My new Project Heresy, it almost finished....

Yesterday I was quite busy with modding.... I was working on what may be my last TC I ever make, a heretic/hexen tc for Gzdoom called heresy. Heresy was designed to be a Gzdoom TC for Doom 2 that recreates heretic and Hexen themes well..   I worked on it for 4-5 hours yesterday and a few minutes today. Being a semi-sequel to Hexen II yet being in a completely different characters footsteps, Heresy involves re-slaying the serpent riders Dsparil and Korax when they get resurrected by an evil mage from Thyrion.


Heresy takes place in all three realms seen in Heretic, Hexen and Hexen II : Parthoris, Cronos and Thyrion.  Each realm gets it's own episode and Boss.  Each Episode features textures from Various Sources including Heretic and Baker's Legacy textures for episode 1, Hexen textures for episode 2 and Hexen II textures for Episode 3.  There are also new enemies and weapons in this mod, ones from the heretic/hexen section of the realm667 beastiary/armory... Just like in previous TC's Randoom 10.0 is used to build the levels here, complete with arches, dynamic lights and ambient sounds...

Heresy allows you to play as a completely new Character, a Barbarian Warlock named Calus IronWolf.  This character is not a good guy. He is evil... Yet he is the one who will stop the evil impure mage from Thyrion from resurrecting the serpent riders, by killing them before they can conquer the realms they represent... As in Heretic, Dsparil is sent to conquer Parthoris again, and Korax is sent to Cronos to conquer it.

The story takes place 500 years after the events of Hexen II. All the protagonists from Heretic. Hexen and Hexen II are long dead now. During the 500 year period after the Fall of Eidolon, each realm saw prosperity. The Kings of all the Parthoris Kingdoms were able to Keep the Peace, and so were the Rulers of Cronos and Thyrion. About 250 years after the fall of Eidolon However, a new threat arises, a threat that all three kingdoms (Parthoris, Cronos and Thyrion) Turn a blind eye too... A cult...

This cult, the Cult of Impure Resurrection  started to spread from Blackmarsh into the other realms. Soon it was very popular in Parthoris and Cronos as well..  The cultists commanded amazing magical power... But what no one saw is that this power comes from the spirits of the Dead Serpent Rider Eidolon.  Calus Joins this cult in silverspring. He becomes a very gifted Acolyte in the Cult.  His power is unmatched, showing no mercy to his victims, all dead from Vile Sorcery he performs. But one day changes his allegiance but not his morality... This day was the day that is was revealed to acolytes that their cult intends to resurrect the serpent riders.  Calus's Grandfather, Tronaldus Druhmp, was killed in Dsparil's Reign over Parthoris that Corvus stopped. Immediately, Calus wants revenge, so he decides to slaughter all the cultists in the cult stronghold in Parthoris. This rage that propelled him was the rage of the death of his grandfather, forcing him to live in a Monastery for the first half of his life where he was abused as a child. His grandfather died but he was supposed to care for Calus. But his grandmother was a religious zealot and forced Calus to live in a Monk lead Monastery.  This tormented him greatly, causing tremendous pain and even nightmares.  Dsparil arrived and had a confrontation with Calus, which caused Dsparil to run in Fear from Calus's rage.  Now only Calus can stop Dsparil and Korax and the Cult Leader, Hyle, who turns out to be the commander of all the serpent riders.

Immediately labeled a Heretic, just like all other Sidhe elves, He immediately got Dsparil to send his minions, minions of Both Parthoris and Korax's reign in Cronos after him. But Calus didn't care. He dismembered every single Minion that opposed him...  This rage lead Calus to the Famed city of the damned where Corvus started his journey to Kill Dsparil 750 years before. Only here can he find Dsparil. Dsparil keeps a portal open to Cronos and there Calus assumes he can find and kill Korax.

Calus gets some huge advantages over any other protagonist in the Heretic/Hexen Series. Number 1, his weapons are very overpowered  compared to the other protagonists weapons. Some of the weapons he wields, can instakill weak bosses with their secondary fires.  What makes this a challenge however is the lack of ammo. You get very small chunks of ammo per drop and almost never get large ammo pickups. This is like heretic in many ways due to that....  Your new weapons are not from any heretic/hexen game minus 1 exception.  They are powerful, and calus will need them to kill of the humongous Hordes of enemies Korax and Hyle sends to vanquish him in Episode 2 and 3.

The enemy count in this mod starts small, but gets insane in episodes 2 and 3.  Expect humongous hordes of tough enemies. This will make the mod quite hard later on....  This unlike any  Heretic/Hexen Game, uses Slaughtermaps for gameplay. It also ditches Hexen Hubs and Puzzles as well as traps... Don't expect this to play like Hexen or Hexen II!

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