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Hello everyone! Been a hot minute since I was last here. However, I had an idea that I don't have the skills to implement, but felt someone might like to steal.
I was fiddling with Pokemon Emerald on an emulator, when I had a thought come to me: "Man, Team Aqua and Team Magma kinda remind me of the Elemental Evil cults from DND."
For those of you wondering what I am talking about, the Cults of Elemental Evil are 4 cults each dedicated to one of the 4 elements: Water, Fire, Earth, and Air. Each cult is devoted to one of the Princes of Elemental Evil (godlike entities embodying the cults respective elements), and wishes to see their element reign supreme. To this end, they wish to summon their respective elemental prince so they can reshape the world with their power. Of course, this would mean basically everything else's destruction in the wake of extreme natural disasters such as Flooding, Tornados and storms, Earthquakes and erupting volcanoes, wildfires. Possibly even all of them at once if they all got their way, and the elemental princes started duking it out for dominance.
However, they are balanced out by one thing: Despite the fact they are highly linked (where one of the cults rises, the other three will soon follow as they are all tied together by the ancient evil that created the princes), outside of cooperation in the face of a large threat none of them can deny (such as the average Pokemon Game protagonist that keeps messing up their plans once they figure out they all have it in for the same kid), they can barely stand each other, and will actively fight with their opposed element. Water hates fire, Air hates earth, and they tolerate the other two enough to team up on occasion.
As I kept thinking about it, I realized that each cult would actually work as a villainous team, and would even have a theme:
Air Cult: Flying types, some winged bug types, and possibly more weather related electric types
Earth Cult: Ground, Grass, Steel & rock types
Fire: Fire types, and some fire dualtypes
Water: Water Types, and Ice types
I can imagine a Rom hack set in a region where the cults have arisen, and the main character has to deal with their escalating 4 way turf war while trying to get their gym badges and beat the elite 4, possibly even culminating in fighting the Elemental princes (or even bagging them).
I know this is more of an idea than a direct talking about fangames, but I still felt this would be the most appropriate place to share this. What do you think?
I was fiddling with Pokemon Emerald on an emulator, when I had a thought come to me: "Man, Team Aqua and Team Magma kinda remind me of the Elemental Evil cults from DND."
For those of you wondering what I am talking about, the Cults of Elemental Evil are 4 cults each dedicated to one of the 4 elements: Water, Fire, Earth, and Air. Each cult is devoted to one of the Princes of Elemental Evil (godlike entities embodying the cults respective elements), and wishes to see their element reign supreme. To this end, they wish to summon their respective elemental prince so they can reshape the world with their power. Of course, this would mean basically everything else's destruction in the wake of extreme natural disasters such as Flooding, Tornados and storms, Earthquakes and erupting volcanoes, wildfires. Possibly even all of them at once if they all got their way, and the elemental princes started duking it out for dominance.
However, they are balanced out by one thing: Despite the fact they are highly linked (where one of the cults rises, the other three will soon follow as they are all tied together by the ancient evil that created the princes), outside of cooperation in the face of a large threat none of them can deny (such as the average Pokemon Game protagonist that keeps messing up their plans once they figure out they all have it in for the same kid), they can barely stand each other, and will actively fight with their opposed element. Water hates fire, Air hates earth, and they tolerate the other two enough to team up on occasion.
As I kept thinking about it, I realized that each cult would actually work as a villainous team, and would even have a theme:
Air Cult: Flying types, some winged bug types, and possibly more weather related electric types
Earth Cult: Ground, Grass, Steel & rock types
Fire: Fire types, and some fire dualtypes
Water: Water Types, and Ice types
I can imagine a Rom hack set in a region where the cults have arisen, and the main character has to deal with their escalating 4 way turf war while trying to get their gym badges and beat the elite 4, possibly even culminating in fighting the Elemental princes (or even bagging them).
I know this is more of an idea than a direct talking about fangames, but I still felt this would be the most appropriate place to share this. What do you think?