With Kelbim as their leader, The Dragonclaw clan overpowered the defenders and took Schuttgart Castle. Kelbim's first act as lord of the castle was to increase taxes. And with that, his tyrannical rule began.
Unable to fight against the powerful Dragonclaw and angered by Kelbim's opressive rule, the citizens of Schuttgart lived in constant fear. Biding their time, they continued to wait for the right moment and that's when a Dragonclaw clan member named Molly came to find them.
Once upon a time there was a mercenary clan that went by the name of "Dragonclaw". Most of its members had done military service in the Royal Aden Army, therefore they used the sign ^^7 (two eyebrows and a hand touching the temple - a military salute) in their internal communications. Organized along military lines and keeping strict discipline they were always a force to be reckoned with. Under their leader Kelbim - also known under his nom de guerre "Akirus" - they managed to take Schuttgart Castle, and Kelbim's first act as the new Lord of the Manor was to raise the taxes all over the lands of Schuttgart. This put an enormous burden on the citizens, who could barely make ends meet.
Kelbim and his Dragonclaws mercilessly enforced their rule, claiming the most bountiful hunting grounds as their own. They were getting ever richer in the process, buying the strongest armours and the sharpest weapons until nobody was able to fight them any more. But the citizens of Schuttgart were biding their time, quietly organizing and waiting for the right moment. That's when they were contacted by a Dragonclaw member named Molly who couldn't square the clan's ruthless tyranny with her conscience any more:
Kelbim soon found out about Molly's treachery and imprisoned her in the deepest dungeon of Schuttgart Castle. This brought things to a climax. The angry citizens of Schuttgart formed up in small squads of five to seven fighters and, helped by a young Dwarf called Angora, started to sneak into the Castle via a side door:
The first challenge the intruders were running into were the Altars of Earth and Wind, who were defended by the Dragonclaw Knight Commanders Haren resp. Fiora and their troops. By killing a Knight Commander, the squad could obtain a Seal Stone:
Once both Altars had been successfully imprinted, the party could proceed to the dungeon where Molly was incarcerated. On their way through the undergroud passage the various parties encountered Kelbim's bodyguards Duran or Domidan, and in the end they all had to face Typhoon, the Commander of the Bodyguard and a mighty Orc:
Still not complete info ...
What happen at the end of mystic taverns instance when almost defeated kelbim was turned into somewhat?!
And what happen with Dragonclaw clan? With dragonclaw clan members defeated in castle and rest ones (I guess not all where in castle)
Actually during instance there is more than 50 girls npc lol, and its not even correct if you will say that glorious heroes rushed into castle and killed 50!! girls
And will be even more funny just cuz Molly was dragonclaw too and than helped to kill all her friends? :) Hilarious...
Is there any complete info...
Like Dragonclaw was disbanded and its members imprisoned or something like that?
With Kelbim as their leader, The Dragonclaw clan overpowered the defenders and took Schuttgart Castle. Kelbim's first act as lord of the castle was to increase taxes. And with that, his tyrannical rule began.
Unable to fight against the powerful Dragonclaw and angered by Kelbim's opressive rule, the citizens of Schuttgart lived in constant fear. Biding their time, they continued to wait for the right moment and that's when a Dragonclaw clan member named Molly came to find them.
Still not complete info ...
What happen at the end of mystic taverns instance when almost defeated kelbim was turned into somewhat?!
And what happen with Dragonclaw clan? With dragonclaw clan members defeated in castle and rest ones (I guess not all where in castle)
Actually during instance there is more than 50 girls npc lol, and its not even correct if you will say that glorious heroes rushed into castle and killed 50!! girls
And will be even more funny just cuz Molly was dragonclaw too and than helped to kill all her friends? :) Hilarious...
Is there any complete info...
Like Dragonclaw was disbanded and its members imprisoned or something like that?
Kelbim was given the power of the Seal of Calamity/재해의 봉인 by Etis van Etina, became one of the seven Disciples/사도 of the Embryo organization and was appointed plant manager at the Atelia Fortress: http://lineage2.power.plaync.com/wiki/%EC%95%84%EC%8A%A4%ED%83%80%ED%8B%B4+%EC%9A%94%EC% 83%88#hd101347
This transformation is a rather unhealthy process and leads to a kind of "radiation sickness" with a reduced hemoglobin count and an unnaturally pale face. You can see it in detail at 3:25 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFzemEmxO_s
You must keep in mind that the story has been rewritten several times. In this video you can see the original version where Molly is still a Dwarf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF21KPPgOgA
Later NCKorea held a story writing contest, which brought some very interesting results: http://lineage2.plaync.com/event/sa/121107_wit/index
But in the end Molly was changed to Light Elf. In real life all Dragonclaw members were Light Elves. There are screenshots from their last meeting which are strongly reminiscent of the 1934 Reichsparteitag (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Will) (right little fascists they were). This was quite a big thing back then; NCKorea should still have those screenshots archived. When Juji has some time, maybe he can ask his colleagues in Seoul :)
and the story still continues in the latest update, Grand Crusade, in Korea with Etis van Etina corrupting even Kain to the dark side and he does look quite good as an evil dark knight (raid boss) :)
Of course Etis van Etina could only corrupt Kelbim and Kain van Halter because they were shady characters, so-to-speak "grey", to begin with. Older players will remember that Kain has a history with the dark side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkRUimk4iR0
Psychologically speaking it's certainly not a coincidence that he was named after Gran Kain, the dark half of the Taiji on the South Korean flag :)
So dragonclaw clan story was taken from active clan after it was disbanded?
Well lets think that and after transform kelbim teleport, like he did in kain van halter video, and leaved his clan at the mercy of shutgart citizens... And clan was abandoned, morally broken and finally disbanded...
Still better to change npc text when you finish quest and maybe in game video (at the end of instance) ...
Anyway thank you for your answer Yidao and sorry for ridiculous criticism :P
About this video... hm i think its good that story was changed :P
It looks like ashen shadow revolutionaries enlarged their clan and attacked rune ... too bloody battle...
Btw one question: there is soldiers in robe sets but i didnot saw and magical attack skill attempts or healing... They came there to simple die? :P
This is really a bit complicated. In 2004 there was an active clan called Dragonclaw resp. DragonKnights on the Korean Bartz server who behaved in the way it is explained in the Underground instance. But while in the 2015 instance there is only one party of players opposing the Dragonclaws, the real Underwear Army back in 2004 consisted of many thousand players, with hundreds of them being online at any given time and making the Dragonclaws' life a living hell (they took their name from the Squire's Shirt and Pants that were their only armor, like the sans-culottes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-culottes) in the French revolution, and which look like the knitted underwear older Koreans are wearing in the winter time).
In a way you could say that the Dragonclaw clan was morally broken. This was a similar phenomenon as with the AntiPutinSquad, a mainly British clan on Russian Classic last year. They set out to get PvP, and PvP is what they got, but in quantities that made it impossible for them to hunt and level up. The AntiPutinSquad disbanded in March 2016: http://boards.rochand.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=1439#p30287
The so-called Bartz Liberation War had been widely covered by the Korean media while it was still going on in 2004 - the Underwear Army was basically re-enacting the Korean revolution of 1987 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Democratic_Uprising) - and later became the topic of a novel (유령/Ghost by H. Kang) and many scholarly treatises. In 2012, when Lineage 2 had, mainly because of the drop reduction in the Tauti update, fallen into a deep crisis in Korea, Producer Namgung Gon rediscovered the Bartz Liberation War and made a huge advertisement effort that included not only the computer-generated movie, but also real-life interviews with veterans of the Liberation War and an exhibition in the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Arts at Ansan: http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?site=lineage2&news=45591
The Underground instance is basically recycled material from 2012.
The reason why you did not see magical skills being used in the video is simply that they are too pixel-intensive. In an in-game siege you can switch on the Lower Detail option to deal with all those flashing lights; in a video that's not possible :p
Lets start:
I think no one like this story because its greatly incomplete with many logical/morally issues...
1) Molly, alone, went to find rebelled shuttgart citizens to convience them attack the castle?! Its member of dragonclaw elf woman Molly went to find rebelled shuttgart citizens?! Who will do it being elf woman?! … How much chance is that she will not die with long painfull death?! And its while chance for Molly to come back in castle and not be prisoned by rebels is 0% and chance to convience them is also 0%. It simple cant be like that…
2) Molly convinced them to attack shuttgart castle but was (captured) by Kelbim (Who said that its not a trap?!). So what?! They had no chance to fight dragonclaw before, what changed? I mean go and loose in battle against dragonclaw to save one of them?!
3) Rebelled peasants attacked elite clan and won battle? Hmm hard to believe…
4) Rebelled peasants attacked shuttgart lord defeat him and central aden government ignore it? It cant be…
5) Ok at the end of instance almost defeated Kelbim transformed by Etina, and ? what happen there after? What happen with dragonclaw members defeated in castle and rest ones? Hmm, no info about it at all (I found nothing). I think in game quest text should be changed a bit (I mean when you finish quest you must see valid ending text, just a 3-4 sentences!)
6) Clan dragonclaws aw full disposition inside castle, like idiots, its like how to not fight! First dd-s w/o healers, then healers w/o dd-s. Separated groups of 3-5 npcs. Commanders w/o regular members… And its an elite clan?! It need to be somehow explained…
7) 70% dragonclaw clan members are woman npc-s. There is not even this 3 orcs from pictures, just one typhoon. 60+ woman npc-s in clan affiliated as bad side? Ok leave this orcs but 20+ human/elf half naked girls lol… Ok to beat them because they are bad(Funny btw). But as I think they should not be killed, by those who affiliated as good side. So glorious heroes rushed into castle and killed 60 girls (from which 20 are human/elf, it must be too shameful for elf/human woman to wear major arcana set and still be killed by those who are affiliated as good side lol... ) to save 1 of them? Really?! Its not acceptable at all… And between killing elite soldiers while shuttgart is surrounded by freya from one side and dark shaman varangka from other? Heh? Lol…
Actually loosing hp (hit points) in l2 does not cause death, and no one said what happen with dragonclaw. I just want to see against dragonclaw quest text showing valid end of story. (i mean when you finish quest)
I dont want to think what happen...
I am a bit complicated to play a game with guys affiliated as good side rushing in castle and kill 60 girls...
Actually its just 2-3 sentences to change lol....
8) Molly decided to help rebels because she was good person. It is betray anyway and Molly is traitor (Between for what she help rebelled peasants? Any guarantee that they will not simple kill her after?!), but ok… And helped them to kill whole her clan?! Hmm, really?! Who ever will do it?! What kind of Monster is she after?! Are rebels better than Kelbim than, if they done that all?! No way! They are way worse!
9) No one from shuttgart town say nothing about kelbim dragonclaw Molly Agora or even freya… Maybe change some npc-s texts too?
This is how description of mystic taverns against dragonclaw instance should looks like:
(in my opinion)
1)Dragonclaw story as it could be
2)Description of against dragon claw instance like it can be
3)Valid end of story as it can be
Its not my fantasy, its logically structured story which completely match in game instance…
Once upon time there was power full mercenary clan called dragonclaw, which long time was used by aden kingdom as special force able to complete any military task. All members of this clan were elite soldiers, most of them once served in aden royal army. Numerous successful missions made dragonclaw clan famous . During one of their missions they lost clan leader...
As new leader was chosen kelbim, as he was strongest member of the clan. With kelbim as leader clan suddenly changed, and day to day become more and more aggressive, greed and arrogant, asking more and more from aden kingdom as payment for his serve.
His total incompetence in ruling clan and negotiations Kelbim compensated with cruelty. After some time he just lead his clan against shuttgart castle, overpower castle defenders and just kicked them outside. Battle against dragonclaw led to loss this clan and also numerous soldiers, large part of aden government greatly wanted to avoid it and retain dragonclaw as it was elite force. After discussion they decided to ignore it and had hope that taking castle will make kelbim calm down, having elite force there to comfort Freya, dark shaman Varangka and doctor Chaos if necessary was not sound bad , instead of counter act they just recognized Kelbim as lord of shuttgart, but it was just an illusion, nothing could calm down Kelbim anymore. First thing he did was increase amount of tax, he manifested it as necessary thing to successfully eliminate dr Chaos, Freya and Varangka. He also used his soldiers to eliminate almost all bandits around shuttgart region, killed or prison most and make few of rest run away. And even made some successful raids in abandoned mining zones to eliminate monsters.
At start shuttgart citizens were happy to see such powerful clan in their provincial region. But once Kelbim saw gold coming as tax he lost mind and become completely crazy. As lord of shuttgart he start to terror citizens, put them into state of constant fear and force them to pay more and more money. His sick ambitions, cruelty and arrogance had no limits.
To fully control his clan he invited many loyal but weak members and used them to spy and control every old member, and also to take taxes from poor shuttgart citizens together with greedy dwarfs from dragonclaw, and mercilessly punish those who cant pay.
Almost all members of dragonclaw had same fear toward Kelbim like any one else, many of them hated his tyranny , but also had naively fate that its happening to allow them comfort freya in future. Kelbim was paying much money to all clan members , and some of them liked it, and were gladly helping him to terror and rob shuttgart citizens. With fanatic captiens like Haren, Typhoon, Duran and also Domithian, Fiora which were loyal to Kelbim any attempt to change clan rules as clan inside deal was impossible.
Clan regular members were turned into shield to protect Kelbim and allow him to continue terror. With better weapons and armors dragonclaws arrogance made them believe that they were almost unbeatable and kelbim simple immortal, they lost their honor, face, and become, lazy and addicted. Climax inside clan become awful dye to most members discontent of tyranny and some members envy toward each other and fight for more money and Kelbim predisposition.
Shuttgart citizens organized resistance against dragonclaw, but they were too weak to even try to attack, instead of it they hided and started to wait of right moment...
Kelbim tyranny toward shuttgart citizens was becoming more and more day to day, all attempts by aden government to communicate with him failed. Shuttgart citizens start to starve and if they were unable to pay, Kelbim was prison them and forced to work as payment like they were slaves. Finally Aden government lost patience and decided to simple kill Kelbim because he became completely addicted, they sent in shuttgart group of elite knights to contact with shuttgart resistance and create a plan how to eliminate Kelbim. They also needed to found a member of dragonclaw who will help them to do it. The most suitable for it should be elf woman as elves are most naive and way less greedy relatively to other races. Dragonclaw clan royal healer guard Molly was best candidate among them. Aden knights started to look for her. It took much time but finally they catch her when during patrolling she was alone outside castle. So they quickly surrounded and ordered her to follow them. Molly recognized them, as they were known aden knights, so she followed them. After they came in suitable place aden knights started convince Molly to help them pass inside castle and eliminate Kelbim, it was not hard because Molly was not able to suffer Kelbims tyranny toward shuttgart citizens anymore, and also she wanted to stop this nightmare which happened with her clan, and don’t allow bloodshed battle which result would be death for her and whole her clan. Unfortunately rest of patrol started to call for Molly so there was not enough time, they decided to meet again. And when it happen they completely convince Molly. The only thing she asked for was mercy for her and dragonclaw members, which was part of their plan by itself.
Plan was to quickly rush inside castle with Mollys help assisted by resistance and by using her try to convince most of dragonclaws to surrender without fight, defeat and capture rest and kill Kelbim. But Kelbim somehow find it out, catch Molly and prison her into dungeon. Before killing her he wanted to know about her plans, names of rebels and names of clan members who betray him… But Molly was keeping silence and Kelbim gave her to Typhoon to torture until she starts to talk.
He mostly suspected someone else from elf or human woman in betray. Being sure that no one dare to attack castle he split clan by small groups, close all doors , isolate all elf and most human woman healers and wizards between sealed gate from one side, throne room gate from second and typhoon from third, leaved them no chance to escape. And in any case moved most loyal greedy dwarfs to protect castle gate and focus his loyal troops in throne room.
Once resistance members and aden knight understood that plan failed, they start to think what to do… Asking military help from aden should take much time and cause much bloodshed. They knew that Mollys death timer is already turned on and were afraid that when kelbim finish with her he maybe will simple rush into shuttgart town and kill many citizens as punishment for rebellion...
There was no time to wait so they decided to simple rush into castle and do all planned without Molly. So they rushed into the castle via side doors assisted by group of strongest resistance members. Communicate with dragonclaw members without Molly was pointless, so they decide just to hit any one with dragonclaw crest unless he or she will fall on the ground , use resistance members to capture defeated enemies and keep moving. Separated group of faceless dragonclaws in first pray room were outnumbered and easily defeated by motivated aden knights and angry resistance rebels. Once Haren with rest of pray room guards were defeated, leader of aden knights took his seal stone and unseal first pray room.
After it attackers rushed to second pray room and again meet separated groups of enemies which had no chance against them. Reached second pray room and attacked Fiora, once she was defeated , she start to ask for mercy like most of dragonclaw members before, aden squad defeat rest of pray room defenders, force Fiora to give her seal stone to their leader and unsealed second pray room.
Once both pray room were unsealed dungeon gates opened and rebels rushed to save Molly. Dragonclaw fanatic knight Duran tried to stop them alone near pray room but was beat. Members of dragonclaw isolated behind sealed gate reflexively tried to attack, mostly dye to fear toward them, Kelbim, Typhoon and Domithian, but were also easily beat, and started to ask for mercy as soon as were defeated…
Fortunately Molly was still alive in deepest room of dungeon. But to free her aden knight needed to comfort mighty knight commander Typhoon, it was hard battle but Typhoon was beat and Molly saved. After last regroup Aden soldiers moved to throne, defeat last guards and rushed there throw a door. Defeat Kelbims weak followers and attacked him, when fight vs Kelbim start, dwarfs at main gate rushed in throne room 1 by 1 to help him but were also defeated. After hard fight Kelbim lost battle, but when he was almost killed, Etis van Etina suddenly appeared in throne room and gave Kelbim power of seal of Calamity.
Wounded Kelbim avoid to continue fight, he did not need his clan anymore and just wanted to move away quickly to test his new powers, so he just abandon his clan at resistance mercy and teleport away with van Etina. At this moment many angry shuttgart citizens were moving to castle. To prevent dragonclaw members killing they blocked side door from which they entered castle, split by 2 group, moved one to shuttgart main gate together with resistance to stop angry citizens, while second group together with Molly bring all injured members of dragonclaw to throne room.
The rest of dragonclaw members which were not in castle surrender soon after it. Aden government was satisfied with mission result , except the fact that Kelbim escaped, but at least problem was solved… Clan dragonclaw was orderly disbanded its members were send in aden military prison for numerous interrogations. Most of their gear was confiscated and used to compensate shuttgart citizens. All of them accuse Kelbim in everything what happen , disowned from him, and most of them were just asking for mercy. Soon after it Orc tribe asked to take Typhoon, Domithian and all knight - soldiers so they were sent to orc village, their fate were unknown but rumors speak that they were added to orc tribe special force. All kelbim followers and greed dwarfs who gladly helped Kelbim stayed in military prison for a long time but after also were sent to their related races. In some month, after aden government verified that rest of dragonclaw members were not dangerous, they were split by a small groups and sent to different military divisions to continue service. Of course no one completely trust them but they were elite soldiers which were so needed…
Still nothing...
I really dont understand it... You created excellent instance zone! Amazing npc! Specially royal guard healers (healer&dd) dwarfs with siege summons... Fiora, Typhoon, Kelbim... its really amazing... but why not complete simple story? At least in morale part...
It must be so sad for girl to wear arcana set and still be killed by ppls affiliated as good side...
or what kind of good side is it if kill like 60 girls at once?! Its anyway unacceptable...
Why not to add in quest like: good rebels attacked castle, capture deffenders(soldiers) and removed kelbim tyrany ...
3-4 sentences, at least there will not any questions and instance will not looks like morale broken somewhat...
is it hard?:eek:
Kelbim part is prologue to the real Kelbim raid at AF
Freya part is the prologue to the normal & epic Freya raid
the dwarven one is prologue to Tauti & Epic Tauti raid
next update we will get another tragic story added about Kain which will be the prologue to the new upcoming epic battle at Gracia in which you need to kill Kain as evil raid boss