Sirius: Legend Of The Temple Guardian (Story Idea Concept) UPDATE!

[SheHawk 184]

Hello everyone. I thought that I would share with you all a story idea that I have had and I would like to get feedback please. What I mean, do you like it? what would you like to see happen in the story? My story idea is based mostly on the Temple Guardian, because I simply like his back story as told through his hollographic messages that he has left to himself. The story is based on the Sacred 2 game to some extent, simply because this is a work of fiction and not about the actual game, but uses key referrence points from the game. I have of course my own interpratations of the Temple Guardian's origins, but I am remaining as faithful to that as possible with my own ideas and imagination into the mix. So please no one get upset or be offended by my ideas, they are not meant to be offensive in any way. I am in two minds about if I should post the whole complete story here at Darkmatters, as comments would be needed for that and I doubt I would get those comments. This story is soly for my own purpose and enjoyment. But I like the initial idea so much, that I simply had to share it with you all. I have put my ideas down into a from of a Premise and I hope that you will all Enjoy it.

Sirius: Legend Of The Temple Guardian

By She-Hawk

Premise

 

The battle was finally over, he could rest for a while. But that was when it hit him and it hit him fast. Everywhere he looked, there was carnage, death and destruction all around him, the carcasses of dragons and other creatures lay strewn all over the battle field. “What have I done?” He said, but that wasn’t right, he was part of a collective now under the control of the Great Machine, he was they, them. But something had changed and he was not too sure what that was, or why. “Come on Brother, we are leaving now.” He looked up and saw his brother, or at least one of them. “Solon. Why are we here? Why did we have to fight?” He said. Wait… he had a name too, it was vague at first, but yes, he had a name and it was Sirius. But they don’t have names, or do they? “You must be malfunctioning brother. That name is meaningless to us. We no longer have names, for we are the Temple Guardians and we are many.” Replied the one that Sirius had addressed as Solon. But what they had said, did not compute. Temple Guardians is what they are, not their name, yet that part seemed right, sort of.

It was all very confusing for Sirius. “No brother. I am not malfunctioning.” Said Sirius all of a sudden, as though he was sure of himself. He was, well, sort of. It was like as though he was almost two distinct individual entities all at the same time. Though, that did not seem right either. No matter, something else was bleeding through, something that Sirius had no time to completely analyse. “Yes brother. You are. We have won this war. It was our destiny to win this war. Let us help repair you.” All of a sudden, an arm came jutting out of Solon’s top left shoulder, but at the end of it, there was some kind of a probe device, which they now intended to put through and into their brother’s head. Being part of a collective, Sirius had sensed his brother’s actions, but rather than allow the probe to penetrate through his head, his defences took over and quickly with his sword in his hand, he sliced off the arm that protruded dangerously towards him.

“Why do you attack us brother?” Asked Solon in shock and alarm. “No, why do you attack me?” Asked Sirius. “We was not attacking you. We were attempting to repair you.” Replied Solon. “I am not malfunctioning.” Replied Sirius in anger. Wait… What was this? An emotion! But Temple Guardians do not feel such things. As strange as it was, it was there none the less. “I am not defective brother, you are.” Replied Sirius in full and complete anger now. Without warning another arm came from the top of Solon’s other shoulder, but once again, Sirius immediately detected this and with his sword, he sliced off the offending arm, knowing that his blade was the only weapon that could cut through Temple Guardian Armour. Solon then suddenly charged at Sirius with their sword and both swords clashed together, deflecting blow for blow, being brothers, or part of the collective, made them more than an even match for each other. Neither of them could get in a striking blow that would do any much damage. But just then, Solon, somehow was able to attack without Sirius being able to detect it.

‘Not possible.’ Thought Sirius, but he now looked at where his left arm had been completely severed. “You will pay for that brother.” Remarked Sirius in full complete anger. But this emotion was a negative one and it had now caused some sort of a feedback, or something. As he stopped in mid swing of his sword. “What… what is this? What are you doing to me brother?” Said Sirius in total alarm. A part of him was fighting to be part of the collective, also something else was going on that made feeling emotions to be possible. “We are doing nothing brother, you are doing this to yourself. We sense something in you and it is trying to disconnect us. We shan’t allow it.” Said Solon sharply and they now aimed their pulse cannon arm at Sirius, who was now unable to move, as something was happening to him. But just as Solon was about to blast their brother into none existence, there came a sudden and almighty powerful blast, it came directly from a Seraphim, surprisingly enough. The Seraphim were the enemy of the Temple Guardians, anything that was against the Great Machine were their enemies. But for some reason, the Seraphim were even more so their enemy, but Solon never questioned their core directive.

The blast however, was so powerful, that there was simply nothing left of Solon, there was now, just a pile dust on the ground of where he once stood. “Why, why did you help me?” Asked Sirius in total confusion. “I sensed a change in you and I found I kindred spirit and I simply could not allow for you to be destroyed, even though we both serve different creators. There is however, something of the light within you, which in a sense makes you kind of a brother to me I suppose.” Remarked this rather unusual Seraphim. “Your brother! But we… I mean I. I am not related to you in anyway whatsoever.”

“Yes, I am very well aware of that fact. But like I said, you and I are connected now, as you have the power of the light inside of you and there is nothing that you can do now to change that fact.” Replied the Seraphim. “Light? What light?” Asked Sirius in total confusion. “I do not fully understand as yet, but you have been touched by the creator. Obviously, he must think that you must be worthy and it is not my place to question his divine gift upon you. Though my sisters would completely not understand or even accept such a fact.” Replied the Seraphim, sounding a little sad upon saying that. “Then if I may ask. What makes you be so different?” Asked Sirius, feeling weaker with every passing moment. Something was changing him alright, but what, he could not completely fathom, nor was all of his mind able to process any of it at all. Too much was inside of his mind and it was as though he was now having a battle from within, with his own self. Which made no sense.

Regardless of that fact, something was happening and it was completely beyond him to be able to do anything about it. “I honestly don’t know. I have always been different from my fellow sisters, which sadly made me an outcast to them, so now I travel alone in the hope that one day I will be able to reunite with my sisters.” Replied the Seraphim. “I am… S… Sirius.” Replied Sirius feeling the strain on his entire body and mind. “I am Seraph-Thena.” Replied the Seraphim and she helped Sirius get to his feet. “What you are feeling right now is the Power of the Light completely purging the darkness from within you. Though you might not quite be the same after it has completely banished the darkness away.” Remarked Seraph-Thena in a matter of fact sort of way. “We. I mean me. I. I cannot lose my memories. I do not want to lose my sense of self, not ever.” Replied Sirius. “Then I suggest that you activate Emergency Protocol Alpha One.” Suddenly replied Seraph-Thena. “What? Wait! How comes you know so much about us. I mean about us Temple Guardians that is?” Asked Sirius in shock and alarm. “Oh you’ll be very surprised as to what I know. Remarked Seraph-Thena. “Where, where are you taking me?” Asked Sirius. “I’m taking you to an ancient sacred burial site which will be able to hide you from being detected by the Great Machine.”

“We. I mean, I… I do not know of such a place.” Said Sirius sounding a bit puzzled. “Of course you don’t know. No one does except for me that is.” Replied Seraph-Thena. “How comes you know and are aware of such a place then?” Asked Sirius in a curious manner. “The creator has endowed me with special knowledge that only I for now, can know about, until when the moment is right for when my fellow sisters are ready to be given such knowledge too.” Replied Seraph-Thena, somewhat cryptically. “I don’t understand.” Replied Sirius. “Neither do I just yet. But I am patient. I know that I will understand fully and completely in time. Once I have gotten you to the ancient sacred burial site, you can initiate the Emergency Protocol Alpha One Program there.” Said Seraph-Thena. It was a long journey and Seraph-Thena made sure that they were not being followed, she kept to the shadows, as so not to be seen with the Temple Guardian. For she knew the truth, that the Temple Guardians were the once great protectors of Ancaria, way before her and her kind came along and they did not like the fact that something rather than someone was doing their job.

Though that matter is a lot more complicated than that. But right now, Seraph-Thena did not focus on such matters. She finally came to the entrance of the ancient sacred burial site. It did not look like anything remotely special, but that was the whole point of it. That way it could be kept safe in plain sight and no one would ever be the wiser about it. “What about my arm?” Sirius asked. “Don’t worry there are a few of your kind too, scattered about the battle field, I’ll take one of their arms, that will do.” Replied Seraph-Thena and she was then soon on her way, when she got back, she began to set about attaching the arm to Sirius’s left shoulder, while he activated the Emergency Protocol Alpha One Program.” A hologram of himself stood still, but it had it’s left arm intact. But it was supposed to look like that, it was a special hologram that represented him in his full and complete form. “Oh dear, this arm will not do at all.” Said Seraph-Thena, sounding disappointed, but it was a good thing that she had decided to bring several pairs of arms with her, just in case. But to no avail, none of the arms would attach themselves to Sirius’s left shoulder. But just then, Seraph-Thena had a sudden idea. The hologram’s prime directive was almost complete, when Seraph-Thena, came up to Sirius, holding something in her hands.

 

“What is that you are holding?” He asked. “It is your new arm, I made it myself. I had to do so, because your true arm was cut off in such a way that no other actual Temple Guardian’s arms would fit into your shoulder joint, but this one will, as I have made it specifically for you and the problem that you have with your shoulder joint mechanism.” Remarked Seraph-Thena sounding quite pleased with herself. “Then please attach it quickly. I can feel my systems starting to shut down.” Said Sirius, a little harshly, though he did not mean to do so. “I shall seal up this tomb For when the day shall come when you shall be reactivated. As your battle is not yet over Sirius, not by a long shot and I am sorry to say that I however, shan’t be here for when that day shall come. As it truly shall do so. Said Seraph-Thena, Sirius said nothing, did nothing, for he had completely shut down. Seraph-Thena really did not want leave him. “Do I really have to leave him though-art creator?” She asked. Just then a voice from thin air boomed loudly in reply to her. “Yes my child. Don’t worry, his destiny is now his own. I need you elsewhere. When the time is right, you shall be reunited with him and of course, your other sisters.” With that, Seraph-Thena used her powers to seal the entrance of the ancient burial site and then; she left, knowing that her sort of brother, will be kept completely safe.

 

Edited February 10 by SheHawk

[Hooyaah 2,658]

Well, Miss Amy, you have really done it. You have created a compelling back-story for the Temple Guardian and an explanation as to how he entered the game. It could a bit of polish and some editing for grammar, syntax and punctuation, yet the real necessity, the all too important content is present and the reader now has motivation for beginning the game as a Temple Guardian.

I always thought that the small introduction for each character during their "creation" at the beginning of the game was quite a bit too minimal. Thank you for your introduction; I'm chuffed to bits!

[SheHawk 184]

On 2/4/2023 at 1:56 AM, Hooyaah said:

Well, Miss Amy, you have really done it. You have created a compelling back-story for the Temple Guardian and an explanation as to how he entered the game. It could a bit of polish and some editing for grammar, syntax and punctuation, yet the real necessity, the all too important content is present and the reader now has motivation for beginning the game as a Temple Guardian.

I always thought that the small introduction for each character during their "creation" at the beginning of the game was quite a bit too minimal. Thank you for your introduction; I'm chuffed to bits!

Why Thank you my good Sir Steve. I am glad to hear that I have created a compelling back-story, that was my hope that it would be so. Well, I always aim to do the best in my use of Enlgish, etc. I try not to focus too much, at least on the grammer aspect, simply because if I were to focus so much on that. I would honestly loose all sense of my creativity. Though there is my learning disability that comes into affect too. But I never let that get in the way of being able to do stories.

I have been doing them since 1992, all hand written, as I did not have a computer at the time of doing those. I have hand written 200+ stories all on lined paper, both sides. Honest truth. I have grown from strength to strenght in my use of English and grammer, where possible. As so long as my stories are readable, that is all that matters to me. I am not set out to have my work published. If I could, then I would if I could afford it that is, employ a proof reader to help with the grammer and syntax etc. I am glad to hear that you are chuffed to bits, that comment made my day. Thank you so much for that kind Sir Steve, it is much appreciated. I hope someone does not mind me mentioning the fact that this site is still using the Christmas theme and hasen't changed it yet. Sorry to point that one out. I mean no harm or offence by it. If anythin,g it's just odd seeing a Christmas theme in the month of February, unless you are in the Pendle Area of Lancashire here in the UK, where it often gets very snowy sometimes in February and anyone would be forgiven in thinking it to be Christmas with all that snow around.

 

[Hooyaah 2,658]

Well, Miss Amy,

Insofar as GoGo's excuse is likely articulated, the current look of Dark Matters is a "Winter Theme."

 

I wonder if you considered editing your tales afterward. It is possible that the changes would be easier, after your creative mind had completed the task at hand.

[gogoblender 2,843]

Halloooo!! 
As Hooyaah mentions, yah we’re trying to keep it as a winter theme 💥😄😄

When schot has some time this week hopefully we can change the word Christmas at the top and stay snowing all the way until the soft rays of summer shine upon our face

❤️

gogo

ps This was also our favourite quest in the entire game it was a wonderful moment when just before Christmas the devs released the quest and we quickly put up the entire walk-through it has a big place in our hearts :-)

[SheHawk 184]

9 hours ago, Hooyaah said:

Well, Miss Amy,

Insofar as GoGo's excuse is likely articulated, the current look of Dark Matters is a "Winter Theme."

 

I wonder if you considered editing your tales afterward. It is possible that the changes would be easier, after your creative mind had completed the task at hand.

Thank you my good Sir Steve. I am willing to go to such lengths as to use gramerly for my story before posting it. As I have decided that I will do so, as my part in supporting this site, as well as taking part now and again in the Word Associated Game. I always run spell check on my word docs. The only thing that I will not be able to do is correct any syntax and punctuation, unless grammerly takes care of that too? I hope that my work will be acceptable at least with the spelling and grammer being correct. My roommate might be able to help me with my syntax etc. But it would be somewhat frustrating for me going through all of the corrections, the grammer and spelling I do not mind. But it would be a whole lot more handy if there was a program that can automatically fix the syntax, etc. I like the idea of a Winter Theme, as since it is so really very cold this year. Wrap up warmly my good Sir Steve.

[SheHawk 184]

9 hours ago, gogoblender said:

Halloooo!! 
As Hooyaah mentions, yah we’re trying to keep it as a winter theme 💥😄😄

When schot has some time this week hopefully we can change the word Christmas at the top and stay snowing all the way until the soft rays of summer shine upon our face

❤️

gogo

ps This was also our favourite quest in the entire game it was a wonderful moment when just before Christmas the devs released the quest and we quickly put up the entire walk-through it has a big place in our hearts :-)

I like the idea Gogo, you wrap up warm too this cold time of year. I have yet to play the Christams Quest. I am am sure that I will one day enjoy playing that quest.

Edited February 9 by SheHawk

[gogoblender 2,843]

2 hours ago, SheHawk said:

I like the idea Gogo, you wrap up warm too this cold time of year. I have yet to play the Christams Quest. I am am sure that I will one day enjoy playing that quest.

Me and SChot wrote up this walk through after he came off the beta and said "do it! " .he had loads of snaps and I the bottle of wine.

We just had to write up the commentary, notes, tips and jokes in the guide.

Its beautiful quest, and its ending is just marvelous

its music can be heard when you press the player up above at top of forum

 

http://www.sacredwiki.org/index.php/Sacred_2:Can_Christmas_Still_be_Saved

[SheHawk 184]

3 hours ago, gogoblender said:

Me and SChot wrote up this walk through after he came off the beta and said "do it! " .he had loads of snaps and I the bottle of wine.

We just had to write up the commentary, notes, tips and jokes in the guide.

Its beautiful quest, and its ending is just marvelous

its music can be heard when you press the player up above at top of forum

 

http://www.sacredwiki.org/index.php/Sacred_2:Can_Christmas_Still_be_Saved

Sounds like to me that you both enjoyed yourselves. I look foward to playing the quest one day.

[SheHawk 184]

UPDATE!

Keeping you all in the know of what I am doing with my story idea. I have spent the last several days now playing Sacred 2 on my PS3, playing the actual Temple Guardian so that I could get him to a sufficient enough level so that I could start the Campaign and start to do the Temple Guardian Quests only. Sad to say, there is only a total of 7 messages left to him through the holograms and via T-Energy consoles, after that, there are no more messages. Which is a sad thing. I wished that the makers of the game had kept to the messages side of things, as the back story into the Temple Guardian was just building up and left pretty much up to everyone's own imagination of what the rest of his back story was. I wish I could fill in those gaps, but the best that I can do, after getting screenshots of those messages and other stuff from the game using my mobile phone to take the pictures with. As I do not have game capture for my PS3.

I can and I shall work on extending those messages, but there is something that the deluxe Temple Guardian that you meet and have to fight tells you, that is of interest and I am going to use that in my story too. However, sad to say that given the fact that there are only 7 messages from the Hologram/T-Energy Consoles and 1 message from the Deluxe Temple Guardian, the Premise, which I will rework slightly to make it a proper prologue and therefore the story will need an epilogue. That's a total of 10 elements to the whole thing, making my story rather short. But I honestly was not expecting to do a full-length feature novel, not unless there is more info about the temple guardian than what is covered in the game, then please let me know. I can't and won't promise anything. But I will take all and any other information about the Temple Guardian and find a way to implement that into my story, but it still may end up being short. So please do not be too disappointed about that fact. Thank you all in advance.

Edited February 11 by SheHawk

[Hooyaah 2,658]

Miss Amy, I might be willing to help edit your story, provided that I have the time and it's not too extensive.

 

It would be nice to be of assistance when you get what you have tweaked to where you are mostly satisfied and are done with your changes to it.

[SheHawk 184]

13 hours ago, Hooyaah said:

Miss Amy, I might be willing to help edit your story, provided that I have the time and it's not too extensive.

 

It would be nice to be of assistance when you get what you have tweaked to where you are mostly satisfied and are done with your changes to it.

Aww, thank you my good kind Sir Steve for such a lovely offer. I honestly can't say how long each chapter will be. I have a page count in mind of about 4 pages per chapter, but that might change. I have finished and completed the Prologue, though that is 9 pages long. If you feel that you might have the time to read that before I post it here, then please let me know. I have downloaded Grammarly for that and I will continue to use it for my chapters and my epilogue, which might be shorter than my Prologue, though I hope not. But I honestly can't say, as I haven't as yet reached that point.

My story is intended only for everyone to enjoy and that is all that honestly matters to me. But like I said, if you feel that you have the time to read my work, please let me know. Your very kind offer is most definitely appreciated, providing that my work does not take up too much of your time. It was actually quite handy having Grammarly working with my word doc, as I could edit my story as I typed it out. That really saved me from having to do a whole lot of corrections work.

 

[gogoblender 2,843]

On 2/9/2023 at 5:26 AM, SheHawk said:

I like the idea Gogo, you wrap up warm too this cold time of year. I have yet to play the Christams Quest. I am am sure that I will one day enjoy playing that quest.

And... Tadah!

We bid welcome to ... 

WinterTyde!

 

 

gogo

[SheHawk 184]

1 hour ago, gogoblender said:

And... Tadah!

We bid welcome to ... 

WinterTyde!

 

 

gogo

That looks so cool and Amazing.