A story of an empire

[Owl 1]

I am considering writing a story of sorts about a civilization's rise and fall, talking place within terrafirmacraft.

 

I would like input from anyone who would provide it, including actual in game photos of approximations of buildings/architectural styles.

[Hector49er 31]

If you are going to write a story you should make sure to use correct Grammar. For instance it would be "A story of an empire". Have you heard the song Word Crimes by Weird Al Yankovic? There is a great music video of it too. It is really funny. Hope you have fun writing.

[lightningtiger88 19]

This would be quite cool, but have you considered maybe a Machinima video? Writing stories is nice, but it can take a lot of time and revision to get it sounding nice. With Machinima videos, you'd only need to practice the lines and movements, and it's easy to see when you go wrong. Not to mention they're also more likely to get seen, so you can get some feedback. 

[Owl 1]

This would be quite cool, but have you considered maybe a Machinima video? Writing stories is nice, but it can take a lot of time and revision to get it sounding nice. With Machinima videos, you'd only need to practice the lines and movements, and it's easy to see when you go wrong. Not to mention they're also more likely to get seen, so you can get some feedback. 

I have literally zero talent in regards to video editing

 

At the same time I think you may be overestimating how far i want to go.

 

@hector grumble

[Appelsylt 0]

I would've done this if i didn't have to work so much on my fantasy novel and other short stories

[Owl 1]

I'm currently basing it on what many western fantasy empires are based on, the Roman empire, although this may change or be lost as I go on.

This would probably be like a documentary of sorts, starting at the empires beginning, detailing major conflicts, and changes in society and government.

 

I currently have a idea how it would go through the capital's founding, their first war with a tribe that constantly raids, expansion, their first "real" war, and then further expansion, with intermissions detailing the time in-between and short stories from the point of view of people belonging to said civilization or people they're involved with interspersed throughout.

[Krski 36]

So a baroque theme ?

 

Why don't you put it in a asian region , it wouldn't be that dificult you could emphasise positive angles that are asociated with asians such as productivicty and  polite culture , and how no matter what empires will fall . I guess it would give a better contrast and a dose of freshnes .

 

Also you could link it with more emotional sequences at major events , such as burning of cities , erasings of faith , and so on

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

Roman empire would be cool as a basis! The technology in TFC matches pretty well for the time period. Basing it too heavily on Rome would be a bad idea I think though. Don't go using latin or anything and you can probably come up with your own architectural styles etc but in terms of cultural values of beliefs I think it could work well

[Hubertus 29]

Soooooo, did you ever end up writing that story? I see you're still hanging around the forums, and was curious. I wrote a story based on Benign Online back when I was managing a developer team for that game. It was a lot of fun, and I included a lot of the players as characters in the story. Would be cool to read a TFC world story!