Homestuck - A Mount & Blade: Warband Mod

[Draconaes]

Hello MSPA Forums

A couple weeks ago, I got back into playing Mount & Blade: Warband. Being the first time I had played it since discovering Homestuck, I decided to look for a Homestuck mod for it. To my great surprise, I found not a sign of a single homestuck modification. I spoke with my buddy Friggle_Dex, and we decided that such injustice should not go uncorrected.

Enter the creatively named Warband mod, Homestuck (subject to change as soon as we think of something better).
Please note: We aren't looking for additional team members at the moment.

Our concept for the mod takes place in a medieval setting, similar in some ways to Alternia around the time of the Signless. Prospit and Derse fight for dominance of the land. On the sidelines, there are the humans, newcomers to the fight, and the Alternian Empire, led by the Condesce. There has recently been yet another rebellion against the hemospectrum, with several cities defecting from her sizable empire. Thus the stage is set, with all factions currently at roughly the same strength, more or less. (We'll flesh this out in more detail as we go.)

Our final goal for this project is pretty ambitious, but we've decided to create this mod in stages. For our first stage, we have a few goals:
A custom campaign map.
A new playable race: Trolls.
Renaming the factions/kings/lords.
Custom Banners.

Hopefully, we'll prove capable of handling this easily. Once these goals are completed, we'll release our first version of the mod and move onto the next stage, which is yet to be finalized.
We can say that we eventually hope to modify current weapons and add new ones to satisfy as many strife specibus allocations as feasible. This may or may not include creating some custom animations.

*Future info will go here*

Note: Poll explained in second post.

Pics!

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Concept art for campaign map (don't worry, it's glorious):

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Huh...

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Banners!

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[Draconaes]

We are very willing to accept suggestions, regarding names for towns/companions, ideas for factions (we aren't really set in stone at this point), ideas for how to fudge some of the more exotic weapons into the game (a sword that only looks like a chainsaw?), etc. Hell, if you guys want you can offer suggestions for the campaign map, too. However, at the moment there are two particular areas that we want some feedback on.

The first issue is adding the homestuck characters. I originally planned to put the 8 kids and the 12 trolls and the exiles etc. as kings/lords of some sort. The Condesce would be in charge of the Alternian Empire of course, and Prospit and Derse won't be too hard to fill out. But then I considered something: the player. What if the player wants to play as John Egbert? Or Vriska Serket? Or Karkat Vantas? Or AR or PM etc (if we end up making carapacians a playable race)? So we figured we might as well ask what you, the homestuck fans and (hopefully) the people that will actually play this mod.

(Poll question)
Should we make the Homestuck characters Lords and Kings of the various factions (and/or companions)? Or should we fill these spots with more generic characters, so that the player can create their own John Egbert etc. without worrying about running into themselves (excluding stable time loops of course)?

The second issue is naming the factions. Right now we have five factions: Prospit (carapaces), Derse (carapaces), the Condesce's Alternia (trolls), anti-hemospectrum rebels (trolls), and humans. We need names for these kingdoms, however. We have a few ideas of our own, but if any of you guys have ideas for kingdom names, we'd be happy to hear them.

(I will edit suggestions into this post with the poster's name. If we end up using your suggestion, we'll credit you. If you don't want your name attatched to the suggestion, just say so in your post.)
Current ideas:

Prospit:
Prospit

Derse:
Derse

Condesce's Alternia:
Alternian Empire

Rebel Trolls:
The Free Spectrum (ugh)
Apostles - IDSeeker

Humans:
Human Republic (bluh)
Kingdom of Wind (With John Egbert as king, perhaps?)

Feel free to be as crazy or as serious as you want. Any other ideas and suggestions will, of course, be appreciated as well.

[Friggle_Dex]

We're very excited to be working on this And remember not to let your vote be tainted by what we would prefer (*cough* companions *cough*) and we thank you for any suggestions and moral support!
Thanks!

[obolisk0430]

I yes the hell out of this. Warband is a great game!

[Dwask117]

Seconded. Hard.

[Foerumokaz]

I never really got into the OG Warband, but I'll try this out if you guys finish.

[IDSeeker]

You can use "Apostles" for the free trolls because, you know, the Sufferer...

EDIT: Also, there should be something Skaia related in the contested zone, maybe a really-difficult-to-conquer castle with the door to the new universe or something...