Originally posted by nerovipus32

i can't identify with any of the factions in the secret world..wouldn't want to be in the illuminati as it's full of rich kids with big inheritence and all the elite slime in society. templars are religious fanatics so that's a no too.  I don't really know much about dragon but they don't sound too interesting

 

I feel much the same, I'll probably go Dragon out of "lesser evil" (assuming I play after finding out what it's really like from beta and/or independent reviews).

Must be tough to play mmorpg if you aren't much for empathy, trying on someone/thing else's shoes or just plain ole roleplaying.  But there's a wow meets sims-like mmo game coming out called Secret World, it's almost like real life so I'm thinking it should appeal to the player that wants to just play themselves and explore, craft, socialiaze or pve/pvp.  Come to find out even those players are too Swedish to pick a faction to go with. ;P

I have a question, if this is present day meets magic and people have super powers, how many people out of a room would want to simply fly as a super power? /raiseshand

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Originally posted by Invintion





I have a question, if this is present day meets magic and people have super powers, how many people out of a room would want to simply fly as a super power? /raiseshand

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I would want either invisibility or mind control. for deviant reasons.

edit: i just watched the vids provided for all three factions. i stand by my original assessments of each. I see nothing presented in said trailers that even hints to something beyond the scope i originally assessed (i.e. crazy asians and religious zealots). it's an asian dude with asian music talking about asian principles and swords and proverbial wisdom along with sewing chaos (illuminati thrive in chaos, mind you, as chaos breeds confusion and lacks clarity for anyone to notice what's going on behind the scenes...) and knowing the true order of things (they know what the illuminati allow them to know). the templars (extreme historical reference btw to crusaders of the holy church, and assassin's creed...) church buildings, angels, crosses, mentioning faith, convictions, christian conservative republican values; essentially they are evangelicals. they want to bring order to the world but the order they bring is what the illuminati allows them to bring.

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Taking that test, i really did believe the answers i picked. Like how public water is laced with substances that control the masses. that science is the answer. but i also wanted to put the puzzle together, and i choose justice, and elemental, and sensuality (lol i'm deviant), blueprints, and creepy people.

end spoilers.  thanks for replying guys, you always make my day :D

"oh, Dragons everywhere. Good i have my old good steyr AUG"

finally ,..we get to read about ourselves,...i do not think any of us illuminati bothered reading about the other 2 factions, we all think the templars are religious nutballs and the dragons are tree huggers,...or some think that there asians...i am not really sure why some of us think the later ,..but hey whatever,...they still didnt read .

Illuminati - pretty spot on cuz they're easy to understand. They'd be the rich kid who has nothing better to do all day then spend money. Reality TV Stars and Rock Stars

Templars - Are not religious in any stretch, just single minded... once they decide something is bad then it's pretty much game over.  Republicans and The Nazi Party (I could have said Catholic Church but there's the whole religion thing again)

Dragon - Instigators and manipulators. Info on them isn't hidden so much as waiting for one worthy of finding it. Anonymous and... hmmm... The Oracle from The Matrix?

Actually I see it like this:

Templar: Authoritarian but fraternal - a little like Soviet Communism minus the economics.

Dragon: Anarcho Syndicalists, with organised units throughout the world intent on destabalising traditional power bases.

Illuminati: Old school capitalists.

All of these things though are means to an end. Each has a gnostic mystical bent as a primary motivation -

The Templars seek to protect knowledge through authority, tradition, duty, and might.

The Dragon seek to diseminate knowledge through destablising the power bases that control, guard, and manipulate it.

The Illuminati seek to posess knowledge for themselves and will use whatever power or expedience they can to do so.

None of the factions are sex, drugs, or religion and each is quite complex deep down.

Anyways at the end of the day I won't tell you my faction ... but I'm not done!

I had kind of wanted to be a Dragon, because, really, dragons are cool and I like the color scheme associated with dragons, but based on the profile, I'm in the right place. Definitely not a Templar.

And if I had a superpower I think flying would be good as long as I could fly long distances, like to Europe, not just 50 feet. I want Superman type flying powers, not Batman (which is just really good at jumping).

I made this post on another site somewhile ago as part of an RP thread, to give flavour to non asian Dragons (yes I know this article is about Illuminati but I don't like those great Merchant Bankers).  The Kate in the dialogue is a modern Pagan Witch living in London.

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Originally posted by fenrisblue

 the dragons are tree huggers,...or some think that there asians...i am not really sure why some of us think the later ,..but hey whatever,...

Being both, guess that chooses my faction? ;P

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