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# Project
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`May. 6, 2025` · [[Horseapple]] · #Pillar #Project
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> “Even if you start the game for the hundredth time, it always welcomes you with a different story.” <p align="right">— Rabia Adıgüzel</p>
## Portals
| [ABOUT the CHARACTERS](Proj.-Characters-(Cluster).md) | [ABOUT the AUTHOR](Horseapple.md) | [ABOUT the WRITING](Proj.-Writing.md) |
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| [ABOUT the MUSIC](Proj.-Music.md) | [ABOUT the MODS](Proj.-Mods.md) | [ABOUT the ENCYCLOPÆDIA](About-the-Encyclopædia.md) |
## Info
This portal is for those interested in the film; the writing, the music, the characters, and more. The film is set in the *Mount & Blade* universe, specifically within the *Bannerlord* timeline, starting in the summer of `1084` during the imperial civil war.
The idea behind this project is to take the campaign storyline of *Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord* and develop a new concrete and more cinematic narrative.
This story will be shaped and re-shaped using all of *Mount & Blade’s* established lore, gathered from various `XML` files from the first *Mount & Blade* released all the way back in `Sept. 16, 2008`, to *Mount & Blade: Warband* in `Mar. 30, 2010`, and as recently as *Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord* in `Oct. 25, 2022`. Furthermore, [Taleworlds Developer Blogs](Blog_1_Hairy_Artists.md) along with certain [DLC](3-Original-Soundtrack-(DLC).md) have also been documented and integrated into the world building of the story. *Brandon Sanderson’s* lectures on storytelling and its structure was also instrumental in this work, [^1] as well as *Blake Snyder’s* popular book *Save the Cat*. [^2] Lastly, what also contributed greatly was real-world history. To name a few recent reads: *Guns Germs and Steal*, [^3] *Powers and Thrones*, [^4] *PAX*, [^5] *A People’s History of the United States* [^6], and more; the list continues to grow… Footnote: *Dan Carlin* is also a fantastic un-official historian who influenced this work. [^7]
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>   <br> ![[encyclopedia_calradica.gif|center|300]]<br>
>*“A massive `Mount & Blade` wikipedia.”*<br>About [Encyclopædia Calradica](About-the-Encyclopædia.md)<br>About the [Project](Project-(Pillar).md)<br>About the [Author](Horseapple.md) <br>  
## Resources
[^1]: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandSanderson
[^2]: https://savethecat.com/
[^3]: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Guns_Germs_and_Steel_The_Fates_of_Human/XLo9DgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
[^4]: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Powers_and_Thrones/SO5-EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
[^5]: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Pax/izisEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
[^6]: https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_People_s_History_of_the_United_States/KBueCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
[^7]: https://www.youtube.com/@dancarlinpodcaster