downwinder on 17/3/2025 at 01:15
If You Had The Chance To Pick The Storyline For Thief 4
what storyline arc's would you like to see continued or added in thief 4 for cannon storyline
for me i would like to see the woodsie reborn and rejoin the murlocks once they murlocks return the woodsie lords crown
also i would love to see what happens to the keepers now they lost the glyph's
would also like to see some time travel back to the precursors era and the kathra-din era stuff to go and get magic since the glyphs are gone, to fix the future for the keepers
also would be cool to see more on the rest of the factions that are left, downwinders, hammers, etc
would also have to go into a darker direction with mages having a good part to do with story
and ofcourse revamped city to explore with 100% explorable rooms, where some things unlock later in game/etc
what do you all want to see, cant wait to see what direction you all want thief to go
my final though i would like to see thief go into a darker/magic direction as it was suppose to be after thief 1, as far as a main enemy i havent gave it enough though
downwinder on 17/3/2025 at 18:52
i agree azaran as i read the post on missions and they seem very nice
but the timeline for those missions is pre thief 3 so they would have to be altered to add to a thief 4 cannon storyline
as like with thief gold those extra missions were place into thief 1 cannon storyline and changed things
Hanover Aldercash on 18/3/2025 at 14:07
This takes place after my alternate Thief 3 canon debuted in One Mans Trash, which is more WWI-era (paper money, radio, global transportation). This one would be close to the technological era TDP released in (credit cards, home computers, global surveillance).
After a series of mistakes, an aging Garrett is forced to confront a world in which he has embarked on too many sequels, I mean burglaries. He goes white hat, doing consulting for private security firms, many of whom are employed by a shadowy investor to oppose the Urban Legion (the City's army) as they continue their war of conquest from Blackbrook to Bohn and onwards. Modern technology has all but eliminated Garrett's trade, but (perhaps as a result of this) thieves are now idolized in romantic novels and this new thing called "video games".
The main story pertains to "applied thanatology", the scientific study of the undead (all Thief games should center on a technological dilemma, and be set in a unique technological era). This is a metaphor that shows up in many other places - it's mainly about the struggle to maintain identity across extreme transformations.
Garrett dies at the end so there can be no more sequels.
downwinder on 19/3/2025 at 04:30
i feel there is way to much from pre thief 1 that has to be visited =precursor era, kathra-din era and very early pagan era to be able to fill in so much we don't know
the future stuff you made and along with what gort made is great as i love the deep future, but garrett should not die as there is no need for it
downwinder on 19/3/2025 at 04:32
so thief 4 should be a way to have all we want to know from past then to integrate it together into a story that help fix post thief 3 results from activating the final glyph with help of pagan magic to get to past and find help from legendary figures in the thief lore, maybe even the master builder himself will grace garrett with his presents
Hanover Aldercash on 20/3/2025 at 01:27
Quote Posted by downwinder
garrett should not die as there is no need for it
I'll go halvsies: he ends up undead. So Thief 5 is an option, but Garrett would have to stagger around and gurgle.
weylfar on 20/3/2025 at 03:29
Quote Posted by downwinder
for me i would like to see the woodsie reborn and rejoin the murlocks once they murlocks return the woodsie lords crown
also i would love to see what happens to the keepers now they lost the glyph's
would also like to see some time travel back to the precursors era and the kathra-din era stuff to go and get magic since the glyphs are gone, to fix the future for the keepers
also would be cool to see more on the rest of the factions that are left, downwinders, hammers, etc
would also have to go into a darker direction with mages having a good part to do with story
and ofcourse revamped city to explore with 100% explorable rooms, where some things unlock later in game/etc
what do you all want to see, cant wait to see what direction you all want thief to go
my final though i would like to see thief go into a darker/magic direction as it was suppose to be after thief 1, as far as a main enemy i havn't gave it enough though
Basically, a reboot.
I agree new Thief should be about the dark age and this should be the main theme.
I would also have Garrett wield optional powers for working with mages guild which would be part of the story arc. But it would be possible to play in pure stealth.
downwinder on 20/3/2025 at 17:21
weylfar , i am not talking reboot but filling in a lot of the lore that was never in thief 1/g/2/3
so a prequal would only add to current cannon lore
Hanover Aldercash maybe you can have it where garrett dies but finds viktoria and they escape death back to the living
Hanover Aldercash on 21/3/2025 at 01:14
To each his own. What sort of "darker direction" did you have in mind?
