“The stories are true. The Black Demon from the South dives into our ranks and emerges unscathed. From my gate I could see him cutting our men down, as many as five in one blow. It was at this moment that I realized we have overstepped the boundaries of humanity. At this moment, that I knew our city of rock was to be relinquished to the Velic people... When I stood imprisoned before him and his ‘Vggdrandi,’ I looked up to the Demon, and there was nothing. The sun was shining brightly, the sky was a bright blue, and there was nothing but a maddening void of blackness within his helmet. Of this I am sure. Of this, I am cursed to dream for the remainder of my days and beyond.”
-Jameson Gatemar
Tepotian Gatekeeper
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Herny - is this the first ever comment on your blog?
Anyway, I had another idea supporting my point that Vggdrassi should not be a demon. Aside from the fact that it's too much like Spawn, it introduces basically a second religious universe into your secular universe - so now not only do you have to explain how everything works in the physical world, you have to come up with how the religion functions - if there's heaven, hell, an afterlife, etc. It just seems like it would be a whole new volume of stuff you'd have to figure out and explain while trying to get at how it factors into the war that's the main part of your story. You could have the whole world be like a hell or heaven on earth, where there are lots of demons and stuff running around, but then I guess Vggdrasi's not as special, and he's more like just a monster or something.
What might be cool is if he was a normal guy who people thought was a demon, or if no one ever knew where he came from and it was all just people's guesses - then you could talk about religion without having to really explain stuff, and you could keep the focus on the war. The book In The Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien does something like this - it's all about this guy's wife disappearing, but it's all different theories on what might have happened - there's not one conclusion.
Those are my thoughts while I procrastinate doing stuff.
Post a Comment