I feel like I should know this already
By
Bitt_Player,
Posted on: 2010-05-28 16:08 in Player Questions
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Rogue_Isles
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***| It is perhaps fortunate for the rest of the world that disaster struck before the Children of Enos could turn their attention to the outside world. On April 3 rd, 1833 an eruption shattered the nighttime calm. Over the course of the next few weeks, the previously un-volcanic main island of Grandville recoiled from ash, thunder, and fire as a mountain grew where none had been before. When it was all done, much of the old city was half-buried in ash. Lava flows had destroyed farmland and choked the harbor. Even more dramatic, Grandville was broken into four islands now known as Cap au Diable, Port Oakes, Bloody Bay, and Grandville. |
Actually, in all fairness, looking at the map that was provided with City of Villains, this couldn't possibly be true:
If the map is drawn to scale / position, Grandville looks more like it had been a part of Saint Martial, and Bloody Bay is on the far side of both Sharkhead and Mercy Island, which in between Warburg, Bloody Bay, and the Grandville / Cap / Port Oakes islands. .
Oh yeah, I forgot about that bit. What got me is that, on the map, they're still connected, since apparently no one's mapped the Etoile Islands since the late 18th century.
But wait, if no one's mapped the Islands since before that eruption, Grandville, Cap, Oakes, and Bloody Bay would all be one landmass. What the heck, cartographers?!
BackAlleyBrawler: I can't facepalm this post hard enough.
ShoNuff: If sophisticated = bro-mantically emo-tastic, then I'm going to keep to my Shonen loving simplicity dammit.
Man, I didn't even know they were the same island. Shows how little I pay attention to game lore.
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
Also, the mountain is between Port Oakes and Cap Au Diable, so it seems bizarre that a mountain in that location would break up the islands as they are.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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I wouldn't have noticed myself were I not considering writing a fan fiction in which a group of heroes invade the Rogue Isles in an attempt to conquer it.
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
Man, I didn't even know they were the same island. Shows how little I pay attention to game lore.
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BackAlleyBrawler: I can't facepalm this post hard enough.
ShoNuff: If sophisticated = bro-mantically emo-tastic, then I'm going to keep to my Shonen loving simplicity dammit.
Okay, all right. So, we all know that Port Oakes and Cap au Diable are, in fact, the same island. My question is, what is this island actually called? Is the island named Cap au Diable, and Port Oakes is just a district on it? Is it the other way around? Does the island have some other, unrelated name? It's driving me crazy not knowing this.
BackAlleyBrawler: I can't facepalm this post hard enough.
ShoNuff: If sophisticated = bro-mantically emo-tastic, then I'm going to keep to my Shonen loving simplicity dammit.