ponder ponder
Dec. 2nd, 2007 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maderrWas in the bookstore the other day,and have been watching clips from old video games I used to play.
Everyone under the sun knows the old cliche of Ye Olde Farm Boy From Nowhere Loses Village and Goes Off to Save the World.
It's one of the oldest cliches in fantasyland.
What I wonder is, what if the farmboy actually became the main villian? That would be interesting. Has that ever been done? Cause I mean, invariably Farmboy loses his chick or his village or he's wrongfully accused of some crime or becomes a sacrifice to the gods, blah blah. But invariably revenge or fighting for freedom turns into saving the world. It would totally be loads cooler if he wound up taking all his inherent power or what not and went evil.
That would beg the question of what exactly went down, of course. Also who would play the hero. Typically the inclination would be to go with a knight or soldier or somthing from Ye Grande Olde City, or the typical Band of Hereos in some fashion. I think it might be slightly more interesting to go with something like say a priest as an MC. Usually they either play minor chars or share screen time with the knights and shit. If the priest was the MC, that'd be interesting. Especially if we go less with the long flowing robes type priest and go with something a bit less tame. Not Super I Am Perfect Rawr! but slightly more....Eastern in fashion? Somewhere between a monk and a shaman-type.
Which means we could incorporoate a familiars-type style of magic. Perhaps the story starts with priesty boy passing tests or obtaining his familiar -- or appointed to carry out some mission and given a familiar. Or he could be getting punished, and perhaps the familiar as well, which would set up some sort of tension/discontent. The only question then remaining is if the familiar would be the LI, or if that would pop up somewhere else.
Ah, well. It's a thought. Back to editing I go.
Everyone under the sun knows the old cliche of Ye Olde Farm Boy From Nowhere Loses Village and Goes Off to Save the World.
It's one of the oldest cliches in fantasyland.
What I wonder is, what if the farmboy actually became the main villian? That would be interesting. Has that ever been done? Cause I mean, invariably Farmboy loses his chick or his village or he's wrongfully accused of some crime or becomes a sacrifice to the gods, blah blah. But invariably revenge or fighting for freedom turns into saving the world. It would totally be loads cooler if he wound up taking all his inherent power or what not and went evil.
That would beg the question of what exactly went down, of course. Also who would play the hero. Typically the inclination would be to go with a knight or soldier or somthing from Ye Grande Olde City, or the typical Band of Hereos in some fashion. I think it might be slightly more interesting to go with something like say a priest as an MC. Usually they either play minor chars or share screen time with the knights and shit. If the priest was the MC, that'd be interesting. Especially if we go less with the long flowing robes type priest and go with something a bit less tame. Not Super I Am Perfect Rawr! but slightly more....Eastern in fashion? Somewhere between a monk and a shaman-type.
Which means we could incorporoate a familiars-type style of magic. Perhaps the story starts with priesty boy passing tests or obtaining his familiar -- or appointed to carry out some mission and given a familiar. Or he could be getting punished, and perhaps the familiar as well, which would set up some sort of tension/discontent. The only question then remaining is if the familiar would be the LI, or if that would pop up somewhere else.
Ah, well. It's a thought. Back to editing I go.
