The Taming of the Vine
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Phew! Finally got to explaining how in hell there exists a plant that not only
contracts on command as artificial muscles and imbibes the Essence to do so in a plausible way.
It took some thinking, but I'm pretty happy with the solution I came up with, hope you like it as well!
The Vines of War (VoW) is a 100% Human-made personal project, set
in an early-modern period, low-fantasy world with organic mechs! And other technologies, which are somewhat grounded in the realities of the period and (most) laws of physics thanks to a special energy, named simply "The Essence".
Stick around for more worldbuilding and lore bits, and eventually a visual narrative set in this world.
Check more of my work
www.manuelcastanon.com
Here are my social media links if you want to follow or see more of my previous work
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And if you want to support this project from the very beginning
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Hope to see you around!
Music of the outro is Chiapas Marimba, by the talented Jimena Contreras, whose work you can find here!
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honestly speechless at the quality and writing of this. More people HAVE to see this, and I hope this project succeeds in whatever way you wanna take it.
Thank you so much Simon, it already has so many eyes on it in large part because of your generous sharing of it, thank you for the kind words and I will reiterate this, it exists at all in this form in large part because I found your channel last year and got inspired haha.
Cheers mate! C:
U really have spearheaded a brand new age of fictional writing combined with lore-packed illustrations and following of in-world logic. Amazing work to Monster Garden!
Absolutely glorious lore. As a biologist and an archeologist this sort of creative domestication is fantastically plausible
awesome! love to hear someone with actual credentials validate my ramblings! x'D
@@Tree.lancer To add more credentials to validate your ramblings: as a historian, I have to give you credit for how realistic and plausible this was.
@@ArgentumFox
What a fantastic power source for a fantasy "soft exosuit"!
If you think about it the vine actually succseeded in it's goal. It is now spread ynd cultivated by many people, ensuring it's survival.
HE RETURNS!!!!! Barley started and absolutely thrilled to see Essence creatures!!!
Thank you Kailanerman! happy you like it C:
@Tree.lancer
Okay, I finally got to finish it, WHOA.... dude... this was beyond what I was expecting from you! I remember in your first essence video, you said you'd talk about the vines in more detail in the future, but THIS REALLY took me by surprise!! The idea is that not only was it a sentient creature/"monster," but it had been subjugated and domesticated into the vines we see in the modern age of mechs and machinery!
I thought that the vines were simply a "natural magical phenomenon." I never considered that they were a natural creature... that literally eats essence!! (Totally metal btw) It all just makes so much sense now... and I'm blown away by the clever deep thought lore you've created. It doesnt at all feel like you're making this up, it actually feels like lore that we could discover in our own (mystical) world. The idea of mechs and essence feels just a bit more tangible, and I love it!!! 🎉❤
I came for fantasy mechs and stayed for the worldbuilding and lore
there hasn't been enough about the mechs lately for sure... aim to fix in that in the next video or 2!
@@Tree.lancer I will be waiting
This is such a cool bit of backstory! I love the parallel to Mendel's peas - i.e., Monk gets bored and starts to experiment with breeding plants, leading to unforeseen insights. Intentional or not, it definitely shows how close this is to what actual historical monks would do with their free time!
Also, it foreshadows awesome story beats in the future - where we could find a last surviving splinter of the formerly great monk order in an old derelict ruin, and then proceed to witness their mythical understanding of the vines first-hand!
From creepy, parasitic plants, to monks learning to control it, to those who remained after rebellion using their knowledge to make the first tree mechs. Damn what a story!
Loved it all, great work as always. The art, storytelling and music were all fantastic. Keep up the good work and I look forward to the next Treelancer video already!
Man this history is so cool. I really like how you show the essence as gold now and I LOVE the vine-bender monks
lol cant deny there's some ATLA inspiration in my work, love that term tho hahaha
Wow this certainly gives a new perspective on the vines.
TY! It was something I long wanted to go into, as the concept is such a weird one when you think about it haha, why would the vines work this way? it was bothering me for a while,but happy with the reasoning I came up with Cx
Woah! This is some amazing lore for an aspect of the world building I basically took for granted. I love the explanation as to how the vines of the mechs were developed!
TY so much! :D
Immersive lore, intricate linework. Wow I can't wait for the encyclopedia!
haha someday. thank you my friend! :D
I can see your soul glowing. Being in that creative zone. And knowing its good. Excellent! Worldbuilding, art, lore, tech, everything!
Perfectly said!
I’d love to know more about the animals that use Essence.
in a future video!
@@Tree.lancer Question, Is there other culture in vines of war world that has tame animals that uses essence thus allowing them to become with the animals, like in Avatar??
You've outdone yourself, Manuel! The worldbuilding is superb. Fantastic work!
Ty so much Thomas! :D
This aspect of your world building is absolutely astonishing, the story of the Vohun feels so real that it could have happened yesterday (not chronologically, but you’ve got the point).
Feels like a story to be written on paper, I would absolutely devour a book about the peril of the Vohun.
dont know why, but i had to shed some tears when you told that the monks lost their culture and philosophy, as it was such a beautiful one
This is amazing! I love the idea of actively hostile agricultural pests being used for cultural purposes and combining it with advancements in society is genius! The art style is incredible, the background is beautiful, and the storytelling is great! Cannot wait to see more.
The history of these monks both sound suitably epic, folkloric and entirely realistic (aside from the magic plant elements of course lol)
Bloodly well done!
Are there any old-school practitioners or revivalists hidden about the place nowadays or is that a tradition completely lost to history?
I normally don´t write comments, but wow this video was great! This is exactly the type of worldbuilding I love and try to do. So plausible and "rooted" ;) in our own history and, in this case, biology but with this little fantastic touch that changes the whole aestethic while still being logical.
What a cool history! Briliant construction of the origin of such a unique concept. The selective breeding and subsequent holy war gives an excellent sense of age to the world.
The same as how animals were domesticated only even more so to the extrem. Very interesting.
Awesome lore, great art, very nice presentation!!!! amazing work!
I adore this book format 😮
Ty senpai! C':
Still one of the most fascinating settings I've ever stumbled across on my feed!
Super interesting. I wonder what other Essence-feeding monsters exist in this world? Like some form of vampire or revenant that goes around and drains it from other creatures.
When I first saw this I thought they were grafted into the monk’s spine. Now I imagine a worm like parasite that burrows into you and resides in the bones of a person
@@Dokari-l9m Terrifying, that is.
This is so cool~! Love the worldbuilding here!
Ok man I am bingewatching your channel. This is amazing. I love how you draw and I reeeeeeeally really dig all the lore. And the presentation is top notch, with the book, and the goldleaf texture for the energy, and the quality of the art. That's almost too much! Very thoughtful and high quality stuff :D
This is incredibly cool and realistically feeling lore
I remember why I am subscribed to this channel. _Such_ detail, depth, and storytelling mastery in less then 10 minutes of a video. All based on a single vine based idea! I am blown away, and I really do hope you get far more recognition than you have already, because my God this is amazing stuff!
Your background for telling us this incredible lore is so meticulously done I keep getting lost in it and have to go back and relisten to what I've missed lol. Never stop. Absolutely stunning artwork.
What a beautiful culture and backstory for one of the most important worldbuilding elements
Damn im impressed. With the names, the development and the intricacy; everything. Pray do go on.
This keeps getting more and more insane, holy shit
You are such a huge inspiration to me I can't have enough of your world haha. I have binged all your videos, can't wait for the next one!
this is the best one yet, each one gets better and better
This channel is going to be huge one day. Don't stop doing what you do! The way a video of barely 10 minutes has me enthralled more than a video of hours would is indescribable
beautiful as always. great work
Peak after peak, you never disappoint
Once again breathtaking work. The story and illustrations are both incredibly great
Incredible quality! Blown away by the scope and style.
This is some great art and storytelling. I like the stages of the vines growth.
Man, this is just to cool...
This is getting better every video. I'm creating a low fantasy world myself, and a wargame/rpg with it.
I don't know your personal process...while mine is more generalistic on factions, magic and culture because I need to leave space for the Rpg aspect, I tend to focus more on the armies, in order to give fuel for the wargaming.
With all that said, I must admit that you're such a creative person, the details and lore behing one single aspect (vine control), so many branches(😂) pop up, making it feel so plausible e believable. Keep up the good work my friend! Hope all the best, and take your time, you're giving us treasure, so keep your "essence" in healthy levels!
This is some magnificent world building, far better thought out that I could have hoped for! Please keep these coming!
Really sweet artwork my guy. Love the concept too. The factions seem well established when it comes to distinct themes and styles that flow really well. Don't suppose you have plans on making a table top game RPG or wargame? Would be thrilling to see your world come to life in a group setting.
i love this. worldbuilding is such an incredible thing, it almost brings me to tears! thanks for sharing these with us, it is greatly appreciated that you'd let us revel in the delight of consuming delicious fantasy like your creations :3
Kinda reminds me of Flower Tao from Jigokuraku
I absolutely love it, you've produced so much quality art, and written a very good story in a relatively short period of time
Your videos are a big inspiration for my D&D world. Thank you!
This is so so so cool as always Manuel, and seeing how they originally came into being is so interesting, I also love the range of individuals in this video, so awesome
yay, thank you Jay!
Soooooo excited (as always) to see new entries in this world you're creating! Great work.
Just what I needed
Really like this, but I think there should flesh mechs has an answer to the vine mechs or some form of essence-enhanced equipment. Technological races are usually a thing, I don't think other ppl would just sit around and let one country take the forefront.
Sure, vines would start to propagate to other countries, unless they objected to their use and had their own answers to the mechs, like Hecaxe and it's soul engine machinery, which is something I need to expand upon on a future video :)
@Tree.lancer Nice, but it shouldn't be similar to Plantbois. Hecaxe have soul engines (everyone seems to have low-tech guns which is cool) but what about western countries they got their guns from? These guys are seeing Aztecs with magic armour with rifles, Vine Mechs with strong industry, how would they react? Would they try to go into checmical warfare, really try for alchemy or would they try to emulate vine tech but substitute plant material for meat?
I don't want to seem pushy or anything, your work is really cool and it got me thinking is all.
Love this, great work!
Nice work man! Loved the illustrations/designs as well as the lore! And those short formats are perfect for me. Also the visuals remind me of Age of Empires II campaign intros, super cool :D Anyway Keep it up!
The way the illustrations are presented really reminds me of Age of Empires II.
Eco horror, reminds me of the manga "Fool Night"
Aww, this is so damn good! Fantastic work man.
Absolutely epic
Absolutely genius.
I found you with your very first video and I immediately knew you would become big.
Incredible work! Such layered history already, and delivered with an awesome aesthetic ❤️
I need more. more! This is so good!
Thats a really cool idea for prosthetics & extra limbs. I also appreciate how you integrated politics into it too
I love yout worldbuilding
Incredibly well done 👏👏👏👏👏
If a speaker of proto Indo-European learned English and kept his accent this is what he would sound like (this is a compliment btw) also very interesting and unique world building I've never thought of biological mechs before and it's pretty brilliant
What a beautiful golden texture you give your art! I'd love to see how it's made
I just painted a gold texture on the whole page and masked it, so I was just drawing in the mask directly to "paint" it
my favorite one yet! love how it incorporates new cultures and visual styles
I wanna live in this world.. and just watch and listen to everything:']
I'm only lost in the story. Beautiful, thankyou 🙂
This is amazing! Well done!
Excellent
This is so hecking cool, You really nailed this video! Good job!
I want 10 seasons of this show immediately.
Nice to see you return! A question, what cultures are Zemsheva mainly based on, and what nations exist outside of Zemsheva and Hecaxia?
damn this is so beautifully done
absolute PEAK
This is so cool. kinda horrifying as well
Loving all of this. Are you going do an in-depth video on the commonwealth like you did with the hecaxians?
estoy anonadado con la calidad de tus videos bro. gracias por publicar
...¡¡¡¡ABSOLUTAMENTE GENIAL Y HERMOSO!!!!!, como siempre caballero...
this is so great, it feels so welll-thought through, and there is so much potentil. Love they way you think abot how society as a whole woul change as well. Looking forward to the next one. :9
What a video! Amazing content man!
beautiful video, but I was left with some questions, these monks if they are able to control the vines and manage to re-establish their essence through meditation do not in fact become one of the most powerful "civilizations" in the world as they manage to control the vessels of what is essentially the magic of this world, or perhaps they are simply magicians of sorts who study these vines for pure research purposes. I understand that since there are only a few of them left, they don't pose much of a threat but they still remain incredibly powerful. If I misunderstood something, don't hesitate to correct me, I'm very open to any opinions or clarifications❤❤
Your writing and reading is getting better with every video and that production level, the way you integrated the drawing process videos in to the presentation, the level of the drawings. You're sooo gonna make it big with this stuff, Manuel :D Excited to see the future! 😍🫶
Nice
just stumbled upon your channel, I like what is happening here! :D
Brilliant
Damn, this is good
this is really good
This is Dope.
this is really something!
Holy shit you’re writing is amazing! What idea came first? Did you think of the idea of plant mechs first and in your attempt to explain how it works you developed the history of the parasite plant, or you had the idea of the parasite plant first and thats where the plant mech idea was born from?
Babe, wake up, new magic vine lore just dropped 😂
This is easily my favorite worldbuilding channel and i will eagerly await for the next upload
Did something similar once though using flesh instead of plants.
I don't know it it has been asked before, but have you thought of making or adapting a ttrpg for this world? i would love to see this world interactable in any way really.
many times! And the answer is, yes!
Minis as well
just gotta flesh out the world more and get enough "funding" to make it a sustainable job so I can focus on other aspects of the setting Cx
incredible
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