User blog:SArchangel/Game Idea - Soulbound

Soulbound is an upcoming fantasy-themed war strategy video game with third-person action role-playing elements under development by User:SArchangel as of February 28, 2016. Soulbound is inspired by the Total War game series.

Guide
Soulbound is set in the fictional high-fantasy world of Placia, dominated by a great diversity of odd fantasy and magic folk. Diversity aside, all such folk are defined by the immaterial, individual soul.

Background
Long ago in the peaceful times, the Dark Lord Crag dwelled deep down in the depths of the Placian Underworld, where he used dark magic to craft a powerful object made of cursed gems: the Soul Crown. The Soul Crown had the ability to allow its wearer to control the souls of any being who was willing to offer its own soul to the wearer's command.

Using the Soul Crown, Lord Crag amassed the Dark Horde, and ascended to the surface of Placia on a quest to conquer it for his own rule. Crag waged war with the surface kingdoms, who united against the Dark Horde and fought it for decades, to no avail. As a last resort, Placia's mightiest surface heroes banded together and went on a journey to destroy the Soul Crown. And by decieving Lord Crag, they succeeded. The Soul Crown was shattered into millions of jewel fragments, disbanding the entire Dark Horde, and the now powerless Lord Crag was thrown back into the depths of the Underworld.

Peace was restored, but the most powerful Placian leaders all over the vast land discovered the power of the shattered fragments of the Soul Crown. Each fragment, known as Soulstones, was its own miniature Soul Crown that could allow its wearer to control a limited number of souls. The Soulstones eventually became trophies of power; the more you had the more powerful you were above those with fewer as you could amass larger 'soulbound' armies.

As the game begins, you the player, are in possession of a single Soulstone, which will be the bedrock of a kingdom you will construct and the 'soulbound' army you will amass.