lot of RP jobs available in town now. Those characters will have a specific duty in town. For an exemple, the blacksmith. The blacksmith will run his little forge and shop to sell blacksmith items to the town. Every characters will have their own business/shop/building in town. That way, we don't end up with just a bunch of random chest shops in a market square. There will also have a tax system for owners of RP shop.

We are recruiting! Some available shops/buildings:

-Bakery
-forge
-Library
-2 taverns
-2 churches
-Clinic (apothecary)
-Redstone shop
-Tailor
-Factory
-Quarry/Mining company
-Flower shop
-Bank
-Butcher shop
-Farms
-Stables

Here's a bunch of characters/jobs available

-Blacksmith
-2 Librarians
-2 Bartenders
-2 or 3 Doctors (1 taken)
-Tailor
-2 Engineers (factory owners)
-Mining company owner
-Ship captain
-Sailors
-Airship captain (Skylord, get the reference ;) )
-Gardener (Palace)
-2 Butlers (Would like to have one named Alfred. Both is good too) (Courier, Assistants helpers)
-Astronomist
-Mathematician
-Alchemist
-Carpenters (Build team)
-Florist
-Courier
-Musicians (Palace)
-Guards/Soldiers
-Priests
-Mapper
-Traveling Merchants
-Fruit seller
-Butcher
-Ambassadors (From other towns too)
-Artist
-Writers/Scribes
-Farmers (Owns realistic looking farms)
-Magicians (live in a cool tower)
-Slaves

An aplication is needed for some of these jobs. Contact me on the forum if you're interested in one of these jobs. :)

-Frogy

Off topic #3

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world” - Harriet Tubman

-Don't know what I'm talking about? Well you better keep reading!

Hey guys, I am redninja685/ Henry/ Lord Chadimus nav-Sa'arav; today I’ll be talking you through my inspirations! Now I'd like to point out, I'm a not a brilliant builder, but I build to a substantial standard to ensure that its a perfect piece for what ever, or who ever I'm building for. Not only am I going to tell you about my inspirations for that, but also my character, and my traits; all leading up to building my crescendo for A'therys Ascended Version two!

My way of building...

Building is normally the sideline thing I did when I was in Nasa'ar; but since I joined the Andronesia team, building has been my greatest achievement in my Minecraft adventure. I was originally taught how to build the “proper way” by my best companion Onkelcuno; I owe him so much to teaching me, and its made me the builder that I can proudly say I am today. After spending a great deal of time with Spajn, Frog211 and Lolbroek101, I learn that every builder has a way of building, now bearing in mind Onkel constantly told me to use more than just the average block, I had not activated my creative spark.

Some people like Onkel himself can build amazing structures out of thin air, where as I could not barely think of where to start or what to build. So I worked out what worked best for me, eventually I found it! My way of building, my triggering inspiration, is merely browsing through google and finding a building which triggers a chain reaction... first I'd think of the theme, then the time period, then the palate, then I go off and find some amazing structure from google. From there I attempt to build it into Minecraft, whilst also implementing my own ideas to modify the building... here is an example below! 

Picture from google:

 

And here is my version in MC:

 

What I built here is “The Royal Manor House of Sanderion” - seat and official home to the Sa'arav family. Something that I hope to build near the Selukkite capital Qhul-Rahav in the very distant future! The theme was royal-looking, I thought of the Victorian period, palate would be sandstone and variants of stone; searched into google Victorian palace's and I found this, the very old and original Alexander Palace. *Coughs Excuse me... may I mention, that it is incomplete, I yet to insert the middle tower and roof designs/ roof windows. Another example that I got in fact today was the library... Lolbroek allowed to design the library, so I thought to myself think of something to trigger my “Inspiration reaction”, I though of the theme a Library, for some reason I though of the library from Dragonspire in Wizard101... which made me think of a rounded room... then it hit me! The Great Sept of Baelor from Game of Thrones! Anyway, that enough on that subject... not let me tell you about my character!

My character development...

For AAv2 I decided to keep Chadimus nav-Sa'arav, mainly because I love his name and what he looks like; but however, he will be a completely different person from the last one, with a whole new character lore, which has driven him as his main motivator! But that is yet to be released so shush! (Hopefully I can release it with the Lithaearian Lore). So Chadimus, head of a tribe/ house... this makes him a lord and puts him into nobility; when I though of colours for him, I wanted to express power, where I see power is in the Fire Nation from Avatar Legend of Aang! Red and gold, so I created him a custom skin from that.

Next greatest inspiration was basing Chadimus on another character... at first it was hard to think of someone to possible match the criteria for Chadimus. One day I got board and my friend told me I should go with them to the cinema, the moment I saw it up on the advertisements... I wanted to watch it, The Hobbit! Since that day I had been addicted to the amazing story; but over the past year I grew to adore one particular character who I based the new Chadimus on, he is the one and only Thranduil, the Elven king! Upon deciding this about a month ago now, I took charge to change Chad's crown to look like Thranduil's, but with my own touch, you can see a picture below. Now he looked, graceful, powerful, rich and... Melevolent (I say no more than that). Dare I say he carries a lot of Thranduils traits to; wait to you see what lore I have for him! Btw dont get Chadimus confused with Henry/ Redninja685, seriously he may sound like an evil guy, but I'm not :P 

 

Me in Lithaear...

So I wanted something else to do, yes I did get tired of Nasa'ar, and that was that... I am here now and I LOVE IT HERE. I can not express how great the people are, longingly had I adored Andronesia and now I'm glad to be part of something greater and more epic. To make sure *Coughs Again I leave my “Hallmark” here, I am the so called assistant who named the town Lithaear, elvish for Sand and Water. This is my token to the existing town members, Lolbroek101, Frogy211 and Mayor Spajn, that I will love this town, be dedicated to it, and assist it through good and bad, just as I did for Rim. I find it a complete privilege to be with you guys, and I look forward to the future!

Nor do I look at my past with any regrets ;) Now I leave you with a final quote!

“Rome wasn't built in a day... Rome wasn't built in a year... In fact Rome was never completed, but its great Empire fell because the people stopped believing and gave up. It is in that moment when you give up your dream, that it becomes incomplete; nothing can ever be completed, but its what you do along that way that makes YOU complete.” So do you wanna know who came up with this quote? Well... hahaha:

– Signed Lord Chadimus Pius nav-Sa'arav (Aka redninja685 aka Henry).

Update #14

Arena pictures as promissed! :)

-Frogy

Off topic #2

Alright! Why not take the time to talk about a game that greatly influenced my builds in MC. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

First of all this game is my childhood. I can still remember sitting in front of the tv and playing it all day when I was a kid. This game always had an influence on my artistic creativity. When it come to build something in MC, I tend to enjoy to build dark structure as temples, catacombs and graves. Something  that always shocked me as a kid was the really dark and scary places in that game. Such as the bottom of the well and the shadow temple.

And especially that abomination!

^ This nasty monster is so well engrained in my psyche that if I ever see someone with pale skin and dark spot, I'd get a sword and beat him right away.

That dark side of the game always fascinated me. Especially the Kakarico village. This town seems so peaceful from the first look. Carpenters are building, the cuccos lady is looking for her chickens, the guard looking for a fox mask for his son,  that weird dude in the windmill... But when you have a closer look,  you realize the town has an incredibly dark hidden history. That's what I like about Kakarico.

I always saw Kakariko village into old Andronesia. Andronesia was the perfect town to hide something really dark. To have morbid secrets. So peaceful on the first sight. Just needed some a bit of horror to complete it. That's why the first story I've wrote was about an era where an evil and paranoid ruler is dealing with the town during a mysterious plague. And of course it turns out to have HORIBLE events and be an horror book. Kakarico's influence is very high in that story. And yes I included a "Shadow temple" which is a underground prison. Worst and darker than everything you can even imagine. ;) I'm eager to get done of it so I could realease it.

I even started to build that jail on AAv1. Not a long time before the shut down... Got deleted. Oh why? T-T But I still got some pictures of it! Woot!

Hope you can set up your screen's luminosity. When I say dark, I mean it. ;)

PS: To those who didn't play that game, you missed something. Nighty night folks.
PPS: Maybe am I a psychopath. Maybe not...

-Frog