The new indie MMORPG Camelot Unchained has introduced a new race. The already massive Fir Bog is supposed to grow even larger as it ages and is a “One Giant” wrecking ball: The race counts as a siege weapon.
What kind of race is this? The MMORPG Camelot Unchained introduced the “Fir Bog” in a blog post at the end of February. The race is now enabled in Camelot Unchained. Players can now create a Fir Bog on the experimental patcher.
The Fir Bog is one of 3 giant races in Camelot Unchained, each race belongs to one of the warring realms:
- The “Arthurians” have the Golem, which is trained on truth and knowledge, and consists of clay and fire
- The Vikings have the Jötnar, a kind of blue-skinned ice giants
- The Tuatha Dé Dannan have the Fir Bog, the gigantic guardians of swamps and moors
This is the special feature of the Fir Bogs: In Camelot Unchained, heroes and heroines are supposed to age when played. The heroes change: The “giant races” like Fir Bog and Golem are supposed to keep growing as they get older. So in Camelot Unchained, you can estimate how old a hero is by their size.
The giant races are too large to use normal siege weapons, but Fir Bogs have two attack options against fortresses:
- On one hand, they can shoot projectiles with toxic spores that contaminate a large area and coat any hero within the impact radius with a poison that deals damage over time
- On the other hand, Fir Bogs can move forward with the skill “Slam” and deal high siege damage
The unique race trait of the Fir Bog is the “Swamp Stomp,” creating an area of bile around them. Anyone staying in this area will suffer damage every second.
Where do these Fir Bogs come from? The “Fir Bolg” are a part of Irish mythology. According to legend, the ancestors of the Fir Bolgs fled from their expulsion from Ireland to Greece, where they lived as slaves for 230 years and had to carry loads. They eventually left Greece and returned to the Smagard island of Ireland. However, they only ruled for a short time until they were supplanted by the Tuatha Dé Danann.
Scholars believe that the “Fir Bolgs” are strongly reminiscent of the people of the Israelites. Just as the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt and had to flee from Pharaoh, the Fir Bogs were also initially slaves and had to free themselves.
In the fantasy world, apart from the myth, the Fir Bogs are depicted as a giant race: This was already the case in “Dark Age of Camelot,” the spiritual predecessor of Camelot Unchained. In that MMORPG, the “Firbolg” was a “tank, damage dealer, and druid race” of the Hibernians. Similarly, the “Firbolg” is also presented as a player character in Dungeons and Dragons: They are considered an intelligent giant race, but live withdrawn from civilization in nature.
As you can see, even the spelling of the name varies slightly from case to case.
When we last reported on Camelot Unchained, we especially noticed the bad mood among the players. They had lost their patience with the MMORPG after 8 years:
Fans have been waiting 8 years for a new MMORPG, receive a different game, are angry
