The Hiergamenon Preview

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The Limited Edition of Elemental comes with a lot of cool stuff including a big canvas map, a poster, a fairly good sized dragon pewter piece. But it also comes with something particularly special: The Hiergamenon. This is a kind of encyclopedia to the world but told from the point of view of a collection of historical figures from Elemental’s past.

To get an idea of what it is like, here are some pictures of the pages. The paperback book comes with the Limited Edition and is around 160 pages.

If you’re already in the beta, you can upgrade to this from the link above.  Because of how expensive the Limited Edition is to produce, we will only guarantee enough units to provide to users who pre-order it.

(4 random pages from The Hiergamenon)

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Neato. Can we have it printed on vellum?

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Slap the guy that wrote "their" instead of "they're" under the Rock Giants heading. For me. Thanks :)

Offworld Trading Company
Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Sick! I am glad to see a Limited Edition that actually kicks ass, worth the price and a manual that has tons of pages! Can't wait to read it! :thumbsup:

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

I have always found those pics of ogres and trolls too similar.

 

Looks very promising.  :thumbsup:

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Very cool! Nice to see a lot of cool stuff will be coming with my limited edition.  B)

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Nomnomnom. Any word on a collector's edition?

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Autarkhos, reply 6
Nomnomnom. Any word on a collector's edition?
End of Autarkhos's quote

 

This IS the limited/collectors/whatchamacallit edition.  ;)

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah lets get one that comes with a real Troll! (I mean come on, how hard can it really be? Modern Warfare came with Night Vision Goggles!)

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

If that's the only typo you found, then you're not looking very hard:-p  Hopefully they'll have a few proofreading passes before actually going to press!

 

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  Ogres: 'they lack', not 'the lack'. Also, missing the verb in the ending clause ('looking' or 'searching' for mates of their own)

  Golems: 'if their creator is killed' - each golem is singular, and likely has a singular creator. 

  Rock Giants: as Toppins pointed out, 'they're', not 'their'

  Slags: 'swamps or rivers' or 'swamps and rivers'. Not 'swamps to rivers'.

 

 

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

I laugh at everyone who isn't getting the Limited Edition.

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

I am guessing this is a bone for us to gnaw on since Beta 2B won't be out today. 

 

Nom nom nom nom

 

Glad I too bought the collectors upgrade. :D

Reply #12 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Wintersong, reply 4
I have always found those pics of ogres and trolls too similar.

 

Looks very promising. 
End of Wintersong's quote

Mythologically speaking, there's little to no difference between Trolls and Ogres - Trolls are essentially the Norse equivalent of the English Ogre. Although if Elemental means to use both terms and have a major distinction between the two species (one is bigger/rarer/etc than the other is not a major distinction, imo) then yeah, they should think about changing the picture (and the description while they're at it) to emphasize this theoretical distinction - as is there doesn't seem to be one :P

Reply #13 from Elemental Forums Top

How much of this material is going to make it into the game itself in some form, as part of an in-game guide?

Reply #14 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Hawawaa, reply 3
Sick! I am glad to see a Limited Edition that actually kicks ass, worth the price and a manual that has tons of pages! Can't wait to read it!
End of Hawawaa's quote

 

Err...

 

The Heirgamenon is not the manual.  I hope.  Because it would make no sense to provide the manual only to people who buy the limited edition.

Reply #15 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting shadowtongue, reply 14

Quoting Hawawaa, reply 3Sick! I am glad to see a Limited Edition that actually kicks ass, worth the price and a manual that has tons of pages! Can't wait to read it!

 

Err...

 

The Heirgamenon is not the manual.  I hope.  Because it would make no sense to provide the manual only to people who buy the limited edition.
End of shadowtongue's quote

 

The Limited Edition gets a MUCH larger manual than the standard game.

Reply #16 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Beric01, reply 15



The Limited Edition gets a MUCH larger manual than the standard game.
End of Beric01's quote

 

are you sure about that ?

Reply #17 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting tanafres, reply 9
If that's the only typo you found, then you're not looking very hard:-p  Hopefully they'll have a few proofreading passes before actually going to press!

 

IMG_04: 

  Ogres: 'they lack', not 'the lack'. Also, missing the verb in the ending clause ('looking' or 'searching' for mates of their own)

  Golems: 'if their creator is killed' - each golem is singular, and likely has a singular creator. 

  Rock Giants: as Toppins pointed out, 'they're', not 'their'

  Slags: 'swamps or rivers' or 'swamps and rivers'. Not 'swamps to rivers'.

 

 
End of tanafres's quote

 

These galled me too. Janusk the scribe needs a copy editor.

 

Reply #18 from Elemental Forums Top

:wulf:

Nom Nom Nom

Very nice indeed!

Reply #19 from Elemental Forums Top

I came, i SAW, I upgraded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

because the other locations did NOT give any significant indication of what the booklets(assumed size based upon descriptions in sales spiel) added to each of the versions would be like.

But I do not want or need the 'plastic' figurine, just the BOOKS.

harpo

Reply #20 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Pantasd, reply 16

Quoting Beric01, reply 15


The Limited Edition gets a MUCH larger manual than the standard game.

 

are you sure about that ?
End of Pantasd's quote

 

https://forums.elementalgame.com/377402


Extended print manual with additional information on the world of Elemental (i.e. 200+ pages)
End of quote

 

Reply #21 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting harpo99999, reply 19
I came, i SAW, I upgraded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
End of harpo99999's quote

Ditto. Who could pass something like that up? :grin:

 

Reply #22 from Elemental Forums Top

The Heirgamenon is not the manual."
End of quote

It is a compilation of those beings that live and roam the World of Elemental. The manual should be the game rules...

 

Reply #23 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting kyogre12, reply 10
I laugh at everyone who isn't getting the Limited Edition.
End of kyogre12's quote

why? The artwork aint that great, and the lore is easily replaced by the 1000 mod creators who will create their own lore for their own mod

Reply #24 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Grove12345, reply 23



Quoting kyogre12,
reply 10
I laugh at everyone who isn't getting the Limited Edition.


why? The artwork aint that great, and the lore is easily replaced by the 1000 mod creators who will create their own lore for their own mod
End of Grove12345's quote

Um, the book, pewter dragon, and cloth map?

Reply #25 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting tanafres, reply 9
If that's the only typo you found, then you're not looking very hard:-p  Hopefully they'll have a few proofreading passes before actually going to press!
 

IMG_04: 

  Ogres: 'they lack', not 'the lack'. Also, missing the verb in the ending clause ('looking' or 'searching' for mates of their own)

  Golems: 'if their creator is killed' - each golem is singular, and likely has a singular creator. 

  Rock Giants: as Toppins pointed out, 'they're', not 'their'

  Slags: 'swamps or rivers' or 'swamps and rivers'. Not 'swamps to rivers'.

 

 
End of tanafres's quote

 

Ogre: "Smarts" as a word refers to pain, using it to refer to intelligence is slang.

Drakes: "one species of Drakes prefer forests." Should be "prefers," also the next sentence begins with "And" which is a no-no.

I don't think they should be capitalizing the names of these creatures in the description either. We don't go around capitalizing "dog" or "human" everywhere.

I think they have the troll and ogre images mixed up too. I've never heard of a one-eyed troll, but ogres very typically have a single eye in modern fantasy.

I don't want to go on, there's more but I don't like nitpicking like this. >.<