Three Tribes: Total War — Hordes of Hel · 9:45pm Feb 1st, 2020
So here it comes. My first blog ever. And what a blog indeed! The whole story itself may take too much time, so I’ll try to be short.
Are you familiar with such a thing as a fatal fault? When you see something and suddenly feel an urge to create — the same something but better. Without said fatal fault that festers the original concept and stops you from fully enjoying it.
Some time ago, my friend SMT5015 came across Equestria Divided, an AU setting of Equestria that had tried to give a more realistic and grimdark view on Equestria as we know it. Everything was nice but… In his opinion, Equestria: Divided in strive to appear more like Warhammer Fantasy failed at two things: by shameless brutalization of the Equestria of modern times we see in the TV series and by hectic OOCing all the canon characters. The idea to build up something like this was born. Moreover, there as well was Sensko who had also tried to come up with “pony battles setting” idea, only more sensible and distant in time from the idyllic modern Equestria adored by so many people. You can find his rosters of units at Derpibooru, though the tag lacks a lot of relevant art. So what’s next? SMT5015 had a closer look at Sensko's art, an icon of Total War: Warhammer at the desktop and an immense desire to make better.
By the present moment, SMT5015 has detailed a great deal of Three Tribes Universe’s lore and drawn about five political/national factions for the first era (out of three) that correlates to the times of the three pony tribes and the following Windigo Crisis. The matter is that he does it in Russian, so I’m going to help him a bit with translation and composition of rosters.
Now we’ve worked up a two-part English roster of Hel tribes. Hel is the northernmost part of the Old World where ponies would migrate from, fleeing the oncoming windigoes, but for now it serves as a nest of barbaric invasions and raids to devastate everything that lies south. Hel army consists of savage, survival-hardened sapients like ponies and gryphons, and of more sinister creatures born by the evil goddess of hate and cold.
It's not about OoC. At least, not all about OoC. There is rather... exploiting the characters to gain free attention. Similar to fan art with canon ponies wearing someone's clothes because the artist sees the characters resembling each other in some aspects, or even for no reason at all and in random situations such as freakin' WW2 tank crew (because tanks are cool and bronies must learn it). But while it fits for fan art which can have the goal of pointing on these similarities, the project like EqD requires more.
Also there is another problem about exploiting mane six which can be accidental, but still. The orginal MLP is based around them alot and most fans love the charactes at first (this is the reason behing the said exploiting), while the original warhammer is based around factions as masses of people. And EqD remains the former trying to be the latter to the point where its fans actually prefer to name the factions after mane six, and all the concepts are taken from them one way or another, and almost all of the lore is about the fates of canon ponies instead of the world's history... Where is my epicness?
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English needs a word for “changing clothes on the fly”. :D
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Wut?
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“Беспорядочное переодевание”. Though “переобувание” would be more correct, I guess.