Wrote this a year or two ago. Had some interesting ideas in it. You wont read all of it.

Project Natura

The world of Natura is filled with massive landscapes, full of adventure, full of mystery, full of activities to do, full of positions to achieve. Creatures and races are in abundance.

The things you do are up to you. There is no set goal. Just for you to be free, and set your destiny.

How adventure works:  It will be a challenge. There will be no mini maps or large maps to pull up. Players instead, will make their own maps. The maps are made by a player who buys papers, scrolls, animal skin, wood, metal... something they can draw or carve unto. From there they will explore and draw their maps. Maps of roads, mountain ranges, towns, cities, villages, forests, deserts, jungles, tundra, plains, rivers, lakes, castles, and interiors of places. The maps will serve as items in their bag, and it will be able to be sold to other players or traded for other maps. There will be no quest markers, only directions from notes, or quest givers. The player will be responsible for remembering or writing the information down on a in game journal.

The adventures will be filled with mystery after mystery, puzzles, riddles, powerful beasts, thugs/bandits, friendly encounters and much more. To help adventure there will be mounts, caravans, boats, climbing abilities, falling abilities, etc... players will have a set of adventurer skills that they can obtain, athletics, climbing, swinging, map drawing, mount riding, engineering, building, repairing, and much more. These skills for adventuring can be learned from experience, from books, and from NPCS. Some things can be taught to the player by other players but not all to keep players from missing out on adventure. A player can be self thought if they choose. Abilities to do things wont be a simple click or press mechanic, there will be more to do. Other factors to it. Parts for certain skills like engineering can be obtained through building, and through player between player.

Players can become merchants and open their shops where they choose to go. Sometimes guards can stop you from selling in a certain place, or bandits can rob you if you are in a bad place to open a little merchants area. The thing about this game is that the player does not have to be the hero of the game, if the player wishes to just adventure and become a merchant or engineer or any sort of nonviolent specialist they can.

Survival will be a major factor to adventures. Players will need to sleep, learn how to make fire ( Some players can have an advantage in survival depending on the things they learn, like casting fire, working with tools to make fire etc..), there will be hot and cold factors that some races can have resistance to or weakness to. Players will have to eat and drink. Sleep will be essential for characters, and will is good for keeping players from playing 24/7. The sleep will last up to 3 hours. Players can set up for sleeping bags, or just sleep without it. Parties can set up camps and big parties or guild can hold feasts. Players can kill animals in the surrounding area to cook, or catch fish, or pick plants.

Players can learn how to make potions with different ingredients by experimenting or learning by buying recipes. Their skill in it will decide the outcome of how strong the potion is and if it can even be created. To create camps players will need items with them that will come together to make the tents, wood to hold them down, wood to start fire... etc..

climates can effect a players health. Players can get sick and so can their mount. Weather can effect boats/ships. Some races are able to fight off the heat, or cold. Mogrul are extremely resistant to heated weather because they originate from the desert. Migoi are resistant to cold and can see in the dark. Migoi Yentis are more of a forest race and have a mix of resistance to cold and heat but not as much as Mogruls or Migoi. Belenoi are agricultural humans who are used to heat and cold winters, who also have a mix of resistance but not as much as Mogrul and Migoi. Galatians are empire based humans who have strong cities and are not used to colds and heat making them weaker to them. Sizari are creatures of high mountains. They are used to colds and build up resistance. Mintorians are barbaric tribes people of the jungles. They are used to wetness and heat with resistance. Kervari the dragon people of the skies, used to heat. Have resistance to it. Phesfius the creatures of the underground, are weak to heat and cold.

There are clothes to wear for all these weaknesses and resistances. There are fires to be made if cold, or certain clothes to be worn if hot. Clothes can be taken off too.  Things like jumping in water can cool a person off, jumping in hot water can decrease the coldness. So there will be hot and cold factors. There will be diseases and sicknesses in the game, players will be able to find cures and medicine, some ingredients will be dangerous to obtain, and players are responsible for writing down into their journal the ingredients and where to get them. There will be bags in the game that show on the players back, there will be different types, and different material to make them. There is a disease in the game that causes the player to become The Cursed, a disease that causes the player to be a form of undead where their skin becomes filled with white  veins with necromancy marks all over them, their skin turns literal white. Their hair or fur or feathers will turn dirty white. This curse will cause the player to not be accepted in many places of the world. The cure to this is a struggle to find but its possible.

Death in the game is going to be rewind type deal. Nobody should be immortal. So death will not be a load game but will set you back to a certain time before your death. So no recall type things or portals. 

The game has many things to join. There are Rebels of Kynora which are led by the alliance of Belenoi and Galatians to kill off the corrupted leaders of Galatia. There are Pynoforus Mages which is also called Pynoforus College, which is named after the great mage Pynoforus who was a great mage scholar and teacher. Players can learn magic there, at a price. There are libraries in the game that can tell players stories of adventures and give hints of locations of treasures and for them to seek their own adventures. There are Castorioon Hunters, who base their skills in hunting creatures of the wild, sometimes rare creatures with strong ability to defend itself.  There are Belorian Merchants  who are skilled in selling and buying. There are Gladiators of Sonoa who focus on the arenas in the world. The arena gladiators are placed into different groups. Not just Sonoa, but Sonoa is the most famous for their powerful gladiators, only trully skilled players can join them. Defenders of Kostius are the people who fight the Rebels of Kynora. Merostian Scholars is for players who seek knowledge of the lore, players who seek to find books, scrolls, and more out in adventures to study and learn. Pirates of Klenia are pirates of the great lakes, who hunt treasures and creatures. Bounty Hunters of the Pines are.. bounty hunters. Bastius Dragon Killers, hunt dragons. Koris Crafters for players who wish to learn to craft. With much more things for players to join, these are just the most famous ones. Players can run into merchants roaming the lands and rivers. Sometimes selling illegal things or things that you cannot get somewhere else.

When it comes to territory, areas have their own laws, some take your weapon away, some let you keep it. Players can get in trouble in the game and be arrested or fight their way out. Good luck fighting Mogrul guards. They are known for squishing heads with bare hands. Adventures wont be simple and it is made to be thought provoking and challenging. Not to be simple. Because people are getting tired of simple. More to add, the land will be expanded. Things will not be close to each other. Forests will be long and you can get lost in. Mountains, deserts too. Making adventure more difficult.

Combat: Combat is also going to be challenging. There will be blocking, retaliation, moves that put players on the ground, moves that disables, moves that disarm, it can all be learned. It will not be a combat that is for clickers and key tappers. The game is for.. gamers looking for a challenge. The players will have a ability to make their fighting style unique. The ability to design their magical casting, or fighting style. Stance, or which hand u swing with or which hand u hold shield. The coloring of magic. Color your magic green if u want to make it look unique to you. examples are green fire blue fire, yellow electricity black electricity. Players will have to travel the land to pick up skills from teachers, instead of learning them from one person. There will be no classes, players will develop their own character and the skills it has, meaning, the player can learn things from every teacher, sometimes with a price, sometimes with something to do first. There is a level system of skills that will level the overall player. Every character can use any weapon. Staffs can be used for melee and magic, but for magic you will need to learn how to harness the power first. Teachers will teach different levels of weapon skills and the player can also learn and level it himself. Some races are better then the other in magic or strength or adventuring. There will be health, stamina, mana, adrenaline, and injuries that actually have a animation for them. First person/ Third person will be set.

Item Weapons and Armors and Stats on Them: Items like armors will have the usual stats... armor rating.. and a few extra enchantments or runes on them. They will also have durability, weight, hot factors, heat factors, weather factors, rusting, .. etc.. Weapons can be enchanted to have elemental abilities, they can be upgraded. Weapon types will be, swords, great swords, spears, tridents, axes, two hand axes, knives, hammers, maces, staffs, sceptors, wands, long bow, short bow, cross bow, ball and chain, short shield, tower shield, normal shield, and a bit more. Armors will be chest, over chest, left glove, right glove, left shoe, right shoe, left shoulder, right shoulder, helmet, face area, pants, over pants, back item, capes, backpacks, and quivers. arrows can be enchanted to do certain type of damage, or liquids can be placed on them. Blades will needed to be sharpened armors will needed to be repaired.

 Monsters: They will not be spawned in the same place over and over again, they will be in different places. sometimes it will be hard to find creatures roaming around. Wolf attacks will be real and they travel in groups circling the player, they will be fast too. So be careful where u go. There will be natural things going on. You will see animals fighting, or running away from each other. Birds will be flying etc. There will be very dangerous beasts that a person alone cannot fight.

Teacher Classes, What People Can Learn: Players can learn from many teachers around the world. Colleges with magic can teach elemental based things and summoning and enchanting and buffing and alchemy and staff knowledge. But illegal magic like necromancy and dangerous alchemy is usually taught by people far out in the lands. Like witches who wish to teach for a price. Warriors are around in towns and cities and can teach you basic skills. Certain factions can teach you more. And gladiators can teach a lot also. Bandits and Thieves that you become friendly with can teach you dirty moves. Hunters can teach bow work, and also can be learned from other factions the different types of ways to use the bows. Weapon skills can be self taught and so can magic, with experience or study. There is illusionists who hang out in far out lands in the deserts who teach skills. There are crafter skills around the world, each faction has its own style in crafting. crafting leveling will take a long time, it isnt something a person can master in a day like most games, and it should be fun. so ideas to make it fun will be out later, maybe a crafting where the player does hammer hits on the hot metal or works it.

Guilds And Party Abilities: Guilds will have the ability to have a unique type of base or hold, cavern, tavern, castle, large house, noble house, poor house, tree house, big tree house, sky house, mountain house, mountain castle, sewers, farms, etc. They will build it with resources they gain. Then in game they have the ability to purchase farms or villages and run them economically and politically. they can set prices, and they can craft their own and sell . merchants will be hired, guards, etc. walls can be built, or extra buildings or extra selling or guards or workers. The guild representatives castle or house will be placed. Enemy guilds can declare war and within a certain amount of prepare time they guilds can defend or attack. Siege machines can be used. A guild can own a limited amount of things, going down to 2 areas. Guilds to own these things though will have to be huge, and famous in some sort. Meaning small new guilds cannot own things and get easily taken over by another guild. Guilds will have a huge purpose in this world. To establish the guild u will need to make a registration, for bigger guild license you will need more. Guilds will have ability to set feasts. Parties will have ability to set camp, to set mini feasts. The feats will need fires, wood, meats, salads. The land is huge, and meeting people will be a little harder then most games, or maybe all games. Guilds can be feared or loved. Depending on the actions of it. Guilds can also open banks to loan money and set interest. If person doesn't pay back manually, the money will be taken out automatically and or the player will lose items in his inventory or player house/hut/mansion etc.

Mounts:  There will be horses, big cats, big wolves, dragons, big birds, boats, ships,  magical rides, caravans, carriages. Some are easy others are hard, like dragons, they will be extremely hard to get, and you will rarely see a person with one. Mounts can be upgraded, and will need to be fed and watered. Some are required for you to have certain skills for you to have them. Like engineering and being able to fix them. Some mounts are based on parties or guilds. Ships are guild owned. Which take lots of time to make. And players from the guild will have to get together and build it. They can attach weapons to it or more space. Merchant based guilds can attach more space. But need to be careful because if it breaks they can lose the items in it. The lakes and rivers of the world are sometimes dangerous.

Character Design: Wont be cartoonish. Players can make their character fat, skinny buff, black, white, etc.. Depending on race.. Horns, teeth, face, eyes, hands, chest, hair, etc. There will be full design. Sizes of limbs and sizes of...chests and heads and shoulders etc. Diverse character design. Players will write their own story, and will then choose from 5 start areas for their race, nobility area, farm area, poor area, slave area, and merchant area/ crafters area. Slave can then be set free or become a gladiator to be free, or escape to begin their own story they want. Players can be merchants and set story to travel around. There are no main quests to follow, players do what they want.

MISC:  There will be quests, events, dungeons that are open world, Multiple big world bosses. Powerful bosses, Events that destroy landscapes. The game is set in years, and the year is afk:240 meaning After Old Kingdom year: 240. The game will be dark at nights meaning u need a source of light. There will be rain and snowy weather. There will be fog and dust storms. dark times and dark areas will sound scary and have scary noises.