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[Ceinwyn ab'Arawn]

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Some of you may already know it, but after being asked a question about it, I realized I didn't. I did a LOT of digging online to find this information, as I have never played the Ultima games. After years of thinking Tokuno was only thrown in to appease some of the markets for the UO product, I realized I was wrong. While there isn't much information on Tokuno, a.k.a. the Land of the Feudal Lords, there is enough to justify its existence within Ultima Online.

After the defeat of Mondain, three of the four continents seemingly disappeared, leaving only Lord British's realm. The Lands of Danger and Despair were later rediscovered as the Serpent Isle. The Land of the Feudal Lords was transformed into the Tokuno Islands by the cataclysm.

Reference 1

The Lands of the Feudal Lords were one of the original continents of old Sosaria, ruled by the Kings of Rondorlin. The Stranger visited them on his quest to get one of the gems for the time machine. With the defeat of Mondain, Sosaria was thundered apart, and nothing was ever heard again of the Lands of the Feudal Lords.

The Lands of the Feudal Lords were not destroyed after Mondain's defeat, but were reformed into the Tokuno Islands by a cataclysm.

Reference 2

So this is more or less how it went:

The shattering of the Gem of Immortality caused the Land of Feudal Lords (Tokuno) to phase out, or shift, to a different facet. It continued to exist separately from ours, just like Malas, Ilshenar, Heartwood. Somehow, either by a change in magic or stars (The NPC Selcius says that when certain stars or heavenly bodies allign various gates may open or rifts may open), or by some other force (explosion maybe?) Tokuno/Feudal Land was reunited with our Britannia. Heck, maybe it just decided to reappear.

What we know after that, as far as BNN Official UO lore goes, is that the treasures of Tokuno were lost via shipwreck, causing the Empire of Tokuno to post the following:

[Edda]

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Thanks for sharing the info!

[Mairsil]

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You know, not to sound Jaded, but I still don't really see that EA had any intention of not just filling a market with Samurai Empires.


There is a definite connection to the fuedal lords, but the expansion SHOULD have been the fuedal lords. Not ninjas, and samurai, and kitsunes and everything Japan.

I would of been happy to see a fuedal lords expansion, but Sam emp just wasn't it in my mind. It was a move to make money off a market, they just found the best way they could to tie it into the story with as little detail as possible.
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[Davaran Skyfire]

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Oddly enough the Juka are outfitted, and behave, much like feudal lords. That would have been a twist, Ilshenar focusing more heavily on Tera's/Gargs/Blackthorn/Exodus and the Tokuna expansion showcasing the ninja [meer] and Samurai [Juka] Ofcourse, the meer are hardly ninja, but it's an interesting concept.

I do find Tokuna to be the shard I visit least.

[Cear Dallben ZOG]

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Yeah we talked to Leurocian about that at town hall.
He apoligized saying it was a one time marketing stint
and that UO would never go thru something like that again.
aka Samuria Empire for japs, aka Malas as a facet of borg cubes.
Tho they did successfully tie it into UO it failed. It became a massive
market push for the already dominate asian crowd that plays ultima online
(unfair, as they already have everything we dont) and remains unfinished and
will more than likley not receive attention again(aka ceins interesting find regarding
the castle. I told el dev bro that the feudal lords intro duction should have been tied to
the world of Pagan, and been largley fel ruleset. I always though of pagan as the land of the
feudal lords when playing it.---------------------------------------____-----------------------------------made it.
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[Ceinwyn ab'Arawn]

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I knew at least 3 of you fellows would chime in. This post wasn't really to debate marketing schemes done by EA as much as it was to help other people who DO RP as a Tokunese or in Tokuno to understand some background of the place. It may have just been a profit to EA, but it doesn't have to remain that way to us roleplayers.

Cear, I know you've played the game Ultima. If you could please post some information in this thread about the Lands of the Feudal Lords it would be very much appreciated. Things such as maybe how the NPCS acted, or descriptions, or anything else that may help to give RPers of these chars something to build onto.

Let's focus and be constructive here, I'd rather my topic didn't become a debate on the motives of EA.

[Cear Dallben ZOG]

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[Ceinwyn ab'Arawn]

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Awesome, thanks! Can you give us any information about those gods?

[Davaran Skyfire]

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Lithos - Necromantic Followers [pagan necro ftw]
Pyros - sorcerers [we have that arty 11 staff from Magencia, proof they exist!]
Stratos - um, Cear will known.
And Hydros - called themselves tempests.

There was a fifth magic too..all I can really remember was how awesome it was to do the Necromancy with Litho's chick and the fun and intrigue of Pyros' people.

[Cear Dallben ZOG]

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The fith was you when you became the Titan of Ether.
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[Cear Dallben ZOG]

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@ Dav, the followers of Stratos were Mircal workers called theurgists, they had devine powers given to them thru Stratos.
Each of the Titans were Elemental, Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. At the end of the Game the avatar becomes Captian Planet/ Milla Jovovich in Nicolas Coquard's "The Fith Element"
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[Hermoine66]

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Well this is interesting rp wise story i didnt know the history on Tokuno cities. So thanks for the information.