User blog:Skullbait/Race Lore

Hi everybody,

I've been thinking and wondering whether or not we ought to develop some lore/backstory for our different races. It would seem that so far they exist basically to enable different specializations of gameplay and have different spirtes associated with them.

Adding in some lore/backstory could add to their depth when creating a new terraria world, and provide some fodder for designing new quests.

So far we have the following races, and I've put a couple possible connections between some of them.

Human - Goblin - Tinkerers and technologists - heavy reliance on tech leaving them with less physical rigor leaving them best as rangers with guns/crossbow repeaters. Skeleton - Created through black magic by the demons to serve them. Zugitak - Shared a distant common tribe with the madra rua. Madra Rua - Shared a distant common tribe with the zugitak. Demon - Dabble in black magic, cruel, probably borderline if not full on psychopathic. Deerman - no idea Antmen - no idea Titan - no idea Bunny - Tired of being hopelessly slaughtered by the wildlife and rose to take up arms. Slime - Created accidentally through black magic by the demons

The lore could probably be built up on the race pages of the wiki and fleshed out into something bigger than some bullet points. We could also continue to use this blog post where I can take comments and combine/remix them into something cohesive.

All comments and suggestions are welcome!

Edit 9/9/13 Adding in some probing questions because there's no way I can answers so much in a way that would be satisfying to the community.

Information to consider for each of the races:

Where are they from? How'd they get where they are/what is their history? What do they value? How do they feel about magic? How do they feel about tech? What do they despise? What are their plans/intentions/motives? Are they a unified or scattered/fractured race?

We also have some monsters that could use a bit of history. --Bosses-- Wall of Flesh - Perhaps the forgotten guardian of the forces of the apocolypse. w/ other normal mode bosses being tied it essense to the WoF acting as seals protecting the WoF. With the Hardmode versions being resurrected by the apocolyptic powers and massively boosted/corrupted. Honestly I'm playing with this idea because I like the thought of having the players on the wrong team with the right intentions. Eye of Cthulhu Eater of Worlds Skeletron -Hardmode- Wiyvern The Twins The Destroyer Skeletron Prime

Also, are there any ideas on how the differences of scale between low tech, high tech, and magic be bridged? Because we have pickaxes next to drills, machine guns and magic laser rifles next to bows. There seems to be a lot of discrepency between these things.