Conceptual Idea Log

This page is for all conceptual ideas made by Rainimator and his Production Team, accessible for the public's eyes. 
==Criteria for Additions==
To add a concept to this page, there are a few criteria that must be met.
*There must be evidence for this that can be proven. You cannot add a conceptual and say that it had come from your memory. It needs proof, preferably a screenshot or a message link to the idea.
*Rainimator or a Prod Team Member (in some cases) must've made it. Rainimator and the Prod Team are the only ones whose conceptual ideas can be added to this page. At the same time, you must be assured...
*Do not add joke ideas. Rain and his team are prone to giving joke answers and ideas. Use common sense when adding a conceptual idea.
==Conceptual Characters==
===Frostbourne===
====Azura====
26th October, 2018 - Miniguns
Azura Minigun 26th October 2018.png|Lady Azura holding a minigun.
Azura Combat Minigun 26th October 2018.png|Lady Azura using a minigun in her Wingsuit
====Nostra====
June 14th, 2021 - Curehttps://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/853809191973814312
June 16th, 2021 - Magichttps://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/854546648373788733
 
December 2nd, 2021 - Origins
"...Nostra is the first non-native character in the continent."https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/915930409001447474
====Lyria Wintona====
23rd September, 2018 - Origin
Through a render of their character with a new elytra, Rainimator took it a step forward and created the concept of "Lyria", a key member of the Elytra Corps, based on Dexter Kronos' skin. The idea for this was to have the eyes black and the hair a "more saturated shade, like pink"https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/480760955521990669/493283069088890901, as well as utilizing the same elytra as Azura.
Despite Lyria herself not being utilised, the idea was semi-recycled as Doraine Wintona. Dexter has mentioned there is an alternative Lyria skin, though it no longer bears resemblance to the origin source or to the current iteration.
File:Lyria Concept 23rd September 2018.png|Dexter Kronos' character (standing in the place of Lyria) with Lady Azura.
File:Lyria Concept Wings 23rd September 2018.png|Dexter Kronos' character (standing in the place of Lyria) with Azura's Elytra.
===Other/Unalligned===
====Dyana-Whitewing - Aeromancers====
25th October, 2022 - Prompt
Note: The prompt below contains heavy sexual references. Read at your own risk!
====Gwance Prompt====
29th October, 2022 - Prompt
Over the course of the 29th of October, Rainimator formerly answered conspiracies around the ship between Gwendolyn and Lance - also known as 'Gwance' - with a writing prompt and several accompanying renders. The ship itself has been hinted at by responses from the Production Team... see Gwance for more information.
=====Prompt=====
File:Gwance 1.png|Lance and Gwendolyn in the prompt message.
File:Gwance 2.png|Gwendolyn lying on the ground alone in a follow-up render.
File:Gwance 3.png|Close up of Gwendolyn from the previous render.
====Ramiel the Blind - ====
6th May, 2023 - Prompt
===Null===
A discord user asked if Null would be introduced to Fractures, and if so, if Herobrine's apparent reincarnation as Null in the Null canon translate to the series. Rainimator replied:
"Null is a completely different character from Herobrine. They are not the same."
==Factions==
===Frostbourne===
====Frostbourne Golem Upgrades====
13th January, 2019 - Machine Gun (Implemented - Machine Golem)
A concept for machine gun armed Iron Golems was debuted to members of the Discord, but was labeled a scrapped idea.
8th July, 2020 - Crossbow
During a discussion, Rain mentioned the concept of Iron Golems either throwing rocks or shooting crossbows. When polled, the end decision was crossbows.https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/480231557123276800/730242887085719554
16th May, 2021 - Mechs
When polled in the Rainimator Q&A channel about what mob he had made but told no one, Rainimator replied this:
"Iron golem mechs. Scrapped because they dont fit the Frostbourne theme... yet"https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/843330163000606771
===Nether Horde===
====Nether Mages (Implemented in the form of Zarkos)====
May 24th, 2021 - Role
"However, a small group of Wither Necromancers (new characters will be introduced) are working on King Naeus's new body. Rumors say that his bones may be now made entirely of Netherite, making him indestructible to traditional weapons."
====Nether Beasts====
February 2nd, 2021 - Nether Dragons (Implemented)
"After General Naeus and his army siege the End and steal dragon eggs, they will be able to spawn creatures called Nether dragons , beastly beings with the essence of the End and Nether combined."
June 16th, 2021 - Ghidorah Beast
"The writing team and I are planning a Ghidorah kind of monster, like a 3 headed Wither Dragon. Something the Nether King will ride into battle. This is not final and is subject to change, or may not be added at all."
====Other====
May 24th, 2021 - Wither Knights
"I'm yet to explore this concept. The Wither Knights are the most elite of the Wither Skeletons. They're not meant to be deployed in the battlefield. Instead, they're assigned to defend Nether garrisons."
===Undead===
====Mob Lords (Implemented in the form of Azalea)====
May 7th, 2021
"They actually exist. Some skeletons and zombie lords formed their own small groups, but they are yet to be shown in the series. Most of the undead still wander about"
===Coven===
====Coven Golems====
9th October, 2018 - First Inclusion.
An Iron Golem was first paired with the Coven faction for a minor promotional render alongside Victor Summery, Stella and Lief Moonfall
12th October, 2018 - Naming
During the original drafting poll for Kralos, Dexter Kronos suggested the name 'Osmiumer' (derived from Osmium, one of the heaviest metals known to man), which Rain later agreed would be a better name for an Iron Golem. He went on to add that it would be Stella's pet Golem.
13th January, 2019 - Last Mention
The last mention of any Coven-based Golems was centered around 'an armored golem'. Nothing more was specified.
====Potential Characters====
19th March, 2018 - Victor Summery & Lief Moonfall
On October 21st, 2018, Rainimator would mention that Lief was purely tenative, and the Victor was going to be the only survivor after the Coven's demise (excluding Stella). However, Rainimator would inversely claim all the Coven were killed (1st January, 2019https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/480261137452105749/532161526925099018), and then go on to claim some of the Coven had survived (See Lance's Castle section below). 
Victor and Lief's canonicty and overall fate, in turn, are now considered 'Scrapped' until revealed otherwise.
27th February, 2019 - Coven Girl ('Azalea')
Rain begun creating characters for a potential backstory episode featuring the Coven. Amongst them was a brunette Coven girl with the draft name of 'Azalea', who in turn wielded a staffhttps://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/480261137452105749/550309848412192790.
She was never mentioned after that, however, her name would later be used for the leader of the Lush Cave Marauders, Azalea.
File:Stella and Scrapped Coven Witch.png|Stella and 'Azalea'.
File:Scrapped Coven Witch.png|'Azalea' in a lighting test/conceptual render.
====Origins (Implemented)====
June 14th, 2021 - Gwendolyn
"...One of them is Gwendolyn, the Archenchantress. Founder of the Coven. 
The Coven's magic originated in the End. Stella and other witches brought it to the Overworld."
====Lance's Castle (Implemented)====
May 6th, 2021
"...His castle, however, may be used as a refuge for the coven characters."
May 20th, 2021
"Lance's castle houses the surviving Coven members."
====Other====
===Netherbane===
29th July, 2020 - Origins
"Kane and Ciara are both undead for a purpose
Perhaps a calling made them come back to life and have them serve a purpose
Maybe the woes of the End Matriarch gave existence to the Netherbane
No one knows what faction the Netherbane are tied to"
===Biringan===
November 30th, 2022https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/1047322397340074064
===Saltbourne===
On February 6, 2023, a discord user asked about the Overworld empires in the series. Rainimator replied:
"The Frostbourne and a future faction that will be introduced in the Port City (placeholder name: The Saltbourne, subject to future changes)"
10th June 2023 - Inhabitants
"The Saltbourne Faction will be mostly populated with villager type characters."
15th June 2023 - Relations
A discord user asked about the Saltbourne's relations with the Frostbourne. Rain answered that the two are neutral.
6th July 2023
"...they don't see the threat of the Nether Kingdom serious enough to involve themselves with in the war because they're already dealing with several other problems."
11th July 2023 - War against the Drowned
"...the Saltbourne are already busy dealing with the drowned to care about the Nether-Frostbourne war."
26th July 2023 - Saltbourne King
"What? What do you mean our sailors are getting attacked near the shore? The Drowned aren't real, they were probably ranscaked by pirates. We should continue putting all of our resources into exploration of the ocean instead of investigating this silly urban legend. "
~Saltbourne King, probably
===Drowned===
23rd June 2023
"Maybe the Saltbourne had their own "The Struggle" involving a land invasion of the drowned and wiping out a lot of their population."
"The Drowned are their own faction."
9th August 2023
"The ocean is largely unexplored, so it's impossible to determine how big is their (Drowned) faction. All we know is that they continue attacking the Port City and their ships, and they don't seem to stop."
===Witherbane===
July 30th, 2023
"Back in the day, there are mercenaries for hire called The Witherbane. They go to the Nether to collect materials to build a Wither Boss. 
The Wither Forest got its name because it used to be where the Witherbane have been summoning Withers to be killed and have their harvested Nether Stars sold to factions like the Frostbourne, Saltbourne, Pillager Town, and even to Netherkin nobles. 
These days, no one knows where The Witherbane faction are. Do they still exist? Are they still working on this Witherboss farming gig? Would they capitalize on the ongoing war? Time will tell..."
=== Pillager Town ===
Rain had several times mentioned about the existence of other kings besides Klaus in the Pillager Town.
December 22nd, 2022 - Evoker King and Vex King
"The Pillagers don't have an organized government and there are many leaders with their own subfactions like the Pillager King, Evoker King, Vex King, etc."
January 23rd, 2023 - Evoker King
"Rumours around the pillager town say that Klaus had some beef with the Evoker King. The evoker king threw an axe at him, but it just deflected off his abs.
Source: illusioner bystander"
February 4th, 2024 - Illager King
"There’s also an Evoker King and Illager King"
=== ===
December 8th, 2023 - Architecture
"The Lightborne/Aeromancer are quite similar to the Aether"
July 23rd 2024 - Origins
"Perhaps the ancient Lightborne were immigrants from the Aether to start a new civilization in the end.
They may have several reasons for leaving the aether:
* They wanted to share their magic on new realms
* The Aether was on the verge of collapse
* They are simply explorers who want to try out new things
The true reason of the ancient Aetherian immigrants is unknown, but the first of the Lightborne are from the realm of light."
==Races==
===General Races===
23rd November, 2021 - Planned Races
"Aquatics (guardians, elder guardians, mermaids)
Lunar (people from the moon, known to have natural magic prowess. extremely pale skin and white hair) (Implemented)
Druids (wood people, forest dwellers. perhaps the ancient race of the mystic forest)
Felines (catlike humans, natives of the jungle and desert regions)
Dragonborn (bipedal dragons. dragon head, human body, has a tail. sometimes wings)"
====Illagers (Implemented)====
When asked in the Rainimator Q&A channel about whether Illagers will be part of the story, Rainimator replied with "Future".
10th August 2022 - Future Pillager Faction (Implemented - Klaus' Clan)
"More will be shown in future episodes, one will be related to a new pillager faction that will be introduced."
==Other==
===Designs===
19th September - 17th October, 2018
During this time, Rainimator was tasked by his educators to create silhouetted concepts for his assessment. As such, a select few characters and weapons went through a cycle of design upgrades.
File:School Concepts Ser Patrick 19th September 2018.png|Designs of Ser Patrick and his armor (21st September, 2018).
File:Patricksarmor.png|Designs of Ser Patrick and his armor.
File:School Concepts Ceris 21st September 2018.png|Designs of Ceris and her weapons (21st September, 2018).
File:School Concepts 23rd September 2018.png|A full list of sillhouettes (23rd September, 2018)
File:School Concepts Ser Patrick 17th October 2018.png|A complete collection of all silhouettes for the assessment (17th October, 2018). 
File:Cerissword.png| Ceris with conceptual new design for Ender Greatsword. (4th, October, 2018)
===Afterlife===
18th May, 2021 - Afterlife Location
"There is no afterlife, only the dark void of death. Some say that dark void could be found deep within the infinite space of the End. Who knows where exactly that leads? Is it an infinite fall of nothingness? Or maybe something sinister lurks at the very bottom of the abyss.."
====Rain====
2nd March, 2019 - Wings
Dexter Kronos: "Hmmm honestly Rain would dragon wings should also be represented with a temporary purplisation of the pupils. So that blue eye would be more a dark indigo and the red a dark magenta
Considering the ends colour is purple it makes some sense to put a purple hue in at least 1 eye"
Rain: "I like your idea"
31th March, 2019 - Grappling Hook
"In the story, I plan that Azura gives the Dragon Tamer a grappling hook to make his combat style more interesting.
What do you guys think? Or should the grappling hook be for another character?"
RainGrapplingHookConceptDraft.jpg|A concept of Rain with a grappling hook fashioned by Lady Azura.
Glacierford.gif|A conceptual gif of Rain with a grappling hook fashioned by Lady Azura.
28th July 2019 - Rain and Stella with a young Ender Dragon 
Image was been uploaded by Rainimator on his Discord server (channel called creations). Image been without description and problably refers to later give the Artifacts for the Enchantress and Dragon Tamer. 
Rain Stella and Dragon Egg.jpg|Rain and Stella with a Dragon Egg in a promotional render.
Rain andStella.png|Rain and Stella with the baby Ender Dragon.
==Conceptual Episodes==
===Not Implemented===
====The Ghost of You and Me (Semi-Implemented)====
9th December, 2018
It was mentioned on the Rainimator discord that Rain had planned to use "The Ghost of You and Me" by Blacklite District as a sort of status quo episode focusing solely on Rain. Within the episode, it had been tentatively drafted that Rain would return to Glacierford, where he would learn about Abigail's past, including her family.
This project was instead replaced by Clear Skies
====Beyond The Grave====
1st April, 2019
As an April Fools joke, Rainimator had proposed a episode focusing on the revival of Abigail Crysteffor and the fight against Naeus. For more information, see here
===Implemented===
====War of the Ender Watchers====
22nd May, 2021 - Overview (Implemented - War of the Ender Kingdoms (Trailer))https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/845493211040448542
Although now implemented, the original script for the War of the Ender Kingdoms differed by having Gwendolyn become the narrator. All parts changed are underlined.
"Thousands of years ago, the End was divided into several different kingdoms. Each one safekeeping an End Crystal.
These crystals brought unity among the Ender people. It powered their ships, ran their society, and provided sustenance for everyone. It was life for the Ender Kingdoms. Each Ender Lord treasured them at heart.
Lance, the Lord of the Void Islands, spent more than a half of his lifetime studying the potency of End Crystals. He learned that combining all the crystals will bring upon new, greater powers, turning the End into an unstoppable empire. All other species will be inferior, and they can spread their dominion towards the Nether and Overworld.
However, that is the sole reason the crystals must be separated. The Ender Lords are already happy with inward perfection. Invading worlds is against the Ender philosophy. Lance was mocked by the Ender Lords, telling him years of isolated studying made him insane.
Little did they know, Lance was never asking for their permission. He was already raising his army of voidlings, vex, and endermen. He was only buying time.
Then, when everyone was at their most comfortable, Lance began his invasion. His fleet of End Ships was like no one has ever seen. It blanketed the stars, raining destruction from above. His voidlings, vex, and endermen, plowed through the armies of those who opposed his goal.
He was unstoppable. In a matter of a few years he gathered more than half of the crystals and vassalized the weaker kingdoms.
There were a few surviving kingdoms in the far south.
Lord Vordus, guardian of the Dragon Tower.
Gwendolyn, the Arch Enchantress of the Coven.
Lord Zeganirn, the apex End Dancer and father of the Endstone Deltas.
Matriarch Ceris, renowned warlord of Dragonspire.
Ceris gathered all surviving kingdoms and formed the Ender Watchers, a coalition to defeat Lance’s tyranny. Subjugating lesser species is not the way of the Ender People, and it’s up to them to restore order in the End."
==== Demons ====
Circa 2017
After the release of Goodbye, a draft render for 'Demons' was released, however the project has been paused or suspended up until 2024.
==Locations==
===Crypt===
March 10th, 2020 - Crypt
===Other Landmasses===
December 2nd, 2021
In Rainimator Q&A, a user asked if there are any other continents beside the main one. Rainimator replied:
"Yes there are many other continents, some have entirely new cultures and even magic. Nostra is the first non-native character in the continent."
=== Aether ===
July 23rd, 2024
In Rainimator Q&A, a user asked about the relation between the Lightborne and the Aether. Rainimator replied:
"Perhaps the ancient Lightborne were immigrants from the Aether to start a new civilization in the end.
They may have several reasons for leaving the aether:
* They wanted to share their magic on new realms
* The Aether was on the verge of collapse
* They are simply explorers who want to try out new things
The true reason of the ancient Aetherian immigrants is unknown, but the first of the Lightborne are from the realm of light."
==References==
Category:Production Team