Will there be any flying mounts that become available as a rare item that can be obtained through a quest system? And if so would this be directed for end game content?
Will there be any flying mounts that become available as a rare item that can be obtained through a quest system? And if so would this be directed for end game content?
There are no plans for flying mounts in Age of Conan, it's very not fitting with the lore.
Well, I wouldn't say not fitting but maybe rare. This is the only instance that I remember reading about a flying mount in any of Roberts Conan stories.
"So!" raved Conan. "My people turn on me the moment my back is turned—"
"Not entirely," broke in Pelias. "They have heard that you are dead. There is no one to protect them from outer enemies and civil war, they think. Naturally, they turn to the strongest noble, to avoid the horrors of anarchy. They do not trust the Poitanians, remembering former wars. But Arpello is on hand, and the strongest prince of the central provinces."
"When I come to Aquilonia again he will be but a headless corpse rotting on Traitor's Common," Conan ground his teeth.
"Yet before you can reach your capital," reminded Pelias, "Strabonus may be before you. At least his riders will be ravaging your kingdom."
"True!" Conan paced the chamber like a caged lion. "With the fastest horse I could not reach Shamar before midday. Even there I could do no good except to die with the people, when the town falls — as fall it will in a few days at most. From Shamar to Tamar is five days' ride, even if you kill your horses on the road. Before I could reach my capital and raise an army, Strabonus would be hammering at the gates; because raising an army is going to be hell — all my damnable nobles will have scattered to their own cursed fiefs at the word of my death. And since the people have driven out Trocero of Poitain, there's none to keep Arpello's greedy hands off the crown — and the crown-treasure. He'll hand the country over to Strabonus, in return for a mock-throne — and as soon as Strabonus' back is turned, he'll stir up revolt. But the nobles won't support him, and it will only give Strabonus excuse for annexing the kingdom openly. Oh Crom, Ymir, and Set! If I but had wings to fly like lightning to Tamar!"
Pelias, who sat tapping the jade table-top with his finger-nails, halted suddenly, and rose as with a definite purpose, beckoning Conan to follow. The king complied, sunk in moody thoughts, and Pelias led the way out of the chamber and up a flight of marble, gold-worked stairs that let out on the pinnacle of the citadel, the roof of the tallest tower. It was night, and a strong wind was blowing through the star-filled skies, stirring Conan's black mane. Far below them twinkled the lights of Khorshemish, seemingly farther away than the stars above them. Pelias seemed withdrawn and aloof here, one in cold unhuman greatness with the company of the stars.
"There are creatures," said Pelias, "not alone of earth and sea, but of air and the far reaches of the skies as well, dwelling apart, unguessed of men. Yet to him who holds the Master-words and Signs and the Knowledge underlying all, they are not malignant nor inaccessible. Watch, and fear not."
He lifted his hands to the skies and sounded a long weird call that seemed to shudder endlessly out into space, dwindling and fading, yet never dying out, only receding farther and farther into some unreckoned cosmos. In the silence that followed, Conan heard a sudden beat of wings in the stars, and recoiled as a huge bat-like creature alighted beside him. He saw its great calm eyes regarding him in the starlight; he saw the forty-foot spread of its giant wings. And he saw it was neither bat nor bird.
"Mount and ride," said Pelias. "By dawn it will bring you to Tamar."
"By Crom!" muttered Conan. "Is this all a nightmare from which I shall presently awaken in my palace at Tamar? What of you? I would not leave you alone among your enemies."
"Be at ease regarding me," answered Pelias. "At dawn the people of Khorshemish will know they have a new master. Doubt not what the gods have sent you. I will meet you in the plain by Shamar."
Doubtfully Conan clambered upon the ridged back, gripping the arched neck, still convinced that he was in the grasp of a fantastic nightmare. With a great rush and thunder of titan wings, the creature took the air, and the king grew dizzy as he saw the lights of the city dwindle far below him.
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He also rode the back of a Giant Vampire bat in one of the Pastiche stories. While flying mounts existed in Hyborea they would be very out of place as player mounts or something seen in anything but some sort of quest IE no griffin taxi's either. This is why there will be no flying mounts in Age of Conan. I still stand by having flying mounts all over the place as player mounts not fitting with the lore :P
He also rode the back of a Giant Vampire bat in one of the Pastiche stories. While flying mounts existed in Hyborea they would be very out of place as player mounts or something seen in anything but some sort of quest IE no griffin taxi's either. This is why there will be no flying mounts in Age of Conan. I still stand by having flying mounts all over the place as player mounts not fitting with the lore :P
I agree with that. If we did ever see one I would expect it would likely be part of some grand epic quest. A somewhat very rare event.
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Well grounded answer Athelan. I agree that only one instance in Roberts stories wouldn't be grounds for implementing flying mounts in AoC. Though it would be nice to see them in the future even if it was only part of a quest to reach someplace high like a sky ship or to rescue a princess in a locked tower. This type of instance could be fitting in the lore although creating a mechanic for it may not be worth development time for only one quest.
Will there be any flying mounts that become available as a rare item that can be obtained through a quest system? And if so would this be directed for end game content?
It doesn't really fit, I mean only certain races had flying capability to a point. And mostly if you're flying around in front of a bunch of Cimmerians they will probably kill you thinking your some kind of witch of something.
Doesn't fit lore, sorry.
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