Freebloods?

[tassai]

Not sure if I am posting this in the right place but when reading one of the D’Ryil's Letters, part 3 to be exact I wondered if the letter was meant to indicate that Freebloods can tolerate sunlight? "Alesandra, I am writing to discuss a very troubling matter, one that is up the utmost importance to our House and family. It seems that our brother, Aerlin, has acquired some very interesting notes. He was able to gather a tome of research from none other than Mayong himself, which seemed to detail Mayong’s encounter with Tserrina, and notes he took on his attempted, and failed, turning of her. Aerlin then managed to acquire Tserrina’s notes on her own experiments of immortality from the library of Neriak. His work seemed to point toward something he called the “strengthening of the blood”, a mixing of the research of Mayong and Tserrina. According to my informant, these experiments were largely unsuccessful, although their processes were well thought out. They attempted to turn all manner of races, from the brutish ogres, to the hideous iksar, to the insignificant gnomes. It seems that of all the races, the only ones they were able to have any measure of success with were those of human and elven stock – any others simply died in writhing agony. Although it appears they have not yet achieved their goal, they met a measure of success with a human male they refer to as "Sarkon". While he was not what they were hoping for initially, he did survive his experiments and was able to evidently provide them with a wealth of information. Evidently, they found all they needed to know, and were planning to destroy him. That was, until they entered his chamber to find him missing. Sarkon had escaped. The troubling piece of information here, is that Sarkon escaped during the daylight. I’ll repeat that: Sarkon fled his confinement during full sunlight. While the fools are scrambling to discern how this was possible, the implications of what happened are not to be understated. It appears that Sarkon can walk into the daylight, since no charred remains were found. Whether he had assistance with this act is irrelevant. Sarkon, while D’Ryil, is not subservient to the House as he should be, and could prove to be dangerous to all of the D’Ryil as a whole. He must be found, and ultimately, destroyed. In the meantime, we must find Aerlin and his laboratory. My informant is not aware of the location of the experiments, but I believe it is of paramount importance to find a way to put a stop to their research before they endanger us any further. We must convene, and contemplate what our next move will be. I will contact you when it is time. Farewell for now." Any thoughts on this?

[Zin`Car]

<p>yes, they can.  that's why they are playable characters.  wouldn't work well otherwise.</p>

[Mary the Prophetess]

<p>When night falls in Loping Plains, all characters have a detrimental buff (curse) until daylight.  It isn't much more than an annoiance (much like the Rose of Innoruuk, Spiteweed, Soul Leeches, Hate Blossoms, etc. of Nektulos).  It does not significantly affect game play.</p><p>Freebloods *could* have had the reverse type of curse during daylight hours if the developers had given it some thought. </p><p>Additional ideas might have been to make Freebloods carnage flagged (KOS) to everyone whenever their "inner self" was utilized. </p><p>Freebloods might not gain benefits from normal food/drink, but instead are would be fed from animal kills, sentinent being kills, other vampire kills, (each being progressively more 'rewarding' than the previous)</p><p>Freeblooods might not have been able to use any type of animal mount, but could have gained the ability to fly at increased movement rates as a compensation.</p><p>Freebloods might have gotten stealth as a racial characteristic.</p><p>Freebloods might have taken additional damage from vampiric-bane type weapons.</p><p>Freebloods might have been able to inflict a bite that gave disease damage.</p><p>All would have made Freebloods much more interesting as a character race, but alas, an opportunity was missed.</p>

[tassai]

<cite>Mary the Prophetess wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>When night falls in Loping Plains, all characters have a detrimental buff (curse) until daylight.  It isn't much more than an annoiance (much like the Rose of Innoruuk, Spiteweed, Soul Leeches, Hate Blossoms, etc. of Nektulos).  It does not significantly affect game play.</p><p>Freebloods *could* have had the reverse type of curse during daylight hours if the developers had given it some thought. </p><p>Additional ideas might have been to make Freebloods carnage flagged (KOS) to everyone whenever their "inner self" was utilized. </p><p>Freebloods might not gain benefits from normal food/drink, but instead are would be fed from animal kills, sentinent being kills, other vampire kills, (each being progressively more 'rewarding' than the previous)</p><p>Freeblooods might not have been able to use any type of animal mount, but could have gained the ability to fly at increased movement rates as a compensation.</p><p>Freebloods might have gotten stealth as a racial characteristic.</p><p>Freebloods might have taken additional damage from vampiric-bane type weapons.</p><p>Freebloods might have been able to inflict a bite that gave disease damage.</p><p>All would have made Freebloods much more interesting as a character race, but alas, an opportunity was missed.</p></blockquote> Great ideas but not really what I was asking. I just wanted to know if anyone else read that last letter as I did. If Freebloods are not meant to be daywalkers it looks like I will be wearing a hooded cloak...a lot. =)

[Rainmare]

<p>Yep freebloods are daywalkers...which is why the D'yril want to find them and exterminate them ASAP...becuase 1 freeblood getting inot thier haven and opening up coffins at noon would be really bad.</p><p>I do like however that the apparently 'compensation' lorewise for being a daywalker is that the bloodline is physically weak compared to thier 'cousins' one of the first comments about Sarkon is his strength isn't much more then a regular human/elf stock, and his regernation is practically nil.</p><p>so Sarkon wasn't 'Blade' by any means.</p>

[tassai]

Good stuff! I was hoping I was reading the letter right. Daywalkers imho should be weaker. That makes good sense!

[Anaogi]

<p><cite>Rainmare@Oasis wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Yep freebloods are daywalkers...which is why the D'yril want to find them and exterminate them ASAP...becuase 1 freeblood getting inot thier haven and opening up coffins at noon would be really bad.</p></blockquote><p>Kind of a good thing they live deep underground in Neriak... <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></p>

[iceriven2]

<p><cite>Rainmare@Oasis wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Yep freebloods are daywalkers...which is why the D'yril want to find them and exterminate them ASAP...becuase 1 freeblood getting inot thier haven and opening up coffins at noon would be really bad.</p><p>I do like however that the apparently 'compensation' lorewise for being a daywalker is that the bloodline is physically weak compared to thier 'cousins' one of the first comments about Sarkon is his strength isn't much more then a regular human/elf stock, and his regernation is practically nil.</p><p>so Sarkon wasn't 'Blade' by any means.</p></blockquote><p>Sooo basically there Elves that can turn into something that has bad wrinkly skin and long nails?  Otherwize the only thing tha makes them undead Vampires is b/c in game lore says so?</p>

[Rainmare]

<p>okay here's the deal with teh Freebloods in general:</p><p>The D'Ryil vampires are the result of the Ewer of Sul'dae in neriak. this is how they have bene making new members of thier bloodline.</p><p>Anashti Sul's minions, during the diety quests, steal the Ewer back to Aket Akhen (Living Tombs)</p><p>D'ryil vampires, using notes from Mayong, and Tserrina, try to learn how to make vampires 'the old fashioned way' and also experiment on making thier bloodline 'stronger' ie more powerful vampires.</p><p>Lots of horrible deaths ensue upon captured/enslaved members of various races.</p><p>Sarkon becomes the latest test subject. painful transformation ensues...Sarkon is deemed a moderate success. he's not much stronger then his original race, which i think was actually human, and his vampiric regeneration is nil. but he did survive the 'transformation' he's only a partial success becuase he also, like Tserrina was with Mayong, not subervient to his maker/bloodline.</p><p>the decided to keep Sarkon for oberservation until they get bored or he outlives his usefulness. whichever comes first.</p><p>Sarkon escapes, during the day...which both pisses off, and scares the D'ryil...[Removed for Content] that he got out...frightened that he did it during fully daylight. because now he's a very real threat.</p><p>Sarkon hides in Somborn...Nights of the Dead come about, Sarkon turns many of the would be heroes that do the haunted house.</p><p>the Freebloods, Sarkon's bloodline, proliferate and are now a race unto themselves.</p>

[KnightMarshal]

<p>I am curious what they might have planned for when the NotD comes back around a a Freeblood character does the quest?</p><p>Probably nothing, but one can hope.</p>

[Zin`Car]

<p>i can tell you that if you visit Queen Cristanos as a FreeBlood, she is none-too-happy about you being in her presence...</p>

[Cusashorn]

<p>^ Well, post the details then. Don't just tell us that she's unhappy about your appearance. Tell us what she says.</p>

[Kamimura]

<p><cite>Vetvyer@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>i can tell you that if you visit Queen Cristanos as a FreeBlood, she is none-too-happy about you being in her presence...</p></blockquote><p>Second the request for text. Her standard line to anyone who is not an Arasai or Dark Elf is "You're fouling my throne room with your impurities. Remove yourself from my presence." Do Freeblood get something different?</p>

[Aneova]

<p><cite>Nevissa@Crushbone wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Vetvyer@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>i can tell you that if you visit Queen Cristanos as a FreeBlood, she is none-too-happy about you being in her presence...</p></blockquote><p>Second the request for text. Her standard line to anyone who is not an Arasai or Dark Elf is <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>"You're fouling my throne room with your impurities. Remove yourself from my presence."</strong></span> Do Freeblood get something different?</p></blockquote><p>That's exactly what she says*chuckles*nothing new, HOWEVER when you start the quests out in darklight wood the first quest giver refers to you as "One of Cristanos chosen ones". So it looks like someone forgot to look at the dialogs properly when they stuffed the freebloods on us EARLY instead of when intended next month like they were supposed to be. I have other complaints about them but they have no baring on this section of the forums.</p>

[DrkVsr]

<p><span style="font-size: medium; color: #993300; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Doesn't the quest giver say that normally if you are arasai? Or is that what you mean</span></p>

[Kamimura]

<p><cite>Aneova@Kithicor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>HOWEVER when you start the quests out in darklight wood the first quest giver refers to you as "One of Cristanos chosen ones". So it looks like someone forgot to look at the dialogs properly when they stuffed the freebloods on us EARLY instead of when intended next month like they were supposed to be. I have other complaints about them but they have no baring on this section of the forums.</p></blockquote><p>Edit: Just checked, and he gives that line to everyone, so again not a Freeblood specific thing.</p>

[Aneova]

<p><cite>Nevissa@Crushbone wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Aneova@Kithicor wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>HOWEVER when you start the quests out in darklight wood the first quest giver refers to you as "One of Cristanos chosen ones". So it looks like someone forgot to look at the dialogs properly when they stuffed the freebloods on us EARLY instead of when intended next month like they were supposed to be. I have other complaints about them but they have no baring on this section of the forums.</p></blockquote><p>Edit: Just checked, and he gives that line to everyone, so again not a Freeblood specific thing.</p></blockquote><p>I was pretty sure it gave a different response atleast before they changed the area the place wasn't burning down til recently.</p>

[Kamimura]

<p>Yes, it was an Arasai specific line if I remember. What I mean is, it's not a bug related to the Freeblood. (There are actually a few dialogue bugs since they changed all the starting zones to be copies of each other.)</p>