User:Turin

My name is Turin. I work on Wesnoth. I make campaigns. Making campaigns is fun. Yep. >_>

My main contributions are content-wise, but I do a bit of art also, such as that I've made for the Lavinians and the Kedari.

When I'm not doing campaigns or art, I usually browse the forums and insult people's ideas (when they deserve it).

Completed Projects

I have made four campaigns:

• campaign 1: The Eastern Invasion

• campaign 2: Saving Elensefar

• campaign 3: The Sceptre of Fire

• campaign 4: The Fall of Silvium

I have also made two factions for the Imperial Era, which I maintain:

• The Lavinian Empire

• The Kedari

Current Tasks

• Working on my newest campaign, Fall of Silvium

• Writing my next campaign (yet to be released)

• Maintaining the The Imperial Era, and preparing it for addition to Wesnoth

• Maintaining and expanding the Wesnoth history, geography and race description wiki pages. These are grouped under the heading "World of Wesnoth". Currently I am working on the Wesnoth history page - the others will come later.

• Working on Spacenoth
• Contributing sup-par animations

Rants

Why turin hates drakes

I have three main problems with drakes:

One is, they were added for multiplayer, and it shows. They were added to Wesnoth's history only because it was felt they needed a home to justify their existence in multiplayer. And as it currently stands, they are on a secluded island in the middle of nowhere. They don't have an actual place in the WoW - they have somewhere we can hide them away, say 'look, they're not only in multiplayer, they have a place in the WoW too', and forget about them. They seem fake.

The second is, I believe that all good fantasy deals with human nature. And different races in fantasy are all embellishments of different facets of human nature, or what-ifs. Elves are, what would people be like if they lived forever and were more intelligent than the average man? Dwarves are an embellishment of the courageous, but also the greedy and selfish, parts of human nature. Orcs emphasize the non-rational in men. But what are drakes? They're just random dragons.

Finally, I dislike the origins of drakes. They are supposedly the sons of dragons, but we know that dragons still exist in Wesnoth when drakes do, dragons are rare and powerful, and there are only a few hundred of them in the WoW. I find it hard to believe that they would have descendants who greatly outnumbered them but are inferior to them in every way. Actually, I find it hard to believe that they would even have descendants.

Why turin does not want more factions

Basically, I don't believe in originality, and I think that as long as we are going to be ripping ideas from other people, we should rip _good_ ideas. And most faction ideas are no good. If I see a good faction idea, I will support it wholeheartedly - but the majority of the time, the idea seems bad to me.

Links

My forum account