Teaser Question #4
When would Raukarist change its form?
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Mark Lemmert says: -
Mark Lemmert says:
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“Ultima 7 Revisited”: Spot the New 3D Objects – The Ultima Codex says:
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Happy Anniversary to Ultima IX – Forgotten World says:
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Anthony Salter says:
Ok… Raukarist doesn’t show up at all on Google, which makes me think you are making this stuff up (or someone else has made it up as some “Ultima lore”). Ultima doesn’t actually mean anything, it is a random word that sounded cool for a game. There is no place called “Mystvale”. Raukarist is nothing. “The Father” is that guy married to my mother.
I win. (asking questions about something that doesn’t exist/exist yet makes very little sense)
Thepal: You’re not far off, in one sense.
On heating…
Nobody’s mentioned Runes of Virtue yet, so I’ll just throw that out there. 😉
It has nothing to do with the various spin-offs.
Sorry, guys.
Errr… Escape from Mt. Drash?
One seemingly nonsense teaser question, concerning stuff nobody knows about, is kind of neat, as a prelude to an announcement. Four just makes you kind of a jerk.
Maybe.
But there have been a lot of good guesses; people have come up with some interesting stuff.
Soon, all will be revealed.
These questions are a way to build hype around something that isn’t very interesting. A way to make people curious about something they otherwise wouldn’t be curious about.
It’s a good marketing technique.
Oh, I don’t know, Micro.
I suspect you’ll be interested. Possibly even incensed, depending on your views concerning certain plot points.
When would Raukarist change its form?
Whenever it saw a hot girl?
Odkin: Heh…that, sir, might be the best answer I have yet read.
Raukar is another word for the Swedish Rauksteine, a series of limestone columns in Gotland. So, they could be an allusion to the shrines (or any set of standing stones). In which case, I guess “never” would be the answer.
I gotta admit… I’m kinda at the lost interest point. At first I was interested, but I’m kinda at the point of thinking “Someone else has created some new Ultima lore. Why is this any more interesting than the tens of thousands of other fan-made loreish things made over the years?”
I almost think I’m going to be annoyed about the announcement that comes around in a few days now. I think I’ll just ignore these for now.
Well, in that case, I’ll make the next one more of a giveaway.
And fuck it…I’m release-ready; I’ll move things up a day.
Incensed? That’s a word you don’t hear everyday, definition – to inflame with wrath; make angry; enrage.
So are you saying those that enjoyed Ultima 7 or are long term Ultima fans may be enraged by what mythic is doing with the plot.
Ok. Not surprising.
These questions is clearly for marketing purposes to peak interest in the new game. It’s funny how you are doing that. Almost makes me think this is a viral marketing website.
Ah, but Micro, I already said these had nothing at all to do with Mythic.
But it is probably true that a particular category — or subset, if you’d rather — of Ultima 7 fans in particular will be somewhat infuriated by what is to be told. For they will learn they are…incorrect about something which has caused them much vexation.
When? Long ago.
Long ago, ran the sun, on a folk, who had a dream. And the HEART, and the WILL, and the POWER. They moved earth, they carved stone, molded hill and channeled stream, that the Raukar might stand on the Wide/Wyrd/Cold/Bare planes of Wiltshire.
So, they would change form as they were placed, before they were named thus. Perhaps the things done ‘neath their shade, and prayed ‘neath their skies, could have the power to modify their form, though not necessarily physically. Time would always be modifying them slightly, in ways we can’t perceive so…the answer is Always…and Never.
Thanks for the lead Jayson, though I nearly let Thepal’s sensible perspective shame me into not trying.
🙂 It’s fun enough though
Marq: That was grand. And it’s invocation of long ago things is…somewhat relevant.
Tomorrow, I think. And one last question in the early hours.
Except, Micro, we’ve already been told this had nothing at all to do with Mythic haven’t we?
I don’t Raukarist thing.
For some reason I views this page as if it was a mobile pas. Huh.
Fucking cache!
It should clear presently. I’ll give it a nudge just to be sure.
A certain kind of Ultima fans will find out they were wrong… Maybe it’s about the virtues? Maybe LB was not the good guy, after all?
Raukarist changing its form:
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=+Raukarist+&t=1000&a=n
Infinitron: Inventive and clever!
Not correct, but still very impressive.
@Infinitron:
Wow, that’s a great idea of yours!
I personally believe he meant “Air Krauts”. The germans are attacking again!
I hear Raukarist changes its form when you’ve been a very very very bad boy, hur hur hur.
When it changes when you’re a bad boy, then maybe it has something to do with “aura”? The letters from the word “aura” are contained in “Raukarist”. The rest of the letters then is “strik”. “Strik Aura”? What could that be?
Or else when you’ve been a good, virtuous boy or girl. Guess you just gave us that one. Interesting idea for a weapon though.
It’s also been said
It has nothing to do with any of the remake projects.
Mostly.
So it’s not mythic and it’s probably a remake project. If it’s a fan fiction story. I don’t think I’ll be enraged. I’m not one for fan fiction.
Editor’s note: Come now, Micro…
Micro: Um…did you miss the morning news?