[WIPz] Dark Brotherhood Chronicles: Chaos Ambition

[AndalayBay]

Dark Brotherhood Chronicles: Chaos Ambition

“We will be the black hand that moves the world.†– Ian Lachance

 

After two centuries of betrayals, failures and weak leadership, the Dark Brotherhood is on the brink of extinction, but the Dragonborn’s ascension as the last Listener offers the Brotherhood one final chance at restoring what once was. The time has come for that one last effort that will either be a sweeping voice of fear across all of Tamriel, or a mere hollow shout by a group of faithless murderers; a quietus spoken by those who failed to rise above their mortal shackles.

 

Humanity and its petty desires – pride, revenge and greed – have driven out the purity of chaos that once heralded the Brotherhood. No longer is the Black Sacrament a rite of power, fear and reverence. It has become an expression of those infatuated with their own comfort, too weak to act out their hateful desires themselves and too cretinous to face the trivial reality of their own existence.

 

This poison has spread into the ranks of the Brotherhood like fire through dust. The assassins have been undone by the very same mortal instinct that they set their doom by indulging in. The Night Mother, no longer an empress of Sithis’ purity, has led them all astray, hunting unfaithful lovers, faceless political figures and an unimaginable amount of the average fetcher that crawls the world like rodents.

 

It is in this era of disappointment that the true purpose of the Brotherhood shall become known. A voice from the dark truth of the void will finally reveal itself and lead the new Black Hand to its one and only rightful place – around the throat of the world.

 

FEATURES

 

• A long, engaging story of three acts, following the Dark Brotherhood’s ascension to becoming far more than it ever was.
• Several deep and dynamic characters, all with their own rich identity and backstory.
• An original soundtrack with music for the new locations, including new sound effects and full voice acting.
• New, exciting lore, and the audacity to take Bethesda’s creation to a dark corner not yet travelled.

 

 

Chaos Ambition is the third and final instalment of the three-part series begun by Awakening. The bridge between the two, Consequences, will be developed for Oblivion in parallel.

 

STAY UPDATED

As soon as we’re in active development, you can watch this WIP thread for links to our developer diary, which will feature screenshots, videos, story information, character introductions, music and overall progress reports.

THE TEAM

Story & Characters, Music & Sound and Content Direction: Xae

Art, Level Design and Additional Writing: Amadaun

JOIN THE PROJECT

If you're interested in helping out with the development, head over to our forums (link above) and tell us your endeavour.

Edited October 19, 2015 by AndalayBay

[DarkRider]

Sounds cool, will it be required to be in the vanilla Darkbrotherhood Faction? Or will this stand alone?

[AndalayBay]

Yes, you will need to have played through the vanilla quest line so that you're the Listener.

[DarkRider]

Better work on a new assassin character then, my last didn't like their attitude and wiped them out

[AndalayBay]

Take your time. We are several months away at least.

But yeah, part of our motivation here is we aren't too happy with the vanilla quest line either...