Book III - Avalonia: Guild sign-up and Discussion

[W Navarre]

19 hours ago, en_zoo said:

Hello everyone!

I thought I'd just pop in to say hi. Nice to see you guys are still around :)

I just noticed you on flickr making a post! Nice to see you around, any chance we'll see a build from you now  ?

[en_zoo]

17 hours ago, W Navarre said:

I just noticed you on flickr making a post! Nice to see you around, any chance we'll see a build from you now  ?

hehe Hello (J.), seeing a lot of Italian language around in your guild lately..

As for your question, well it's been some very sad and messed up years. Now after the second relocation I've finally started opening up the boxes with my bricks, put my fav shields on my desk.. Who knows? I wouldn't mind tidying up a bit and try out my (long bought but still not used) see-through plastic drawers and see how the bricks fit in them. First things first

[Henjin_Quilones]

On 12/3/2021 at 1:47 PM, en_zoo said:

Hello everyone!

I thought I'd just pop in to say hi. Nice to see you guys are still around :)

Glad to see your face in here, too!

[The British Brixter]

 

Aeryn Sov

A witch who specialises in illusions and ice magic. She decends from along line of witches who also did illusions and their spirits now flow within her by the power of her magic alone

 

 

Edited February 4, 2022 by The British Brixter
Redone

[Sympatik Brick]

On 12/19/2021 at 8:33 PM, The British Brixter said:

 

Aeryn Sov

A witch who specialises in illusions and ice magic. She decends from along line of witches who also did illusions and their spirits now flow within her by the power of her magic alone.

The link is not working. We can’t see the redo of Aeryn Sov.

[The British Brixter]

6 minutes ago, Sympatik Brick said:

The link is not working. We can’t see the redo of Aeryn Sov.

Fixed😅

[Sympatik Brick]

@Henjin_Quilones

Thank you for adding new members in the first post!

[Henjin_Quilones]

19 hours ago, Sympatik Brick said:

@Henjin_Quilones

Thank you for adding new members in the first post!

You are welcome! Too bad it took me a year for some of them. I have also updated the map in the first post to reflect a few new Avalonian hamlets that have passed the bar from Task 4. 

[Sympatik Brick]

It’s not a GoH build because I prefer fleshies for this universe but I think I will try to build later something here with these cat warriors.

https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/192150-catc-enchanted-forest/

 

[Eyrezer]

Onwards from hamlet to village status!

[MrLind]

Hi, I'm new on the forum and working on my sigfig introduction story. My sigfig will pledge his allegiance to Avalonia.
Is it a good ide to include the location/city where I will start to build? Or shall I avoid any location in the introduction? If I have understad the game engine correct, shall I start building at new location from the scratch.
I will be greatfull if any brave citicent of Avalonia can take his or her time to guild a beginner.
 

[Henjin_Quilones]

16 minutes ago, MrLind said:

Hi, I'm new on the forum and working on my sigfig introduction story. My sigfig will pledge his allegiance to Avalonia.
Is it a good ide to include the location/city where I will start to build? Or shall I avoid any location in the introduction? If I have understad the game engine correct, shall I start building at new location from the scratch.
I will be greatfull if any brave citicent of Avalonia can take his or her time to guild a beginner.
 

Hello MrLind, and welcome to the Great Guild of Avalonia! I look forward to seeing your sigfig and learning a bit about him. 

As to your questions, it is fairly common to choose a location for your settlement, say, for example, on one particular Mystic Isle, or at this precise fork of this precise river in the Enchanted Forest, or in that one valley of that one mountain range, or in that bay, or whatever. Your settlement will not be placed on the map until you have built up enough of it to qualify for hamlet status (see this thread for more information on that), but you can pretty much claim any place you want and start building things there, unless there is something else there already. Most of the time in Avalonia we do not build in each others' settlements, though some of them are big enough that you could probably do something there ( @de Gothia's Sionnach comes to mind), and there is always the capital, Albion, if you want to set things in a city, too. But typically, as you correctly understand, you start building at a new location from scratch. 

Hopefully that helps! If you have more questions, please ask them, and someone will answer them. Most folks around here are pretty friendly. Again, welcome!

[Sympatik Brick]

2 hours ago, MrLind said:

Hi, I'm new on the forum and working on my sigfig introduction story. My sigfig will pledge his allegiance to Avalonia.
Is it a good ide to include the location/city where I will start to build? Or shall I avoid any location in the introduction? If I have understad the game engine correct, shall I start building at new location from the scratch.
I will be greatfull if any brave citicent of Avalonia can take his or her time to guild a beginner.
 

Nice to see new avalonians! Welcome!

[Grover]

On 10/23/2022 at 1:18 PM, MrLind said:

Hi, I'm new on the forum and working on my sigfig introduction story. My sigfig will pledge his allegiance to Avalonia.
Is it a good ide to include the location/city where I will start to build? Or shall I avoid any location in the introduction? If I have understad the game engine correct, shall I start building at new location from the scratch.
I will be greatfull if any brave citicent of Avalonia can take his or her time to guild a beginner.
 

Welcome!  It's great to have a new Avalonian!  I'm excited to see your sig fig.  As @Henjin_Quilones said, there is quite a bit of flexibility, so you can be as creative as you want!

[MrLind]

Hi, time to introduce my sigfig.

 

Gyrdher, pledge my allegiance to Avalonia!

Gyrdher grew up on a farm. He was the youngest of seven boys. To live as a farmer was a hard life, toiling to each year get food on the table for all family members. It was especially hard after the war when the houses and fields had burnt down. Gyrdhers father did not talk about what happened during that hard time.

Each day, father and the oldest sons worked hard in the fields. Mother and the youngest son, Gyrdher, had the responsibility of taking care of the farm animals, the cows, the sheep and the pigs. During the hours of work, while feeding and taking care of the animals, his mother would tell stories of the elves that had lived in the forest. In the evenings, Gyrdher dreamed about the elves and of adventures together with them.

As time passes, Gyrdher had to take on more responsibly at the farm. He was practical and soon  he repaired the house and built furniture when needed. Working with wood became his great joy in life.

His dreams about the elves makes Gyrdher want to go on adventures and to find out what lies beyond the farmhouse fence, beyond the hills. One day he packed a small bag with his few belongings. While he was packing, his mother came up to him and placed a jewelry in his hand. The jewelry was made of a dark black metal, attached to a simple leather strap. Gyrdher was surprised because he had never seen the jewelry before. He opened his mouth to ask but mother put her hand gently on his shoulder and looked into his eyes. "Keep it hidden, close to your heart. One day it will help you understand who your ancestors were.”

With his mother's words ringing in his ears, he said goodbye to his mother, father and brothers and began walking from his home and out into the big world.

IMG_0363.jpg by Mattias Lind, on Flickr

After half a day's walk he arrived at a market place near a river. There he stopped and sat down to eat the food he had brought with him while he looked around at all the market stalls. After eating, he walked around and found a market stall where tools for carpentry and cabinet making were for sale. Gyrdher bought tools with his savings as well as a tool chest to store the tools in.

IMG_0383.jpg by Mattias Lind, on Flickr

Very pleased with himself, Gyrdher went down to the wharf. There lay a boat belonging to a fat merchant headed to Faeril. Gyrdher asked to come along and if he could pay for the trip by helping to row as he had no money left. The merchant looked skeptical at Gyrdher. As a farm boy, he looked strong but to have a boy at the oars who had never rowed in his life did not appeal to the merchant. He muttered to himself that he wanted to get home before his beard grew a meter long. The boy could however fit on the boat anyway and Gyrdher was allowed to come along.

IMG_0376.jpg by Mattias Lind, on Flickr

When all the goods were loaded, the boat set off down the river. Gyrdher felt light at heart. He stood in the bow and gazed along the river. A new life had begun, an adventure.

B2EA6D45-DB4A-4CF5-B7C6-A7E25F885A40 by Mattias Lind, on Flickr

 

Edited November 5, 2022 by MrLind

[Simon_S]

wow man, I had to check your photostream to see that building in the background. It looks truly fantastic! welcome to the guilds. It's a pleasure to have you here :D.

[Sympatik Brick]

Really nice building and storie.

It looks like you already have build your hamlet or you’re really close to establish your settlement here in Avalonia.

 

Edited October 30, 2022 by Sympatik Brick

[Zilmrud]

Great! Welcome to the guild! Awesome to have another swede here in GoH. And a Avalonian also.

Nice introduction. I want to learn more about Gyrdher 

[Kai NRG]

Welcome to the guilds!  Great introduction.  I'd love to see this build (or builds?) in a topic of their own--that little boat looks like it has some really neat angles!

[MrLind]

Thanks for all positive welcoming. I will enjoy building within this community.

I reused a build in the introduction of sigfig Gyrdher for his background story. The build is a recreation of a large farm from the Iron Age. A 5th century settlement that has been excavated by archaeologists near Norrkoping, Sweden. I will post the build in a separate topic with some information of the excavation findings.

For GoH, I plan to build with focus on the medieval society around Faeril. This to challenge myself to build a theme I newer has built before and to include storytelling.

Time to build…

[Gideon]

Welcome @MrLind! Great to see another fellow Swebrick builder here
Can't wait to see more of Gyrdher's story and the environments around Faeril (and maybe one can hope to see some of those builds live a some point too?)

[Henjin_Quilones]

@MrLind, great intro! Using some bigger builds in the background does a great job of bringing his story to life in a way that some simple text and a basic head-on photo can’t. 
 

That said, could you provide a basic, head-on type photo of Gyrdher for the first post? Otherwise I’m left trying to crop one of the other pics resulting in a photo of dubious quality. Thanks!

[MrLind]

23 hours ago, Henjin_Quilones said:

could you provide a basic, head-on type photo of Gyrdher for the first post? Otherwise I’m left trying to crop one of the other pics resulting in a photo of dubious quality. Thanks!

Sorry. the sigfig post is now updated.

[Henjin_Quilones]

5 hours ago, MrLind said:

Sorry. the sigfig post is now updated.

Great! Perfect! I’ll get him (and you) added to the first post soon. Not today, but soon. 

[BlackFalconSpace]

I only have my sigfig ready to share so far, but here they are:

Baron Steinchen, humble sovereign of Gratberg, a town born from the unity of a lady of the dragon and this young falcon knight. The baron leads with the motto, “the pen is mightier than the sword, but the strongest know how to wield both.” With negotiation at the forefront of any interaction, they are always willing to fight for the good of Avalonia.

Edited November 15, 2022 by BlackFalconSpace