essence master where did u come from, where did u go
This was originally planned to be a part of another post where I go insane, however a discovery I made on the way convinced me to dedicate an entire infopost mostly about just THIS ⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇
In case someone missed out on this, both the previous famous builder and the new one get called Essence Masters/Users by various characters.
Nicole: I hear the old Essence master of this town wore some kind of robe, like a mountaintop sage. Well, I must say, if it worked for him, then go for it, old Essence master!
Odin: Have you heard the tale of the Essence Master? Yes, his tale is one that rocks the annals of history for all time!
Rosalyn: Poppy's flowershop was built by the old user of Essences before he left town. Poppy loved him like a grandfather, but then he just went away one day. Poppy was inconsolable. I wonder where he is now?
Shirley: Sweetie, your hair looks amazing! That haircut says, "Essence Mastery, here I come!"
Special shout out to Ray's "Essence Guy".
Ray: I used to live in this town a long time ago, but I ended up leaving because, well, the place ended up just not being as cool after the Essence Guy left. It’s a bit better now, though. You’ve done good things.
We ended up not getting much content about the ~Essence Mastery~ because, well.. Devs ran out of time for this project and they had to quickly move to the next one. ( MS Kingdom released next year, with a lot of content cut. I am once again shaming you, EA. )
Essence Users' powers are also magical in nature, as seen in the intro pictures and said so by Daryl:
Daryl: Have you heard of the Essence Master? He has magical powers that almost rival mine!
Daryl: Despite my whimsical control over the universe, I still can't use Essences like you. Oh, lucky, lucky you!
When you keep Wandoliers in mind while looking at the illustrations and Daryl's words, it just.. puzzle pieces click. What was first intended for the first game was then reworked into MS Kingdom.
Why, Marlon even stole the Old Essence Master's face and beard.
(Leftover profile icon texture on the left)
Btw, Essence Master also has a character file in the Wii version! Unfortunately if you try to put that into the game, his looks are very broken.
Based on the game's general text file we can assume that his name would've appeared as "???" at first (whoah.. memstery perhaps..?) and then as "Essence Master" later.
He loves all interests and would've given you a reward if you 100% all interests in your town.
As I said previously, this all was originally a part of another post I may or may not finish. While writing that one, I made a small discovery because of something I did on a whim. I typed "essencemaster" in 010 editor's file search. I searched in prototype files from Jul 24, 2007 specifically. And I got this. Some names for animations. THIS GUY HAD HIS OWN SPECIAL ANIMATIONS!!!
This is the first time I've ever seen these and googling doesn't give me any results about if someone else found these before and talked about it.
I tried searching for clues in MySims PC files but got nothing. However, just because I didn't get anything by poking the surface (since I don't know coding) doesn't mean that it DOESN'T EXIST.
So I went "well what if i tried putting these filenames into that awesome Debug thing-y that can play animations. nothing would happen most likely but what if tried... anyway........lmao" and then.. oh... OH BOY.
For such a special occasion I made some extra effort of getting at least working eyes by replacing other already existing baked texture (as well as personally recreating the face texture. wish I saw that tcrf has his eye textures before i extracted bigger resolution ones from mysims party and worked with those…)
Hope you will enjoy having a closer look at what the old Essence Master would've been like as much as me! So far I haven't seen other Essence Master recreations with his actual profile icon/Marlon face. (Although, unfortunately I have no idea how to fully fix the head.)
(If you repost these somewhere, please mention the source. I worked hard with making his face lol.)
(Note, editing this post after posting: Essence Master is possibly supposed to be constantly surrounded by sparkles as he floats, but I'm not sure..?)
Also I KNOW you wanna see him interact with sims who mention him/living in this town before moving away. I KNOW you do. So I made these.
....Yes, that (modded!)Morcubus gif was made purely bc I think it's funny even if doesn't fit what I mentioned right before.
Also, have some more dialogue that didn't fit anywhere previously:
Hisao: I lived in this town many years ago when there was a man who controlled essences much like you. When he disappeared, things changed. But now, with you here, I feel things are like the old days—things are good.
Candy: Oh yeah! I used to live here, but it seems like a great time to move back. I'll just chill here with Buddy while you build Club Candy!
That's about all I can think about to say so far! I honestly also can't describe the emotions I went through the last 10 hours. I die. Thank you foreva. *explodes into tiny pieces*
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