Ideas for a medieval theme
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Topic: Ideas for a medieval theme
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Seikken53
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Karelendias = big bad guy... really mean! tortures elves and makes orcs out of em (ill explain that later)
Gantheos = a good guy, he's an elf... leader of the 50th archery divsion of the first Gryphon army.
thats all for now.. the otheres remain nameless for the moment.. if anyone is interested post on here pls!
TheBlackCat
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I like mythical creatures so I would use a lot of those, but you might not like them as much as I do. Remember to balance the two sides, the problem with my novel is coming up with something original and powerful enough to fight my character at the end, who has grown really powerful by then. You might want to make your main character the son of somebody famous, so he has the problem of trying to live up to everyone's expectations, or the son of someone who was disgraced, so he has to prove himself to everyone who looks down on him. Its an easy way to make the main character brooding and emotional. Perhaps one side of the elf war should come across a powerful artifact that they plan on using, which causes all sorts of conflicts as the side that has it tries to keep it, and the side that doesn't tries to get it. Perhaps the bad guy could have given it to them so the two sides would destroy each other and he could move in and take over, or he is secretly playing the sides against each other so he can steal the artifact and use it himself. That is everything I can come up with given the information you provided.
One more thing: please do research on how every creature actually behaved in legends, as one of the main thing that really annoys me is when someone completely misuses a creature and gets its whole behavior wrong. Same goes for artifacts, lands, and just general myths. That sort of thing really annoys me. I will not even watch disney's Hercules. Hades was not the devil, he was not evil!!!!
I also would agree that putting in aliens and predators would be a bad idea, and might even prevent it from getting published.
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I know what you are talking about, I also have a semi-photographic memory.
I tend to read more science fiction myself, but I mostly read non-fictions. The book I am going to write will have fantasy aspects and science fiction aspects, but not at the same time. Some parts of the novel will take place in a fantasy setting and have magic and swords and stuff, and some will take place in science fiction settings with big guns and high-tech stuff, and other take place in a more modern setting. Some aspects will carry between them but they will be largerly serparate in the way they operate. The real problem for me is finding a way to tie them all together at the end, since the novel will take place at many different times and have many different and seemingly unconnected sub plots (and at this point, before I actually start writing, the sub-plots are unconnected except for a few characters).
Seikken53
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TheBlackCat
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Don't get defensive about D&D, I am not saying it is bad, and I am not trying to attack it or to offend you. I am trying to give an honest warning and you can do with it as you wish. Of course they had to change creatures so they would be useful in a game like that, and they had to make new creatures to fill roles they could not find existing creatures for. And they also probably had to cater to popular ideas about some creatures, which may or may not be correct, and they had to make their creatures unique, put their stamp on them. I am certainly not faulting the makers of D&D for changing creatures, I would have done the same thing, but if what I have seen represents D&D in general, then D&D is not really that reliable when it comes to actual myths. It is a unique game world, which is completely understandable and probably actually a good thing. So please do not take offense, but I would strongly recommend against using ONLY D&D material as sources for creatures in your book.
Now if you wanted to write a licensed D&D-based novel that is one thing. But if you do not, and you use D&D creatures in your novel, and the D&D creatures are very different than the creatures from the actual myth, someone will almost certainly notice and alert whoever makes D&D, and you may be sued for copyright infringement. Just something to keep in mind.
PS. If there is a web page with a list of detailed info and/or pictures of D&D creatures, could someone please post it as I am curious to look at it.
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I don't quite know what you mean about a character.
[ This message was edited by: TheBlackCat on 2002-09-05 23:01 ]
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