Hi,
I’ve been hard at work trying to finish off documenting all of Zao, Tibiasecrets.com had already done a good chunk in Farmine.
There are some NPCs that you can only talk with during part(s) of a mission until they become inaccessible, such as Ztiss, Zalamon, A Sleeping Dragon & Awareness of the Emperor.
A Sleeping Dragon has this dream labyrinth that we need to solve to free the dragon. After this, it awakens and we are able to talk to it. After accepting next mission, we can no longer.
After waking it up:
Player: name
A Sleeping Dragon: I have no name. I am a perpetual lifeform and while I am not omniscient, the foundations of my memories reach further into the past than the roots of your civilisation.
Same with Awareness of the Emperor. But I finished them both with some help from asdfghjkl, and included all of the MUD dungeon for curiosity sake, it contains some hidden gems (pun intended)
Player: look (centre)
A Sleeping Dragon: You can see a giant dragon, sleeping calmly in the middle of an emerald plateau. Above, a massive hand seems to be holding chains entangling his wings. …
A Sleeping Dragon: Far in the distance, large gemstones, mostly emeralds, are circling the firmament. The air is warm and comfortable, a constant breeze wafts you. …
A Sleeping Dragon: To the north, east and west, there are slightly larger emerald formations. There is some kind of notch on each of them. You also spot a small raise with a dent in it near the middle of the plateau.
Player: dragon
A Sleeping Dragon: It appears to you as if this dragon is far larger than the one whose dream you entered, but it is undoubtedly the same. His giant scales slowly bop up and down as he wheezes and snores.
Player: hand
A Sleeping Dragon: Above the dragon, a gigantic black hand is holding chains which cord him. The black of the hand is so deep that it seems to absorb the light around it. From fear you cannot bear this sight any longer than for a quick glance.
Player: chains
A Sleeping Dragon: Black chains entangle the dragon’s wings. The dark hand above it seems to firmly hold them. Black light oozes out of them as they seemingly tighten up with every breathe of the creature.
And we get to speak to the Emperor itself!
That’s significant in the lore, and it’s especially interesting as the transcripts are so hard to get to, and some keywords such as ‘resistance’ and ‘corruption’ lead to a lot of conversations. I think only a handful at most have read these.
They were collected using hotkey spamming.
Player: corruption
Awareness of the Emperor: Even we dragons were not unified. We .. continued certain old habits that led to fights which in turn led to inevitable, irreplaceable losses. So by my power I bound the others to my will. …
Awareness of the Emperor: Being the eldest and even more powerful than even most of my lesser brethren can imagine, it was my right to do so. In return I taught them to bind the lesser lizards to their will and so we reforged the empire.
Player: reforged
Awareness of the Emperor: I foresaw that with my ultimate demise the infighting would resume and destroy all what is left of us. So I decided that I was too important to die. …
Awareness of the Emperor: My time was limited though and the only means of survival that I could come up with was to transform me into a lich, a creature of undeath. …
Awareness of the Emperor: It was an .. unexpected experience. However, soon I learnt about the changes my new state of existence involved and the way how things work.
Player: state
Awareness of the Emperor: Through my connection to the other dragons, my undeath spread in an unexpected way. And it did not stop at the dragons. It went on through them to the lizards they had bound and through them to the land itself. …
Awareness of the Emperor: It seems the land itself became the place where the undeathly influence was finally dumped as it suffered much more than the beings that functioned as transmitters. …
Awareness of the Emperor: However, you see that what you call corruption is only an unwanted by-product of something far greater and more important.
Player: undeath
Awareness of the Emperor: It is certainly no ideal state but a necessity. I take it upon me for the sake of the land. Without me my people would perish and so would the civilisation of the lizards. …
Awareness of the Emperor: Or worse, they would continue to worship that unspeakable snake thing that is willing to devour the whole world to become a god.
Wow! such lore!
Player: draken
Awareness of the Emperor: The draken are an exploit of the lizard kin’s special breeding procedures. Certain influences under which an egg develops affect several aspects of the creature that is born from it. …
Awareness of the Emperor: Gender, intelligence and physique are only a few of them. Special influences create special creatures. …
Awareness of the Emperor: An unwanted effect is the birth of the chosen under the influence of heavy doses of undeath. The draken result from exposing lizard eggs to the influence of one of the dragon kings.
There’s a lot more, you can click on the NPC icons to read the full transcripts.
I think they are extremely interesting and wanted to highlight them.
I get some real Variphor vibes from that hand hovering the dragon, and how they are describing the snake god.
Read transcripts here:
- Zizzle (starts mission of A Sleeping Dragon)
- A Sleeping Dragon
- Awareness of the Emperor
This is the layout of the MUD dungeon.
Today, I also finished all of Svargrond! So Farmine and Svargrond has been set as VERIFIED.
Huge!
Current state of the github.com/s2ward/tibia project is:
- Total NPCs: 1132
- Verified: 718/1132, 63.43% (Tibiasecrets.com did 415 of these)
- Unverified: 172/1132, 15.19%
- Empty: 242/1132, 21.38%
- Unverified or Empty: 414/1132, 36.57%